How to rip and convert Blu-ray to iPhone on Mac?

If you are trying to find the solution to rip/convert your Blu-ray movie to iPhone on Mac OS, this article will provide you with the best solution on how to rip and convert Blu-ray movies to iPhone video on Mac with Aiseesoft Blu-ray to iPhone Ripper for Mac.

First, you need to free download this Mac Blu-ray to iPhone Converter and install it.

Step 1: Run this Mac Blu-ray to iPhone Ripper, and load Blu-ray disc

After launching this Blu-ray to iPhone Converter for Mac, you can click the "Load Blu-ray" button to load your Blu-ray source file.

Step 2: Edit Blu-ray movie effect

This step is optional. If you want to customize your Blu-ray movie, this Blu-ray to iPhone Ripper for Mac owns powerful video editing features. With it, you can crop video frame, watermark video, modify video effect, trim video, join Blu-ray playlists together, etc. You can click the "Edit" button to do all these editing works.

Step 3: Select output format for iPhone

Click the pull down menu of "Profile". There are multiple formats specialized for iPhone, you can select any one of them to meet your needs freely.

If you prefer to customize output settings, you can click "Settings" button to enter the window below, and adjust the parameters to your needed ones.

Step 4: Start ripping Blu-ray to iPhone

The last step is to click the "Convert" button to start to rip/convert Blu-ray movie to iPhone video.

Once the ripping task is completed, you can click the "Open Folder" button at the bottom of the main interface to get the final output Blu-ray movies files. Then you can transfer the output iPhone files to your iPhone with iTunes or out iPhone Manager for Mac.

How to Convert Video Files on Mac/Windows

Nowadays, people can enjoy videos in different ways, such as youtube.com and other online video websites, iPod/Zune and other portable players, and also play video on computer, and you can also make you own videos with windows movie make or iMovie for Mac users. So how to convert videos between different video formats is a big problem for both windows and Mac users. Today I will share you guys two powerful video converter for Mac and Windows users.

For Mac users, this powerful video converter for mac is really nice.
Let's use it to convert a video for Example



Step 1: Add File
Click “Add File” button to load the video you want to converter

Step 2: Choose profile and adjust settings
You can find your output video format from a drop-list called “Profile”
You can also adjust the specific settings of the output video, such as “Resolution”, “Bitrate”, “Encoder” and so on.

Step 3: Edit Video
1. Effect:
You can adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and “Volume”

2. Trim:
You are allowed to pick up any part of the video to convert.

3. Crop:
To remove the black edges and choose a play area to convert.

Step 4: Start Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and you will get your video soon.

For Windows users, you need Total Video Converter.



Step 1: Load Video
You can load your videos into the converter by clicking “Add File”

Step 2: Choose output info
This converter provides you many output profiles for you to choose, you can choose your output profiles according to your need. And also you can just choose a certain video format.

You can also adjust the settings of your output profiles. You can even save a certain settings as your own output settings.

Step 3: Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and few mins later you can get your video.

Tips: How to effect, trim and crop the video to improve your output video quality.
After your Load your video you can click “Effect” button to access the effect panel

1: Effect
Adjust the video effect as you want: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Deinterlacing.

2: Trim
Clip your video, pick up any part of your video to convert.
You have 3 ways to do trim:

1.Dragging the slider

2.Controlling the “Trim From” and “Trim To” button

3.Setting the Start and End time

3: Crop
Adjust video size, Cut off the black edge of your video to let you enjoy your movie in full screen by click the 'Crop' button
You have 2 ways to do crop:

1.Move your mouse cursor onto one of the eight small adjustment boxes on the cropping frame and drag the crop frame to crop the video such as cutting off top and bottom black bar. The cropped result will be shown on the Output Preview at the same time

2.Type the value directly or set the value in "Left", "Right" and "Cropped area size" area to set the position of the cropping frame.

You can also select the aspect ratio from the Zoom Mode drop-down list. There are 4 choices for you: Full Screen, 16:9, 4:3 and Keep Original.

Convert AVCHD File to iPad 2

People are really excited that iPad 2 supports HD videos, however, iPad 2 users have to convert their HD video from their Sony and other camcorders before they put them on their iPad 2 to watch. Aiseesoft iPad 2 Video Converter is released for iPad 2 users to solve this problem. It can help people convert avchd to iPad 2 easily and fast. It provides both iPad 2 standard video output and high definition output.

Step 1. Add Video

Click "Add File" to find the video you want to convert and load it into AVCHD to iPad 2 Converter.



Step 2. Choose Output Video Format

Choose HD format for iPad 2 and specify your destination folder for output videos.

Follow: "Profile"> "iPad" > "iPad 2 H.264 720p Video(*.mp4)" to convert AVCHD files into HD MP4 format for iPad 2.



Step 3. Move the interlace from your AVCHD footage.

