2011年1月28日星期五

How to Convert MTS (.mts) Files

When you finished the download process, run the .exe file to install it.

convert MTS

1 Click "Add file" button to import videos - MTS

2 Extend the "Profile" category to select an output format you need

3 Click "Browse" button to choose an output folder and click "Open Folder" to open it

4 Try Effect, Trim, Crop, Merge, Settings and more functions according to your needs

5 Click "Start" to convert

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2011年1月25日星期二

How to Convert RMVB to iPod

Tips 1: Aiseesoft iPod Movie Converter offers merge function to convert several files into a successive one to bring you convenience.

Tips 2: Aiseesoft iPod Movie Converter provides various video and audio parameters for you to edit, like video encoder, resolution, frame rate, video bitrate, audio encoder, sample rate, channels and audio bitrate.

Tips 3: As powerful RMVB to iPod converter, it can convert various video files to iPod MP3, AAC audio and convert other audio formats to iPod MP3, AAC file.

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2011年1月24日星期一

How to Convert MP4 to MPEG on Mac

Some tips for using this MP4 to MPEG Converter for Mac OS:

1. You can convert any segment of your source video.

Click Trim button to specify the exact start and end time of video or just drag the slider bar to select any segment to convert.

2. Make use of Merge function

Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac provides Merge function to combine several separated files into a successive one for your convenience.

3. Capture pictures from video

Press Snapshot to capture favourite pictures from playing movie.

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How to Convert DVD to iRiver

Convert DVD to iRiver

Step 1: Load your DVD disc

Insert the DVD disk into the DVD-ROM and click the Load DVD button to load it. And the DVD content will list in the software window.

Step 2: Select the output format and set parameters

Selecting output format is really easy: Open the Profile drop-down list and scroll to select the format for your iRiver.

In addition, you could change the DVD Audio Track, Subtitle for output format. And to further customize the videos by setting output video size, video quality and video length in Video Edit window.

Step 3: Start DVD to iRiver converting

After setting your own output and settings you can click Start button to start your conversion.

As a customer-oriented conversion software, Aiseesoft DVD to iRiver Converter is definitely easy to operate. A few clicks are all you need to do to convert DVD to iRiver. There are also many additional functions for you. More informations, please visit: Convert DVD to iRiver.

2011年1月23日星期日

How to Transfer Music from iPod to Computer

Copy files on iPod to computer:

Step 1: Run the software, and connect your iPod to computer via USB cable.

How to transfer music from iPod to computer

Step 2: Open the library/playlist first and then check the file(s) you want to export in the file list.

Step 3: Click iPod to computer to select the destination of the exporting files and start exporting files.
Otherwise, you could also choose the Export to local option from the Actions menu, and then export the files from your iPod to actual device.

Tip: Click transfer from iPod to computer to use "Track Filter" function to help you quickly browse your library by genre, artist and album.

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2011年1月20日星期四

How to Convert AVCHD Video to SD

Tips 1: With Merge function, you can choose merge AVCHD video into one SD file to convert several files into a successive one for convenience.

Tips 2: Aiseesoft AVCHD Video Converter provides various video and audio editing functions. You can make detailed settings such as video encoder, resolution, frame rate, video bitrate for video and audio encoder, sample rate, channels, audio bitrate for audio.

Tips 3: As powerful AVCHD video converter, it can capture pictures from videos and save them as JPG, GIF, BMP files.

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2011年1月19日星期三

How to Convert Video to Creative Zen

Step 1: Add the files you want to convert

Click Add File button to add the files you want to convert to Creative Zen and the input format can be MPG, MPEG, MPEG 2, VOB, DAT, MP4, M4V, TS, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, MKV, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, SWF, MPV, MOD, TOD, QT, MOV, DV, DIF, MJPG, MJPEG and HD video etc.

Convert Video to Creative Zen

Step 2: Set output format

Open the Profile drop-down list and set the output format. And there are many Creative Zen formats provided for you to choose. You can select the output format according to your need.

In addition, you can set the destination folder by yourself. Click Browse… button to change the default destination. You can set video size, video effect, video aspect ratio to get customized videos.

Step 3: Start video to Creative Zen conversion

Click Start button to start converting the checked video to Creative Zen.

The whole conversion will be completed in a while. At last you can click Open Folder button to directly open the destination folder and check the converted Archos videos.

The best Video to Creavive Zen Video Converter provides you with a wide variety of video editing functions such as merge several files into one, preview video effect, capture pictures from video etc. More functions at: Convert video to Creative Zen.

2011年1月17日星期一

How to Convert VOB to MPG

1. Install and launch Aiseesoft Total Video Converter

Install and launch Aiseesoft Total Video Converter, add your VOB file by clicking Add File in the File menu

Convert VOB to MPG

2. Select output format and destination folder

In Profile drop-down list, you may select output format. Press Browse… to select the destination folder for output MPG files.

