Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, has been awarded a knighthood in the United Kingdom.

BBC reports that Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, has been awarded a knighthood in the United Kingdom.

Mr Ive, who can now style himself Sir Jonathan, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE).

Ive began work at Apple in 1992, but found himself frustated during the early years before Jobs' return. Ive is seen as responsible for many of the iconic designs coming out of Apple over the past decade. Jobs described Ive as his "spiritual partner" and had given him complete operational freedom at Apple.

Mercury News quotes a statement from Ive, reacting to the news.

"I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making,'' Ive, 44, said in a statement. "To be recognized with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful. I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design. I feel enormously fortunate that I continue to be able to design and make products with a truly remarkable group of people here at Apple."

Many people like enjoy movies at home and they have piles of DVDs. So do I. I like watch lastest movie on my new Mac and it is wonderful. However, I always break and lose my DVDs and I was really sad because they cost most of my money. Luckily, I find a way to store my DVD movies on my new Mac computer and evern put it on my iPod because I use a DVD Ripper for Mac and it can rip DVDs to so many video formats, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB and so on.

To do this you must have a nice dvd ripper for Mac. So I find Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac

OK, let’s do it.
Step 1. Download and install Aisesoft DVD Ripper for Mac.

For Intel

For Power PC

Step 2. Load you DVD.
Click the “Load DVD” button(a), find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your DVD-ROM, and Click “Open”.

Tick the check boxes(b) before the titles and chapters that you want to rip.

Step 3. Chose output profile and settings.
Selecting output format is really easy, you can chose your output format according to your devices players and the default setting works great.

For a veteran of digital player, you could customize your own settings by clicking “Settings” button to chose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.

Tips: Sample rate (Hz) = any value up to 48000 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)
Bitrate (kbps) = any value up to 160 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)

After setting your own output and settings you can click “Start” button to start your conversion. (The time of the conversion depends on your DVD and the settings you chose.)

Do a few more clicks to make your movie more enjoyable.
1. Trim

If you want to rip only a part of the DVD movie, please click “Trim” button and drag the “Start trim slider” to set the start time and “End trim slider” to set the end time.(a). You can also do that by clicking the “Start trim button” and “End trim button”(b). The third way you do that is set the exact Start/End time at the right of the pop-up window and click “OK”.

2. Crop
If you want to remove the black edges or you want to rip a certain area of your video, please click the “Crop” button. You can do this either by drag the frame around the movie (a) or set the crop value: “Top, Left, Bottom, Right”.(b). Another way to do that is choose mode from “Crop Mode”(c).
Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac also allows you to choose the output aspect ratio above the crop pane, “Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3” are available.

3. Effect
If you want to adjust the effect of your movie, please click the “Effect” button and a pop-up effect window will appear. It allows you to edit your movie’s effect including “Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and Volume”.

4. Merge into one file/audio track/subtitles
If you would like to put several titles and chapters into one output file, please tick the check box of the “Merge into one file”.
You can choose audio track and subtitles you like according to what you prefer and the DVD supports.

Follow what I said above I hope you could enjoy your DVD movies on your Mac and also on your iPod and other portable players

Apps Now Is More Powerful Than Media?

App has dominated the world. If you do not agree with it, I'll prove it. iPhone now reaches 123 countries and regions. Of course, if you use iPhone, you are using iPhone app. Just like internet, now app are used every corner of the world.
However, media, including books, music, movies, are used much less than apps. Just look at Apple, report said that only 51 countries and regions can purchase music through iTunes and 6 countries and regions can purchase TV show on iTunes.
There are many limitations in traditional media area, especially in TV and Movies. And every channel customes their own rules(Cinema, Pay to watch, DVD, Cable TV and Internet Streaming Media). iTunes' music and video and all the music and video on the internet's limitation on geographic shows that there's still a long way to go to make a legal market of digital media all around the world.
There is one way that can do that: app. It presents the future of media. App is media. Just like games and software are regarded as media, app is also a kind of media. Not only that, it now a swallow other forms of media little by little.
We first experience this kind of "software swallows media" is Book. The best book on iPad does not only provide iBook and Kindle version, but also provided as standalone app. All the best child book on iPad are apps with full function. They all integrate pictures and video in the user experience.
"Tin Tin" on iPad is a perfect example of this. It is adapted from a carton movie, in which integrates 3D model and 360° room to let readers to feel that you are in the story. Music and movies are relatively passive experience, but they now in apps and become one of the funcion in an app. With the more and more media are integrated into apps, software and media's boundary is now much fuzzier than ever before.
This trend first appeares in production areas, more and more music, video and movie are produced by iPhone. Apps that can integrate music and video are much more than before. Before we enter the next era, we need a lone time of upgrading. Think about it. Nowadays, how the whole media content is spreaded by app? No matter people enjoy the media through Spotify or watch movies with iPad through netflix, the music and movies do not change anyway. It just provides much better user experience.
If you want to promote a music or a TV show and make it popular among people, you can put them on Facebook and Twitter and millions of people will share it and your music or TV show will really really popular. You do not need to spend millions of USD to promote it on radio or TV.
The apps that provides this kind of media will influnce our consumption habits very much. Apps will help us to find media through SNS and bring them to TV, iPad, speaker and other devices. They do that without a set-top boxes, radio and book store and they make you spend your money with app. Every media compay must pay attention to this or they will be in trouble.

