Deadmau5 releases iPhone DJ app

Canadian producer and DJ Deadmau5 has released a new DJ app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new application, Deadmau5 Touch Mix, allows users to remix and perform using ten exclusive tracks. Users can apply delays, effects, rewinds, cuts, and more, and utilize a scratch pad. Deadmau5 Touch Mix is available now from the App Store and sells for $3.

via: Beatportal

How to convert DVD and video to BlackBerry Storm

This guide is mainly about how to rip DVD and convert video to BlackBerry Storm. First, you should know what video format is BlackBerry Storm supports.



Because DVD has CSS copyright protection, we need a program to rip DVD and convert video for BlackBerry Storm. The tool we use is BlackBerry Converter Suite, it includes two programs: DVD to BlackBerry Storm Converter and BlackBerry Storm Video Converter. This program not only supports BlackBerry Storm, but also BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry Bold series.

It supports audio and video format as follow:

Video: DVD, ISO, AVI, MPEG, MKV, MP4, MP4-AVC, M4V, WMV, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, MPG, FLV, ASF, VOB
Audio: WMA, M4A, MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA

For more info about this BlackBerry Converter Suite, you can refer to here.
And here is the free download link, about 10.9 MB.



Now, let's start the guide about converting DVD and Video to BlackBerry Storm.

Step1, Download and install the BlackBerry Storm converter, and then run it.

Step2. Load DVD into the software by clicking add DVD file?


Here we can load three kinds of DVD's:

1. Real DVD, just put the DVD in your DVD drive and click load DVD, (you can find it by clicking the triangle on the right of 'load file' button.)

2. DVD ISO image, you can amount your ISO files in the daemon tools and then load the virtual DVD drive.

3. A DVD folder, sometimes you may store the DVD folder in your hard drive, it appears like "Video_TS" "Audio_TS" folders. You can load it by clicking the "load DVD folders" button.




Step3. Select Profile, Subtitle, Audio, output directory setting

After you load DVD into the software, click the Profile drop-down list to select the proper format according to your BlackBerry Type, this guide is mainly about how to convert DVD and video to BlackBerry Storm, so we select the "BlackBerry Storm series(*.mp4)" profile.


Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting "No Subtitle" Selecting Audio is the same. If you want to join all your DVD files into one video file, please select the option named "Merge into one file" For more advanced setting, you can open the setting panel by clicking "Setting"


Step4. Start the conversion

After all things done, you can click the "Start" to begin the conversion; it will take about 30 minutes for converting a regular two hours DVD movie. When the conversion finished, click "find target" to located the converted video on your computer, connect your BlackBerry Storm to computer, and then copy the video to your BlackBerry memory card, that's all. Then you can enjoy your favorites DVD movies on your BlackBerry Storm.


For converting video to BlackBerry Storm, you can click "Video to BlackBerry" to run the BlackBerry Movie Converter, the operation steps are similar to DVD to BlackBerry Converter, So I'm not repeat here. But I want to add some tips to the BlackBerry Movie Converter.

1. The Video to BlackBerry Converter supports batch conversion, so you can add multiple video files at one time.

2. The Video to BlackBerry Converter embeds powerful video editing functions, you can use it to cut video, trim video, crop video, and you can even add a watermark to the video.





3. The Video to BlackBerry Converter can also help you convert video file to MP3, WMA, AAC, etc audio, so you can set it as your BlackBerry ringtone.

Google launches Google Sync for iPhone

Google today launched a beta version of its Google Sync service for the iPhone and iPod touch. Google Sync is a two-way push synchronization service that works with Gmail contacts and Google Calendars, allowing users to update information from either their iPhone or iPod touch, using the built-in Calendar and Contacts applications, or from any traditional computer, using the web browser. The new Sync service uses the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol, and Google warns that enabling the Sync service will automatically delete any existing contacts and calendar information from the device. For more information on Google Sync or to set up the service on a device, visit m.google.com/sync.


Via: ilounge

Best idea for Valentine's Day gift

Valentine's Day is coming, Have you already prepared a special Valentine gift for your lover ? A bunch of rose, a nice packing of chocolate or even an expensive necklace ? Whatever it is, the purpose of the gift are the same – "makes him or her feels your love, and gives them a surprise".So, what are you planning to do?

If you still have not got any ideas, take a look at these gifts below:

Red Rose

The perfect choice of a Valentine gift is the red rose, distinctly expressing love in its eternal form. The single stem of a rose also called "signature rose" is the most preferred choice of most Valentine lovers.


Candy & Chocolate

The occasion of love and romance rests on everything sweet and close to the heart. Surprise your Valentine with a gem of a candy collection or candy gift baskets or a complete chocolate candy gift collection.


Love Poem

Often enough, we are not able to express our feelings for our loved ones. So, on this Valentine let your loved ones know that you treasure your relationship with them by giving them Valentine gifts and cards. Valentine Poems are the poems that speak about the relationship of love.


Jewellery

Romance colors the air as hearts do the talking rustling the tender strings of emotions. And as Valentine's Day comes closer, it's once more time to rekindle the fire of love with splashes of valentine jewelry.


