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.
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Normally, I do not like to write reviews about hosting providers but I make an exception this time. GreenGeeks.com has its marbles together in terms of performance and like DreamHost, it does its bit to reduce carbon emissions, which I think is important. When asked about their 300% Wind-powered claim, support told me this:
NaturalReader: voice-over software that does the talking for you
You don’t like your own voice on recordings, yet you cannot afford or have no time to hire a professional voice-over? Here is wonderful software that almost gets it right: NaturalReader. This software turns text into speech with voices that are way more sophisticated then any speech software of your Operating system. It is available [...]
How to encode a video simultaneously for web, iPhone, iPad, iPod & other handheld devices using HandBrake
You want to ensure that everyone, or at least most people can watch your video? Then you have to create a video that works on the web and mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and other handheld devices. This is not evident and you may count on it that being compatible with these [...]
S3Media Stream™ to protect your video and audio on WordPress
Sometimes, you do not want to show video or audio to everyone. Or you want to show it to everyone, but you do not want third parties to publish your media on their site. S3 Amazon combined with Private Streaming can help you with this. I wrote already an article on this subject, namely S3: [...]
S3: Private Streaming MP3 audios on CloudFront is a problem. The solution is simple.
Private streaming MP3 is problematic on S3 Cloudfront. It often does not play and you get no error message telling you what the problem is. The fastest and best way to deal with this is to convert your audio to M4a, the format used for iTunes. I know, you are not looking forward to this [...]
WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe – review
WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is a little handy application to transform High Definition videos into a wide range of formats on Mac and Windows. You can also convert other formats with it and generally, this works fine. The range of output formats is impressive and it works fast, even on an old laptop with [...]
S3: 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 demonstrate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 respect [...]
S3: Rich media plugin for Joomla 1.5 – S3Media Pro™
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 [...]
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, [...]
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