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PhotoFilmStrip : The Easiest Way To Convert Your Photos Into Video For Free

Photos – a really nice way to capture emotions, pleasurable moments of our life. Whenever we had good times, we just took our digital camera or mobile camera phone to click those moments. Be it birthday party, anniversary, family vacations or a simple get together. Do you know that you can convert your images into video? Won’t it be nice if you can convert your family vacations or party images into beautiful video with a nice playback sound. Personally, I like to convert my special images into a memorable video rather than saving it in computer or laptop. The advantage of converting photos into videos are that you can write these videos into CD/DVD or you can upload it online on Twitter, Facebook or any social network site. Now, you need a software to convert images into videos. There are many softwares floating on the internet to do the task quite efficiently but many people think that converting images into video is a complicated task. But believe me converting images into video is a matter of minutes if you have right software installed in your PC. PhotoFilmStrip is such a software that helps you to create video from your memorable photos into just 3 steps. First select your photos which you want in the movie, then customize the motion path and last step is to render the video. You can also select the various output formats like VCD, SVCD, DVD and FULL-HD. By using this software, you can order the appearance of images, adjust display time of each photo, add background music and sound effects, add titles to each image if you want and save the final results in the format that suits you best.

Conclusion PhotoFilmStrip is a software that helps you to convert your images into videos for free. Though, it is not a lot of features include software but surely for those who want easy to use, free and light on resources software. This software is so easy to use that your grandmother now easily convert images into video. Direct Link to download PhotoFilmStrip Read more at sharethewarez.com

 

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HDCP 'Master Key' Unlocks HDTV Copy Protection Permanently

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HDCP 'master key' supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently

Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open. All devices that support HDCP, like Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and displays with HDMI inputs, have their own set of keys to encrypt and decrypt protected data and if keys for a particular device are compromised, they can be revoked by content released in the future which will then refuse to play. Now, posts have been floating around on Twitter about a supposed "master key" which renders that protection unusable since it allows anyone to create their own source and sink keys. Who discovered this and by what technique isn't immediately clear, but as early as 2001 security researcher Niels Ferguson proposed that it could be easily revealed by knowing the keys of less than 50 different devices. Hardware HDCP rippers like the HDfury2 and DVIMAGIC have been around for a while and various AACS cracks easily allow rips of Blu-ray discs but if this information is what it claims to be, then the DRM genie could be permanently out of the bag allowing perfect high definition copies of anything as long as the current connector standards are around. While it's unlikely your average user would flash their capture device with a brand new key and get to copying uncompressed HD audio and video, keeping those early releases off of the torrents in bit perfect quality could go from difficult to impossible.Read more at www.engadget.com

 

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Top 10 Things to do With a New Windows 7 Install

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Top 10 Things to Do with a New Windows 7 System