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Experience Sharing: Ten Steps to Perfectly Jailbreak Your iOS 5.0.1

On July 26, 2010, the Library of Congress officially repaired several exemption clauses in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and it formally recognized the legitimacy of the IOS jailbreak.

Jay Freeman,the founder of Cydia, Jailbreak software community, said about 10% of the global iPhones had escaped.

Now the redsn0w 0.9.10b1, which can perfectly jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 has just released. Currently, it supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4 CDMA edition, iPad 1, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G. However, the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, using A5 processor still can not escape.

Please check the device Settings - > General > On the Machine to inspect equipment running on the firmware version, if you are running older versions of the firmware, you will update it to the 5.0.1 then jailbreak.

Step 1, Download redsn0w_win_0.9.10b1, then Decompression attachment and open redsn0w.exe

Step 2, Click the “Jaibreak” button on the map

Step 3, Make sure your iOS device is switched off, and the data line is connected to a computer.

Step 4, During the Jailbreak process, you need first enter DFU mode. The concrete operation process has three steps. First, hold the key for several seconds. After the prompt field grey, go to the next step.

Step 5, After that, don't let go the open key, and also hold down the HOME key for 10 seconds.

Step 6, Release the open key, but continuing to hold down the home key for 15 seconds

Step 7, If you succeed, there will be a progress bar.

Step 8, If the following interface appears, select the" Install Cydia" to start installing the Cydia to iOS equipment.

Step 9, After a while, your iOS device appears English covering the screen, this demonstrates file uploading.

Step 10, Two or three minutes later, your mobile phone will reboot, and you can see the Cydia Icon

Finally, I say one more word: although the jailbreak can bring you some new functions, it may also lead to the instability of the system, power consumption increasing, etc. So think twice and then make the decision according to your needs.

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Enjoy Your Latest Apple Technology With iPhone 4S Converter:

To help Apple fans better enjoy iPhone 4S, Aiseesoft's newly released iPhone 4S Movie Converter, a multi-functional and user-friendly iPhone 4S video converter to give iPhone 4S users wonderful user experience.

Aiseesoft iPhone 4S Movie Converter has defined profiles for iPhone 4S's 1080p HD video recording feature, including iPhone 4S MPEG4 Video, iPhone 4S H.264 Video, iPhone 4S H.264 HD Video, iPhone 4S MOV (640*480) and iPhone 4S M4V Video. By owning this iPhone 4S MP4 converter tool, users can easily convert 1080p HD video clips to various video or audio formats at random, such as MP4, M4V, AAC, AIFF, M4A, MP3, WAV, etc. Also, users can convert iPhone 4S 1080p video to many other mainstream video formats to share with other friends on the internet or other video players, even iPad, iPod touch 4, etc.

Key features of Aiseesoft iPhone 4S Movie Converter:
Convert any video to iPhone 4S MPEG4, H.264, MOV, AVI, M4V and so on;
Edit any source file to create customized video or audio files;
Preview and take snapshot images from any loaded video files;
Ultra-high converting speed and superior output quality.

What's more, depending on the proper graphics card, users can choose corresponding converting acceleration technology from AMD APP and NVIDIA® CUDA™ GPU Processing acceleration technology to get faster converting speed and superior output quality.

In a word, this iPhone 4S video converter is easy-to-use and versatile. With it, iPhone 4S users can enjoy a more amazing iPhone 4S without any confusion and trouble. For more details and to free download its trial version, please visit: http://www.aiseesoft.com/iphone-4s-movie-converter/.