3. Set professional parameters

After selecting certain output format, click Settings to set output video and audio parameters. Save as… button can assist you to reserve well-customized profile.

4. Start the VOB to MPG conversion

Finally, click Start to begin VOB to MPG conversion. After a few minutes, the whole process of VOB file converting to MPG file is finished and you can enjoy your wanted MPG file on your player now.

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Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter and Aiseesoft iPad Video Converter.

There is another piece of software named iPad Converter Suite.

How to Convert AVI to DPG

convert AVI to DPG

Step1: Load files

Click "Add File" button on the toolbar or "File > Add File" to load AVI files you want to convert to DPG.

Step2: Choose output format and folder.

Find DPG as output video format from Profile and click Browse to choose the path where you want to save your output files on the program interface.

Step 3: Adjust output settings and edit output file (optional)

To customize the output file, you can adjust output video/audio parameters by clicking Settings, reset output effect, trim, crop, snapshot…

Step 4: Start conversion

Click Start, AVI to DPG converter will convert AVI to DPG.

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2011年1月16日星期日

Some of You Remember the Ads You See on Your Phones

Web surfers have trained themselves to ignore the ads they see. Mobile phone users are a different story.

So says a new survey, commissioned by people who would like mobile phone users to pay attention to ads.

MocoSpace, a mobile social network, and Briabe Media, a mobile marketing agency, say 37 percent of phone users they polled are able to recall brands they’ve seen advertised on their phones. Or, at least, they say they can.

The survey results, which you can see embedded at the bottom of this post, are pretty consistent over different ethnic, gender and age groups. Basically, about four out of every 10 people say they can recall ads they’ve seen on their phones.

Those kind of numbers should be encouraging for the mobile ad business, which is supposed to grow dramatically but is still pretty modest.

One important, and/or worrisome, caveat is that poll respondents are most likely to say they remember seeing ads for mobile carriers. The top five most recalled brands are Verizon, AT&T, Wal-Mart, Macy’s and Sprint. (You can see the top 20 in this nifty graphic on the right.)

And perhaps poll respondents are seeing a lot of ads for mobile carriers on their mobile phones. But I wonder if they’re just used to seeing the branding that’s already on their own handsets. Which wouldn’t be nearly as helpful to the nascent mobile ad industry.

2011年1月13日星期四

Golden-Voiced Homeless Man Keeps Gaining Online Views

The Columbus Dispatch video of a local homeless man with the most perfect radio voice ever keeps racking up millions and millions of video views online.

That would be Ted Williams, whose velvet tone is riveting and which he attributes to the “God-given gift of great voice.”

Indeed.

Williams has been all over the media, and now apparently has a job and a home too.

2011年1月12日星期三

EMI Still Trying to Avoid Citigroup’s Clutches

Citigroup doesn’t own the record label that brings you the Beatles. Yet.

And the company that does own EMI, private equity shop Terra Firma, is trying to keep it that way for a little longer. Terra Firma is appealing a November court ruling it lost against Citigroup, which lent it the money for a terribly conceived $7 billion deal to buy EMI, way back in 2007.

But barring big legal reversal, it’s hard to see how the bank won’t end up with the keys to the company sooner than later. The U.K. Observer thinks it could happen “within weeks.”

If and when it does, I’m not sure it will make that much difference to the label’s employees, its acts or its customers, who have been dealing with a company in a state of confused stasis for several years.

And the label is also unlikely to stay in Citi’s clutches for long–the most obvious move would be to break the company up and sell the pieces, with Warner Music the logical buyer for EMI’s recorded music group.

2011年1月10日星期一

How to Convert MTS (.mts) Files

When you finished the download process, run the .exe file to install it.

convert MTS

1 Click "Add file" button to import videos - MTS

2 Extend the "Profile" category to select an output format you need

3 Click "Browse" button to choose an output folder and click "Open Folder" to open it

4 Try Effect, Trim, Crop, Merge, Settings and more functions according to your needs

5 Click "Start" to convert

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2011年1月9日星期日

How to Copy iPod to PC

Preparation: Download and install this easy-to-use tool of iPod backup

1 Launch this software. All the operations later will be based on the intuitive interface below:

iPod copy

2 Open the library/playlist first and then check the file(s) you want to export in the file list.

3 Select the destination of the exporting files by clicking iPod backup and start to iPod copy.

It is optional to choose the Export to local option from Actions menu for you.

Tip: This iPod Transfer can be used for all the iPod/iPhone versions: , iPod classic, iPod mini, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod touch, iPod Video, iPhone, iPhone (3G)…

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2011年1月6日星期四

How to Convert 3GP to iPhone on Mac

Tips 1: Aiseesoft iPhone Video Converter for Mac offers merge function to convert several files into a successive one to bring you convenience.

