Nero Multimedia Suite 10 Available Nero Vision Xtra, Nero Burning ROM and Nero BackItUp & Burn

April 2nd, 2010 by chadlopaz

The next iteration of the Nero Suite is available for pre-orders at a discount. Nero Multimedia Suite 10 is designed as a bundle of three products, namely Nero Vision Xtra, Nero Burning ROM and Nero BackItUp & Burn. Customers that will pre-order the Suite will be able to take advantage of the special offer set up by Nero, and pay just $79.99, enjoying a $20 instant rebate. According to current general availability plans, Nero Multimedia Suite 10 will hit store shelves worldwide come April 12th, 2010. According to Nero, when it will be offered through the retail channel, the suite will feature a price tag of $99.99.

“During Nero’s fifteen years in business, more than 300 million customers have enjoyed using Nero’s product offerings to manage their content at home, on-the-go and online,” Jürgen Kurz, CEO, Nero AG, said. “Nero Multimedia Suite 10 was developed using extensive market research and incorporating the feedback from over 150,000 consumers and home hobbyists.”

With Nero Vision Xtra, the company is offering customers the marriage of Nero MediaHub and Nero Vision. Specifically, Vision Xtra is designed to act as a multimedia hub, offering customers not just playback, but also management and editing capabilities. AVCHD, MKV, FLV, FLAC, DVD, non-commercial Blu-ray, MPEG-4 AVC, (S)-VCD, AVCREC, audio CDs are among the audio, video and photo formats supported by the tool. Vision Xtra also allows users to publish multimedia projects to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, but at the same time it hooks into the Cloud and enables sharing across a variety of social-networking communities, such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr. In addition, the company boasts a high level of HD performance for Nero Vision, especially for projects involving SmartEncoding for MPEG 2 and AVCHD. Moreover, Vision Xtra comes with NVIDIA CUDA support, a detail designed to allow customers to take advantage of high-performance, hardware-accelerated H.264/AVC encoding.

Of course it wouldn’t be a Nero Suite without the “heart” of the company’s software solutions, namely Nero Burning ROM, which features support for CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. In addition to burning and copying capabilities, Nero Burning ROM now brings to the table SecurDisc 2.0, a technology designed to boost reliability, security and integrity of burned content, and ultimately the lifespan of user-made media. With the latest version of the product, Nero Burning ROM is also capable of burning AVCHD for DVDs and AVCHD / BD-MV for Blu-ray Discs.

“The feedback showed that existing ‘all-in-one’ offerings in the market are considered outdated and work more like Swiss army knives, being the ‘jack of all trades and the master of none’. As a result, Nero set out to create a true multimedia suite that offers separate, best-of-breed products dedicated to video creation and management, burning and backup. Nero Multimedia Suite 10 not only meets the needs of today’s customers, it also provides an incredible value,” Kurz added.

The last major piece in the Nero Multimedia Suite 10 bundle available is Nero BackItUp & Burn. The data-protection solution offers, as the label implies, backup and recovery capabilities. According to the company, Nero BackItUp & Burn is capable of safeguarding files even in the eventuality of hard drive crashes, system failures and malware infections. And the another tool which can burn video onto DVD is DVD Creator, the Mac version is Mac DVD Creator. In addition to plain vanilla and automatic backup functionality, Nero BackItUp & Burn can also be leveraged in scenarios in which data needs to be synchronized between computers and mobile devices.

“Tools like Nero Multimedia Suite 10 have the ability to grow the market for photo and video editing,” Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, added. “Already, the percentage of consumers in U.S. broadband households that self-edit home videos on a regular basis has grown from 10 percent in 2006 to 25 percent in 2009. Today, nearly one-half of consumers are regularly editing photos, up from 35 percent in 2006.”

The components of Nero Multimedia Suite 10 will also be sold as standalone products, namely Nero Vision Xtra ($59.99), Nero Burning ROM ($49.99) and Nero BackItUp & Burn ($39.99). Customers will be able to buy and download either the whole suite or individual components beginning with April 12th. Nero revealed that upgrades to Nero Multimedia Suite 10 started as low as $53.99.

