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12/03/2010

iPhone:23% of business smartphones



According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, the iPhone now makes up 23% of the business smartphone market while the leader, BlackBerry maker Research in Development (RIM) is sitting at 51%.

You can convert and put DVD movies to iPhone to enjoy the DVD viewing pleasure on the business smartphone, iPhone 4.

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12/01/2010

Free Christmas iPad Apps and free Christmas songs for your iPod

Have you installed any Christmas festive applications in your iPad? We are getting closer and closer to Christmas Eve. If you don't possess any Christmas iPad apps in your latest Apple iPad, then you are drastically under prepared. Just in time for the holiday season, we have picked 5 of the best free Christmas apps to put you in the festive spirit and music is a big part of the holiday which tends to bring out the Christmas spirit in everyone. When the weather outside is frightful, there really is nothing better than curling up under the duvet, or in the arms of your loved one, and listening to the Christmas music with your iPod. Here I had put together the list of the top 5 best free Christmas songs for your iPod, this list consists of traditional classics and the more modern flare of Christmas songs.


Best Free Christmas iPad Apps Top 1 - Christmas Countdown
Christmas Countdown comes first in the list of best Christmas iPad applications. The Christmas Countdown is among the most favorite free Christmas iPad applications. It indicates up-to-the-minute countdown so that you are not going to lost without the precise time to go!
Download Best Free Christmas iPad Apps - Christmas Countdown

Best Free Christmas iPad Apps Top 2 - Christmas Spell Lite

Grab a mug of hot cocoa, a warm blanket, get cozy, and get in the Christmas spirit with this free Christmas app Christmas Spell! Letters gently float on snowflakes inside a snow globe. Touch and rearrange each letter to guess the scrambled word.
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Best Free Christmas iPad Apps Top 3 - Christmasfy Me

Would you like to christmasfy you or your friends for the Christmas? Then Christmasfy Me is the perfect Christmas app for you! With this free Christmas iPad app you can customize a picture with Christmas decor almost immediately. Once done you can save it, email it, upload it to Facebook, and share it on Twitter and more.
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Best Free Christmas iPad Apps Top 4 - Call.Santa

Make your wishes come true with Call Santa. Call Santa is for your kids, it lets your kids hear incredible Christmas stories, with background tunes. It offers you to personalized messages by selecting from a wide range of boy or girl names to put a smile on your kid's face. So gift a smile to your kids with this free Christmas app.
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Best Free Christmas iPad Apps Top 5 - Holiday Gift Guide

This free iPad budgeting app will also help you stick to your list without breaking the bank this Christmas holiday. Assign a budget as well as a shopping list for each individual marked in your gift queue. A front dashboard gives a quick overview of your budget details, the number of gifts purchased for your recipients, and more.
Download Best Free Christmas iPad Apps - Holiday Gift Guide


Free Christmas songs for your iPod

Best free Christmas songs Top 1 - Jingle Bells
Basshunter
Written by James Lord Pierpont in 1857 this song obliterates the competition on the list of the top 10 best Christmas songs of all time. It is the first Christmas song most children ever learn to sing along to, and its easy to memorize lyrics and festive melody has made it a Christmas favorite around the world for more than 150 years.
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Best free Christmas songs Top 2 - Fairytale of New York
Pogues
"Fairytale of New York" is a song by Anglo-Irish folk rock group The Pogues. The song features string arrangements by Fiachra Trench. It is frequently voted the Number One Best Christmas song of all time in various televisions, radio and magazine related polls in Ireland and the UK.
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Best free Christmas songs Top 3 - Here Comes Santa Claus
Gene Autry
This Christmas carol classic by legendary country singer Gene Autry should be on everyone's list of the best Christmas songs ever. The kids absolutely love this song, and it advertisment till gets more radio play than any country Christmas song before or since.
Download the best Christmas songs for your iPod - Here Comes Santa Claus

Best free Christmas songs Top 4 - Blue Christmas
Elvis Presley
Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson. The heart-broken tale of unrequited love during the holidays had long been considered a Christmas staple of country music. In 1957, Elvis Presley effectively made "Blue Christmas" a steadfast rock-and-roll holiday classic by recording it in his signature style.
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Best free Christmas songs Top 5 - White Christmas
Otis Redding
You'll never hear a version of "White Christmas" as moving and as soulful as Otis Redding's. The way he sings, you'd think no man has ever wanted anything as badly as Redding wants snow for Christmas. The man's enthusiasm for the season is enough to get even the most determined Scrooge into the Christmas spirit.
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11/26/2010

