Friday, June 10, 2011

capture streaming videos from the Internet

This article is about How to capture streaming videos from the Internet.

Many websites like YouTube use a Flash Video format that enables highly-compressed streaming video to effectively play in most browsers. However, the inconvenience with this type of format is that you will not be able to download it by using your Save target option.

There are three common ways available to download/capture/save streaming videos online to your computer:

1. Using download-helper websites
2. Capture the video using a Firefox extension
3. Save the video by using commercial softwares.
Download-helper Websites

KeepVid and YouTube Downloader are download-helper websites that allow users to provide them with the video links. These videos will hence be catalogued and uploaded to the site. They are not video hosting websites like YouTube or Dailymotion; they provide a browser-based service from as the user only has to enter the video's URL in the field provided and choose its source from the list. The file formats in FLV can be converted into Mpeg video formats on Keepvid.

Download Links:

KeepVid: http://keepvid.com/
Youtube Downloader: http://www.youddl.com/
Firefox extension

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that allows you to grab online videos with its additional Video Downloader extension. This application runs both on Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Mozilla Firefox 3.1 can be downloaded at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Install Mozilla Firefox
• 1. Choose Save when the file download window opens and select the path where you want the set up extension to be saved in.
• 2. When the download is completed, Click Open
• 3. This will prompt theSet Up Wizard and you will be free to make all the necessary changes concerning its installation. If you do not want to make any changes to the installation settings, check the box labeled "I agree to the terms and conditions of the program" and proceed by clicking Next until installation completes.


Install Mozilla Firefox Video Downloader

When Firefox's installation is complete, you can now download the Video Downloader extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
• 1. When prompted to download the software extension, click Save
• 2. From the Mozilla Firefox folder in your "Program Files" save the add-on in the "Extensions" folder.
• 3. When download is complete, choose "Close"
• 4. When you will open the Mozilla Firefox browser window, it will ask you if you want to install the add-on. Click "Install Now"
• 5. After installation, the toolbar should have the icon located to the left-hand side of your address bar.
• 6. You should first load the page containing the video stream to use this option. Once you have loaded the right page, click on the down arrow next to your video downloader icon and choose the format you want to save the video. By default it will save it as an FLV format file.
• 7. Choose the path where you want the video to be saved to.


Note: Winamp's latest versions can play FLV format files. You can download the program at: http://www.winamp.com/player
Commercial softwares

There are available commercial softwares online that require installation. They can be used to download the streaming videos to your computer. Some have the option to convert your FLV format files into Mpeg or AVI files.

CamStudio
Download Link: http://camstudio.org/
Type: Free

Replay AV
Download Link: http://www.applian.com/replay-av/
Type: Trial version

WM Recorder
Download Link: http://www.wmrecorder.com/
Type: Trial version
Info

If you regularly watch video from YouTube, the easiest way to download videos from this website is to make use of Real player:
• Download and install a free version of Real player.
• A folder named Real Player downloads will be automatically created in / My Documents /Video
• Launch a video on Youtube
• A small option should be present at the top of the video ....Download video
• Click on it and the video will be saved on your Hard Drive

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Sync Movies to iPad

iPad Talk: How to Sync Movies to iPad?

As the portable iPad is becoming popular in people’s lives, the iPad talk is getting hot online. And along with being a great music player, eBook reader, and gaming devices thanks to the App Store, the iPad is also a great mobile video player. It’s a joy to watch movies, TV shows, or an iTunes movie rental on the iPad's big, beautiful screen. But video takes up a lot of room and even with the iPad's storage; you can run out of space quickly. To prevent that, you need to learn how to use the options for syncing video to the iPad or convert video to DVD for storage.

If you want to add or sync your favorite movies to iPad for better sharing with friends or better enjoyment while you are outside etc, you could sync it through iTunes. When you connect iPad to your PC, a management screen appears in iTunes that sports a number of tabs across the top. The two relevant to this topic are "Movies" and "TV Shows."

In the movies tab, you have a few options:
• In order to be able to sync video to the iPad, make sure the box next to "Sync Movies" at the top of the screen is checked. If it's not, you won't be able to sync movies at all.
• If it's checked, but the check box below it is not, you can select individual movies from your library. Check the box next to the name of the movie you want to sync (unchecked movies will not be added to your iPad).
• If you check the "Automatically add" checkbox under the "Sync Movies" box, you can choose to automatically add all movies in your library to your iPad each time you sync.
• For more fine-grained control over what movies get synced, choose options from that menu like most recently added or unwatched moves.

When you're done adjusting these settings, click the "Apply" button in the bottom-left corner of the iTunes window to update and sync movies to your iPad.

When that's done, you can change similar settings in the "TV Shows" tab. Most of the settings are the same there, though in this case, you can also choose to sync either individual episodes of TV shows or entire seasons. Clicking the "Apply" button will commit changes from this screen, too.

If you are still not clear about this, you could follow this step by step instruction:
1. Connect iPad to your PC.
2. Start iTunes if it doesn’t open up manually.
3. Select iPad from the” Device” list.
4. Under the” Movies” tab, make sure that you have checked the” Sync Movies” checkbox.
5. Now you could add the desired movies from your iTunes library to your iPad.
6. You could also tick the” Automatically add” checkbox so that movies in your iTunes library are automatically added to your iPad each time you sync your iPad with iTunes.