How to convert PowerPoint Presentation to Video clips

March 30th, 2010 by chadlopaz

Have you been searching for a way to make a video from PowerPoint Presentation? Or just found your mobile devices do not support PowerPint when you want to store it in?
Ok, now this artilce will show you how to convert PowerPint slide-show to video file. And what you need is Xilisoft PPT to Video Conveter Pro
Make preparation: Download Xilisoft PPT to Video Converter pro, install and run it.
Step 1: Add PPT Files
Drag and drop PowerPoint file(s) into file list, or click “Add PPT File” button, or go to File menu to add PPT file(s).

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Step 2: Select Output Format
Check the PPT file(s) you want to convert, select output profile, adjust parameters and set time interval.
Tip:
1. In the right Customize Panel, you can set File Name, Video Size, Video Quality and Frame Rate, and also other two play options: Time Between Slides and Music.
2. View PPT file in thumbnails or list by switching the button at the right corner of file list panel.
3. In thumbnails view, click PPT thumbnail to preview every slide.
4. Add your own music for your PPT file. Loop playback and keeping sound effect are optional.
Step 3: Start Conversion
Click “Convert” button to start conversion.
Tip:
Click “Rapid Convert” button to convert PPT file without any effects (sound, animation, etc.) included.

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Add Watermark to your PowerPoint Presentation
Click “Add Watermark” button to open the Watermark window.
1.Click Add Text Watermark/Add Picture Watermark option.
2. Enter the text for watermark in the Input Watermark Text textbox, or select the picture from your computer to be as watermark.
3. Then adjust the watermark options by set watermark Transparence, Vertical Position, Horizontal Position and Font, Color, Size and Style.

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You can also record a narration into your PowerPoint video easily.
To do this:
1. Select the PPT file you wish to rehearse or add a narration to.
2. Click “Record” button and start slide show mode.
3. Click on the current slide or click “Presentation Record” button at the right corner to start record.
4. After finishing rehearsal, click “Stop Recording” button and pop up a dialog.

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Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D573 Seeded to Developers

March 26th, 2010 by chadlopaz

Apple is continuing its rapid-fire seeding of Mac OS X 10.6.3 builds, pushing out Build 10D573 to developers. The new build is only a single increment over the previous build issued last Thursday. World of Apple details the seed notes, which reveal that Apple has asked developers to continue focusing on GraphicsDrivers, Images & Photos, Mail, QuickTime, and Security Certificates for testing.

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The seed notes also reveal one additional fix since the last build, involving an issue with recurring events in iCal when working with Exchange servers. The new build also continues to carry a single documented known issue involving the reoffering of the Safari 4.0.5 update issued earlier this month.

At the same time, Mac DVD Ripper and Mac Video Converter also have been updated.

We have continued to expect an imminent release of Mac OS X 10.6.3, but Apple’s release schedule remains unpredictable as it puts the finishing touches on the update. Late last week, an iMac user reported receiving a prerelease version of Mac OS X 10.6.3 via Software Update. That version was the previous Build 10D572, and it is unknown why the user’s machine was able to access the download, although it does suggest that work on Mac OS X 10.6.3 is very close to completion.

Apple’s App Store now open in 13 new countries

March 22nd, 2010 by chadlopaz

Last week Apple announced that its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch is available in 13 new countries. Newcomers to the App Store are the nations of Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda.

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Developers can now log into their iTunes Connect page to view and update countries where applications are available, Apple announced.

First launched in 2008, the App Store has been a tremendous success for Apple in driving sales of the iPhone and iPod touch. Last month, the company announced that more than 140,000 applications are available from the online download destination.

And I think the indispensable tools for iPod fans also includes Best DVD Ripper and iPod Transfer and iPod Manager for Mac

Amazon releases free beta of Kindle for Mac eBook reading software

March 19th, 2010 by chadlopaz

With Apple’s eBook-capable iPad looming ominously in the face Amazon’s fledgeling electronic book business, the online bookseller on Thursday released a new application for Mac users as part of its ongoing bid to promote its proprietary Kindle platform and prevent defection of its existing user base to a emerging array of alternatives.

