7/21/2012

How to Burn Disc from DVD Folder on Local Disk Using DVD Burning Software?


At some point, you probably need to burn a DVD, whether it is a video file or a favorite movie. Well, movies are the most common things to store on DVDs. There are many programs that can burn DVD. This article will show you how to burn a DVD from DVD folder on hard disk, and walk you through the DVD burning process.
Get the Software
Personally I use CloneDVD for all things related to DVDs. I have been using it for quite a while and I’m completely satisfied with the features it offers. It can burn any DVD to a blank DVD, DVD structure file to a DVD or burn ISO file to a DVD that you can view on all standalone DVD players.
After the then download is finished, launch the .exe file and install the DVD burning software. The installation is straightforward, just click “Next” and “OK” several times. At last, launch the program.
Start Burning DVD from Local Disk
Step 1. Load the DVD folder. Click “Browse” to select the DVD folder from your computer hard disk.
load dvd folder from local disk

Step 2. Insert a blank DVD into the DVD drive.
Step 3. Set the DVD drive as destination.
set DVD±RW as destination

Step 4. Select DVD as output format, and specify target DVD disc size.
set dvd as output

Step 5. Choose copy mode. There are three copy modes available.
Entire disc: copy the whole holder to a DVD
Main movie: keep the main movie by deleting the intro, menus, language and sound tracks
Customize: burn any chapter or chapters of a DVD folder.
choose copy mode

Step 6. Start to burn. Click start to burnbutton to begin the burning process.
Depending on the length of the movie, the speed of your computer, the burning can take a while. CloneDVD will eventually finish burning the DVD. Now you know how to burn a DVD and create video DVDs that can be played in any DVD player.

7/18/2012

Select Free Disc Burning Software to Create Copies on Windows


Instead of buying expensive DVD copying software, free disc burning software is a good alternative. If you want to burn DVD copies, there are some good free sources available. One can use the disc burning freeware to create an MP3 play list and many more tasks.
There are quite a few free disc burning software programs on the Internet. Some are comprehensive as Nero and Roxio, while some are simple ones. Maybe you need more than one program to complete your complicated tasks if you need to handle all your burning needs.
To burn data DVDs for free, you can use ImgBurn. It works great as it is quite comprehensive. It can be regarded as one of the best freeware to burn DVD on Windows. It reads existing disk images, builds disk images and then burn those images onto a disk. It has the ability to burn CD, DVD, Blu-ray and HD-DVD.
To burn DVDs that work on regular DVD player, you have to use another one since ImgBurn doesn’t have the capability. BurnAware Free is able to handle CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc. The free edition empowers you to create and burn audio and MP3 CD, data and DVD-video disc, ISO and Cue Image, erase or format rewriteable disc, copy your CD or DVD to ISO image.
When you are looking for free disc burning software, you certainly want a program as versatile as possible. There are also some free comprehensive versions though there are always free trial limits or free copies limits. You can have a try, if there is one that is powerful enough yet reasonable, you can consider purchasing it. Then you don’t need to use different program to meet your different requirements if one can complete all the tasks.

7/13/2012

What Should I Do If My Computer Freezes?


Any computer user knows how frustrating it is when a PC stops running in the middle of a complex application. The mouse is not moving and the page is not loading! Is this happening to your PC regularly? Computer freezes happen on startup usually, or the computer freezes when multi-tasking, or there is something probably wrong. Let’s know more on the reason and solution for computer freezes here.

WHY IS MY COMPUTER FREEZING?

There are lot of things that may cause your computer freezes. But the following is the main 5 ones:computer freezes
a. If the Windows Registry is corrupted.
The Windows registry may be corrupted by a virus, Trojan horse or malware, or a sudden computer hangup or crashes. Once
this happens, software would send a message to the registry that became garbled and was recorded improperly. What you need to do is to clean the corrupted Windows registry by some registry cleaner software.
b. If the drivers are corrupted or outdated.
If drivers on a computer are outdated or corrupted, it could also cause computer errors, crashes or freezes. To keep your drivers updated regularly is a good habit for every computer user.
c. If the computer is infected by a virus or malware.
Every one knows how harmful a virus or malware is to a computer. To prevent your computer from freezing, do not forget to install great antivirus software and scan virus on time.
d. If the hard drive or file system errors happen.
If your hard drive becomes damaged, it also can cause computer freezes. It would let you lose all data permanently or make your software crash. Do disk check timely can avoid such problems.
e. If the computer is in a bad location.
The best place for computer should be cool and dry. Do something to keep your computer from overheating, such as make sure all the fans are open and spinning, have the dust blown out every few months, do not put the computer in direct sunlight or leave it in a hot car.

WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MY COMPUTER FREEZES?

Once your computer freezes, do the following to restart your computer:
Step 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the same time till a box popup, where you will see all the currently running programs on your computer.
Step 2. Close all the programs that are marked as “not responding” in the status column one by one by clicking “End Task”. It may also let you lose all unsaved documents.
Step 3. Finally, reboot the computer. Unluckily, all the data lost during the computer freezes is not recoverable.

7/10/2012

Can We Use the DVD Player as a CD Player?


Are you tired of switching between different devices when you want to play a CD instead of a DVD? Can we just use the same DVD player to play a CD? The answer is yes, and to be frank, the process is not difficult. Just follow the steps below.
play CD

Play a CD on a DVD Player

Step 1. Turn on the DVD player. Take out the DVD if there is one in the drive.
Step 2. Make sure the disc is in good condition, not being scratched or dirty. If there is dust or dirt, use a clean soft cloth to wipe it carefully before inserting it into the drive.
Step 3. Press “Play” button on the DVD player itself or on the remote control. It will begin to read the sic.
Step 4. Select a track by pressing the “Scene Selection” buttons. It maybe takes while for you to find all the right buttons to work the CD playing function.
Step 5. Enjoy the music from the CD. The DVD player just works as a CD player and show the tracks of CD through the TV speakers.
See? It is quite easy to play CD on DVD player. Just take a try. No more machine switching again.

7/04/2012

How to Protect and Enhance DVD Discs?


Many people will think the protection of DVD is quite common. However, we probably overlook the fact. DVD is fragile. It can be scratched, damaged and even become unreadable. Chances are that we play a brand new DVD smoothly for the first time, and the next time when we play it, it fails to work normally. How upset to find a favorite DVD fails to work! Nobody is willing to see that. Fortunately, we can avoid the frustrating situation from the very beginning. And the following are some tips on how to protect DVD that you have to pay attention to.

PROTECT DVD DISCS

  • Tip 1. Handle the disc by the outer edge and center hole. Keep the disc away from dirt, fingerprint, liquid, smudges, etc. Use a clean fabric to clean it if it is dirty. Notice that wipe it in a straight line from the center to outer edge.
  • Tip 2. Store disc upright, like books on the library shelf, of course, with its original outer cases. Don’t place it horizontally for a long time.
  • Tip 3. Leave disc in its cases to avoid effects caused by environment changes. Store it in cool, dry, and dark place with temperature at 4-20℃ and humidity at 20-50%.  Don’t expose discs to sunlight or rain.
  • Tip 4. Don’t write or mark the data area where laser reads. If you want to mark a disc, use a permanent marker to mark the label side.
dvd-collection

ENHANCE DVD DISCS

Protecting discs is very essential, while maximizing their value is of greater importance. So, you can make a further step to enhance them. Creating DVD backups is a good way to enhance their values. It is easy to backup homemade DVD but commercial DVDs are copy protected. However, we need to some copies for personal use. Thus, we have to ask help from professional DVD copy software.
Some programs only support to copy DVD to DVD. But if there is one which can rip DVD to some popular devices, say iPhone, iPad, 3GP phones, that would be awesome. We can play these movies whenever we want.
Considering these factors, I made a search on Google, and CloneDVD came to my attention. It can complete all the tasks in one package. What attracts me most is that it supports various video and even audio formats. Moreover, it offers lots of pretty good video editing functions. For instance, if you want to get a short clip from a DVD movie, just try its clipping function. (Note: Don’t use this technology for piracy.)
backup dvd
  • Tip 5: CloneDVD offers free trial version, click here to free download to backup DVDs.
After you read this article, you sure have some certain amount of cognitions on how to protect DVD. Or, do you have better ways to enhance your DVD discs?

6/27/2012

How to Convert a Full DVD Movie to iPhone Family?


Looking for a way to play your favorite DVD movies on your incredible iPhone? A DVD to iPhone converter would easily guide you through the whole process. Entire Disc mode of  DVD to iPhone Converter allows users to convert the whole movie including intros, bonus footages, audio tracks, subtitles, menus and keep the original video & audio quality.
Aviosoft DVD to iPhone Converter has a fool-style interface. With only a few clicks, you can convert entire DVD to iPhone Familyincluding iPhone, iPhone 3/3GS, and iPhone 4/4S.

Guide on How to Rip Full Movie

Prepare things we need: a Windows computer, a DVD movie that you want to convert, setup package of the converter.