How to convert DVD to iPod/iPhone/Sansa/PSP/Zune/iRiver/Google Phone/Cell Phone, etc. on Mac

Many people like enjoy movies at home and they have piles of DVDs. So do I. I like watch lastest movie on my new Mac and it is wonderful. However, I always break and lose my DVDs and I was really sad because they cost most of my money. Luckily, I find a way to store my DVD movies on my new Mac computer and evern put it on my iPod because I use a DVD Ripper for Mac and it can rip DVDs to so many video formats, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB and so on.

To do this you must have a nice dvd ripper for Mac. So I find Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac

OK, let’s do it.
Step 1. Download and install Aisesoft DVD Ripper for Mac.

For Intel

For Power PC

Step 2. Load you DVD.
Click the “Load DVD” button(a), find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your DVD-ROM, and Click “Open”.



Tick the check boxes(b) before the titles and chapters that you want to rip.

Step 3. Chose output profile and settings.
Selecting output format is really easy, you can chose your output format according to your devices players and the default setting works great.

For a veteran of digital player, you could customize your own settings by clicking “Settings” button to chose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.

Tips: Sample rate (Hz) = any value up to 48000 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)
Bitrate (kbps) = any value up to 160 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)

After setting your own output and settings you can click “Start” button to start your conversion. (The time of the conversion depends on your DVD and the settings you chose.)

Do a few more clicks to make your movie more enjoyable.
1. Trim

If you want to rip only a part of the DVD movie, please click “Trim” button and drag the “Start trim slider” to set the start time and “End trim slider” to set the end time.(a). You can also do that by clicking the “Start trim button” and “End trim button”(b). The third way you do that is set the exact Start/End time at the right of the pop-up window and click “OK”.

2. Crop
If you want to remove the black edges or you want to rip a certain area of your video, please click the “Crop” button. You can do this either by drag the frame around the movie (a) or set the crop value: “Top, Left, Bottom, Right”.(b). Another way to do that is choose mode from “Crop Mode”(c).
Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac also allows you to choose the output aspect ratio above the crop pane, “Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3” are available.

3. Effect
If you want to adjust the effect of your movie, please click the “Effect” button and a pop-up effect window will appear. It allows you to edit your movie’s effect including “Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and Volume”.

4. Merge into one file/audio track/subtitles
If you would like to put several titles and chapters into one output file, please tick the check box of the “Merge into one file”.
You can choose audio track and subtitles you like according to what you prefer and the DVD supports.

Follow what I said above I hope you could enjoy your DVD movies on your Mac and also on your iPod and other portable players

Updated iPad 2 Converter Suite - the Most Powerful APP for iPad Users

Apple is always the center of hot topics nowadays because it is constantly creating magic and fantastic products like iPhone, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPad 2, which is gaining in popularity because of its strong functions and convenience since it was released. The newly upgraded Aiseesoft iPad 2 Converter Suite is specially designed for iPad 2 users to manage video, audio or image files on iPad 2 much easier and more conveniently. Since more and more people prefer to use iPad, good iPad 2 converter software is becoming necessary in daily life.

Aiseesoft iPad 2 Converter Suite, composed of iPad 2 Video Converter, DVD to iPad 2 Converter and iPad 2 Transfer, possesses powerful functions to help users convert any video format including DVD to iPad 2 compatible formats in fast speed and high image/sound qualities. iPad 2 Video Converter allows users to convert any video format including MPG, MPEG, VOB, DAT, MP4, M4V, TS, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, MKV, AVI, etc. to iPad 2. By using the DVD to iPad 2 Converter, you can convert any type of DVD to iPad 2 easily and directly. The iPad 2 Transfer, the best iPad 2 Manager has the capabilities of transferring video, audio and image files between iPad 2 and computer without losing anything. In addition, all modes of iPod and iPhone are also supported by this software.

Key Features of iPad 2 Converter Suite

1. Convert videos and DVDs to iPad 2 and extract audio from videos
2. Convert one source to different video formats at one time.
3. Transfer files between iPad 2 and computer with quick and auto searching function
4. Customize output files through editing function. Users can merge, trim and crop videos, adjust video effects and add watermark to the videos according to their preference,
5. Preview video effect and capture video frame.
6. The newly adopted NVIDIA® CUDA™ and AMD APP acceleration technology makes it possible to complete the conversion and transfer process within a very short time.