Released as a free beta application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and higher, the software allows Mac users to purchase and download from Amazon’s growing catalog of over 450,000 eBooks without the need to purchase its $259 Kindle 2 or larger $489 Kindle DX hardware. With the release, Amazon notes that Kindle books can now be read on many of the world’s most popular digital devices, including the iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, Windows PC, Mac, and soon the iPad. So maybe you also will need Best iPhone Video Converter and DVD Converter

“Kindle for Mac is the perfect companion application for customers who own a Kindle or Kindle DX,” said Jay Marine, director, Amazon Kindle. “For those customers around the world who don’t yet have a Kindle, Kindle for Mac is a great way to instantly access and read the most popular new releases as well as their old favorites.”

Kindle for Mac features Amazon’s Whispersync technology that automatically saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. This way, customers reading Kindle books on a Kindle, Kindle DX, or one of the free Kindle applications, can always have their reading with them and never lose their place.

Among the features of the new Mac application are:
● Purchase, download, and read hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store
● Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers for free
● Choose from 10 different font sizes and adjust words per line
● Add and automatically synchronize bookmarks and last page read
● View notes and highlights marked on Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle for iPhone
● Read books in full color including children’s books, cookbooks, travel books and textbooks

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Amazon said it plans to add several features to the Kindle for Mac app in the near future, including full text search and the ability to create and edit notes and highlights.

Sony to Launch Challengers to iPad, iPhone

March 9th, 2010 by chadlopaz

Sources have told the Wall Street Journal that Sony is planning on making a challenger to Apple’s iPad that will have all the capabilities of a netbook, a Sony Reader and a PSP, the company’s handheld gaming device.
Sources have told the Wall Street Journal that Sony is planning on making a challenger to Apple’s iPad that will have all the capabilities of a netbook, a Sony Reader and a PSP, the company’s handheld gaming device.
At a Sony news conference in Tokyo, Sony’s CFO Nobuyuki Oneda didn’t provide any details but expressed the company’s desire to compete against Apple’s newest gadget, due in stores next month.
“That is a market we are also very interested in. We are confident we have the skills to create a [great] product,” said Oneda. “Time-wise, we are a little behind the iPad but it’s a space we would like to be an active player in.”
The WSJ also reported Sony is making a new smartphone – containing Sony Ericsson mobile technology and capable of playing PSP games – to compete against the iPhone. Both devices are expected to work with Sony Online Services, an online store due to launch in March and sell music, movies, books, and other downloadable applications for mobile products. So for the fans of sony, i think Best DVD Ripper can do a lot of things for you to enjoy your DVD on your Sony mobile devices.
The iPad challenger and the new smartphone are expected to launch sometime in 2010, but no details about specs, price or design have been released.
Sony has tried to get into the phone/gaming gadget arena in the past. A patent was filed in 2006 for a device that looked like a PSP on one side and a smartphone on the other, but such a device has never hit the market.
Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones in the last three months of 2009. The company announced Friday that the iPad will be available April 3.

How to convert DVD/video and transfer iPod to PC(Mac/Windows)

March 1st, 2010 by chadlopaz
Eye catching:
Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite for Mac is a suite pack with Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac and Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac combined. It is especially designed for the Mac users with high output quallity and a worthy price. If you are a Mac user and want to convert DVD/video, this is what you need.
Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suiteis the perfect combination of Aiseesoft DVD Ripper, Aiseesoft Total Video Converter and Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer. Like Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite for Mac, it has high output quality and converting speed but a much lower price.This suite is aimed to meet the Windows users’ need.

With those two suites you can enjoy your DVDs, videos and ipod more easily.The fowlloing details will show you how to use them. It includes five parts:
With Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite for Mac:
Part 1: How to convert DVD on Mac
Part 2: How to convert video on Mac

With Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite
Part 3: How to convert DVD
Part 4: How to convert video
Part 5: How to tansfer iPod to computer

With Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite for Mac:
Preparation:Download and install Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite for Mac(Intel Version or Power PC Version)

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Part 1: How to convert DVD on Mac
Step 1:Select “Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac” after you installed Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite for Mac .

Step 2: Load DVD
Click the “Load DVD” button, select the DVD folder of the movie you want to convert from your DVD-ROM, and Click “Open”.
Step 3:Choose output settings.
Selecting output format is really easy, you can choose your output format according to your devices players and the default setting works great.
For a veteran of digital player, you could customize your own settings by clicking “Settings” button to choose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.
Step 4:Click “Start”button to begin your cnversion.
More functons such as “trim”, “crop”, “effect”, “merge into one file/audio track/subtitles” are also very easy to use.Just follow the instructons on it, you can make your DVD movie more enjoyable with a few clicks.

