Friday, January 16, 2009

How to protect your eyes from computer? (for long-term computer users)

Did you feel your eyes are very dry when long-term at the computer, and even itching sometimes?

Here is a good way to protect your eyes: Desktop->Right click->Properties->Appearance->Advanced->Item (Window), Color1 (L) (Other) Hue:85. Sat: 123. Lum: 205 -> Add to Custom Colors -> Select Custom Colors -> OK. So that all the documents are no longer a dazzling black and white, but very soft green bean color, the color is configured by ophthalmologist, prolonged use will be very effective to ease eyestrain. Do not forget to share it with your good friends!





How to burn DVD movie, convert MKV, AVI to DVD5 or DVD9?

When it comes to crazy fans to DVD, or simply those who would like to share their MKV, AVI and other HD Videos with friends on DVD player, there’s perhaps no other easier ways than using a DVD creator to burn DVD movie which costs you little time and little money.

Aimersoft DVD Creator is just the kind that converts video to DVD and burn DVD movies played on various popular portable players or home DVD players.

And this DVD Creator was upgraded recently which added HD video (MKV, AVI, M2TS) to its input video formats and enhance the stability in converting. Do you want to enjoy your HD video on DVD easily? Just follow these few steps, you will find the operation is so easy, let’s begin and hope it is helpful for you:

Step 1: Download this Aimersoft DVD Creator, install it and start operation;
Meanwhile, you can insert DVD +R (DVD-R, DVD+RW or DVD-RW)
Step2: Run Aimersoft DVD Creator, add video files or load files which you want to convert;

One Way: Click the “Load files” to add video files;
Another way: Choose “Load video” option under the “file” drop-down menu, and you can add files as you want, too.



Step 3: Display the loaded file and choose the video you want to convert
Details:
1. After the video file has been loaded, it will appear in the main interface, then drag and drop the selected video files to the storyboard below to organize a slideshow at the bottom of the main interface.
2. The used disc space is shown on the disc space bar underneath the storyboard
3. you can choose the size of burning DVD in your decision,” DVD-R4.5G AND DVD-R9.0G”,up to your choice, if you want to burn DVD movies to dual-layer DVD (DVD-9), at the bottom of the interface, just select “DVD-R 9.0G”, Vise versa.
4. Also you can customize the output video quality here, “Low video quality, High video quality and Highest video quality”, which depends on your choice;



Step 4: If you just want to burn video to DVD without adding any special effects, of course you just need to click the “Burn” button to begin the conversion process.
When you are clicking the” Burn” button, here are some options for you as follows:
Burn to: you can burn your DVD to DVD, DVD Folder, or ISO file as you will; and then you should choose where you
want to save the burning DVD files; next choose the TV Standard “NTSC or PLA”
Explanation: “NTSC” is 30 fps, which is used in USA, Canada and Japan.
“PAL “is 25 fps, which is used in Europe and Asia.
At last, choose the aspect ratio: 4:3 or 16:9



After above steps, now click the “Start” button to begin conversion.

Tips: if your video and the subtitle are separated into two files, this software may allow you to plugin the subtitles for MKV files. Ok, just follow the steps below;
1. Drag the loaded video to the storyboard.
2. Click the video, you may see the button “edit selected video file”.
3. Then click the button, a box that offers settings for the subtitle will appear. ( you may also crop and trip your favorite parts off the video here.)



Not detail? Get more information here.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Users, not labels, silence YouTube music videos

Turns out that the top recording companies aren't responsible for silencing YouTube's music videos.

Here's what YouTube said on the company's blog: people who post clips with unauthorized music to the site can choose to mute the audio rather than have YouTube remove the entire video.

YouTube has for a while given those who post videos that include unauthorized copyright music an option of swapping that music for songs that have been pre-cleared. If they don't like that option then YouTube gives them a second choice between having the video removed or turning off the sound, the company said.

"This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by all copyright holders," says a note from YouTube posted to a video with no sound. "The audio has been disabled."

Representatives from Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group declined to comment.

YouTube's muting policy has been in place for a while. The only reason it's coming to light now is because of the spat between YouTube and Warner Music.

YouTube had licensing deals in place with all four of the major labels. Last month, talks to re-negotiate Warner's deal with YouTube broke down and Warner has pulled out of YouTube. Most of the music being silenced now belongs to Warner.

There's no word yet on when that stalemate might end. At the same time, YouTube is trying to renegotiate deals with the other three labels.