To conclude, this iPad 2 Converter suite will absolutely provide you with the best and easiest way to help you manage your iPad 2 in order.

Price and Availability

Aiseesoft iPad 2 Converter Suite is now priced at $35.00

System Requirements

OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7

Hardware Requirements: 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or above; 512MB RAM or more

Mac/Windows MP4 Converter Guide: how to convert video to MP4 format?

MP4 video format is a very popular video format right now. Actually, MP4 file is multimedia file, which is a container format that can store video, audio and subtitle data. MP4 format is really popular because many stores like iTunes are using this container format, iPod and Playstation Portable (PSP) and other popular devices support MP4 format.
This guide aims to show you how to convert videos to MP4 format on Windows and Mac.

For Windows:
To convert videos to MP4 format I use Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter.

Its input video formats are really amazing.
It can decode MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, VOB, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, QT, TS, MKV, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MPV, MOD, TOD, MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM, HD video etc. and convert them into MP4 format.

It works perfectly with iPod iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen, Zune, Zune 2, iRiver PMP, Archos, PS3, Xbox, etc.

Step 1: Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video that you want to convert to MP4 format to Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter.
You can also do it by clicking “File” and choose “Add File”.

Step 2: Choose Your Output Profile and Settings
From “Profile” drop-down list you can choose your output profile according to your need.
For example, if you have a iPod and you want to convert video for it, you need to choose “iPod” from the profile list and then it also provides the second chance to specify your iPod generation. You can choose “iPod touch”, “iPod nano” and other iPod generation.

You can also adjust the settings of your output video, such as “video/audio encoder”, “Video/audio Bitrate”, “Channels”, “Resolution” and so on.

Step 3: Video Editing
This powerful MP4 video converter allows you to do many video editings.

1. Effect:
You can adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and also you can use “deinterlacing” to improve you output effect.

2. Trim:
“Trim” function allows you to pick up any part of your video to convert. You can just convert a part of your video that you want.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons to set the start and end time
b. You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair buttons when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time at the buttom of the pop-up window.

3: Crop:
“Crop” means to choose a certain play area to convert.
There are 2 ways that you can crop your video.
a. You can set your own mode on the bottom of the pop-up window
b. You can drag frame to set your own crop mode

Step 4: Conversion
After you have done all the steps above you can click “Start” button to start your conversion.

For Mac:
Mac users can also enjoy Mp4 video at will.
Here you just need Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter for Mac.



Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to convert to MP4 format.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Aiseesoft TS Converter - Excellent and Fabulous TS Converting Tool

It is no doubt that the electronic information technology is developing in the fastest speed beyond imagination. As a result, more and more people are tending to use high-tech and advanced devices like iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, iPod, PSP, Zune and smart phones (LG, Motorola, Nokia, Palm Pre, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Sony XPERIA, HTC, etc.). The TS Converting Tool brings fantastic feelings to users who are in favor of viewing videos or movies of high-definition qualities such as the TS videos. However, most of those portable devices are not compatible with TS videos including iPad 2. Thus, if you want to watch your favorite TS videos and files on iPad 2, the Aiseesoft TS Converter can be, and is, your best choice to convert TS.

Aiseesoft TS Converter possesses powerful functions to convert TS/HD TS to all popular video formats. You are able to convert TS files to AVI, MPEG, VOB, WMV, 3GP, MP4, FLV, MKV, MOV, HD videos and convert MTS, M2TS and other videos to TS in dramatically fast speed and excellent image/sound qualities. What is more, converting TS to audio files such as MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, M4A, OGG, etc is also allowed by this Aiseesoft TS Converter as an excellent audio extractor. It is amazing and exciting to enjoy the converted TS files on your iPad, iPad 2, PSP, iPod, iPhone, Archos, iRiver, Zune, Creative Zen, Apple TV, Blackberry, etc. comfortably and conveniently.

Aiseesoft TS Converter provides you with the powerful editing functions through which you can reset the output files according to your preference. For instance, you can trim videos to acquire the certain part of a video you like, merge several files together to get a whole single file, crop videos to make it fit your viewing screen maximally, and add watermarks to keep your videos unique and special. All these operations and settings can be done in the easiest way no matter you are a new or advanced user.