Click "Effect" and check "Deinterlacing"

Step 4. Convert

Click "Convert" to begin the conversion

How to Convert DVD and Video to Your Fashionable iPad

iPad has been released for about a month, but it is pretty popular among people. I think you guys who got iPad are very proud. How do you make full use of its great space without spending extra money? Show it off before friends? It is the best choice to use DVD collection and video you have. But how do you deal with it?
Recently I got the information from internet. I feel it is useful for all, so I’d like to share it with you guys. It is third-party software that can rip DVD and convert video for iPad. And the whole process is so easy. They are Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter and Aiseesoft iPad Video Converter.

Next it is divided into two parts to describe it in details.
Part One: How to Rip DVD to iPad.
Firstly you need download the software: Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter. And then install and run DVD to iPad Converter.
The specific operating steps as follows:



Step 1: Load DVD.
Click "Load DVD" to add your DVD contents.
Step 2: Set output video format.
Click "Profile" button from the drop-down list to select the exact output video format that is the most suitable for your iPad. You can click the "Settings" button to set parameters of your output video such as such as Resolution, Video Bitrate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, Sample Rate, etc. to get the best video quality as you want.
Step 3: Select the output path by clicking “Browse” button from the line of destination.
Step 4: Click the "Start" button to start the conversion.

Part Two: How to Convert Video to iPad.

Also it is the same. Firstly download the software: Aiseesoft iPad Video Converter. And then install and run iPad Video Converter.

The specific operating steps as follows:

Step 1: Add video.
Click "Add Video" to add your video contents.
Step 2: Set output video format.
Click "Profile" button from the drop-down list to select the exact output video format that is the most suitable for your iPad. You can click the "Settings" button to set parameters of your output video such as such as Resolution, Video Bitrate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, Sample Rate, etc. to get the best video quality as you want.
Step 3: Select the output path by clicking "Browse" button from the line of destination.
Step 4: Click the "Start" button to start the conversion.

Tips:
The two pieces of software have some basically editing functions such as trim, crop, effect,
1. Trim:
Three ways to do trim:
a. Drag the “start scissors bar” button to where you want to start and “end scissors bar” button where you want to end. (1)
b. You can click the “Trim From” button when you want to start the trim during your preview and click “Trim To” button when you want to end.
c. Set the exact “start time” and “end time” at right part of the trim window and click “ok”.

2. Crop:
Three ways to do crop
a. Select one crop mode from the "Crop Mode" drop-list.
b. Dragging crop frame to choose your own crop.
c. Set your own crop value.

3. Effect
Drag the adjustment bar to find your favorite effect of Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume.

4. Merge into one file.
Pick the "Merge into one file" to merge the files you choose into one output file. (2)

There is another piece of software named iPad Converter Suite. It includes DVD to iPad Converter, iPad Video Converter and iPad Transfer.

Apple – the World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller

According to the Financial Times, Apple has replaced Nokia to become the world’s top smartphone vendor.

Shipments of Nokia smartphones declined by 34 per cent to 16.7m units, compared with the 20.3m iPhones shipped by Apple in its second quarter.

Actually, Apple has already become the biggest smartphone maker by revenue and profits, but the April-June period marked the first time it had surpassed Nokia in volume.

Nokia has led the market in smartphone shipments since 1996. But since the announcement of iPhone in 2007, its market share came under attack.

Besides of Apple iPhone, Nokia is also faced with smart phones built on Google’s Android platform by the likes of Samsung and HTC.

Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, said: “The challenges we are facing during our strategic transformation manifested in a greater than expected way in the second quarter of 2011.”

Of course, Apple also has faced stiff competition from Android over the last couple of years, but with dozens of manufacturers pushing out Android devices, no single vendor has been able to approach Apple’s shipment volumes. Samsung and HTC lead the Android pack and have experienced very strong growth, but each company’s smartphone shipments remains about half that of Apple’s.

Reproduced by SEKO from http://blog.aiseesoft.com/

How to rip DVD to Windows Phone 7?

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is a Windows mobile OS presented by Microsoft in 2010. Now many wonderful mobile phones, such as HTC HD7, HTC 7 Pro, Samsung OMNIA 7, LG Quantum, etc. run this WP7. The new user interface with its design language named Metro integrates the operating system with 3rd party and other Microsoft services.

Today, I will show you how to enjoy DVD movies on Windows Phone 7. First, you need a professional DVD to Windows Phone 7 Converter. In this guide, we will use Aiseesoft DVD Ripper, which is a professional DVD to WP7 Ripper to help you rip DVD to Windows Phone 7 supported video formats like MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, etc.

Step 1: Load DVD disc

Insert your DVD into the DVD drive and launch the DVD to Windows Phone 7 Converter. Then you can click the "Load DVD" button to load your DVD.

Tips: This DVD Ripper allows you to import DVD-ROM, DVD folders, and IFO file.

Step 2: Customize output video effect

This DVD to Windows Phone 7 Ripper possesses powerful video editing functions. With it, you are able to trim DVD length, crop video frame, add watermark to your video, adjust video effect and join DVD chapters/titles together.

Step 3: Choose output format

Windows Phone 7 can play the 3GP, MP4, M4V, WMV, etc. video. Here we take WMV as an example. Click the "Profile" drop-down list to choose "WMV – Windows Media Video (*.wmv)" format. Also you can click "Settings" to set the Video Resolution, Video Bitrate, Frame Rate, Encoder, and so on.