If YouTube can't cut new agreements with the other record companies, YouTube could bring back a new era in silent pictures.



via: news.cnet.com

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info

"Apple's iTunes Plus files are DRM-free, but sharing the files on P2P networks may be an extremely bad idea. A report published by CNet highlights the fact that the account information and email address of the iTunes account holder is hidden inside each and every DRM-free download. I checked, and I found I couldn't access the information using an ID3 tag editor, but using Notepad I found my email address stored inside the audio file itself."


via: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/036211

Sunday, January 11, 2009

How to convert DVD to Zune?

Aimersoft DVD to Zune Converter is a powerful yet easy to use Zune DVD Converter that can convert DVD to Zune video and audio formats, including DVD to WMV, DVD to MPEG-4, and DVD to WMA, AAC and MP3 with great quality.

With easy interface and fast conversion speed, Aimersoft DVD to Zune Converter is the best DVD to Zune Converter software. This Zune DVD Converter has many practical features such as converting DVD movie to Zune WMV or MP4, customizing file size, DVD movie trimming, DVD video crop, subtitle selection, audio track selection and so forth.


Features:

  • This DVD to Zune Converter can automatically rip DVD from DVD drive to Zune Video WMV, MPEG-4, and M4V format with great quality.

  • Extract and rip audio from DVD to Zune audio MP3, WMA, and AAC with excellent quality.
  • Fully support dual-core and multi-core processors. Convert DVD to Zune with super fast speed.

  • Put DVD on Zune with flexible video and audio settings. Allow you to adjust video brightness and video contrast, set subtitle, select audio track, adjust audio volume etc.

  • Support video Trimming and Cropping. Set the start and end time to capture your favorite movie clips. Cut off the black edges of your DVD movies and enjoy your DVD on Zune in full screen.

  • High level customization. Let you convert DVD to Zune with the resolution, frame rate, video bit rate and sample rate you prefer. Fully support PAL and NTSC TV standards.

  • Allow you to select target subtitle and audio track.

  • Fully support Windows . Convert DVD to Zune on multiple systems.

  • Capture pictures from your DVD movies and save the captured pictures as jpeg and bmp.

  • Professional encoders/decoders built in to rip DVD movie to Zune supported formats.

  • Very intuitive user interface that guides you to convert DVD to Zune with just a few clicks of your mouse.

  • Automatically shut down your PC after conversion.


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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

"Macworld" what will be changed in 2009 for iTunes?


As the world biggest multimedia data resource iTunes has sold out about 6 billion songs by now and about 75 million accounts has been registered on it. As the first music selling channel in America, what will be changed in 2009 for iTunes?

First, the price. In the past six years, Apple's pricing has always been a single, 99 cents. Today, the music companies want to be more flexible, the new price will be between 69 cents to 1.29 U.S. dollars.

Secondly, the copyright protection. After negotiate with major music companies, Apple start to selling eight million DRM-Free music . In the end of the first quarter in 2009, this figure will reach 10 million.

Thirdly, the iPhone's music store. Now, you can purchase music through the 3G network , and not just through WiFi. From today, no matter where you are, you can directly download music to the phone just like purchase music through a computer with the same sound quality .

Monday, January 5, 2009

PSP 3000 Jailbreak emergence

From the Forum player "MaTiAz", PSP early game "burst racing" game archive data overflow errors exist, MaTiAz edited a copy of special archive data with this loophole, and successfully run portion of the archive code. The author recorded the process with a video presentation, the video show the PSP screen turn blue at the end. The "Hello World" program whihch created by using this loophole has also emerged. Following is the "Hello World" video presentation. In addition PSP3000 specialized SDK "Sparta SDK" (Sparta SDK) has also been announced.




"Hellow World"

Quote:

So, happy new year. I think presenting a new usermode exploit on the PSP is a good way to start 2009

GripShift has a buffer overflow vulnerability when loading savegames. The savegame contains the profile name which can be easily used to overwrite $ra.

The savegame file is pretty big (25kB) so you have lots of space to put your code there. I wrote a simple blob of code to paint the framebuffer completely white (to just indicate that arbitrary code is running ).

The return address is located at offset 0xA9 in the file. In this poc it points to 0x08E4CD50 (which is only a few bytes after the return address), and the code starts at 0xCC in the file.

It was tested on 4.01M33-2 with US version of GripShift (ULUS10040), and psplink.prx, usbhostfs.prx and deemerh.prx loaded (also without psplink and usbhostfs). The decrypted savegame (sorry, couldn't [be bothered to] get Shine's savegame tool working so it's in plaintext form) is in the SDDATA.BIN form which Hellcat's Savegame-Deemer produces (thanks to him, if the program didn't exist I wouldn't have bothered with this. ). Just copy the ULUS10040SAVE00 directory to /PSP/SAVEPLAIN/ and run the game. EDIT: yeah, don't forget to have Savegame-Deemer working, duh.

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