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The second permutation of Sharetones for Android 2.0 is here.

But what is it? If you're unfamiliar, Sharetones is an app that helps you coax ringtones out of songs you already own. At first blush, that sounds identical to Ringdroid, a free ringtone editor.

What's different here is that Sharetones caters to the lazy. Not everyone has the talent or time to make killer ringtones worth listening to time and again. Sharetones skirts the annoyance by comparing the songs you have on your phone with the songs it has in its user-generated online database. The Sharetones server then returns the ringtone's formula to your phone, and the app you downloaded follows the formula of where to snip your song to fashion a ringtone. It costs $1.49 for three ringtone formulas ("recipes"), $2.49 for unlimited use for a month, or $7.49 for unlimited use for a year.

Those for whom Sharetones 2.0 rings a bell will note that the updated version (still free to download) includes Ringdroid, the very same editor mentioned above. We had hoped for this after seeing the first versions of Sharetones and wishing we could create our own ringtones from the app itself and include them in the Sharetones database. There's also a search bar in version 2.0, several other interface tweaks, and a performance boost.

All in all, Sharetones 2.0 for Android is an improvement. Sharetones advances a concept that cleverly gets around the mess of logistics and legalities that the company would need to address to license ringtones. But will that translate into success? Without the capability to buy ringtones, the service amounts to paying a company to make a ringtone for you out of your own songs. For some people, that will do just fine, but others may prefer to keep their cash and make their own 'tones. Either way, we offer you a look at Sharetones in the First Look video above.

It's been a long slog getting Firefox Mobile off the ground, but on Wednesday, Mozilla announced a third release candidate for its mobile browser. (Our First Look video gives an overview of RC2, the previous version.) Once code-named Fennec, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia's Maemo platform is achingly close.

Or is it? Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC3 may signal that we're one step closer to getting a full-fledged Firefox browser on a mobile device, but the app has also taken a step back since RC2 emerged two weeks ago, shedding support for the Adobe Flash plug-in that Mozilla said in a blog post "degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn't meet our standards."

The plug-in is not the same as an extension or add-on, Mozilla stresses. Support for extensions like Weave remain intact in Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC3. Mozilla does go on to point out that power testers can still manually turn on experimental plug-in support using about:config.

An Adobe spokesperson contacted CNET to add that "the "Adobe Flash plug-in" referenced was Flash version 9 for desktop Linux. This version of the runtime was not really optimized for mobile platforms, and as such we wouldn't expect it to perform perfectly."

There will be workarounds in place by the time the general release surfaces, which Mozilla told NET in an interview on Thursday could be as soon as this Friday. Mozilla showed us a test version of an add-on created by an in-house developer to enable Flash for YouTube videos. In the short term, users could see an extension in Firefox 1.0 for Maemo for enabling the Flash plug-in across all sites, plus individual workaround extensions like the currently unnamed YouTube add-on for enabling Flash for the more popular sites or videos.

The third Firefox release candidate does fix some performance bugs and should reduce the amount of crashing that testers have noticed. You can download Firefox for Maemo RC3 for the Nokia N900 or N810 Internet tablet, though if RC2 is already installed, expect Mozilla's automatic update.

The two biggest new features include on-the-fly item translation via a translate button on the individual item toolbar. If the item is in a feed that you synchronize with Google Reader, the translation will occur in-line. If the feed isn't synced, then FeedDemon will open up a Reader page. There's also a new content filter that lets users create filters to automatically certain kinds of incoming items as read. For people who subscribe to tens or hundreds of feeds, this can potentially be a major time-saver.

There's a new "Shared by people I follow" option under Shared Items, which syncs shared Google Reader items. FeedDemon goes a step further and adds in a social component to find people to share with. You could type in "politicians in San Francisco" and, theoretically, get Mayor Gavin Newsom. Users can also now customize by feed the icons that appear on the item toolbar, and this includes adding a Google Reader-style "like" icon. It's not enabled by default.

The list of short URL previews that are supported has been expanded to include goo.gl, youtu.be, fb.me, flic.kr, ow.ly and clicky.me, and the Send To option now includes Twitter.

The official release notes indicate performance enhancements, but my experience with version 3.1 was that there was still plenty of room for improvement. Even 3GB of RAM didn't prevent occasional program hang-ups. However, FeedDemon creator Nick Bradbury pointed out that the database can be massaged into being quicker by regular compacting. This can be accessed under File, then Manage Cache, then Compact, but it's a cumbersome thing to have to do semi-regularly and without a scheduler.

When the extension is installed, it tries to open a welcome page, but that failed for us on both test computers. Close it out and go to your Tools menu, and enable bookmark sync. This will require a Google account, and if bookmark sync isn't active, you can toggle it under the Personal Stuff tab in Options.

From there, click the FreshStart button that now appears on your Chrome toolbar and you can toggle which tabs you want to sync. This is especially interesting because you can create multiple saved tab sessions that contain different tabs. You can also customize the name of your session, rename it later, or remove a saved session. It would be nice, though, if you could set a default naming convention the way that Session Manager does for Firefox.

Once FreshStart has been installed on a second computer's Google Chrome, you can restore a saved session either by merging it with the existing open tabs, or opening it into a new window. In Chrome's global extension options menu, you can also enable a crash recovery that saves your tabs every five minutes. FreshStart's name doesn't really seem to relate to its function, but its features work well and make this a great extension for users with multiple computers.

It's a fast freeware tool for transferring your music collection from your iPod to your hard drive, making it easy to back up or restore your music, videos, and photos. It also transfers playlists, album art, and ratings, both to your hard drive and optionally right into iTunes.

SharePod comes with features that many competitors lack. Not only can you transfer your files, you can also perform some basic track tweaking. You can use it to delete art, playlists, music, and videos from your iPod, edit tags, and you can also transfer from your computer to your iPod without having to use iTunes. When you copy, you can set the folder architecture to one of three defaults, or customize your own. One key feature of SharePod is that it comes with a database backup, so if something goes awry during the transfer process, it's a simple procedure to restore it.

The program comes in an archive, not a self-extracting EXE file. This is slightly annoying, but the EXE file is tiny and weighs in at just 5.4MB so it's small enough to carry around on your iPod. Most importantly, SharePod is surprisingly effective. During two transfers, with one session involving more than 7,000 songs and their accompanying artwork, playlists, and ratings, SharePod only freaked out on two dozen tracks. When it did, it didn't stop copying, but instead logged which files copied successfully and which ones didn't.

SharePod works with most legacy iPods, and with newer models including the Nano 5G, the iPhone 3GS, and the iPod Touch. It doesn't natively support Mac-formatted drives, though. Given how hassle-free it is and how good it is at what it does, it's hard not to consider SharePod a