Step 4: Start to convert DVD to WP7

The last step is to click "Start" button to begin the DVD to Windows Phone 7 conversion. This software will provide you with fast converting speed and great output quality. After the conversion, you can transfer the output WMV video to Windows Phone 7 and enjoy it conveniently.

How to Put DVD Movies on iPod, iPod touch, iPod nano, iPhone(Windows/Mac)

At this moment, there is thousands of people are using their iPod enjoy their time in the whole world. With the time pssing by, other thousands of people are going to have their own iPod and joining into the iPod group. However, a problem that most of the iPod users don’t know how to put their own DVD movies to their iPod both Windows and Mac users and this problem annoys most of iPod users.
As one of iPod fans I will intorduce iPod users a really nice way to put their DVD on their iPod.(Windows/Mac)

Part 1. For Windows user:

Step 1. Load your DVD
Install and run Aiseesoft DVD to iPod Converter
Open your DVD drive and put your DVD in it. Click “Load DVD” button and choose “Load DVD”. (There is 2 more ways you can load your file, “Load DVD Folder” and “Load IFO”)(1)



Step 2. Choose your output profile and adjust your output settings
After you load your DVD into it, please choose your output profile according to your iPod. It provides many different profile for you.(2)
Then you can adjust your output video’s settings by clicking “Settings” button.

After doing the 2 steps you can click “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Tips:
1. Trim:
Three ways to do trim:
a. Drag the “start scissors bar” button to where you want to start and “end scissors bar” button where you want to end (1)
b. You can click the “Trim From” button when you want to start the trim during your preview and click “Trim To” button when you want to end.
c. Set the exact “start time” and “end time” at right part of the trim window and click “ok”

2. Crop:
Three ways to do crop
a. Select one crop mode from the “Crop Mode” drop-list.
b. Dragging crop frame to choose your own crop.
c. Set your own crop value.

3. Effect
Drag the adjustment bar to find your favorite effect of Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume.

4. Select audio track and subtitle
Select the audio track and subtitle from the drop-list window under the preview window.(1)

5. Merge into one file.
Pick the “Merge into one file” to merge the files you choose into one output file.(2)

Part 2. For Mac user:

For Mac users there are not many nice DVD to iPod converter to use but Aiseesoft
DVD to iPod Converter for Mac is really nice. Its conversion quality and speed are much better than other Mac DVD to iPod converter on the market and its video editing functions is its another charm. With it you can smoothly customize your own video effect by doing trim, crop, and adjust the effect of your output video. And you can also preview the effect of your output video and choose subtitle and audio track and you can also merge titles and chapters into one output file.
Download Aiseesoft DVD to iPod Converter for Mac

And for Aiseesoft DVD to iPod Converter for Mac, the process of doing Trim, Crop and adjusting Effec and other functions is the same as in windows.

DVD Proteciton

DVD shorten for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc was published at the beginning of 1996 and dominated the multimedia market until now. All the film publishers choose to sell their movies on DVD after cinema. And to keep from piracy, they add protection on their DVDs. This article we will talk about what is DVD protection and how to remove it.

A Brief Discussion on DVD Protection

Before we talk about the DVD protection, I will first introduce you the structure of a DVD. A DVD is made up of 1 to 99 titles and all the titles are distributed in the Video Title Set(VTS). Each title has their chapters, which work with a program. The Program is composed of cells. A number of programs make a Program Chain (PGC). And when a Chapter works with its program, the number of PGC and program were determined at the same time.

A DVD movie disc contains a VIDEO_TS file, where the file related to the movie was found. You can find 3 types of file in VIDEO_TS file, including *.IFO(index file of a DVD), *.BUP(DVD index backup file) and *.VOB(DVD content file).

Now we know what is in the DVD disc, but how to add a protection on it? There are many ways to add protections on a DVD. Content Scramble System(CSS) and ArccOS are two ways widely used by DVD movie publishers.

Content Scramble System(CSS) adds protection in *.VOB file and when playing the DVD movie, a key is needed for decrypting *.VOB file. The key used to decrypt the *.VOB file is DVD disc. So people can not copy the DVD movie to another blank DVD disc by using physical file copy. Unfortunately, in 1999, Jon Lech Johansen and other two guys found a way to decode the CSS. As a result of that now CSS is not a big deal if you want to copy a DVD movie using CSS protection.

Nowadays, ArccOS is more and more popular than CSS. It has the following features:
A. Bad Sector
One of the features of ArccOS is that bad sector was set in the DVD disc. When your player is reading the bad sector, the player will crash right away. To those players which follow the rule of DVD, a command in the DVD disc will tell the player how to avoid bad sector and play the DVD movie correctly.

B. Titles
DVD in this kind of protection has as many as 99 titles. Movie content is divided and stored in each title disorderly. To those players which follow the rule of DVD, a command in the DVD disc will tell the player how to play the DVD movie as the movie actually goes.