10. Change Up Your Theme Unlike its predecessors, Windows 7 offers a lot of non-hacker-ish ways in which you can change the entire look of your desktop, not just the wallpaper. We took an early tour of Windows 7's many free and legit themes, and noted that Microsoft checks in occasionally to provide more themes at its site. If you'd like to keep your wallpaper fresh, but don't want to hunt down the widescreen-friendly pics yourself, set up Bing's backgrounds as a auto-rotating wallpaper feed. (Original posts: more themes, Bing backgrounds) 9. Take Advantage of the Better Printer Setups When Vista came out, it broke a lot of printer compatibility. Now that most manufacturers have had time to update drivers (and users had time to replace old printers), we can get the most from Windows 7's better printing tools. You can, for example, make your computer change its default printer based on network connections, which can be a real boon to laptop warriors. You can also keep your XP systems connected on your network happily, as Windows 7 and XP can share printers, as explained by the How-To Geek's own site. (Original post: XP/7 sharing) 8. Extend Your Activation Period, If Necessary You swear that you've never used this copy of Windows 7 before, or thought you'd deactivated the license on the system you did use it on. For whatever reason your activation code isn't working, you can give yourself 120 days to purchase one or get your act together otherwise. 7. Set Up XP Mode and Make It More Convenient If you've got apps that just don't play nice with a newer Windows, even with some compatibility mode tweaks, you'll want to set up XP Mode for free and learn how to make the most of it. If Microsoft's own virtualization tools for Virtual XP don't impress you much, go ahead and run the XP Mode image in VirtualBox for full control over states, hardware usage, and other variables. 6. Get Your Old "Show Desktop" Button Back To preview or show the desktop in Windows 7, you need to hover or click on the little translucent bar—that tiny strip there, in the far bottom right. Missing the old puffy-corner icon and a taskbar button to click on? The Tweaking with Vishal blog shows us how to bring it back—kinda/sorta, actually, since you're really creating a small toolbar with just one button. Still, it's a popular tweak, and it helps ease the transition from Windows XP. (Original post) 5. Integrate Dropbox with Your System On its own, Dropbox is a must-install app—it syncs your files, starting at 2 GB, from a folder that just magically keeps itself up to date across all your systems and devices. But you can make it a more helpful part of your Windows system. You can sync folders outside your main Dropbox, for starters, then change the location if need be. There are plenty of other clever Dropbox uses, but in Windows 7, something as simple as adding Dropbox to your Start menu can pay off in long-term time savings. 4. Organize and Customize Your Libraries Windows 7's Libraries are one of the OS' neatest, most helpful features, but they don't go out of their way to explain themselves. Luckily, writer Mysticgeek at the How-To Geek's own site wrote up a helpful Libraries how-to, detaling the adding and removing of files and folders and getting a grip on how to make them more convenient. If you'd rather handle your folders all by yourself, you can simply disable libraries, too. 3. Set Up a Dual-Boot System When your Windows system's new and just-installed, that's when you want to set it up to run another system. In fact, you'll almost always install Windows first when you're dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. If you're adding Windows 7 in as a companion to XP, we've got a system for doing that, too. Finally, if you're running a Mac and want to add in Windows 7 as its own OS, you can get that done with Boot Camp. 2. Learn the Shortcuts Windows 7 has no shortage of shortcuts, like its predecessors, but this newest version of Microsoft's operating system does a lot more to put control of the windows, the new Taskbar, and other really great features into the tips of your fingers. Here's the master list of new Windows 7 shortcuts. Read up, test them out, and learn them. Your fingers, hands, and emptying supply of free time will thank you. 1. Get Your Must-Have Apps Installed Quickly with Ninite (and the Lifehacker Pack) You've probably got a set of free, downloadable apps you install on every system. Each of those apps has a license agreement, a usually redundant series of options to click through, and a wait while the app installs. Ninite lets you pick out your apps from a web form, then download a customized installer that plugs all those apps into your system at once, no extra clicks needed. Which apps should you grab? We've got a Lifehacker Pack full of suggestions, and a page at Ninite pre-loaded with those picks. Read more at lifehacker.com

 

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Psilocybin Assists Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

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'Magic mushrooms' ingredient may ease end-of-life anxiety

(Health.com) -- Terminally ill cancer patients struggling with anxiety may get some relief from a guided "trip" on the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a new study suggests. The study included 12 patients who took a small dose of psilocybin -- the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms" -- while under the supervision of trained therapists. In a separate session, the participants took a placebo pill, which had little effect on their symptoms. By contrast, one to three months after taking psilocybin the patients reported feeling less anxious and their overall mood had improved. By the six-month mark, the group's average score on a common scale used to measure depression had declined by 30 percent, according to the study, which was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Can psychedelic drugs treat depression? In follow-up interviews with the researchers, some patients said their experience with psilocybin gave them a new perspective on their illness and brought them closer to family and friends. "We were pleased with the results," says the lead researcher, Charles Grob, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, in Torrance, Calif. Notably, the psilocybin did not aggravate the patients' anxiety or provoke any other unwanted effects besides a slight increase in blood pressure and heart rate. Health.com: 7 types of therapy that can help depression Grob's findings are "important because he's showing that you can administer these compounds safely to cancer patients with anxiety," says Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore. "They're not substances that should be used recreationally or casually, but nonetheless it appears that we can conduct research with these compounds safely," adds Griffiths, who was not involved in the study but has researched the therapeutic effects of psilocybin. (He and his colleagues are currently enrolling patients in a similar study that will use larger doses of the drug.) Researchers investigating the therapeutic potential of psilocybin and other hallucinogens have been keen to demonstrate the safety of the drugs in clinical settings. Health.com: Supplements for depression: what works Psychiatrists and psychologists began exploring the effects of hallucinogens on the mood and anxiety of dying patients in the 1950s, but the research stopped abruptly when psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and other mind-altering drugs were outlawed in the 1970s. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a handful of small studies involving hallucinogens since the 1990s, but the field is still emerging. Grob's study is the first of its kind in more than 35 years. It was funded by private foundations and the Heffter Research Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that has been a major sponsor of the second-generation hallucinogen research. The patients in the study were all close to death (10 of the 12 have since died), and they had all diagnoses of anxiety or acute stress relating to their prognosis. "We were really looking for people who were really struggling with the predicament that they found themselves in," Grob explains. Health.com: What an anxiety disorder feels like During the psilocybin sessions, which lasted six hours, the patients lay on a couch and listened to music through headphones. Although they spoke only briefly to the therapists while under the influence of the drug, they continued to meet periodically with the research staff for six months to discuss their experience and to fill out questionnaires assessing their mood and anxiety levels. "I think we've established good grounds for continuing the research," Grob says. "That's the goal right now, just to develop more studies." Read more at www.cnn.com