That’s it! Now you could watch your favorite movies in your iPad.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

6 Tips to make great Presentations

The ability to use PowerPoint presentation should be a basic requirement for most people in business or public activities. While body language and voice tone create the biggest influence. Everything can be lost if the bad things that happen to your PowerPoint presentation.

PowerPoint Presentations can be a great way to deliver information, scribe a message, to inform, explain and express.

Being read word for word that makes a speech that lacks influence. Here are seven tips to consider when putting together your presentation

1. Plan Ahead
Who is the audience and what your result is, involve the audience. Asking your audience whether they agree or disagree with a specific question and how do they feel.

2. Make It Concise
As the saying goes to many cooks spoil the broth. Well, for many words on a slide off the audience. Don't use uppercase, italics, or bold too often. It has no impact and often confuses people.
3. Check Spelling
Just be sure to do so. Spelling errors really stand out in PowerPoint presentation because the text is so big. Let someone else to check it at least one time if it is possible.
4. Not More Than 7 Key Points Per Page
The brain cannot remember all of them at one time. Ideally, no more than 4 or 5 per slide, if you really want to have an impact. Don't present every world in your entire presentation in bulleted lists.
5. Color Schemes
Think about combinations of colors used. Avoid using a white background to prevent eye strain.
6. Use Images Appropriately.
Don't use images unless they make a specific point and provide a clear conclusion.

It's all about understanding what the audience needs; you do not have to use all the generations, animations, sounds and graphics. Think of your audience and what works best. These attributes should enhance your message rather than subtract.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

About DVD Region Codes

DVD region codes is a DRM technique designed to allow motion picture studios to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and especially, price, according to the region. DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played. The commercial DVD player specification requires that a player to be sold in a given place not play discs encoded for a different region.

Discs without region coding are called "all region" or "region 0" discs. In addition, many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. There are six different regions on the DVD, while Blu-ray Disc only has three. Also, major DVD player manufacturer countries (Japan, United States etc.) all have different regions, which caused problems for many. This is fixed in Blu-ray, as Japan (and other East Asian countries) and the Americas all have the same region.

6 Different Regions:

region 1: North America; U.S. territories; Bermuda
region 2: Europe; Western Asia; Kingdom of the Netherlands; Egypt, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland; British overseas territories, French overseas territories; Greenland
region 3: East and Southeast Asia
region 4: Oceania; Central and South America; Caribbean; Mexico
region 5: Africa, Central and South Asia, Belarus, India, Mongolia, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine
region 6: Mainland China

You might not think this Region Code thing is a big deal, but I believe it is. Guaranteed, if you travel a lot, you will be much impressive with this thing. Then how? How to deal with this issue? Buy a Region-Free DVD Player could be an easy solution.

When talking about the DVD region, I'm wondering how the movie industry plans to maintain this Region Code, when more and more people are downloading movies online and burning DVDs with downloaded videos, presumably from anywhere in the world.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Leopard

The Leopard

Three hours is nothing with regard to a film which draws you in and forms you a part of larger than life aristocratic parents passaging from someone era to another. Behold The Leopard (1963, Italian edition), director Luchino Visconti’s masterwork about one Sicilian prince (Burt Lancaster) who in 1860, efforts to hold to both the glory on his life while his nephew (Alain Delon), a war hero, rods him to comply with both the changing world. The prince has finded it all, and also we tend to see both the weariness and resolve on his look as he tactics to be able to retain his dignity beneath one world exactly where princes will be no more.

The Leopard is the most beautiful movies ever created. Both the story steps when slowly since you would through one grand museum exactly where any frame has a masterpiece, telling one story that goes on every other paint which follows. Bring lavish period songs to the feel, and also you earneded’t want your road to end. There're scenes this film where both the characters dance on one heavy ballroom to be able to another, and also when you find a whole scene that is going to disappear, you enjoy every sound, any color, every name. It is discreetly amazing.

Burt Lancaster was one heavy physical actor. Nobody walks with his self-confidence, stands nevertheless to his aura of chance, and talks to his whispered strength. He embodies someone who understands who he is and also how he got there. “We tend to were the leopards, both the lions, and also people who take my place will be jackals and also sheep, and the lots folks-leopards, lions, jackals, and also sheep-may continue to be able to think ourselves both the salt of planet,” he says.

Alain Delon, impossibly handsome and also dashing, loves his uncle however sees both the sea on change overtaking community. He shows the prince, “When we want things to be able to stay when they will are, questions will have to change.” Delon dates the beautiful peasant child (Claudia Cardinale) of the nouveau riche neighborhood mayor to be able to assure his private condition in the teenage order. We not just witness a revolution beneath society and also beneath hearts this epic film, but we tend to feel this, which taste lingers finally great wine until we tend to experience it again. I found The Leopard upon one big display in my young 20s and remained whacked over. Long then we screen it to my teenagers back home (They will liked Alain Delon, however the movie remained too long for these people on one 21-inch-screen.), and also recently Vickie and also I watched it again on Cinema Leach (my personal big-screen unlicensed Movie Bag in an basement) and also appreciated it extra.