So as we can see from above, bad sector and disorderly content become the two key point of decoding this kind of protection. In the market of DVD ripping and copying software, there are many software that can only kill the first kind of protection (CSS), so they can not rip or copy many DVD movies released recently. Because they are protected by ArccOS. Some of them can decode the ArccOS but not perfectly. The output video has one problem or another. Most of them can not provide a perfect solution for ripping DVD movies.

How to Remove DVD Protection?

The software that supports both solutions and allows you to select which one to use is Aiseesoft DVD Ripper. It provides you two ways to rip DVD to video freely. When you load your DVD to it. It will pop up a window to ask you which mode you want to use. Find more info here: http://www.aiseesoft.com/dvd-ripper.html

How to Rip DVD?

Step 1: Import DVD

Place the DVD into your DVD drive and click the "Load DVD" button to load DVD.

Tips: This 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 2: Video settings

Select the output video format you want from the "Profile" drop-down list.



Tips:

* 1: You can also select Audio Track and Subtitle from their respectively drop-down list.
* 2: If you like the current image of the video you can use the "Snapshot" opinion. Just click the "Snapshot" button the image will be saved and you can click the "File" next to "Snapshot" button to open your picture. You can select the destination of the picture by clicking the "Preference" button. As default the captured image will be saved at: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Aiseesoft Studio\Snapshot
* 3: If you want to merge the selected contents into one file you can check the "merge into one file" option. As default the merged file is named after the first selected file (either a title or a chapter)
* 4: You can click the "Settings" button to set your video parameters.



In the Video Settings, you can select Encoder, Frame Rate, Resolution and Bitrate for your movie.

In the Audio Settings, you can select Encoder, Channels, Bitrate and Sample Rate for your movie.

when you choose the specific settings, the lower window will show the "help" to explain the meanings of each setting.

Step 3: Start conversion

Click the "Start" button to start your conversion and in a short while it will be finished.

Step 4: Click "Open" button to open your output destination file.

How to Convert DVD and Video to Your Fashionable iPad

iPad has been released for about a month, but it is pretty popular among people. I think you guys who got iPad are very proud. How do you make full use of its great space without spending extra money? Show it off before friends? It is the best choice to use DVD collection and video you have. But how do you deal with it?
Recently I got the information from internet. I feel it is useful for all, so I’d like to share it with you guys. It is third-party software that can rip DVD and convert video for iPad. And the whole process is so easy. They are Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter and Aiseesoft iPad Video Converter.

Next it is divided into two parts to describe it in details.
Part One: How to Rip DVD to iPad.
Firstly you need download the software: Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter. And then install and run DVD to iPad Converter.
The specific operating steps as follows:



Step 1: Load DVD.
Click "Load DVD" to add your DVD contents.
Step 2: Set output video format.
Click "Profile" button from the drop-down list to select the exact output video format that is the most suitable for your iPad. You can click the "Settings" button to set parameters of your output video such as such as Resolution, Video Bitrate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, Sample Rate, etc. to get the best video quality as you want.
Step 3: Select the output path by clicking “Browse” button from the line of destination.
Step 4: Click the "Start" button to start the conversion.

Part Two: How to Convert Video to iPad.

Also it is the same. Firstly download the software: Aiseesoft iPad Video Converter. And then install and run iPad Video Converter.

The specific operating steps as follows:



Step 1: Add video.
Click "Add Video" to add your video contents.
Step 2: Set output video format.
Click "Profile" button from the drop-down list to select the exact output video format that is the most suitable for your iPad. You can click the "Settings" button to set parameters of your output video such as such as Resolution, Video Bitrate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, Sample Rate, etc. to get the best video quality as you want.
Step 3: Select the output path by clicking "Browse" button from the line of destination.
Step 4: Click the "Start" button to start the conversion.

Tips:
The two pieces of software have some basically editing functions such as trim, crop, effect,
1. Trim:
Three ways to do trim:
a. Drag the “start scissors bar” button to where you want to start and “end scissors bar” button where you want to end. (1)
b. You can click the “Trim From” button when you want to start the trim during your preview and click “Trim To” button when you want to end.
c. Set the exact “start time” and “end time” at right part of the trim window and click “ok”.

2. Crop:
Three ways to do crop
a. Select one crop mode from the "Crop Mode" drop-list.
b. Dragging crop frame to choose your own crop.
c. Set your own crop value.

3. Effect
Drag the adjustment bar to find your favorite effect of Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume.

4. Merge into one file.
Pick the "Merge into one file" to merge the files you choose into one output file. (2)

There is another piece of software named iPad Converter Suite. It includes DVD to iPad Converter, iPad Video Converter and iPad Transfer.

How to convert video for your Android phone?

Android phones, such as HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, etc. are rapidly gaining in popularity these days. If you have got the Android phone and want to enjoy videos on your Android phone, you need the assistant of a professional video to Android phone converter. Aiseesoft Android Video Converter is the ideal solution for converting all popular HD and general video files, such as H.264/ AVC, AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, TS, HD MKV, HD WMV, AVI, WMV, ASF, MKV, MOV, MPG, 3GP, 3GP2 and more, to your Android devices formats on your computer.

Note: For Mac users, please try Android Video Converter for Mac.