Aiseesoft TS Converter is now priced at $ 35.00

System Requirements

OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7
Hardware Requirements: 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or above; 512MB RAM or more

About Aiseesoft Studio

As a professional multimedia software provider, Aiseesoft Studio is dedicated to developing the best multimedia desktop applications to help the Windows and Mac users smoothly convert, edit and transfer various video/audio files. In order to meet users' various requirements, Aiseesoft Studio constantly brings in new ideas, technologies, etc.

How to Copy DVD, Rip DVD, Convert Video on Mac

Many friends want to share their home-make DVDs and their DVD movies with others and also they always feel difficult to do that. Today I will share you a really easy way to Copy DVD to another DVD disc, DVD image ISO, or a DVD folder. Also I will also introduce you how to rip DVD and convert videos on Mac.

Part 1: How to copy a DVD to another DVD disc/DVD image ISO/DVD folder on Mac
Step 1: DVD Copy for Mac.
To copy a DVD on Mac, you need a DVD Copy for Mac to help you. Aiseesoft DVD Copy for Mac is a good choice.

Step 2: Load Your Source
This excellent DVD copy for Mac allows you to load DVD folder and DVD image ISO.

Step 3: Choose Output Info
1. “Full Disc” or “Main Movie”
This DVD copy for Mac enables you to copy the full disc and also the main movie according to your need.

2. “Audio”, “Subtitle” and “Volume” name
You can choose your output audio from the “Audio” drop-down list, such as “all audio”/ “None”/ or some audio the DVD provide.

Subtitle is always an important thing, you can choose your output subtitle in “Subtitle” drop-down list.

You can also name your output volume's name

Step 4: Choose Your Target
You can copy your DVD to another DVD disc, DVD folder or DVD image ISO.

Tips:
1. You can also choose to copy the menus or not.
2. All the info you choose will be dispalyed on the “Info Box”.

Part 2: How to rip DVD to video formats on Mac

Step 1: Download Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac

Step 2. Load DVD
Insert DVD into your DVD-ROM, run DVD Ripper for Mac, click “Load DVD”, find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your DVD-ROM, and Click “Open”.

Step 3. Set output format.
This best DVD ripper for Mac provides you output formats as many as you want. Just choose one from the drop down list “profile” according to your portable player.

Step 4: Conversion
You can just Click “Start” to begin your conversion.

Part 3: How to Convert Video files on Mac

Step 1: Download Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac

Step 2: Load video
Easily click “Add File” to load your video that you want to convert.

Step 3: Choose output profile and settings
At the bottom of the interface there are a drop-download list named “profile”. You can choose your output format here.

Tips:
1. Trim
If you want to pick up a part of the video to convert, please click “Trim” button and drag the “Start trim slider” to set the start time and “End trim slider” to set the end time. (a) You can also do that by clicking the “Start trim button” and “End trim button” (b). The third way you do that is set the exact Start/End time at the right of the pop-up window and click “OK”.(c)

2. Crop
If you want to remove the black edges or you want to convert a certain area of your video, please click the “Crop” button. You can do this either by drag the frame around the movie (a) or set the crop value: “Top, Left, Bottom, Right”.(b). Another way to do that is choose models from “Crop Mode”(c).
Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac also allows you to chose the output aspect ratio above the crop pane, “Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3” are available.

3. Effect
If you want to adjust the effect of your movie, please click the “Effect” button and a pop-up effect window will appear. It allows you to edit your movie’s effect including “Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and Volume”.

Newly-upgraded Aiseesoft DVD Ripper - Speed up Conversion

Nowadays, with the appearance of video converters, you can enjoy your favorite videos, including DVDs with DVD Ripper products on multiple players, such as PSP, iPod, iPhone, iPad (iPad 2), Zune, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, Apple TV, Xbox, NDS, Mobile Phone, etc. However, there is another annoying problem – it can take a long time to convert a video to your preferable format. In order to solve this problem, Aiseesoft upgraded the DVD Ripper software recently. Now, this Best DVD Ripper can bring much faster converting speed with AMD APP and NVIDIA® CUDA™ GPU Processing acceleration technology.

With these two technologies, Aiseesoft DVD Ripper can easily rip DVD to MP4, H.264, AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV, 3GP, VOB, DivX, MOV, DPG, etc., even HD video, like HD H.264, HD AVI, HD MPG, HD TS, HD WMV, HD MPEG 4, HD MOV, HD ASF, etc. with best quality in a shorter time. This DVD Ripper can extract audio files from DVD movies. With this best DVD Ripper software, you can enjoy your DVD files on PSP, iPod, iPhone, iPad (iPad 2), Zune, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, Apple TV, Xbox, NDS, Mobile Phone, etc.