Best Free Christmas iPad Wallpapers for download

With Christmas coming up, It is traditions to decorate your house with Christmas tree and ornaments, and it is modern life style to extend Christmas scenes to your PC desktop, iPad, iPhone and any of your belongings that has a screen. So even if you would have to work at Christmas, you can always have Christmas stay with you on your iPad's background.

iFunia has collected Top 10 best Free Christmas Wallpapers for your iPad to give you the Christmas feeling when you are working on your iPad. You can download the full size of the Christmas iPad wallpapers by clicking on the small examples you can see below.




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Upload AVCHD holiday home movies to YouTube


Got a HD home movie camcorder already and ready to shoot the coming holiday gathering? We used to burn home movies to DVD for sharing sweet holiday videos with family and friends. However, nowadays more and more people would like to show the world their holiday home movies by uploading the videos to YouTube. It's easy and FREE!


In November 2008, YouTube added an option to watch videos in 720p HD, so the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. With this new feature, YouTube began a switchover to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC as its default video codec. In November 2009, 1080p HD support was added too. As we know, the recommended resolution to upload a HD home movies to YouTube is 1280 x 720, not 1920 x 1080 (1080p). So make sure you've captured HD home movies with 720p resolution.


To upload AVCHD home movies to YouTube, you have to convert the videos to YouTube accepted video formats first. We recommend you to use iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac to convert AVCHD videos to YouTube compatible video format for uploading.


Before you start, please download, install and launch iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac.


Step 1: Load video files

Click "Add…" button to select AVCHD M2TS video files. You can add your AVCHD M2TS video by drag-n-drop. And the software has a feature of previewing and playing your AVCHD video files. Simply select a file which you want to preview in the Source File area and click Play button; you can also take snapshot at will to store the image you like.



Step 2: Select output format

Select one or more files in the file list, and select your preferred video format from the Output format drop-down menu. Here we choose MP4-MPEG4 Video File (*.mp4) video, and click the folder icon to specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.



Step 3: Convert

After the above settings, check the needed files to convert in the file list, and click "Start" button on the window to start converting with iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac.


Step 4: Upload video to YouTube

Once you've finished converting videos to YouTube acceptable format, made sure it's less than 10 minutes, smaller than 2GB in size, you're ready to upload it.

1. Click the Upload videos to YouTube button in the upper-right-hand corner of any YouTube page.

2. Click the "Browse" button to browse for the video file you'd like to upload to our site. Select the file you want to upload.

3. Click the 'Upload Video' button to start the uploading process.

4. As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category). You're not required to provide specific information, but the more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!

5. Click the 'Save changes' button to save the updates you've made to the video file.


It can take from a couple minutes to an hour for your video to upload to YouTube. This depends on the file size of your video and the broadband speed of your network.


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Best Way to watch thanksgiving movies and videos on Mac, iPad and iPhone


Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, I would like to watch a good movie about the holiday; and this year, with the new iPad gadget and iPhone, Watch the best Thanksgiving movies on them will surely make the holiday more colorful. To make different types of videos playable on iPad and iPhone, what you will need is iFunia Video Converter Pro for Mac.


How-To:


Step 1: Add the thanksgiving movies


To watch thanksgiving movies on Mac, iPad and iPhone, you need to download iFunia Video Converter Pro for Mac, install and run it, then click the "Add" button to add thanksgiving movies on your hard drive to iFunia Video Converter. This video converter for Mac supports batch conversion, so you can import and convert several multimedia files at a time.



Step 2: Output Settings of the thanksgiving movies for your iPad and iPhone


Use the "Convert to" on the bottom of the window to control the output format of the thanksgiving movies. There we use the default output settings,H.246 Video(*.mp4), for the thanksgiving movies. You can change the output settings as you need and choose "save to" and then select a folder for the output files. (Advanced users can click the round button next "Audia Quality" to customize output video audio parameters).



