Firmly based on Mac OS X's QuickTime Framework, yFlicks can play any movie format the QuickTime Player can play. But it doesn't stop there.

Quite similar to Apple's iApplications, yFlicks not only lets you arrange movies in static groups—its versatile tags feature lets you categorize your movies any way you want.

You can even tag your movie automatically by querying Amazon's online movie database, which gives you the additional benefit of having the corresponding DVD cover art downloaded automatically.

And once you've done so, creating smart groups based on your tags and subdividing those smart groups by tag values will let you browse your movie library by Genre, Actor, Director, MPAA Rating, or Year, for instance.

Finders Keepers Converters

If you're like us, you don't just want to watch web clips online. If they made you smile, you're inclined to keep them.

So it's a good thing that yFlicks supports downloading from video communities such as YouTube, CollegeHumor, DailyMotion, Google Video, Metacafe, and many more.

You don't even need to wait as you find videos you like; just keep going, and yFlicks will automatically add them to a queue.

Having all this video locked up in yFlicks won't do you much good when you head out with your iPod or iPhone, or want to watch on your Apple TV, though. That's why yFlicks includes an automatic background converter. As movies are added to yFlicks, you can choose to have them automatically converted to your format of choice.

You can then also have yFlicks add the converted movies to iTunes, so they'll sync out to your Apple TV automatically, and to your iPod or iPhone the next time you connect the device.

You'll Love the Interface

Beauty isn't just an end in itself. Whenever you find yourself playing around with something because you like the way it works, it really just goes to show that as far as user interface design is concerned, beauty is nothing more than a sign of intuitive, non-obtrusive handling.

We strongly believe that the beauty that lies in yFlicks will meet your eye. And by the way: If yFlicks loves you, too, its main window will be full of hearts for you (see the "Appearance" preferences).

Please Remain Seated

We love Mac OS X's Front Row feature. Access to movies on our laptop, across the room from our iMac, or pumped through our television set.

But try browsing for an Adventure film or find a Hitchcock classic within a flat alphabetized list of files and you'll immediately recognize a limitation.

yFlicks ushers you directly to what you're looking once you have enabled usher mode—you'll have complete access to your yFlicks library's structure via Front Row.

Moreover, yFlicks also has its own Apple Remote support to let you choose movies and control playback directly from within the application without having to get up from your cinema chair.