Software reviews
In this section you find reviews on software related to video, audio and blogs. If you have heard of an utility that is not covered here, I’m happy to review it. Just send a comment on any of the reviews here that are related to what you have seen and I’ll take a look.
« Previous ArticlesS3: Managing files and folders with CrossFTP for Mac
It is hard to find a good application to manage your files and folders on S3 Amazon for MacOSX users. CrossFTP Pro is luckily one of them and believe me, I tested quite a few, including Cyberduck, Transmit and others. Therefore, I think this is an excellent moment to create a video tutorial to [...]
Joomla: How to serve videos based on subscription type
Here we discuss a free Joomla plugin to serve content on your site, depending on a subscription plan. For those not familiar with Joomla, you can register new users and give them a Joomla group status, like Registered, Author, Editor, Manager, etc… just as you would in WordPress.
Depending on that status, a user can do [...]
And the winners of CloudBerry S3 Explorer Pro are…
As promised, here are the CloudBerry Explorer Pro winners of the contest of Spring 2010 !!! Camilia, Ivan and Krizia will now be able to use one of the most powerful S3 amazon tools around.
1. Camilia
Her comment was:
I appreciate your review. I’m not a very technically inclined person. Thanks for highlighting the features and [...]
MWSnap, screen capture utility - review
Yesterday, I was working on a video tutorial to create poster images for video and audio. I was actually planning just to show how to create a screen shot on Windows and then extract the part that is needed. When I suddenly thought, “Let’s find free software to snapshot only the area of the screen [...]
WIN a Pro license of CloudBerry S3 Explorer!
CloudBerryLab gave us 5 full licenses to give away to Miracle Tutorials readers, so this is your chance to win the most versatile S3 Amazon explorer on Windows today!
I wrote already quite a few articles on S3 Amazon testing out a couple of applications and CloudBerry S3 Explorer came out on top with [...]
S3: Rich media plugin for Joomla 1.5
It is so far! We just launched our very own commercial plugin for Joomla “S3Media Pro” which, apart from regular media, also supports video and audio from your S3 Amazon account, including expiring URLs to protect you media against leeching and unauthorized sharing as we discussed in S3 Amazon: Protect files against unauthorized use.
The official [...]
S3: Streaming video with CloudFront
With CloudFront, you can stream your own audio and video without using any code or installing complicated server software. CloudFront is an Amazon service which works in conjunction with your S3 Amazon account (S3 AWS).
What the service basically did so far was to serve content from your S3 account to the closest server in [...]
New version AVS converter 1.6.3 has bugs - revised
The new upgrade of AVS4you video converter 1.6.3.367 has a couple of bugs in the audio. As a result, converting to DVD, MOV, AVI and FLV messes up the audio or doesn’t produce any audio at all on some computer configurations.
The support department says it is working on a new version to be released [...]
AVS Video converter - review
AVS Video Converter is a windows application to convert videos in all popular formats, including FLV (Flash Video), which interests me the most in the context of using video on the web. FLV is the current standard format on websites and video channels, due to its small size and quality. Anyway, I have to say, [...]
VidLogo contest changed
Since so far nobody reacted to the contest on the Vidlogo watermark contest, we changed the rules. Apparently, nobody was interested or we demanded too much. Anyway, we drop the idea that you have to submit a video. Instead, we ask you to test the watermarking application and give a comment about the application on: [...]
VidLogo review: application to burn mark logos on videos
One of our readers suggested VidLogo as a simple solution to add a logo or watermark on videos, so I ran a test on this application, created by GeoVid, to see how useful it could be. And the verdict is, that if you are a Windows user, this is a easy to use application for [...]
Sumo Paint - Online image editor - revised
I just tested an easy to use online image editor to create and adapt images. The application is called Sumo Paint and I’m quite charmed by the way it works, actually. It has layers and blending modes comparable with Adobe Photoshop, but everything is a bit more primitive, which is good because it is not [...]
Handbrake review - Converting DVD to movies
Converting DVD to movies on Mac was a job for Visual Hub, but Tyles from Techspansion discontinued the application. The new born King is: Handbrake! Mac users were happy to work with Visual Hub for years and many are sorry to see the application go, partly because it could do a lot more then converting [...]
WordPress vs Joomla - Review
This is not a pro-contra review. In this article I try to give you some pointers to make it easy to chose between the two popular content management systems. The basic difference between WordPress and Joomla is that Joomla is a portal- or community type site while WordPress is a blog. Both overlap each other [...]
Comparing audio and video services
There are a lot of audio services out there, one cheaper then the other, but what is it you have to look out for? There are 7 points you need to look at when comparing services:
The audio service: what do I get?
Quality of support: mail, phone, how quick do they react?
Flexibility: Can I upload [...]
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