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Tips 3: As powerful 3GP to iPhone converter for Mac software, it can convert various video files to iPhone MP3, M4A audio and convert other audio formats to iPhone MP3, M4A file.

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2011年1月5日星期三

In 4G Race, Verizon Pulls Ahead With Pricey Speed

One of the biggest technology trends in 2011 will be the expansion of new, faster cellular networks called 4G, or fourth generation. These networks promise a big increase in speed and capacity to handle the surge in streaming video, audio and Web surfing from hot-selling devices like super-smart phones and tablets, as well as from laptops. But you’ll have to buy new phones, modems and other connected consumer devices to get the higher speed they offer.

Wireless carriers and handset makers will be touting their 4G plans and compatible devices at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but it will be a couple of years before 4G networks in the U.S. achieve the same coverage as the current standard, called 3G.

The move to 4G from 3G began last year, with Sprint leading the way and Verizon Wireless joining in the last few weeks of 2010 with a limited deployment. But 2011 will see the service spreading to more and more cities, and is also expected to see the entry of AT&T. T-Mobile hasn’t announced an actual 4G network rollout, but is instead relying on a souped-up version of 3G that it is marketing as 4G because it claims it can deliver similar data speeds with its approach.

I’ve been testing the 4G network of the latest entrant, Verizon, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., which is one of 38 metro areas (plus 60 airports) where the company turned on its 4G network in December. My verdict is that it’s wicked fast—the fastest 4G network I’ve tried—but also potentially costly. In my tests, with a laptop modem, it proved dramatically faster than Verizon’s 3G network, and recorded speeds on a par with some land-line Internet connections.

But 4G from Verizon won’t be cheap. For laptop modem users, at least, Verizon is charging $50 a month for up to 5 gigabytes of data use and $80 monthly for 10 gigabytes. If you run over, the company will bill you $10 for every extra gigabyte. Such data limits aren’t new, but, with 4G’s much higher speeds, users may find themselves sending and receiving more data more often, and thus breaching the limits more regularly. For instance, in my tests, I was easily able to download a nearly 600 megabyte TV show, something I wouldn’t even try with a 3G modem. That one download would have eaten up more than 10% of my monthly cap under the $50 plan.

PTECH

Verizon’s first LTE laptop modem, the LG VL600, has a flip top that reveals the USB connector.

Verizon’s variant of 4G uses a different underlying technology than Sprint’s. It’s called LTE, for Long Term Evolution, and is also the 4G system being adopted by many other cellular operators around the world, including AT&T. (Technically, this first version of LTE isn’t considered true 4G by the engineering standards body that rules on such matters, but that makes little difference to consumers looking for faster connections.)

The company says it chose LTE because it is not only fast, but is less prone to interference, can provide better battery life, has less latency, or lag, and can better handle multiple users simultaneously. The LTE system doesn’t affect voice calls on Verizon’s network—it’s only for data, and operates in tandem with the current voice network.

Verizon claims its new network is up to 10 times faster than its 3G network and says consumers will see speeds of between 5 and 12 megabits per second for downloads and between 2 and 5 mbps for uploads, in “real-world, loaded network environments.”

As of this writing, Verizon doesn’t offer an actual LTE-capable smart phone, only LTE USB modems that plug into laptops. But the company is expected to offer a sneak peek at CES this week of several LTE phones that will roll out in the coming months, as well other planned LTE devices, from a variety of manufacturers. Again, I want to stress that your current Verizon phone or laptop modem can’t be upgraded to work with LTE. You’ll need a new one.

For my tests, I used Verizon’s first LTE laptop modem, the VL600 made by LG of Korea. It sells for $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a two-year service contract. This modem can handle data over slower 3G networks, if you happen to stray out of one of Verizon’s 4G service areas. For now, it works only on computers running Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. But the company says it should have Mac-compatible LTE modems in a month or so.

To use it, you have to first install, from an included CD, a new version of Verizon’s cellular modem software, VZAccess Manager. Older versions won’t work. My test machine was a Lenovo ThinkPad X301, which worked fine with a Verizon 3G modem. Installation was relatively quick and smooth, though I was immediately instructed to download an updated version of the software, so I had to go through it twice.

I disabled Wi-Fi on the ThinkPad, plugged in the LTE modem and ran 10 tests using the popular Speedtest.net website. The results were impressive. Verizon’s 4G network averaged just a shade under 16 megabits per second for downloads and 6.6 mbps for uploads. That was 15 times the download speed, and 13 times the upload speed, of a Verizon 3G modem I tested immediately afterward using the same method in the same location.