This professional DVD Ripper also possesses powerful movie editing functions, such as trimming video length, adjusting video brightness/saturation/contrast, watermarking video, cropping video size and joining video clips.

Taking into account Mac users, this DVD Ripper released Mac version - Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac, which provides you with the fastest speed to rip DVD to AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, WMV, DivX, XviD, HD MP4, TS video formats, and MP3, AAC, AC3 audio formats on Mac. It also has the same powerful editing functions as Windows DVD Ripper.

Price and Availability

Aiseesoft DVD Ripper is now priced at $ 35.00

For more information, you can visit:

System Requirements

OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7
Hardware Requirements: 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or above; 512MB RAM or more

For Reasons for Apple to Launch The 7.85 inch iPad

On this Friday, there was a rumor from Apple supply chain that Apple will launch the 7.85 inch Tablet PC in late 2012. The technology blog GigaOm make a analysis why Apple should promote the small dimension Tablet PC.


Imaginary 7 inch iPad
Athough Apple is leading the Consumer Tablet PC market, and sales of iPad are far above Android Tablet PC, there are still four reasons why Aplle should launch the smaller screen Tablet PC.

First, Smaller Tablet PC is more portable

The smaller size tablet PC with higher frequency of ultilization, can be used in more situations. For example, the Samsung 7 inch Galaxy Tab tablet PC can be carried with you, but iPad is inconvenient in carrying. When the users sit in the yard, or go to Starbucks, iPad can well meet your needs. But in the process of moving, 7 inch flat panel computer is more convenient. The tablet can be packed in your pants or jacket pocket, but iPad can't. Smaller size also makes weight lighter.

Second, Outstanding 7 inch Tablet PC has already been available

Although 7 inch Galaxy Tab brings much convenience, there are still some disadvantages compared with iPad. However, some better 7 inch Tablet PCs have been available such as bookstore Nook tablet PC and Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet PC. The two products are very popular in this Christmas season. Portability is one of advantages, but more important is the lower price. These 7 inch flat panel computers sell for $199 to $249. Although these tablets can only provide 80% functions of iPad, the price occupies only 40% of it. Maybe Aplle will not throw away the market to Bookstore and Amazon manufactures.

Third, iPod Touch has been less attractive than ever

Some people think that since iPod Tough exists, there is no necessary for Apple to launch the smaller iPad, but this is just one of the reasons that Apple should launch the smaller iPad. As Apple communicates with more and more Operators, consumers are purchasing iPhone more, leading the iPod Touch sales gradually slide down. Some Android mobile phone users may purchase iPod Touch as a supplement, but iPhone users will not do so. Recently, the investment put into iPod Touch is less and less, among the product line update items only increases the white version. This suggests that, as one product line, iPod Touch is gradually towards the end.

Fourth, Price of the smaller iPad can be reduced to the level of iPod Touch

If Apple eventually gave up iPod Touch, it will be lack of products whose price is from 199 to 399 dollars. Apple can launch the small size iPad, whose price is $199, to compete with Kindle Fire. Similar to iPod Touch and the current iPad, the $199 iPad can be the product of WiFi version unrelated to operators, and with 3G module version, the price will be improved. To those consumers, who wish to obtain iPad experience and think price of $499 is too high, 199 to $399 products will meet their needs. Industry insiders guess that, the price of smaller size iPad may be associated with iPod Touch, while the larger storage capacity will have the higher price. Although the launch of small size iPad is appropriate, it does not mean that the current 10 inch iPad is not good. However, the small size iPad has a living space. The best opportunity for Apple to launch the small size iPad will be in September, 2012, the traditional iPod conference. This will help Apple develop better the next Christmas market.
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Microsoft releases SkyDrive App for Windows phone and iPhone

Microsoft's love affair with iOS isn't over yet. It was OneNote and a “real soon now” commitment on its Lync unified-communications client for the iPad this Monday. Microsoft also announced this week that its Kinectimals game is available for the iPad and iPhone. On December 13, Microsoft made yet another Apple-focused announcement: An iOS version of SkyDrive for iPhone.