The following guide shows you how to convert video for popular Android phones, including HTC Legend, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy, LG Ally and etc.

Step 1: Add video source

Load your videos by clicking the "Add Video" button. Also you can just drag and drop your video source to the Android Video Converter.

Aiseesoft Android Video Converter supports converting most popular video files, like MKV, WMV, AVI, FLV, 3GP, DivX, VOB and even HD video, to Android phone.

Step 2: Select the output format

Click the drop-down arrow on the right of the "Profile". There are several built-in profiles for popular devices. You can choose the output format according to your Android phone. Here we take MP4 as an example. You just need to choose the "Android > Android MP4 Video (*.mp4)" option.

After selecting the target profile, you can also set some properties for special needs. Click the "Settings" button to do some further video and audio settings.

Step 3: Convert video to Android format

If you have done all these settings, just click "Convert" button to start converting your video to the Android format you select. And the converting progress will be finished within minutes.

Step 4: Import the output video to Android phone

Now, connect your Android mobile phone to computer and transfer the output videos to Android phone. Then you can enjoy the HD movies, popular TV shows and other interesting videos on your fancy Android phone.

Tips: This wonderful Android Phone Video Converter also possesses powerful video editing features. You can trim video segment, crop frame, join videos together, add watermark, and so on.

Total Video Converter

How to Convert Video to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV

Just try Aiseesoft Total Video Converter. Let’s see how effective the software conversion. The software can adjust CPU usage manually. The video length of 2 hours needs about 3-4 h conversion time.

The software can convert video to MP4, MKV, WMV, AVI and others like H.264, 3GP and DivX etc.. What is not said, that more experience is not as their own. You can download Aiseesoft Total Video Converter.

Step 1: Load Video
You can load your videos into the converter by clicking “Add File”


Step 2: Choose output info
This converter provides you many output profiles for you to choose, you can choose your output profiles according to your need. And also you can just choose a certain video format.


You can also adjust the settings of your output profiles. You can even save a certain settings as your own output settings.
Step 3: Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and few mins later you can get your video.

Furthermore, the software has some editing functions such as trim, crop, watermark, and merge that are very useful in our daily life.

Make Your Families and Friends A Video for Christmas

What are you going to give your friends/families for Christmas? Do not decide yet? Here I will give you a suggestion. You can make a video and send to them. It will be a great present for them. You may make a video from your own media source: videos, pictures, songs and you can write something you want to say to them.
Do you like my suggestion?
Yes, let's do it.
Here you need a SlideShow Maker to help you to do that.
There are many SlideShow Maker on the internet to download and I use this one.


Things you need:
1. Source: Videos, picture, songs and what you want to say to them.
2. SlideShow Maker

How to make your own videos for your families and friends
Part 1. How to add videos/picture/songs/word
1. How to add videos?
Double click the preview window or the box in the “Story Board” to find the videos on your computer.
It can save your videos in it and you can find it easily in “My video” next time you want to use it.
2. How to add pictures?
You can add videos from your computer the same as add videos.
This SlideShow maker provides you many beautiful pictures on the left side of the interface. It is classified as “Animals”, “Christmas”, “Halloween”, “Plants”, “Scenery”, “Season” and “Wedding”
3. How to add songs?
Click “Add Muisc” in the Story Board to add your music.
4. How to add words on the screen?
Click “Add Text” to add your words on the screen.


After you add the video, picture, or songs, you can see their properties of them and you can also edit it on the property section

Part 2. How to add transitions between two source you add
A default transition will be added when you add two sources(pictures or videos). When you click the boxes between two source in the story board you are allowed to change the transitions(it provides you 19 transitions for you to choose).
You can adjust the duration and other settings of the transition, such as “Motion”, “IrisStyle” and so on.


Part 3. How to edit the source you added
1. How to edit videos you added
When you click the video you added on the Story Board, you will see the edit interface and you can do crop and trim under the previews window. When you click the triangle at the bottom of the preview window, you can go to the preview interface. In there you can preview your video and full screen is available.
On the left side you can see the detailed settings of the video, such as video size, video effect, aural effect and so on. You an also adjust the settings in property section.

2. How to edit the picture you added
Choose the picture and you can edit it directly on the preview window, such as crop the picture. On the property section you can edit the detailed settings of the picture.

3. How to edit the songs you added
Select the music you added, and on the left side you can see the info of the audio file. You can edit it here directly, such as sample rate, fade in and fade out and so on.

4. How to edit the words you added
You can add your words after you double click the “Sample Text” or select the Caption. Other settings are really easy to set on the left side property section.

After you have done all the things you want to do you can click the “Create” button. Here you will go to the create section. You are allowed to choose the output profile and edit the specific settings, such as “Resolution”, “Encoder”, “Bitrate” and “Frame Rate” and so on.

This powerful SlideShow Maker can help you to create your slideshow to MP4/MKV/WMV/AVI and other popular formats such as: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, DivX, Mov, M4V, DivX, XviD, ASF, SWF, VOB, DV, Super VCD(NTSC, PAL, SECAM), VCD(NTSC, PAL, SECAM) , DVD(NTSC, PAL, SECAM) and so on.