To relate these speeds to real-world scenarios, I downloaded from iTunes a standard-definition episode of the TV show “The Good Wife”—a 588 megabyte file—in just seven minutes, instead of the two hours or so iTunes predicted it would take when I was using the 3G modem. I streamed several long videos, including two in HD, from the Web, and they played smooth as silk.

But there are caveats. For one thing, hardly anyone is using this new Verizon network yet, and it’s likely to slow down as it gets crowded, especially with smart-phone users. Secondly, laptop cellular modems typically deliver faster speeds than phones, so my results don’t necessarily predict phone or tablet performance.

Also, speeds can vary by city and distance. My tests were mainly conducted against a server in my local D.C. area. But I also tried a few tests against a server in San Francisco and only got about 6 mbps download—within Verizon’s claims, but much slower.

Still, if you can afford it, and if it works well in phones and tablets, Verizon’s new LTE network could be a great boon to your digital lifestyle.

2011年1月4日星期二

“SpongeBob SquarePants” Gets to Keep Living in a Pineapple Under the Sea

Nickelodeon has ordered up another season of its popular animated television series “SpongeBob SquarePants” for a ninth season.

Yay!

No, really–it is the only kids’ show I have been able to endure so far.

Krabby Patties for all!

2011年1月1日星期六

The Social Web’s Big New Theme for 2011: Multiple Identities for Everyone!

Mark Zuckerberg famously said: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”

Although he later clarified, “I wasn’t making a value judgment,” maintaining multiple identities, whether it’s as simple as publishing some photos to Picasa and others to Facebook, is becoming a big trend in online life.

Even as Zuckerberg’s Facebook extended its dominance in 2010 to the point where it seems to have a social Web monopoly, it was still a landmark year for social network competition.

Where in the past, tech industry watchers derided new start-ups for launching “yet another social network,” ever more users seem to be constructing multiple online presences that utilize the strengths of various platforms and networks.

And this splintered approach is only going to increase.

Internet users now have plenty of outlets for self-expression. They can prioritize individuality and choose to post on the highly customizable Tumblr, or instead value the comprehensiveness of a network and post on the blander Facebook.

A big part of this shift toward understanding the private online self versus the public online self has been the rise of Twitter. On Twitter, regular users make the sort of decisions celebrities do: What to share about their private lives with their public audience of followers.

Another shift has been the rise of smartphones, along with their quality broadband connections, good cameras and mobile apps.

As an early adopter of various social apps, I’ve recently been confronted with the choice of whether to post a picture taken with my Apple iPhone on-the-go to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Path or Picplz.

Each of them has different audiences, different associations with my personal or professional identities, and different expectations for how people will view and interact with my snapshot. (And I suppose there’s also the option of keeping the pictures to myself on my phone storage.)

Although the people noisiest about privacy on Facebook have at times been the media, publicity of the company’s highly confusing privacy settings seems to have led to many more people being aware of them and perhaps even changing them.

Perhaps that’s why I see an increasing–but still quite small–portion of my Facebook friends using pseudonyms on the service. And when I asked them why, I heard a variety of reasons.

One is a teacher, another prefers to go by the moniker he uses artistically. Yet another is a college student who is applying for jobs and who wants to be more anonymous for a while. Like many of today’s young people, she has become highly conscious of balancing the freedom to be herself online with the way she is perceived by professional contacts.

(A representative for Facebook declined to comment on whether the company has recently been more permissive about allowing pseudonyms, something it has traditionally frowned on.)

Of course, very little of what’s posted online can be trusted to never get out or never be linked to its originator. If you really want to keep your thoughts private and impermanent, of course, keep them in your head.

But there are now many more options for more private communication, many of them having first come out in 2010. They include small-group coordination tools like GroupMe, Fast Society and Beluga. There’s also Path, a start-up from a former Facebooker that is perhaps too limited by design, but is exploring the world of more intimate and personal communications.

For many people, their Facebook network is far from a direct match with their real-world friends, so it will be increasingly important to use these tools to dice circles up and make them more accessible. (Facebook is also trying to address that need with its own Groups tool.)

To be sure, that Facebook map of connections is a highly valuable asset, one the company has fiercely protected, as Google reformulates its approach to the social Web.

Splitting your users into an entirely new social graph will certainly hamper growth. For instance, another early Facebooker launched Jumo, a social network for people connecting with nonprofits that seems to risk being redundant with, and isolated from, similar efforts on other platforms.

And Foursquare, despite its zeitgeisty innovation for sharing real-time location updates, has accumulated only about five million users in the last two years.

However, the speedy growth of new social networks like the addictive Instagram–which is like Twitter for pictures and got one million users in its first two months–shows that there’s still an opportunity to take an independent path.

What seems particularly notable about the current moment is that many people are evolving their approach to expressing themselves online, and they now have many tools and contexts to do so. And it’s up to them if these multiple identities will be unified anywhere except in their heads.