Users of Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service now have another way to access and share their files – the newly released SkyDrive App for both Windows phone and iOS devices, which are intended to complement SkyDrive.com's existing mobile interface. "As devices proliferate, having a great experience on the Web is only one piece of a pretty complex puzzle," Microsoft's Mike Torres wrote. "People are choosing where to put their files based on how portable and accessible they are across the various devices they use, therefore, it's critical that we continue to extend the SkyDrive experience to the devices you use every day."

Microsoft's Mike Torres said: "Many still want the full SkyDrive experience from Windows phone, including tasks like browsing their entire SkyDrive, sharing links to folders or files, deleting files, and creating folders." The SkyDrive App allows you to view all of the files and folders in your SkyDrive and those that have been shared with you by others. You can view documents and pictures, create and delete folders, delete files, email links to files and folders (giving recipients either read-only or read-and-write permissions to the file), and download and upload pictures. Moving and renaming files and folders don’t appear to be possible on either platform, however. As a result, phones running Windows Phone 7.5 can now download the SkyDrive App from the Windows phone Marketplace and do just that. For those on iOS, the same app was also released in the App Store.

SkyDrive is a potential competitor in the mobile consumer space with Apple's iCloud, which is available for free with iOS 5. Microsoft's SkyDrive efforts appear to be part of its general market push into a world of connected devices that will increasingly be mobile. It also squares with the "three-screens and a cloud" vision laid out when Ray Ozzie was Microsoft's chief software architect. The idea is to synchronized data across devices. SkyDrive is already facilitating that, in part, by enabling single sign-on capabilities across devices.

Microsoft explained late last month that it has made sharing via SkyDrive more "app-centric." It already enables document collaborations via some of its Office Web Apps, although its "coauthoring" feature used with the Word Web App doesn't exactly work in real time. Other improvements made earlier this year to SkyDrive include simplifications to accessing folder directories and a speeded-up photo browsing experience, as well as the use of AJAX and HTML 5 technologies to improve the user experience. Microsoft has explained that some of the SkyDrive features it built earlier were just too complex, but it is listening to customer feedback and making improvements.

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Microsoft’s new OneNote and Lync apps for iPad, iPhone are coming

On December 12, Microsoft released the new OneNote app for iPad and an updated app for other iOS devices like iPhone, iPod touch, etc. Meanwhile, Microsoft made available its Lync 2010 client app for Windows Phone, and the new Lync clients for iPhone, iPad, Android and Nokia Symbian have been submitted to their respective mobile app marketplaces and will be available as soon as they have been approved.

"Since the launch of OneNote for iPhone nearly a year ago, a recurring request from our customers has been for a version that can be used more easily on the iPad's larger screen," Microsoft said in a blog post. "We're happy to announce that today's new release of OneNote for iOS devices includes a version that's tailored for the iPad." Microsoft updated the app with better navigation, table viewing and performance. More significantly, Microsoft released a whole new version that fills up the greater real estate on an iPad screen. Previously, iPad users would have to use a blown-up version of the iPhone OneNote app, which didn't look very appealing and wasn't optimized for a larger device.

OneNote notebooks are stored via Microsoft SkyDrive. "Your own cloud-based SkyDrive account lets you easily sync all of your notebooks across all of your devices, so they're always up-to-date and accessible from virtually anywhere—on your iPhone, your iPad, your Web browser, or your computer," Microsoft said. Today's 1.3 update provides support for the iPad and iPad 2. Other new features, which also apply to the iPhone, include: localization into several new languages and markets; tabbed user interface; quick note creation in the Unfiled Notes section; table rendering; improved Windows Live sign-in experience; the option to sync notebooks only over a Wi-Fi connection; and integrated upgrade option.

Lync, the Microsoft’s successor to Office Communications Server, is the Microsoft’s unified communications platform that the company launched a year ago. Lync provides enterprise instant-messaging, VOIP and conferencing. There is also a Microsoft-hosted version of Lync that is available as a standalone service and part of Office 365 that is known as Lync Online. According to the Microsoft, the new Lync mobile client allows instant messaging, call-related features and audio conferencing using a Lync ID, which is dependent on an organization having Lync 2010 Server installed. The mobile client must be provisioned by the Lync server administrator first, and that will enable users to download and begin using the various Lync 2010 mobile apps, a Microsoft unified communications team blog explained.

