iGADGETS – Page 2

Converts video to avi, mpeg, mov, rm, wmv, iPod, swf, flv, 3gp, mp3, mp4, apple tv, iphone, Zune

February 10th, 2012

Giveaway of the Day project team

Apex Video Converter Super is designed to meet all the needs file conversion. Good conversion speed and user-friendly interface let you convert video files between many formats with ease. The powerful features and unbeatable price make Apex Video Converter Super an affordable and powerful video conversion solution on personal computer.

Key Features:

Support MOV, MPEG, VCD, DVD, WMV, ASF, RM, RMVB, AVI, DIVX, PPC, iPod, Flash SWF, Flash FLV, Gif Animation, PSP, 3GP, Xbox, PMP video converter
Support converting video from AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, VCD, DVD file to Apple iPod, Sony PSP, Cell Phone 3GP, Microsoft Zune Player, Microsoft Xbox, Pocket PC, Portable Media Player ect. Mobile video
Support converting video from AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, VCD, DVD file to AVI, Divx, Xvid, MPEG, MOV, WMV, RM, RMVB etc. PC Video
Support converting video from AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, VCD, DVD file to Flash SWF, Youtube FLV, Flash FLV
VCD Ripper – Support ripper VCD movies from dat to any pop video formats
DVD Ripper – Support ripper unprotected DVD movies from vob to any pop video formats
Support converting video from AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, VCD, DVD file to MP3, WMA, WAV, MP2 Audio
Support converting video from AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, VCD, DVD file to Gif Animation and GIF, BMP, EPS, JPG, PCX, PSD, PDF, TIFF, WMF, EMF, PNG, J2K IMAGE
Support converting video from AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, VCD, DVD file to Apple TV, iPhone

February 10th, 2012

Giveaway of the Day project team

Have you ever lost your keys? Perhaps, yes. In such case you can create duplicate or change the lock. What if you lost your activation keys for Windows operating system or other major software you recently purchased? It may costs you from hundreds to thousands dollars. For this reason we have created this software. With Recover Keys you simply diagnose your system for all installed software and make a backup, print it or save to the text file.

Recover Keys retrieve your lost software activation codes, product ID, show Auth. key, company and user name. “Recover Keys 2.0.0.25 ” retrieve activation keys from 783 installed software packages including such major products like Microsoft Windows and Adobe Photoshop. You don’t need to pay for lost keys again – we save your money.

February 9th, 2012

Giveaway of the Day project team

Have you ever dreamt of visiting the real Santa’s home? It is Christmas time and your dreams come true. Find yourself in a winter wonderland deep in the woods surrounded by enchanting snowy landscapes. Santa is at home getting ready for the big night, and his joyful reindeers can’t wait to embark on a magical sleigh ride. Enjoy this fairytale scenery with gorgeously decorated Christmas trees, gently twirling snowflakes and festive music.

Features

Full 3D environment;
High-quality animation;
Truly colorful graphics;
Find yourself in an enchanting winter wonderland;
Festive Holiday music;
Digital Clock;
FPS counter;
Visit the real Santa’s home on Christmas Eve.

February 9th, 2012

Nicholas Mead

You may have noticed on YouTube that you can now watch some clips in a high quality. To do this, you have to click on “Watch in High Quality” which is situated below the clip. However, the “Watch in High Quality” option is not visible for all clips but with a simple change to the video’s URL, you can watch any clip in either High Definition or High Detail format.

To change the clip to High Definition, simply add &fmt=6 to the end of the clip’s URL. To change the clip to High Detail, simply add &fmt=18 to the end of the clip’s URL.

Here is a snapshot of a YouTube clip in default quality:

Here is the same clip in High Definition:

And finally here is the clip in High Quality:

As you can see, the sharpest results are in High Definition mode and the sound seems better too. Obviously, much depends on the quality of the original clip uploaded – you can’t make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear but this is a simple but effective hack to enhance your YouTube viewing.

February 9th, 2012

Jon Riggall

Start using Songbird if you haven’t already You should be used to being told not to use Internet Explorer anymore – it may be the default for the majority of users, but the existence of three better competing browsers means there are no excuses anymore. We all get used to programs, and don’t always notice if our traditional choice has stopped being the sensible one. Is it time iTunes went the same way as Microsoft’s mess of a browsing application?

But what, I hear you say, could possibly be wrong with iTunes? Aren’t we supposed to love Apple? Well, maybe we are, but I for one feel iTunes is turning into a behemoth – excess feature fat without functionality. Take the Genius Bar – it slows down iTunes a ton, and it’s rubbish. Cover flow may be pretty, but it’s hardly the easiest way to browse your library.

This year saw the first proper release of the open source media player Songbird, which is starting to look like it could be to iTunes what Firefox is to IE. Like Firefox, songbird is highly customizable with lots of add-ons available, so you can make it work the way you want it to.

A bunch of add-ons are bundled with the installation, giving you iPod support, a concert search tool, a Last.fm scrobbler and more. Adding more is easy and can be done from within Songbird – it has a browser (and any time you visit a page that has MP3s, they’ll be listed in a pane at the bottom so you can easily listen to or download them). From the add-ons page you’ll find a host of interesting tools. Here are a few cool ones:

The Exorcist is something iTunes is seriously missing. Anyone with a big library is likely to have listings which no longer exist and duplicate files. As your library grows, sorting out this mess can become an insurmountable task of epic proportions. Luckily, The Exorcist will just list both for you, making cleaning your library a breeze.