Step 1. Run the Converter

Install the setup package on your Windows computer, and launch it after installation.

Step 2. Load the DVD Disc

Insert the disc into computer DVD drive, the converter will automatically read it quickly, and show all the DVD information on its interface such as size, rating, release date, quality, titles, audio, subtitles, etc.

Step 3. Common Settings

  • 1).  Choose Entire disc mode
  • 2). Browse to set the output folder where the converted file will be saved.
  • 3). Choose the audio & subtitle.

Step 4. Start Ripping Process

After all settings have done, just click the big “Start” button to rip the whole movie to iPhone and stand back.
convert entire disc to iphone
The encoding time will depend on several variables including: the duration of the video file, the speed of your computer, what other activity your computer is currently doing.
Now that you have your new movie file, you probably want to import it into iTunes right? Here is how:
  • 1. Connect your iPod, iPad or iPhone to your computer using the cable it came with and open iTunes (Applications > iTunes).
  • 2. Drag and drop the video file you just made into your iTunes library, or select Add to Library… from the File menu.  Make sure the video file you just added to iTunes is in a Playlist that will get synced to your device.
  • 3. Select “Sync”
  • 4. The sync may take a few minutes. Once completed, the file should now be on your iPhone.

6/21/2012

How to Edit DVD Movie for Mobile Devices like iDevices, PSP, BlackBerry?


Do you want to make your own movie and play it on a tablet or mobile phone? Those mobile devices bring convenience to our life and also make our life enjoyable and colorful with multimedia functions. It is not difficult to make a stylish movie using CloneDVD. When you convert / rip a DVD movie to portable media formats, the features ClipEffects, and Merge will be available.

Edit DVD Movie Guide

Next, I will show you how to exactly edit a DVD movie for mobile devices with illustrated steps.

Step 1. Run CloneDVD

Download and install CloneDVD on a Windows computer. Launch it to get started.

Step 2. Load the DVD

After launching the program, please load the DVD disc that you want to rip and edit by inserting it into the DVD drive.

Step 3. Edit DVD Movie

  • 3.1 Clip: clip any part of DVD movie into video segments.
Click clip to open the clip window. The DVD movie will auto play, so that you can decide which part to clip.
Click start clip to set the start time point. Click stop clip to set the stop time point. Click new clip to begin a new clip. You can also merge the clips into one file.
clip movie
Click “OK”, all the video clips will be displayed under the “DVD Ripping info”.
  • 3.2 Effect
Click effect button to enter the editing effect window.
Crop: crop the image size by dragging the red points. The size will show on the left area. Remember, you cannot set the size by changing digits. There are also frequently used solutions for your choice.
crop video
Watermark: Click watermark to add watermark on the movie. Drag the watermark to change its position.
add watermark
After all the settings are complete, click “OK” to close the editing. All the clips & effects will appear under “DVD Ripping info”.
dvd ripping info
  • 3.3 Merge: Select the video clips and click merge to merge the titles together.

Step 4. Convert to Mobile Device

Set the output format and click “Start” to begin converting movie clips.
That’s all for editing a DVD movie for mobile device.

4/20/2012

From dates, the Duet $2.1 m of the Trinity, Marc Benioff, throws, travel more


Search Duet, a startup with an approach of "big data" for the travel industry generated only 2.1 million seed capital.

The company has not yet begun, but co-founder and CEO Patrick Bosworth, says that the goal of creating applications on the application data customers great travel company. You start the hosting companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (which could use such as the data with assessment and strategies of distribution) serve, and Bosworth expected go live customers for the first duo this summer. Finally he said he the company every vertical displacement wanted to help respond to changing market conditions and demands of the market. ".

Bosworth previously worked as Director of corporate strategy and transfer in the Wynn Las Vegas, where its founder Marcus welcome was Director of corporate strategy. The third duo, Craig Weissman, co-founded CTO salesforce.com in June last year.