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Part 2: How to convert video on Mac
Step 1:Select “Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac” after you installed Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite for Mac.

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Step 2:Add files.
Click “Add File” to choose the video you want to cnvert.
Step 3Output setting.
Click “Profile”, you can set the output fomat.
Click “Settings” button, you can choose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.
You can also choose the destinaton by click “Destinaton” button.
During the conversion, you can crop, trim, effect your video and merge your files into one.
Step 4:Click “Start”button” to begin your conversion.
You can also follow the instructons on it to convert your videos.

With Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite
Preparation:Download and install Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite

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Part 3:How to convert DVD
Step 1:Select “Aiseesoft DVD Ripper” after you installed Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite.
step 2: Click “Load DVD” button to load your DVD
This professional DVD Ripper can load three DVD source, you can load your DVD from DVD drive, DVD folder in your PC and also IFO file.
Step 3:Output setting
From the “Profile” drop list,you can set your output format.
Click “Setting”button, you can choose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.
You can aslo choose your output destination by clicking “Destinaton”.
Step 4:Click “Start” button to begin your conversion.

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More functons such as crop, trim, effect, capture your favorite picture, merge into one file are aslo available for you to edit your video.

Part 4: How to convert video
Step 1:Select “Aiseesoft Total Video Converter” after you installed Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite.
Step 2: Click “Add File” button to add your video.
Step 3. Output format and Settings
From the “Profile” drop-down list you can find one format that meets your requirement.
To have your own video settings you can click “Settings” button.
Step 4:Click “Start” button to begin your conversion.

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You can use the functons such as “Snapshot and merge into one file, Trim, Crop” to edit your videos. Just follow the instructions on it you can easily edit your videos.

Part 5: How to tansfer iPod to computer
Step 1:Select “Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer” after you installed Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite.
Step 2:Connect your iPod player to computer by USB cable.
When you connect your iPod to the computer via USB cable and run the program, the program will detect and recognise your device automatically.
Then from the file list, you can choose the audio or video files that you want to transfer and a detailed list will be displayed at the right for your to choose.

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Step 3:Choose the songs you want to transfer and then click the “Start Transfer ” button below the list to begin transferring files from iPod to computer.
Step 4: In a short while your conversion will be finished
More:For your convinience you can click the button next to “Start Transfer ” and a dialogue pops up and you can select the detailed category of your songs or videos.
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Apple and Google compete at Mobile World Congress

February 23rd, 2010 by chadlopaz

As the battle between Apple and Google hots up at the Mobile World Congress, the smartphone boom signals good times for media firms

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Delegates browse phones are displayed at the Mobile World congress in Barcelona.

Announcing the BBC’s move into the mobile phone market with its own news, sport and video applications for the iPhone last week, Erik Huggers, the director of future media and technology, said the new generation of so-called smartphones are a “great conduit to our audience”.

It is a conduit that until recently has been, if not closed, then certainly constricted for media companies. But the explosion of downloadable applications, rapid rise in mobile broadband take-up and, crucially, the weakening of network operators’ stranglehold on the market have opened up a massive opportunity.

The attraction is easy to see: there are already four times as many mobile phones in the world as there are PCs, and those phones are getting cleverer. In the run-up to Christmas, one in four of the phones sold by Vodafone across the world was a smartphone – that is, a phone with the same computing power as a laptop you could buy a few years ago. Within a couple of years there will be more smartphones than PCs on the planet.

Even the mobile phone operators’ reaction to the weakening of their position, banding together in order to mount a fightback in the apps world, should benefit media companies. Then there is Google, which has not only provided the industry with a serious, and more importantly open, competitor to the iPhone, but looks increasingly likely to usher in a new era of mobile advertising.

Huggers made his announcement in Barcelona at the mobile phone industry’s biggest annual get-together, Mobile World Congress, which showed that while the iPhone began the boom in the smartphone market, the rest of the industry is catching up and a range of devices are set to hit the shops that will help media players get to a mobile audience. And the important tool for mobile phone and pc users is Total Video Converter

The iPhone drove a wedge between customers and the mobile phone networks. Other players had tried it, such as Nokia, but Apple succeeded. For years the mobile phone companies acted as gatekeepers to their customers. Content companies had to strike deals with each operator, jostling for position on the “portals” created by the networks. Consumers, however, did not want their phone company picking what content they could view on their phones and portal usage was minimal.