Step 3: start converting thanksgiving movies for iPad and iPhone


At last, just click the "Start" button; wait a minute and you can get the video with proper format. In addition, iFunia Video Converter pro for Mac supports auto shut down function, when it's done, the video conversion software will exit by itself and shutdown your computer safely, after this, you are ready to enjoy Thanksgiving movies on Thanksgiving Day. Hope this helps.


Note: If you are using Windows, please go to iFunia Video Converter Pro for Windows


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5 Best Thanksgiving Movies to Watch on iPad


Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, I would like to watch a good movie about the holiday; and this year, with the new iPad gadget, Watch the best Thanksgiving movies on iPad will surely make the holiday more colorful. The below are five films that have a Thanksgiving weekend release date and can be packed into your iPad to truly enrich your holiday life.



Part I. Top 5 best Thanksgiving movies

1. Tangled

Genre: Animation/Comedy/Family/Musical
Starring: Kristin Chenoweth, Dan Fogler, David Schwimmer
Release date: Wed 24, Nov 2010

2. Burlesque

Genre:Drama/Musical
Starring: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell, Cam Gigandet.
Release Date: November 24, 2010

3. Love and Other Drugs

Genre: Comedy/Romance
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank
Release Date: November 24, 2010

4. Faster

Genre: Action
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino
Release Date: November 24, 2010

5. Nutcracker 3D

Genre: Fantasy/Family
Starring: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, Charlie Rowe, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour
Release date: Wed 24, Nov 2010


Part II. The way to watch the best Thanksgiving movies on iPad

Having problems with DVD movies, video clips, TV shows and music files not compatible with your iPad? iFunia DVD to iPad converter has ready-to-use presets for your iPad which enables you to convert the Thanksgiving movies to your iPad in just minutes. The simple instructions below will guide you through the easy step of the way.


Step1. Run iFunia DVD to iPad Converter on your computer and load the Thanksgiving movie disc by click the "Load" button.

Now get your Thanksgiving movie disc and insert it. Then run iFunia DVD to iPad Converter on your Mac and click the big button "Load..." to load your Thanksgiving movie disk, you may see the name of Thanksgiving movie disk if you insert DVD disk before running this DVD ripper tool (see the image below to have an idea). This may take up to a minute or two depending on the contents of the DVD and the speed of your optical drive.



Step2. Choose the right preset for your iPad device in the Convert-to drop-down menu.

In the Destination-Setup section of the interface, choose the right preset for your iPad device in the Convert-to drop-down menu. You can also change the output settings to make the video look the best on iPad. Here I set the output video format to 'iPad MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)'.



Step3. Hit Start to convert Thanksgiving movies to iPad supported video format.

Once the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click the big button "Start" to rip Thanksgiving movies to iPad via iFunia DVD to iPad Converter. When the conversion is done, you can get the output video for your iPad, by then, you are ready to enjoy Thanksgiving movies on Thanksgiving Day. Hope this helps.


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Note: If you are using Windows, please go to iFunia DVD to iPad Converter for Windows

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11/17/2010

Rip DVD movies to MP4 videos for iPod playback


There are fewer ways to add video to your iPod than there are ways to add music to it. However, there are a few ways other than just buying video at the iTunes Store. How about taking the video you already have—Movies, DVDs you own, TV shows you've recorded with a Mac-based digital video recorder (DVR)—and converting them so you can play them back on the new iPod?


No problem: The following step by step tutorial is going to show you how to rip DVD Movies to MP4 video for iPod playback on Mac using iFunia DVD to iPod Converter for mac.


Step 1: Run iFunia DVD to iPod Converter for Mac

Now get your DVD concert disc and insert it. Then run iFunia DVD to iPod Converter on your Mac and click the big button "Load..." to load your DVD concert, you may see the name of DVD concert disk if you insert DVD before running this DVD ripper tool. This may take up to a minute or two depending on the contents of the DVD and the speed of your optical drive.





Step 2: Choose the output formats

If you'd like to extract the DVD Movies to MP4 files for playback on iPod, just set the output format as 'iPod touch MPEG-4 480p Video(*.mp4)' and the Bitrate your preferred. Remember that the output file size mostly depends on the Bitrate you set. Larger Bitrate, larger file size.





Step 3: Start converting DVD Movies to MP4

Now you may click the big button "Start" to begin ripping DVD Movies to MP4 file for playback on your iPod.


Note: If you are using Windows, please go to iFunia DVD to iPod Converter for Windows


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