Last.fm is a great resource for music info, so why not take advantage? Music Recommendations lifts similar artist ideas based on what you’re listening to, and if like me you don’t have much album art saved with your music, Last.fm Album Art will find the artwork for your albums as you play them and display them where you’d see them in iTunes. Incidentally, if you really do miss iTunes, you can download an iTunes style skin. Feel better?

You can integrate a lyrics bar with LyricMaster, which will find lyrics from the web and show them in the right-hand side bar. Now there’s no excuse not to entertain your workmates with your vocal talents. There is also a seeqpod add-on so you can easily search for tunes to download if you’re not too worried about the legal side of things…

There are some reasons to keep iTunes – it does integrate better with your iPod for instance, but give Songbird a try and you might find you migrate there for everyday listening purposes.

February 9th, 2012

Giveaway of the Day project team

The Returnil Virtual System Premium Edition provides an altogether different and highly complimentary level of defense. It is designed to protect your computer from all types of software, downloads, websites or anything else that might harbor viruses, spyware and other malicious programs.

Returnil virtualization technology clones a computers System Partition and boots the PC into this system rather than native Windows, allowing you run your applications in a completely isolated environment. If the PC is attacked or gets infected, all you need to do is to simply reboot the PC to erase all changes. After reboot, the system will be restored to its original state, as if nothing ever happened.

February 8th, 2012

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February 8th, 2012

Elena Santos

Whenever New Year is around the corner, the Web is flooded with top 10s, best-of lists and all sorts of summaries and rankings that try to encapsulate a whole year in only a few lines. Web sites and blogs around the world create their own themed lists according to their main topic, so I thought it would be a good idea to create a meta-list; that is, a list with the most interesting lists you can find these days on the Internet. It’s certainly a good summary of the year that’s about to finish.

Top 2008 Most under-hyped apps
In this list published by Lifehacker, Gina Trapani includes a series of apps that she considers deserved more attention during the last twelve months. Songbird, Picasa 3, VLC Media Player and Opera are among them.

Top 2008 Best of Last.fm
The online music service has published a list with the most popular artists, albums and tracks of 2008, based entirely on users’ scrobblings. Coldplay has the most scrobbled song and album, while MGMT top the Artist ranking.

Top 2008 Top searches in Google Zeitgeist, a list of the most searched-for terms during 2008. The list varies from one country to another, but the global ranking is topped by Sarah Palin. Kudos to her!

Most downloaded iTunes apps
The App Store features a list where you can see the top downloaded apps of 2008. The list is organized in several categories: games, entertainment, utilities, social networking and music, all in free or paid versions.

Most beautiful icon sets
The design blog Noupe has gathered an impressive collection with the 50 most beautiful icon sets created during this year. You’ll find icons for blogs, for the iPhone, for social networks… and many of them for free.

Best photos of 2008
The top photos of 2008 in Flickr is being created by users themselves. Flickr has asked all Flickr users to choose the best photo they’ve taken this year and add it to the special group “Your best shot of 2008“. Really worth a look!

Top 10 Videogames
Published by the Time magazine, this list includes the top videogames of 2008, though I must say I don’t agree with most of it – except for GTA IV’s first place, that is. The wooden spoon award is for Spore.

Most Pirated PC Games
Funnily enough, Spore does reach number one in the Top Pirated PC games list published by Joystiq. Other games in this list are Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty 4 and Fallout 3. Not something to be specially proud of, I guess.

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Two free ways to convert videos to DV for iMovie

February 8th, 2012 Nicholas Mead

iMovie is a great video editing tool but I’ve learned through painful trial and error that it’s very fussy when it comes to formats. It won’t even accept videos in MP4 or AVI format. Try importing one and although it will say it’s generating thumbnails for that clip, iMovie will hang or the process will just go on and on until you fall alseep.

The problem is that iMovie is designed specifically as a DV (or HDV) application. Therefore the only format it works properly with is DV. If you’re importing video from a digital video camera, then the format will already be DV or HDV and you’ve got nothing to worry about. However, if the footage is from any other source – such as a ripped DVD, YouTube or mobile phone, then your only option is to convert it to DV.

Unfortunately, there are very few applications out there that allow you to convert to DV. However, here are two worth trying:

MPEG Streamclip My tool of choice although be prepared for a long wait because it takes absolutely ages to convert to DV. A 20-minute DVD rip sample in VOB format took around an hour to convert to DV format. The customisation options, however, make it a really professional tool that gives you control over absolutely every aspect of the conversion. Best of all, you can select in and out points for only those parts of the clip that you want to convert.

Drop2DVD A very quick and simple tool that can be very hit and miss and lacks a GUI. Conversions are performed simply by dragging your video clip into the Drop2DVD icon before the Terminal is automatically launched. The conversion process is fully automated but you have absolutely no control over how it’s performed. In my case, the conversion completed successfully but there were lots of error messages relating to the frame rate which meant the file was unplayable.

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FLV Editor Pro is the ideal solution for unmatched FLV editing and other video creation.

February 8th, 2012 Giveaway of the Day project team

Moyea FLV Editor Pro is a wonderful Flash video editor to perfectly implement your ideas on FLV. You can add watermark, subtitles and special video effects, trim, crop, and merge the files. Just import FLV and output multiple video formats, FLV, AVI, 3GP, MPEG, MP4, WMV, etc. Enjoy the fun of personalizing your Flash videos.

Key Features

Import various FLV files, with the codecs like H.263, Flash 8, and Flash 8 with alpha;

Join more than one FLV files into one sequence to convert;

Save as a project file for mobile officing;

Stretchable and flexible interface;

Real-time preview and conversion preview;

Allow adding multiple image or text watermarks;

Insert special effects like Emboss, Purple, InvertColor and more.

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