App Store Downloads to Increase by 61% in 2011

According to estimates by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, downloads from Apple’s iOS App Store will increase 61 percent in calendar year 2011, while the average selling price of software will be up 14 percent.

In 2010, typical iOS device owners downloaded an average of 51 apps over the course of the year. This year, they’ll download 83.

Last week, Apple announced that more than 15 billion applications have been downloaded by more than 200 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.

Munster wrote. “Smartphone users are showing an increasing appetite to use apps to add features to their phones, and iOS has the leading app ecosystem.”

Piper Jaffray’s App Store model also indicates that paid application average selling prices are on the rise in 2011. The data shows prices up 14 percent year-over-year in calendar year 2011, compared to the 18 percent decline seen by paid applications in 2010.

How Google Got Going

At the tail end of the 1990s dot-com boom, Douglas Edwards took a gamble: He left his marketing job at an old-media company, taking a $25,000 salary cut to start work at a small, little-known Internet concern in its second year of operation. That his new employer was losing money and burning through venture capital went without saying. But unlike the footloose 20-somethings who usually populated Silicon Valley start-ups, Mr. Edwards had little margin to bet wrong; he was 41, with a mortgage, three children and a worried wife. He hoped he could get his old job back if the company ran out of money.

Early adopters of the company's product shared his uncertainty about its future. Unable to understand how the business could keep going without any income, some users offered donations, which were politely declined.

Things worked out all right, though: Mr. Edwards was employee No. 59 of Google. "I'm Feeling Lucky"—the title comes from a rarely used button on the Google home page—is his memoir of five years inside perhaps the most unusual and ambitious company in America.

Let's get the bad news out of the way first. "I'm Feeling Lucky" does not share the scope, depth, and rich detail of recent journalistic accounts of Google, such as Ken Auletta's "Googled" and Steven Levy's "In the Plex." It is a chronicle of the day-to-day experiences, sometimes mundane, of a figure who was not a major player within the company.

Still, Mr. Edwards succeeds in recreating a lost era of the online industry. When he started at Google in 1999 as the director of consumer marketing and brand management, portals—meaning websites offering news and links on various subjects—were all the rage. Web searching was a commodity service; one search engine (AltaVista) was about as good as another (HotBot). Google couldn't get its hometown newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle, to return its phone calls. Wall Street, too, was more interested in portals than in boring search engines.

Mr. Edwards came to his job as a subscriber to the conventional wisdom. In an early presentation to cofounder Larry Page and others, Mr. Edwards unwisely declared that only marketing, not technology, could set Google apart. "In a world where all search engines are equal," he asserted, "we'll need to rely on branding to differentiate us from our competitors."

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 416 pages, $27

The world would soon become acutely aware of the quality of Google's search algorithms. And Mr. Edwards was learning that he had come to work at an unconventional enterprise, even by Silicon Valley standards. He was a marketer in a company where marketers seemed to wield only slightly more influence than the cleaning crew. Mr. Page and cofounder Sergey Brin were happy to let competitors shovel millions of dollars into promotion. "Never, ever, ever delay the launch of a product just for a marketing issue," Mr. Edwards was warned.

Also embedded in Google's mindset was a belief in hiring only the best engineers. Of course, every company claims to seek the strongest talent. What impressed Mr. Edwards were the extremes to which Google took this policy, particularly during a boom time when it seemed like companies were hiring any techie with a pulse. The first Google systems administrator Mr. Edwards encountered was a self-taught networking whiz with a Yale medical degree—a reflection of the weight that the Messrs. Brin and Page gave to elite academic credentials, even if not in computer science. Google demanded to see job candidates' high-school SAT scores, Mr. Edwards says, confident that the numbers revealed intelligence, not just "scholastic aptitude."

When the company put a recruiting message—"You're brilliant. We're hiring."—and link on its otherwise sparse home page, Mr. Edwards complained that only a microscopic percentage of visitors to the home page would be qualified to work for Google. No matter: The company was "willing to waste a few hundred million impressions to reach the dozen or so people they might consider."

Mr. Edwards also saw in Google a focus on customer satisfaction that was no less uncompromising. True, the company was sometimes surprised by users' privacy concerns—as in the short-lived controversy over targeted ads in Gmail, ads that were based on an analysis of content in the user's e-mails. In general, however, Mr. Edwards found that Google was eager to meet users' needs. When engineers proposed a plan for pricing online ads based on the number of click-throughs, not on the number of times the ad was shown, Mr. Page was unswayed until the team convinced him that the system would improve the user experience by making the ads they saw more relevant to their interests. Mr. Edwards wrote a list of epigrams for his bosses summarizing the Google philosophy. At the top: "Focus on the user and all else will follow."

Although Mr. Edwards lost his job in early 2005 during a reorganization, "I'm Feeling Lucky" shows no signs that he harbors much bitterness. The book does not reveal any scandals, unless one counts some sexual shenanigans in the nap room. It's hard to be a disgruntled former employee when you walked away with a portfolio of Google stock and stock options that have a 20-cent strike price and GOOG is trading at over $500.