There is an extensive list of impressive investors. The round was led by Dan Scholnick Trinity Ventures, with participation from battery ventures and benchmark capital. Individual investors include Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, co-founder of Parker Harris, co-founder of Expedia rich Barton, entrepreneur, and author Steve blank, and many others. Here is the list:

Investors travel

Mark Lomanno: former CEO of Smith Travel Research (STR)
Home Search: Investor in ventures, Nor1, bCODE Hipmunk, NewBrandAnalytics, ID90T
Brad Gerstner: Board Member, Nor1, Orbitz, hotel room tonight, 77, from
Paul Reeder: Member of the Board of Directors, current and former, ITA, Orbitz, and USAirways
Rich Barton: former CEO/Co-founder of Expedia, joint venture partner, benchmark capital
Michael Reichartz: COMs vigorous air, former leader of Expedia
Sam shank: CEO and founder of hotel tonight
Ash Kapur: Vice President of administration of the Starwood Capital Group revenue
Nikhil Srivastava: Partner of KKR, Cinven investor

Technology investors

Marc Benioff: President/CEO of Salesforce.com
Steve blank: Founder e. piphany, author of entrepreneurship, master of conferences at UC Berkeley
Parker Harris: Founder of Salesforce.com
Todd McKinnon: Founder and CEO of octa, formerly PeopleSoft, and Salesforce.com, Facebook
Ross Fubini: Founder and CTO, CubeTree, Palantir, Investor investment Kapor
Harlan Robins: Biotech contractor

3/31/2012

Milestone hit GlobalFoundries 32nm, but AMD is still refusing to commit to the production of 28nm

GlobalFoundries announced today that it has shipped the 250 000th, wafer 32nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), alongside the usual claims that the 32nm ramp (despite the enormous problems that the company has met with Llano) is really faster/better/more successfully than the 45nm ramp before it. We feel obliged to remind you that the ramp at 45 nm AMD took place in 2008-2009, in the teeth of the recent recession. At the time, AMD has noticed that his flight had been slower than originally intended due to weak demand and high inventories of older parts Phenom. Throw in the fact that GlobalFoundries is now the construction of pieces for a variety of clients, rather than simply AMD, and would very much hope that the company was able to push the product out the door more quickly.

According to the GF CEO, Ajit Manocha, relatively recent changes in the company's production 32/28nm have produced significant improvements. AMD CEO Rory Read, weighed in with the following: "AMD and GLOBALFOUNDRIES worked closely from the 2011 … In just one quarter, we were able to see more than a doubling of the yields on 32nm, allowing us to pass our requirements for product shipping 32nm 2011 exit. Based on this successful flight of 32nm HKMG, we are committed to progress on GLOBALFOUNDRIES 28nm with. " (italics added).

That last sentence is always very careful. Readers who jump on what they see as misleading titles would appear to have a bone to pick with me. Rather than playing coy, I want to address it directly. Read statement about "progress" sounds good, but actually does not refer to a specific product. That is not an accident. AMD was remarkably close to where constructs-mouthed his next 28nm APUS and CPU, but Read comment left me wondering whether the company had left a trail of breadcrumbs.
Follow wafers

If you want to know what is planning a company, its documentation SEC are an excellent starting point. The rules that govern the corporate disclosures often require more specific information than what makes him in press releases, including forward-looking statements which are not subject to modification stealth when internal roadmaps are not met. In this case, various statements of AMD reveal that not enough use out of GlobalFoundries goodness of his heart. 10-K annual report, submitted at the end of February, said: "for the purposes of WSA [Wafer supply agreement] the company is required to purchase all its requirements of microprocessor units and APU product of GF with limited exceptions." (italics added).

AMD-FAD2

This limited exception was Brazos. The amended agreement by a few weeks back is described as granting AMD "some rights to contract with another supplier of wafer Foundry products are specified for a given period."

Looking back over the SEC filings, its clear just how badly GF has failed to meet its original agreements. First changed the WSA last year and switched to paying only good die, AMD had to pay about exprected GF 2.5 $ 1. When it filed that amendment in April 2011, it said it would pay between $ 1.1-GlobalFoundries $ 1.5 billion. The actual amount paid to GF in 2011? $941 m. Given that AMD was paying only for the good parts, the difference between expected and actual payments is a rough approximation of just how bad the situation at GlobalFoundries 32nm performance really was.

Follow the breadcrumbs back and the story grows more interesting. When AMD spun GF in 2009, there was a great deal of speculation that the company would move to GF when it transition to 32 nm GPU. As it happens, this round was sent in original condition that WSA GF has encountered some production goals. AMD originally was prohibited from seeking any second source for future CPU/APUs, once certain targets were hit and was required to transition MPU of all products purchased on GlobalFoundries within two years.

Why not believe statements Read "about progress with GlobalFoundries 28nm?" Because every move AMD has done since GF has been spun for distances from its former foundry, pouring the share of the company and securing the right to manufacture of products to TSMC. We look forward to the full text of the new agreement until AMD releases its next 10-Q at the end of the quarter, but you don't pay 700 million dollars to regain flexibility of production at the beginning of the month just to exchange your story about three weeks later.