Now, one caveat. There're two types of The Leopard: one badly called English-language version that is 25 time shorter, and the unique Italian-language version. (All actors speak Italian besides Lancaster, and he is considerably good that you wear’t notice his lips are usually shifting differently.) Indeed rent the long Italian version. Once you’re fortunate to have a heavy screen TV in one magnificent basement film palace near one sump flow like we tend to do, you’ll find a film to story and also characters and step and beauty different any film that you’ve ever finded. You won’t also hear both the flow

Monday, May 30, 2011

Upload Your Photos to the Cloud

 Upload Your Photos to the Cloud

Looking at the title, you may ask why to do this. Well, the most important reason is that you’ll be really sorry if an errant cup of coffee makes its way onto your PC, wiping away years of photographic memories. So creating copies of your digital photos on an online service is a painless way to ensure they’ll be around no matter what happens to your PC. Another reason for this is that it will be an easy way to share the photos with friends and family.

Now that it is necessary to backup your photos to the cloud, then the next question is how, how to upload or backup? There are many good, free choices. To keep things simple, use Picasa, Google’s service. After your initial upload — which may take a while, so set it up before you go to sleep — you will have a full backup of your photo library. And by inviting people to view it, privately, with passwords, you will not have to e-mail photos anymore. Anytime you have new pictures, upload them to Picasa, send a message to your subscribers, and they can view your gallery at their leisure.

For Mac users, Picasa Web Albums can completely integrate with iPhoto. It’s not a sync switch as per Picasa application, but you can export from iPhoto into web albums – also I discovered you can use iPhoto without storing all pictures in a single Library file. For example, you choose Picasa as your default instead of iPhoto, removing the photos from where iPhoto is saving them, and then you will see each album/event has a sync switch. Then is easy, you can just sync the web with your Picasa. If you own an iPhone, then you can use the iPhone app “Web Albums” which lets you post to Picasa web straight from your iPhone, it is really easily.

Beside Picasa, you can use other similar tools like Flickr and Google Docs and so on. Also you can save your photos slideshow to DVD disk for better share or keeping.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut

Best DVD "Kingdom of Heaven"

Dish name: "Kingdom of Heaven"-4-Disc Director's Cut
Award item: Year best DVD
Prize reason: It is the overwhelming masterpiece created by Charles Lodzka, the only DVD producer for Sikete!

The same as Sipierboge, Ridley • Sikete likes to have a try on different type and different theme movie. Recent two years with the Keen on epic poem he has been infatuated with Jerusalem's story exactly What's more, the 20th century Fox company want to hold a Large-scale celebrations for 70th anniversary ......Therefore "Kingdom of Heaven" has 130,000,000 dollars budget, which is higher 27,000,000 dollars than "Gladiator" .

Although "Kingdom of Heaven" burn with so many advantages, it has not been able to achieve super success. After the movie to screen, oral traditions and box office are very poor, of cause Ridley • Sikete is also done dirtily. In fact, Ridley • Sikete spend lots of energy on it and Production team and actors are also excellent. Maybe the reason lies the length of the movie. The story of "Kingdom of Heaven" is more huge than "Gladiator", but it is just 2 hour 25 minute long while "Wrestler" is 2 hour 35 minute long. Ridley • Sikete edited a unabridged version at first, which is 3 hour 14 minute long, details rich and rhythm fast. Because of unprecedented success before on "Gladiator", so this time does not need excessively to propagandize, as a result the 20th century Fox company could pursue showing numbers more directly. After cuts crazily, there is only bare story master line to be left, so the entire movie appears Lengthy and tedious.

The 20th century Fox Company was unable to recall the box office losing, only recoup their losses on DVD. In view of the fact that Charles • Lodz, only DVD the producer for Sikete succeed in manufacturing the lengthens version DVD of "Gladiator", the 20th century Fox agreed to invites him manufacture "Kingdom of Heaven"-4-Disc Director's Cut version DVD.As said before , the 20th century Fox company has wonderful attainment in the DVD manufacture. this time, they also given Charles the enormous display space, but gave Charles's only one limit that "Kingdom of Heaven" editing version DVD must be 4 small dishes, which means that must be more 1 DVD than lengthened version " Gladiator" DVD. Charles quietly works hard, carried on the careful manufacture from the menu to the front side, at the same time front side's picture nature also had the enormous enhancement compared to the theater version and the DTS sound axle sufficiently are also full house sound effect. What's more, Charles painstakingly looks for much historic information to make trivial matters broadcasting with the front side captions.

Lengthen version "Gladiator" DVD was made complete perfect by Charles, although it seems too long after lengthened to 2 hour 51 minute, it wasn’t criticized by film fans. The Highlights of Kingdom of Heaven-4-Disc Director's Cut was necessary more or less, but movie fans haven't criticized it too much.

So it is a DVD worth to be stored up and shared with others. And if you want to burn a DVD yourself, I recommend you visit DVD burner to make your own DVD.