14 DAY TRIAL // Although QuickTime, for most of us, represents only the media player that comes from Apple, the QuickTime Framework is just as important as the player itself, and today is my pleasure to introduce you a movie player that is based on it, so here we go...
Many Tricks is a small software company based in Innsbruck, Austria, that has started with Butler, a program dubbed "The Original Many-Tricks Pony", so this is how this three-men company got its name, but it's not limited to this, because all their applications are supposed to make our lives easier, so they are "designed to perform many tricks".
Today's trick is called yFlicks, and you should know that this is a movie player based on Mac OS X's QuickTime Framework that was developed from Clip Show, a beta stage video player created for viewing personal vacation videos by Peter Maurer, the company's coder, and released to the public on the 9th of October, 2006.
According to Many Tricks, "yFlicks comprises a wide range of functionality, which previously required a slew of task-specific applications". If you're afraid of jumping from one player to other, you should know that with yFlicks, you can watch your videos just like you used to do with QuickTime Player, but you're not limited to only that, since you can also organize your videos in groups, perform searches, award ratings to each one of them and browse movies using the preview mode.
The best about this movie player is that you can easily download Google/YouTube videos, view them as flash movies (this operation requires you to download and install the free Perian codec), as well as export them to other movie formats, so you can use them on your iPod, Zune or PSP, for example.
Priced at 19$, yFlicks requires Mac OS X 10.4 and is available for free to those that donated to Clip Show, while the unregistered version runs without limitations for only 10 times, and then you'll get a shareware reminder until you register the program.