 

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22 Google Related Mac Apps Available for Download

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22 Amazing Google Related Mac Apps For Free Download

Google is undoubtedly the best company to provide free softwares and applications for its users. Users loves to download free apps provided by the Google because it is from the giant company and much more reliable to use. Google first release their softwares for PC’s users but now it seems that they are throwing some amazing apps for Mac users too. So, in this article, I am compiling a list of best free Google-related Mac apps and desktop widgets. All these applications are free to download and the best part is you don’t have to open a browser for using some Google services. Alternatively, you can also look our previous article in which we compiled list of best freeware Mac apps which I believe every one need to download if you have a Mac. And if you are a web developer and owning a Mac, check out the best free Mac OS text editors to make things easy for you. And for now, without wasting any time further, have a look on SaveDelete’s compilation of 22 amazing Google related Mac apps for free download.

1) Google Chrome : Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.It’s free and installs in seconds. 2) Google quick search box : You know that Quicksilver is not developing any more, Google quick search box is the best alternative and its free too. Search for anything from contacts & music to web content. Launch applications whether they’re on your computer or online.Perform actions on your results such as opening a file or sending an email. 3) Picasa : Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button. 4) Picasa Web Albums Uploader : Upload your favorite photos and videos to Picasa Web Albums.Upload photos saved on your desktop.Upload and share iPhoto albums.Share your photos and videos with friends. 5) Google Notifier : Google notifier is the notifying system for Mac. It allows you to easy access to your new Gmail messages with a quick preview of the message subject, sender, and snippet.Timely reminder for your upcoming Google Calendar events, including date, time, event title, and location. 6) Google Book Downloader : Google Book Downloader is a tool for downloading digital books from books.google.com. Give it the URL or ID of a Google Book and it will create a PDF of that book. Some books can already be downloaded from the web, but many cannot. If you see a book that has a full or limited preview but no download, Google Book Downloader can download that—or at least the parts you can read on the web. 7) Google Sketchup : Google SketchUp is the finest tool that you can use to create 3D models. You can picture anything in 3D and later share with those models with the friends. 8 ) Google Earth : Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others. 9) GMDesk : GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with. No need to open it up in a web browser, or have it clutter your workspace. 10) Google Voice Utility : Google Voice – Google Voice Utility helps you keep Google Voice open on the desktop and it can work on Windows, Linux & Mac. GVoice is still under development and it may contain bugs. 11) TinyCal : TinyCal is a menubar calendar with Google Calendar integration. It can show multiple months, use custom calendars, and show holidays and personal calendars. Use TinyCal to keep track of birthdays or appointments, or as a desktop calendar reference. 12) gRead : Now you don’t need to keep compulsively reloading Google Reader — gRead will keep an eye on your account and let you know when there’s something to get stuck into, through its built-in Growl support and on your Dashboard. And all it takes is a click to get you there. 13) GDocsUploader : GDocsUploader is a little utility to help you upload documents to Google Docs. Once you’ve logged in, uploading is as simple as dragging and dropping files onto the GDocsUploader icon. The new Adobe Air version runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux, but you will need to install Adobe Air onto your system first. 14) AdWords Editor : AdWords Editor is a free Google application for managing your ad campaigns. Use it to download your account, update your campaigns with powerful editing tools, then upload your changes to AdWords. 15) eMaps : eMaps is a application for Mac OS X that allows users to interact with Google Maps™ mapping service. eMaps provides street maps, satellite and street view imagery, driving directions, traffic info, local search for many countries around the world. Features include reverse geocoding service, the ability to create and export customized maps and save a default location view. 16) BusyCal : BusyCal is a desktop calendar that provides seamless calendar sharing and enhanced productivity tools for workgroups and individuals. BusyCal combines the calendar sharing and synchronization technology from the award winning BusySync with a beautiful desktop calendar interface that is instantly recognizable to iCal users — all in one easy to use integrated application. 