His apparent lack of spite is a strength of the book. A weakness is the difficulty he obviously has in sorting the significant from minutiae, with the result that he devotes too much attention to ephemeral bureaucratic tiffs. Luckily for users of Google's search engine, the company's algorithms are better at sorting wheat from chaff.

Apple Might Present the iPad HD This Fall

According to This is my next, Apple is probably launch the third-general tablet. Surprisingly, the 3th-gen iPad would be called iPad HD instead of the iPad 3.

The new iPad HD will have a 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution – twice the current 1024 x 768 resolution, and it will target professional users in the video or photo industries. The iPad HD will be sold alongside the existing iPad 2. Just like the difference between MacBook and MacBook Pro, the iPad HD is merely a “pro” version of the iPad 2.

As for the next iPhone (iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S), according to the Wall Street Journal report, the new device will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4. And the new iPhone will be utilizing Qualcomm chips in place of Infineon parts.

The report says that orders are being placed with suppliers in China, meaning that production lines will likely start rolling soon. And it is expected to launch sometime in the fall.

How to rip Blu-ray movie to Windows Phone 7

If you have recently bought a new smartphone running the Windows Phone 7 OS and want to watch the Blu-ray movies on your phone, Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper is your requisite software on your computer. This Blu-ray to Windows Phone 7 Ripper can convert commercial Blu-ray disc into Windows Phone 7 compatible MP4/AVI/WMV videos and M4A/MP3/WMA audio. With this Blu-ray to WP 7 Converter, you are able to put Blu-ray collections to Windows Phone for playback.

Now you could download a trial version of Blu-ray to Windows Phone 7 Ripper and follow the guide to try to rip Blu-ray movie to Windows Phone 7 supported video files.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc

After running this Blu-ray Ripper application, you can click the "Load Blu-ray" button to input your Blu-ray movie files.

Note: besides of Blu-ray, this Blu-ray to Windows Phone 7 Ripper can also convert DVD and video files to Windows Phone 7 compatible formats.

Click the drop-down list of "Audio Track" and "Subtitle", then all the audio track and subtitle info in the Blu-ray will be shown clearly. And you can select your needed audio track and language.

Step 2: Edit output video effect

To help users get customized output video files, this Blu-ray to Windows Phone 7 Ripper also provides users with powerful video editing functions. For instance, users can trim any Blu-ray segment and convert it to Windows Phone 7, crop video frame, watermark video, adjust video brightness/saturation/contrast/hue/volume, and so on.

Step 3: Choose output formats

This Blu-ray to Windows Phone 7 Ripper provides users with many popular output formats. To watch Blu-ray movies on Windows Phone, you need to select the AVI, MP4, or WMV as the output format.

For instance, if you want to choose MP4 as the output format, just click on the drop-down list of "Profile" and then follow "General Video"> "MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)".

Step 4: Start ripping Blu-ray to Windows Phone 7

After finishing all these steps above, you can click the "Convert" button to rip Blu-ray to Windows Phone 7 compatible file format. Once the conversion task is completed, you can click "Open Folder" button to get the output file and transfer it to your Windows Phone. Then you can watch the movie on the road.

How to transfer music from iPod with iPod Rip and iPod Rip for Mac

Basically, there is a need for you to transfer music from iPod with iPod Rip and iPod Rip for Mac to avoid your files are lost. Now, I guide you how to rip your iPod to hard drives with Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer. So you don’t need to worry about losing anything.



Step 1: Download Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer and install.



Step 2: Launch the program
Double-click the icon to run the software; or launch it from the “Start” Menu.
Step 3: Rip iPod files.
1)Run the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable. After done, the iPod/iPhone icon and its library and playlists will appear in the Device list.
2)Open the library/playlist that you want to export files, and then check the music/movie you want to export in the file list to your computer.
3)Click the "Export to PC" button to select the destination of the exporting files and start ripping files
Otherwise, you could also choose the Export to local option from the Actions menu, and then export the files from your iPod/iPhone to actual device.

Tip: Use “Track filter” function to help you quickly browse your library by genre, artist and album. If you are using Mac, please use the iPod Rip for Mac software. Click here to download Aiseesoft iPod to Mac Transfer

iPod Converter Reviews: how to convert video for iPod, iPhone,iPhone Ringtone

As a crazy fan of iPod and iPhone, many friends come and ask me about how to enjoy movies and videos on their iPod and also they want unique ringtone for their iPhone. Too many people asking those questions, so I spend some time to make this article to show my dear friends that how to enjoy movies on iPod and iPhone and also how to make your own iPhone ringtone.

There are 3 parts in my article:
Part 1: How to put movie and videos on your iPod.
Part 2: How to put movie and videos on your iPhone
Part 3: How to make your own iPhone ringtone

Part 1: How to put movie and videos on your iPod.
If you want to put movie/video on your iPod, you must know what kind of video/movies can be played on your iPod. Look the following:

H.264
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second (fps), Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, and stereo audio.

MPEG-4
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbits/sec, 480 x 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, stereo audio.

