Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Play DRM protected iTunes music and video on android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Android 4.0 is a gorgeous OS that offers great experience, suppose an iPhone user want to take a bite out of the Ice Cream Sandwich, meanwhile the fear of losing a heavily invested iTunes library's dragging him back from the imminent leap. Then do not worry, this is a tip about how to free iTunes music and video from the DRM, and make the contents playable on Ice Cream Sandwich handsets.
The step by step guide
First download iTunes to android 4.0 media converter, the utility supports to remove the DRM from iTunes m4v, m4p and m4b files(m4a music are not DRM protected), and convert iTunes media to Ice Cream Sandwich supported format

itunes to Ice Cream Sandwich

Import iTunes files, you can also add a video folder.
Set output audio and video format, for playback on android 4.0 handsets, mp4 and mp3 is recommended.

itunes to Ice Cream Sandwich

Click start to convert the iTunes m4v, m4p, m4b to DRM free mp4 and mp3 video and audio files. The DRM will be automatically striped during the conversion process.
Now you are gained access to the iTunes library from android handsets such as galaxy nexus or HTC Rezound, or any other devices that support playback of mp3 or mp4.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Photo to swf flash, how to publish photos on web as flash slideshow

You have decent photography collection you’d like to present as a dynamic, vivid slideshow on the web, how to do it?
You already know that the web standard video form is flash, aka shockwave flash video, with the file extension as .SWF. 
What we need to accomplish is to turn the photos into swf flash that not only presents the photos as slide with music in it, also interacts with people who view and click on it.
Here’s a step by step guide about how to create web-based, interactive swf flash from photos.
Download the trial version of photo to swf flash converter, the application supports to create flash slideshows from a photos in formats of jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, xbm, xpm to SWF, XML and HTML output formats.

 photo to swf flash

Launch the application, drag and drop the photos you’d like to add to your web-based slideshow presentation. Also you can sort all the photos you one folder and
Add audios to the flash slideshow
Choose templates

.set output format

Now set the output format as swf, you can also set it as html or xml files
Now you have your interactive, beautiful slideshow.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

How to convert Canon Vixia camcorder video to AIC for iMovie

Canon Vixia lines are among the finest camcorders around, but sometimes it makes you scratching your head when you try to import the video and edit it in iMovie, it’s because some of the Vixia models capture movies in h.264 format, a wonderful codec for watching, but not so good for editing, the compression method used by h.264 requires immense processing power that makes it nearly impossible for editing in iMovie. The best way to edit a canon Vixia video in iMovie is to convert the video to something else, sure it’s going to consume more storage spaces, but it will save you a lot of frustrations.
The best video format for iMovie goes to apple intermediate codec, the .AIC file format.
This is the guide about how to convert canon Vixia video to AIC for editing in iMovie.
First download canon Vixia video converter for mac, the software supports to convert canon Vixia videos to AIC format, also various output video formats are supported, but AIC is the best for editing in iMovie.

canon vixia to imoive

Import canon Vixia videos, set output profile as AIC.

set output video format as AIC

Convert canon Vixia videos to AIC format for editing in iMovie
Now you can fully enjoy the mojo of iMovie with your new video.

canon vixia to imoive

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Recover accidentally deleted photos and videos from Nikon D3000

Pictures and videos captured with Nikon d3000 are stored on a sd card, which is a type of friendly storage when it comes to deleted file recovery, SD cards work in a similar way as computers in that they don't always completely delete files until that information has been formatted. Instead, they simply mark the available space as usable again and then later write over it with new data. If new data didn’t come, then you can easily retrieve the deleted videos and photos back with proper photo recovery tool.
This is a step by step guide about how to recover deleted pictures and videos from Nikon D3000
First download photo recovery for Nikon D3000,

photo recovery for nikon d3000

Attach your Nikon D3000 to computer and run Nikon D3000 photo recovery
Select media storage, then click "scan"

photo recovery for nikon d3000

Photo recovery for Nikon D3000 will present all the photos deleted from the storage of Nikon D3000, you can set filters to specify the very photos you want to recover.

photo recovery for nikon d3000

click "recover" to bring back the accidentally deleted photos from nikon d3000
Retrieve deleted pictures in the following formats:
  • JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG,
  • WAV, MP3, AIFF, RPS, MIDI, M4A, M4P, AU, OGG,
  • WMA, MOV, AVI, ASF, WMV and MP4 files

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Recover deleted video from SD card

How to recover deleted video from SD card.
Once you deleted video from the SD card of your Canon Vixia camcorder, the video were not permanently erased, its storage sector were marked as "free space" and will be overwritten with new data when necessary, at this moment of time, with proper video recovery tool, you can recover the deleted video from SD card without much fuss.
Here's the guide about how to recover deleted video from SD card.

First download SD card video recovery. The software supports to recover videos in following formats:
AVI, WMV & ASF, MP4, M4V, 3GP, MOV, MPEG, DV, 3G2, M4B
sd card recovery
It also supports photo and audio file recovery.
Then connect your SD card with computer via device(digital camcorder, digital camera, android handsets...) or SD card reader.
Launch the application.

Select media storage and click scan.
sd card recovery

After scanning, the software will presents all the video files deleted from this SD card.

sd card recovery
Select video files you want to recover, you can set filters to specify certain video file
Click "recover" to recover deleted video from SD card