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8/13/2010

Adobe releases Adobe Photoshop Express for both iPhone and iPad on Aug 12, 2010




This app is free, and easy to use. You can down it in iTunes.

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8/12/2010

Download and convert YouTube videos on MAC



YouTube is pretty much the one stop shop for videos online. In case you are interested in downloading YouTube videos to your Mac computer so that you can play them on iPad or iPhone 4 or some other portable devices.

"I'd like to download some YouTube videos to my phone. I use a Firefix extention to download .flv files, but I can't use them. All the converters I googled were Windows only. I'd also love to convert YouTube flv to MP4 on Mac." Does anyone have the same problem as me? Wanna download and convert YouTube videos to other format? Well, I found a very good tool called iFunia YouTube converter to make it easily! Now, I'd like to share some simple practical tips which I collated on the course. The steps listed below will help you quickly and easily get the favourite YouTube videos and convert to other formats on your Mac OS.

Things You Will Need
* A Mac computer
* iFunia YouTube Converter for MAC
* Network and portable player
* Favourite YouTube videos

Step 1. Download and run iFunia YouTube Converter for Mac
Download the YouTube Converter for MAC from iFunia and install it on MAC. Now run the program on your Mac. It's really easy to use yet powerful. You may use iFunia YouTube Converter to download any favourite videos from YouTube as many as you want.

Step 2. Add video URLs to download videos from YouTube
In the "Download" channel, there is the field for a Video URL, the field for an output path. Simply copy-n-paste a YouTube or Google URL to the Video URL field. The URL looks like: http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=uTJAsZP2iLk. You can batch download multiple videos by adding multiple YouTube video URLs. And then specify a directory on your computer to save the output FLV files.


Step 3. Open YouTube FLV video files to convert and select output profile
After downloading the YouTube videos, then switch to "Convert" channel, in the program's main window click "Add..." button on the toolbar to add FLV videos that you want to convert to the needed compatible video formats. Select the output profile in "Convert to" from the dropdown menu in the lower part of the window.




Step 4. Convert YouTube *.flv videos
Finally, click the big "Convert" button to start converting YouTube FLV videos. You also can batch convert multiple videos.

YouTube video Technology
YouTube uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos. Viewing YouTube videos on a personal computer requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed in the browser.
In January 2010, YouTube launched an experimental version of the site that uses the built-in multimedia capabilities of web browsers supporting the HTML5 standard. This allows videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed. The YouTube site has a page that allows supported browsers to opt in to the HTML5 trial. Only browsers that support HTML5 Video using the H.264 or WebM formats can play the videos, and not all videos on the site are available. So one of the best options for enjoying YouTube videos is download and convert them to the needed formats, then playback on iPad, iPhone 4, PSP, or some other portable devices on-the-go.

Tips
* The iFunia YouTube Converter will switch to "Convert" channel after downloading the videos automaticly.
* This YouTube Converter from iFunia enable you to download and convert YouTube videos to a wide arrange of video formats including MP4, M4A, MOV, MP3, etc, enable them to be played on iPad, iPhone(iPhone 4), iPod, Apple TV or Quick Time Player.
* Doubles as a YouTube HD video downloader and converter. It helps you download and convert YouTube HD video to HD MP4, HD MOV, HD AVI and more.
* Allows you extract soundtracks from online videos.
* Save time by downloading or converting multiple videos at the same time.

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8/08/2010

How to convert video and DVD movies to iPad or iPhone 4 on MAC



If you got a bunch of videos from HD camera or somewhere, or numbers of favourite DVD movies and want to watch them free on the go, what should you do? Just stored or buy the DVDs from iTunes again?

Well, with the portable device player flourishing developing on the market, you can just put the videos and DVD movies on them and playback as desired. The new released iPad, with 9.7-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1024-by-768-piexl resolution, the HD feature makes watching DVD movies an utterly new experience. As well as iPhone 4, thanks to the Retina display, it's pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels. And the remarkable 960x640 resolution screen of iPhone 4 will make your movie watching experience unbelievably sharp and crisp. So it’s wise to convert the videos and kinds of DVD movies to your new iPad or iPhone 4 for entertainment.

To help Mac users watching videos and DVD movies on iPad or iPhone 4, this article will focus on this point to show you a solution on how to convert, rip videos and DVD movies to iPad or iPhone 4 on Mac OS. Just read on to find this step-by-step tutorial from the following contents.

What You Will Need
* Bunch of videos or DVD movies
* iFunia MediaConverter Bundle
* iTunes

Step-by-step guide: how to convert video to iPad or iPhone 4 on Mac OS

Step1. Add video to convert

Download iFunia MediaConverter Bundle and run the Video Converter Pro, click Add…button to select and open the video file you wish to convert. iFunia MAC Video Converter Pro is an all-in-one MAC video converter, a groundbreaking Mac video format converter you can use to convert video of all popular formats like AVI, WMV, AVCHD, MKV, FLV, H.264/AVC, MP4, MOV, 3GP,etc. for playback on iPad, iPhone 4, iPod, Apple TV and other portable devices.


Step2. Select an output format
In the Destination-Setup section of the interface, choose the right preset for your iPad or iPhone 4 devices in the Convert-to drop-down menu.


Step3. Adjust audio and video parameters
In the Convert to settings, you can get the following window will pop up. This iFunia Mac Video Converter Pro allows users adjusting video and audio parameters like codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels to optimize the playback quality on iPad or iPhone 4.



Please notice that the parameters you changed should not be out of the format restrictions of iPad and iPhone 4, otherwise, the output files may not playable. Following are iPad and iPhone 4 all Supported following Video Format.

* H.264 video (up to 720p, 30 frames per second; main profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats)
* MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.
* Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

Step4. Click the “Start” button to start conversion on OS X
Bingo! That’s it! When the conversion is done you can transfer the video to your iPad or iPhone 4 via iTunes and enjoy it anytime and everywhere!

Steps on ripping DVD movies to iPad or iPhone 4
The steps on ripping DVD movies are similar to convert videos. First, run the DVD Ripper Pro from the iFunia MediaConverter Bundle, and click the "Load..." button to load IFO files. Next preset the output settings, adjust wanted parameters and then click "Start" button to start the ripping.



After all are done, you just get the wanted DVD movies on MAC, and sync them to your iPad or iPhone 4 for playback on-the-go!

Additional tips:
* iFunia MediaConverter Bundle allows you convert HD videos and rip DVD movies to all popular formats.
* Batch conversion. Convert multiple videos in one pass to save time.
* Save video and DVD movies for iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3G(S), Apple TV, PSP, Zune, Archos, BlackBerry, cell phone and more.
* You can join multiple video files to create a single movie via merge the video files.
* You can do simple editing like trimming, cropping, adding special effects, watermark to video and deinterlace video by clicking "Edit". Real-time preview provided while editing.
* You can preview the video by selecting the video and clicking Play in the preview pane. You can also take snapshot and save them as jpg, bmp file while preview.

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