Perfume Gifts

If your beloved has affection towards perfumes then you can give her/him Perfume Gifts on Valentine's Day that arrive in the shops on this festival season. Perfumes Gifts are often a good choice for your Valentine as they come in diverse colors, scents and styles.


Valentine E-Cards (Recommend)

Send her a valentine e-card to her email. Try to embed it your valentine theme song. With the moving graphics and valentine theme song on the background, she will definitely appreciate it.



Soft Toys

People think that you can gift soft toys only to ladies. But this is completely a misconception. Soft toys can convey the feelings what 1000 words wouldn't be able to express. While selecting a soft toy for your beloved keep the sentiment you wish to put across in mind and then pick the valentine soft toy.


Create DVD Movie by yourself (Recommend)

"Create your unique gift for your lover in person", I found this Valentine message on a promotion page of a software company.

Burn your love to a copy of DVD and send it to your sweet as Valentine gift.
I think this is a pretty special gift and also the right gift for lovers who live apart.

Sing a song, play a tune, tell a love story, whatever you want to show to him or her, record it with a camera or webcam, and combine some videos you recorded before or downloaded from Youtube or iTunes, then, use a professional DVD burner software to creat a delicate DVD.



For example: This "Menu" feature is a good way to express your love, it allows you to choose the background music and image to decorate your DVD menu, you can use the song he or she loves the most as the background music and your couple photo as the background image, I'm sure that will be impressive when she or he saw it.

Other interesting features you can refer to Create your own DVD for your lover on Valentine's Day .


Well, Choose a few of them as the perfect Valentine's Day Gift, but never forget to tell your lover the most important "three" words she or he needs on Valentine’s Day.

Happy Valentine's Day

Man dies after mobile phone explodes in his pocket

A man has died after a mobile phone reportedly exploded in his shirt pocket last Friday. The incident happened in a store in Guangzhou, China. The man worked as a shop assistent at the store, and reportedly had recently swapped out his handset's original battery for a new one. An employee at a nearby store heard the bang and went to investigate, only to find the man lying on the ground in a pool of blood.

Local media reports indicate that the explosion severed an artery in his neck, and he died from massive blood loss. A make and model of the handset has not yet been released by Police, but local media reported the fatal explosion occurred at a Lenovo store, but it is unclear whether it was an official outlet or a shop selling Lenovo products.

Reports of incidents such as this in the past usually involve the use of a low-quality third-party battery. Handset makers, and other manufacturers of consumer electronics products highly recommend that original batteries developed for the products are not swapped out for third-party batteries, particularly because of isolated incidents such as this one.

Watch YouTube videos on Xbox 360

While you can load up YouTube (and other flash-based) videos on a Nintendo Wii or PlayStation 3 (PS3), the Xbox 360 console doesn't make it such an easy task. You can use NXE with Windows Media Center to load a browser program, but that has its own limitations and needs you to keep on your computer. If you simply have Windows XP or similar and would like to be able to watch YouTube videos (or Google Video, or several other sources), then you can without Windows Media Center.

There has also been a similar guide added for Nintendo Wii, and a simple look at an application to download content from YouTube without needing to rely on web services.

How to watch YouTube videos on Xbox 360

The guide uses TVersity to stream directly from any YouTube URL you provide. TVersity will download, prepare and stream the content for you, where it can be displayed full screen by the Xbox 360 console. Some limitations can't be avoided, TVersity transcodes on-the-fly so a relatively modern (in tech terms) computer helps, as well as a broadband connection to avoid problems downloading from YouTube. The guide will work for any other web video you can feed to TVersity as well.

How to watch YouTube and Internet Video on Wii (Fullscreen)

Nintendo Wii has it's own browser, so it can display YouTube itself. Where you can run into problems is when you try to play Full Screen. Using the TVersity server on your home network can get around this problem. Recent news suggests Nintendo is working to fix that issue, but this guide will also cover content from other sites and sources (MMSH streams etc.), so it's a good look over for Wii owner with a wireless network.

Save YouTube videos to HDD

Any past guides we had posted that extract content from YouTube have generally used web services for the task. At least one of them has stopped working correctly, so we decided to add this very quick and short guide on using software to achieve the task easily instead.

How to download youtube video to iPod

iPod can play only MP4 and H.264 video, youtube video is stream video (.flv), so you need special software to capture the stream video to MP4 video, and then sync it to your iPod via iTunes.

Via: afterdown.com

Gmail Adds Tasks to the iPhone, Mobile Browsers, and iGoogle

Google has just announced a new way to manage your Gmail Tasks from your mobile device or your iGoogle homepage.

First, you'll want to have enabled the new Tasks feature in Gmail Labs. Then, from your iPhone or other mobile device, just navigate to http://gmail.com/tasks to view, add, edit, or complete your tasks.

If you want to add the Tasks gadget to iGoogle, just point your browser here. It's nice to see Gmail Labs' simple new Tasks tool ramping up functionality, but it'd be even more exciting to see Google turn this thing into a proper product.