Today the Google Mac team announced the introduction of a new App called the Quick Search Box. While it is only a developer preview, it seems like it may be a promising app for those constantly on the search for web information.

From Google-”This Mac version is much more experimental than its iPhone sibling, Google Mobile App, and through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, actions, and extensibility. It is by no means feature-complete, but is a very good indication of things to come.”

I know I’m gonna give it a try and it may actually be nice, not having to launch FF every time I wanna Google something. This will save me a good 3 seconds every time I search. That’s about 30 seconds a day or about 182 minutes a year! In all seriousness, A truly useful app to add to your dock.

You can download it here: Google code site

RoadMovie 1.5 for OS X is a full featured video conversion app. Developed by Bitfield, RoadMovie 1.5 is a leopard only app that focuses on useful features and efficient and powerful encoding. RoadMovie includes built-in presets for Apple TV, Cellphone, iPhone, iPod, PSP, PS3, Nintendo Wii and Web. Not only does it re-encode movies, but it can also support batch encoding, Meta-data insertion, subtitle insertion, and chapter insertion. RoadMovie has many other neat features such as the built in ability to upload movies directly to .Mac, WebDav, Amazon S3 or YouTube.

RoadMovie is easily worth the $20 pricetag, especially if you are looking to transfer those dvd rips and downloads to a format that your iPod/iPhone and PS3 can playback.

If you are looking for some more in depth info or are interested in trying RoadMovie 1.5, Head over to Bitfield’s website.