Wow, that looks really complicated, right? Actually it is really easy to make such video/movie for you iPod. You just need Aiseesoft
iPod Movie Converter.

Ok, let's begin.

Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to put on your iPod.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.



Tips:
This powerful video convert for iPod allows you to do many video editing works to make your iPod video/movie more colorful.

1. Effect:
You can adjust your movie's effect, such as “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Saturation”, and you can just check the output effect on the output preview window.
This powerful video converter allows you to choose “deinterlacing”.

2. Trim:
With trim function you can pick up any part of the video/movie to convert and put on your iPod.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons to set the start and end time
b. You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair buttons when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time on the right side of the pop-up window.

3. Crop
Crop function allows you to pick up any play area to convert:
There are 2 ways that you can crop your video.
a. You can set your own mode on the bottom of the pop-up window
b. You can drag frame to set your own crop mode

In the Crop window, you can also choose your output “aspect ratio”.
Here it provides you 4 mode to choose: “keep original”, “full screen”, “16:9”, “4:3”

Part 2: How to put video/movie to iPhone
Actually, iPhone is much easier to deal with than iPod, because there are so many generations of iPod.
Put video/movie on iPhone, I use Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter.

Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to put on your iPhone.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.



Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter can also do video editing works, such as adjust the effect, pick up any part of the movie, choose play area. The operation is the same as Part 1.

Part 3: How to make your own iPhone ringtone
This time you need Aiseesoft iPhone Ringotne Maker


Step 1: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Input File" to import the file that you want to make ringtone from it.

Step 2: Play it and listen the music to find the segment that you want to use it as ringtone. Then drag and click the start & end slider to set your wanted segment, or type the start & end time in the corresponding text box directly to get the exact segment. You also can pre-listen the converted audio before generate.

Step 3: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Local Output Folder" to choose the output destination.

Step 4: Check "Export to iPhone" option, the converted ringtone will be load to your iPhone directly.

Step 5: After all the settings are finished, click “Generate” to begin making your own iPhone ringtone.

Key function
● Convert any video to iPhone ringtone M4R
● Create iPhone ringtone from any audio files
● Get any clips from video and audio
● Edit Added iPhone ringtones
Using Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker, you are free to edit the added iPhone ringtone by removing it or renaming it directly.

How to Enjoy Your Favorite Videos on Portable Devices at Will For Mac Users

Are you a Mac user?
Do you still feel frustrated that you can’t enjoy your favorite videos on portable devices at will?
Now, a professional software—Aiseesoft
Video Converter for Mac
can help you to solve all the problems. With it, you can convert between all popular video and audio formats with super fast conversion speed and high output quality, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB Video, MP3, AAC, and AC3 Audio etc. In addition, the best video converter for Mac can also extract audio from video file and convert video to MP3, AC3, and AAC…as you want.

OK, let’s move to how to use the amazing software.

Step 0: Download and install Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac.
After a while, you can use the following interface:


Step 2. Load Video
You can load your video by clicking “Add File” button or clicking “File” button, you can choose “add file” on a drop-down list.

Step 3. Output format and Settings
From the “Profile” drop-down list you can find one format that meets your requirement.

After doing the 3 steps above, you can click “start” button to start conversion.
Wait a minute, the conversion will be soon finished.

Tips:
1. Trim
"Trim" function is for you to select the clips you want to convert.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons(1) to set the start and end time
b. You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair buttons(2) when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time on the right side of the pop-up window.
It is for you to select the clips you want to convert.

2. Crop
Cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen using the "Crop" function.
There are 3 ways that you can crop your video.
a. We provide 7 modes on our “Crop Mode”(1)
b. You can set your own mode on the right side of the pop-up window(2)
c. You can drag frame to set your own crop mode(3)
You can cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen using the "Crop" function.

3. Snapshot and merge into one file
If you like the current image of the video you can use the “Snapshot” option. Just click the “Snapshot” button the image will be saved and you can click the “Open” button next to “Snapshot” button to open your picture.
If you want to make several files output as one you can choose “Merge into one file”.

If you are windows users, you can go to Aiseesoft Total Video Converter to get more information.

How to Convert MTS to AVI?

How to freely and quickly convert MTS to AVI format? Here we provide a complete solution for you – using MTS Converter! It is the right conversion tool that you are looking for to freely convert MTS to AVI and supports all kinds of devices. Just free download this MTS to AVI Converter to experience upgraded digital life by yourself. You can get advanced output settings as you like!!!

Guide on converting MTS to AVI:

Preparation: Download, install and launch this software.

Step 1: Load Video

Click "Add File" to load MTS video that you want to convert to AVI.

Step 2: Choose Output Profile and Settings

From "Profile" drop-down list you can choose your output format according to your portable device.

You can also click "settings" to adjust output "video/audio encoder", "Video/audio Bitrate", "Channels", "Resolution" and so on…

Step 3: Video Editing

When you convert MTS to AVI, it allows you to do many video editing such as making special Effect for your movie, Trim any length segments, Crop playing area and more.

Step 4: Conversion

After you have done all the steps above you can click "Start" button to start your conversion from MTS to AVI.