17) Gmote : Gmote turns Android into a remote control for a computer, allowing users to run movies and music at a distance. It supports all of the standard remote control features such as play, pause, rewind, volume controls etc. It also has a built-in file browser that lets you select what to play. 18) gDisk : gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet. Desktop Widgets 19) Language Translator : Translates any text between different 41 different languages using Googles language translation service. It can even detect the source language. 20) Google Calendar Desktop Widget : Keep an eye on today’s events on your desktop. With this dashboard widget, you don’t need to logon to Google Calendar in a dedicated browser window. Clicking on an event takes you directly to the event in Google Calendar, ready for you to edit. 21) Analytics Widget : AnalyticsWidget is a free dashboard widget for OS X that displays Google Analytics data.There are 3 types of reports : Content Overview, Visitors Overview and Traffic Sources Overview , each of these also has 3 views: a graphical main view, a table of small graphs, and a textual view. 22) Google Apps Dashboard Widget : The Google Apps Dashboard widget allows to to acces various Google Web-based applications right from your Dashboard, by using a Mac OS X Dock-like setting. Included in the widget are: Gmail, Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheets, Notebook, Page Creator, Picassa Web Albums, Blogger & Google Reader.

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Their Guy VS Our Guy

Airport and Airplane Humor

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Vail enable RFID Check-Ins

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Vail Resorts unveils ski slope geolocation system

A few months before its five ski resorts open for the season, the Colorado-based Vail Resorts has unveiled a preview of something called Epic Mix, a set of Web and mobile apps based on skiers' activity as logged by radio frequency (RF) readers around its resorts.

It'll go live when the first of Vail's resorts, Keystone, opens for the season in early November. Vail Resorts' season passes and lift tickets are already RF-enabled, but with Epic Mix, interested skiers can unlock "pins" in the manner of Foursquare badges, get ranked on a vertical-feet leaderboard, post all manner of ski-related updates to Facebook and Twitter, and--via a mobile app--see their friends' activity on the slopes in real time so that it gets way easier to meet up for beers at the lodge. There's also a kid-oriented site for children under 13, which limits sharing to the kids' parents and has its own set of kid-friendly pins.

A skier can turn off RF functionality entirely if he or she so chooses, the company explained.

Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said in a New York press event Monday that the company had ruled out partnerships with existing "check-in" companies, or an emulation of those services, because of the fact that he said they did not want to require any additional behavior to participate--"We don't think that works while you're on vacation," he said.

Not to mention that many ski resorts are not exactly hotbeds of high-quality cell phone service, and checking in can be a pain when you're wearing thick ski gear and don't want to accidentally drop your iPhone off a chair lift.

Katz said that he hopes Epic Mix will "give a digital face to the experience, the very real experience that people are having day in and day out on our mountains." Unfortunately, the RF scanners are currently only located on entrances to ski lifts, so it can't precisely track exactly which mountains an individual is skiing on, though Katz said that it may be improved in future years--potentially along with real check-in rewards for frequent skiers (so, for example, if you make it down that double black diamond your first scotch on the rocks is free). Also out there is the possibility that the technology could be licensed to other resorts, meaning that the geolocation craze may be enjoying packed-powder prominence very soon. Read more at news.cnet.com

 

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How To: Clone a Mac Hard Drive

How to Clone and Backup Your Hard Drive

What You Need

- Mac OS 10.2 or later
- Mac OS Startup Disk

When you need to clone your drive, or simply do a full backup, someone usually tells you to use Carbon Copy Cloner (Donation Recommended) or SuperDuper! ($27.95). Sure, both of these applications are great programs, but they aren't necessary. You can use Apple's own software that comes free with your Mac!