So the networks knocked down their walled gardens. As consumers ventured into the mobile web, many media companies – including the BBC – created mobile versions of their websites that could be easily viewed on a phone’s small screen. But usage remained low because even the mobile web, on many devices, was a pale imitation of the “real” internet.

The iPhone was different and when it switched to 3G technology a year and a half ago the mobile web came of age. It has weakened the networks and given media companies the chance to bypass them. The relationship an iPhone customer has is with Apple first and their network provider second. The network is merely paid for providing access – Apple gets paid for content. It is an aggregator for media companies worldwide, and what started with music has become a wide variety of content, thanks to its App store.

But Apple does not have the market to itself. Already more than 20 phones with Google’s rival Android operating system have been produced, which have a crucial advantage over the Apple device: Android supports Flash, which should help advertisers realise the potential of the mobile web. “Crucially, Apple does not and will not support Adobe Flash on its iPhone or iPad products,” explains Brad Rees, chief executive of Mediacells Limited, the mobile market experts. “From an advertising creative perspective, this has meant iPhone application specialists win most of the pitches for mobile microsites. In the online world, the language of big-budget agency creatives is Adobe Flash, and this is precisely where Android hits the sweet spot. Even though Nokia has been offering full internet phones for a while, it’s the Google proposition which resonates.”

In his keynote speech in Barcelona, Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, promised the search engine giant is “not trying to run roughshod” over the mobile phone companies or turn them into “dumb pipes” in the air. The companies, however, are not so sure. Two dozen of the world’s biggest announced during the congress that they are getting together to produce a completely open apps platform – allowing consumers to take their applications with them when they change handsets.

In return for this portability, the networks would start to get a slice of revenues – although exactly how is still unclear.

This is potentially big news for media companies as it raises the possibility that they will be able eventually to develop their apps just once, and put them on a massive array of handsets straight away. And it’s another indication that at long last the mobile floodgates are open.

Recommend an Ultimedia DVD Converter to help you convert dvd

February 4th, 2010 by chadlopaz

Today I’d like to intruduce a powerful dvd converter, which is Cucusoft Ultimedia DVD Converter, it enables you to convert dvd to any video and audio formats, and also supports convert dvd to any portable devices.

So the following will show you how to convert dvd with this program
Make preparation: Download Cucusoft Ultimedia DVD Converter, install and run it.
Step 1::Click “Open DVD” button to load your dvd after insert your dvd to DVD-ROM

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Step 2: Select “Direct mode” or “Batch Mode”
“Direct Mode” means that you can directly click the DVD Menu to select the DVD movie you want to rip. This mode is very easy for ripping a movie DVD’s.

“Batch Mode” means that you can select the DVD titles/chapters and audio track they want to rip via checkbox list. This mode is very easy for batch ripping Music DVD’s, MTV DVD’s and Episodic DVD’s.

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Step 3: Select output format from the “Profile” drop-down list.
Note 1: Click the “…” button at the right of the “profile” drop-down list to set the important parameters: Video Bitrate, Audio Bitrate, Frame Rate and Video Size.
For a high image/sound quality you can increase the value of Video/Audio Bitirate and for a compressed file you can decrease the value.
Note 2 From the “Crop” drop-down list, you can select “No Crop”, “Crop both black bands” or “Crop the upper black band”.
Note 3: From the “Resize” drop-down list, you can select “Stretch to full screen” or “Keep original aspect ratio”.
Note 4: Click the “…” button at the right of the “Output” button to set the conversion destination.
Step 4: Click the “Convert “button to start the conversion.
A dialog will pop up, which enables you to set Title Name, Save Path, Output File Size etc, Click “Yes” button after you setted.

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Tips
You can set Subtitle and Audio track via this program.
Clicking “DVD Menu” button, then choose “SET UP”, so you can set Subtitle and Audio track as you like.

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It is really powerful and easy to use, just have a try now!

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Hello world!

February 4th, 2010 by chadlopaz

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