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PodTube by djodjodesign is a fairly new competitor in the growing market of applications that allow you to download flash videos (i.e. Youtube) to your iPod. Like the others, PodTube is certainly a one-trick-pony, but it does its job with an elegant and simple interface, which I like. Also, probably the greatest selling points of the application is its dirt cheap price. PodTube sells for just $5.

Downloading videos with PodTube is super simple. Just open the video you want to download from Youtube, Dailymotion, Myspace, or any other. Now open PodTube and click “Get video.” That’s really it. The video will be added to iTunes, from which you can add it to your iPod or export to a location of your choosing.

Most games these days want you to have a disk in your computer to play. One reason is this keeps people from giving a copy of the game to their friends. This can become a pain and a major annoyance on long trips or anywhere where you can’t reach your disk, and you have a case of Call of Duty fever.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Tetris, I pity you. If you do, you will know that Tetris is awesome but old school. Now, I don’t have a problem with old school, but it doesn’t do the awesome power of the Mac justice. Enter Quinn.

Quinn is beautiful Tetris for your beautiful Mac. But Quinn not only has style, it has functionality. Quinn allows you to play against your friends over Bonjour, and it does so perfectly (I would show a screenshot, but I don’t have many friends willing to play me).

Some think that IRC is a long dead technology. Some say its time has come and passed. Colloquy says no. Colloquy is a stylish IRC client that brings back IRC from the dark ages with a stylish interface and lots of great features including Growl support.

Colloquy starts you off with a small connections window that allows you to connect to any IRC server you want. If you aren’t sure what you want, Colloquy has some suggestions in a drop-down menu. Once connected, you have to join a room. Colloquy gives you a searchable list of rooms right at your disposal.

iConcertCal is a plugin for iTunes that allows you to see what bands in your library are playing in your area. After installing and putting in your location, iConcertCal gets to work and generates an entire calendar with as many shows as it can find.

iConcertCal will also tell you what other bands are playing at that show and will send you to the venue’s site if you are interested in buying tickets. If you only want to search for a few bands, you can limit iConcertCal to a single playlist of your favorite artists in your library. You can even set a search radius if you aren’t interested in driving a long way. Even if you aren’t in the US, enter your city and then put in your country under the state. Check out iConcertCal.