We're talking about Disk Utility ( User > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.app ) It's free, easy-to-use, and it does the job right.

Here's how to use Disk Utility to clone and backup your hard drive:

1. Start up from the Mac OS X disk that came with your Mac. To do this, insert the CD or DVD into your Mac, and hold down the C key while your Mac restarts.
   
   
2. Go ahead select your language. Don't worry: You're not installing Mac OS X again - this is just what you have to do to get to Disk Utility. When the menu bar appears, select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
   
   
3. When Disk Utility opens, you'll want to select your source. This is the hard drive you want to clone and/or backup. After you have a source, select the Destination. This is the hard drive you want to save the backup image to.

   
   
   

4. Click Restore and you'll end up with a perfect copy of your hard drive. Restart your computer and you're good to go!

Editor's Note: For more information about backing up your Mac, check out Mac Backup Basics, Backup Your Mac Using Rsync, and How to Upgrade Your MacBook's Hard Drive.

Create Free iPhone Ringtones

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HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones

Ringtones — They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you’re sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don’t want to download a canned tone, you don’t need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into a ringtone for your iPhone. There’s a way to create ringtones in iTunes from your existing music. Once you’ve done it, you’ll be making ringtones faster than you can download them. It is not, however, the most obvious process. Here’s a how-to guide to help you out for both Mac and Windows () users. Simply follow the steps outlined here to create your own tones right from your computer. Let us know how you got on — and what songs you ringtoned — in the comments below. Choose Your Song and Edit It The first part of the process is more or less the same for both Mac and Windows users. In iTunes, select the song you want to use, right-click on the track and hit “Get Info.” Select “Options” from the menu along the top, then change the “Stop Time” of the song to 15 seconds (or how long you want it to be — reports vary, but apparently ringtones can’t be longer than 30 seconds). Now, in the “Advanced” iTunes menu, select “Create AAC version.” You will now see a second version of the song. Be sure to go back into the original song’s “Get Info” options and delete your “Stop Time” setting, or else the song won’t play past this point in the future. Converting the File for Mac Users Mac users should right-click on the new, 15-second version and hit “Show in Finder” in order to change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r. This can be done just by clicking on it and overtyping. You also want to make the file name as short as possible too, so rename this in the same way. Now, still in Finder, drag the .m4r file to your desktop and delete the version that is in iTunes. When this is done, you want to import the file back into iTunes. To do this, open the iTunes “File” menu and select “Add to Library,” find the song on your desktop and add it back in. Converting the File for PC Users PC users will do this last part a little differently. Once you’ve got the AAC version of the song, you need to find it on your computer. Unless your default settings have been changed, it’s likely you can find it by clicking through the following folders: My Documents, My Music (), iTunes, iTunes Media, Music and then the relevant artist’s folder. You need to change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r by clicking on it and overtyping. If you can’t see the file extension type (just the name) then you need to enable that functionality first. Go to your control panel and click “Folder Options.” Then, untick the option that says “Hide extensions for known file types.” Going back into the iTunes folder and you will now be able to see the extension to change it. Once it’s changed, you need to import the renamed file back into iTunes through the “Add to Library” option in the “File” menu. Getting the File onto Your iPhone Now, both Mac and PC users will see the file under the “Ringtones” category on the left of your iTunes display. To get the ringtone where it needs to be — on your phone — sync your iPhone to iTunes. If this is the first time you’ve added a ringtone in this way, make sure that the “Ringtones” tab is set to sync. To change the ringtone on your iPhone to your chosen song, go to “Settings,” then “Sounds,” then “Ringtone” and you should now have a “Custom” list above the pre-loaded “Standard” list. Just touch the song you want and you can be free of that pre-loaded “Marimba” forever! Read more at mashable.com

 

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