However, Apple devices must be running iOS 4.3 or higher to access OneNote 1.3, and users must sign up for a free Windows Live account. The app is free to download and users get up to 500 free notes. After that, it's $4.99 for unlimited use on the iPhone and $14.99 for unlimited use on the iPad. Meanwhile, if you were hoping for more official word today on some kind of Microsoft Office suite on the iPad, don’t hold your breath. Microsoft still are not commenting on rumors that Office for the iPad will be out — in some form — in 2012.

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Back-glances of iOS Development, iOS 1、2、3、4、5

On January 10, 2007, Steve Jobs demonstrated a new intelligent mobile phone---iPhone, as well as the iOS system, which has changed history.
At that time Windows Mobile、Palm OS、Symbian and BlackBerry OS were all active on the mobile stage.
The first generation of iPhone did not support 3G, didn't support the third-app, didn't support copy and paste text, didn't support multiple tasks, didn't support email attachments, didn't support MMS, Exchange, Office Editor and so on.
Now let us together make a five-year-review of iOS from the 2007 when iOS 1 and iPhone were born...

iOS 1

June, 2007---iOS 1.0---First generation of iPhone

Although it was not perfect, it brought much profound impact later

- The core of iOS user interface
- Mobile Safari browser
- A new form of " widescreen" iPod
- Google Map
- Visual voice mail
- ITunes synchronization
- Virtual keyboard

September, 2007 -- iOS 1.1 -- iPhone 1 / iPod touch 1

- iTunes Wi-Fi music store

- iPod touch compatible

January, 2008 -- iOS 1.1.3

- better positioning

- Set webpage shortcut icon on main screen

- Re-layout icon

- Multi point touch keyboard

iOS 2


iOS 2, from July, 2008, created a new era, i'm not wrong, just App Store.
At the beginning it took use of iTunes music users, and now becomes most popular program store, App Store created value for Apple and developers, and brought a full range of intelligent mobile phone experience.


July, 2008 -- iOS 2 -- iPhone 1, 3G; iPod touch 1

- local third party programs

- App Store

- Support Microsoft Exchange

- MobileMe

- Search contacts

September, 2008 -- iOS 2.1 -- iPhone 1, 3G iPod touch1, 2;

- Improve battery life and speed

- iTunes Genius playlist

- line repair

2008 November -- iOS 2.2 -- iPhone 1, 3G iPod touch1, 2;

- Google Street View

- Podcast Download

iOS 3

IOS 3.0 is an era when functions outbroke, iPhone began to support the 3G network, its lack of functions got a full complement, and added many local features, leting iPhone play more intelligently in life.

June, 2009 -- iOS 3 -- iPhone1, 3G, 3GS; iPod touch 1, 2

- cut, paste, copy

- Voice control

- MMS information

- Spotlight search

- push notification

- USB and Bluetooth connection

Lateral keyboard

- Find My iPhone

September, 2009 -- iOS 3.1 -- iPhone1, 3G, 3GS; iPod touch, 1, 2, 3

- Genius function

- ringtones download

- Remote locking

- Control through blue tooth speech

iOS 4


In June, 2010, the arrival of the iOS 4 brought more functions, Apple will always add the needs point by point to surprise us, for example the multi task switching, if lack this function now, will you hold on?

June, 2010 -- iOS 4 -- iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4; iPod touch 2, 3

- Multi task

- Folder

- FaceTime Contact

- Unified mail inbox

- Multi - thread message

- Retina HD display technology

- Support iAd advertising

iOS 5


Now iOS 5 is in front of your eyes, iPhone 4S Siri voice assistant, iMessage, notify the center and other new features that we are beginning to experience and the time is not so long, and iCloud cloud storage.
Do you feel the release conference is visible?

October, 2011 -- iOS 5 -- iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S iPad 1, 2; 3, 4; iPod touch

- Siri voice

- Notification Center

- free PC

- iTunes Wi-Fi synchronization

- iMessage

- iCloud

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Four Major Attractions of The Newly-Launched Aiseesoft DVD Creator.

Through continuous innovation and the day and night's hard work of Aiseesoft Studio's engineers, Aiseesoft Studio has released DVD Creator to welcome the coming Christmas.

Other thighs aside, this DVD Creator can burn videos to nearly all DVD+-R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-5(4.5G) and DVD-9(8.5GB) discs. And the created DVD-format disc could be played perfect on most portable and home DVD player.
This is a victory.

There are four major attractions in this program and after you have a try by yourself, maybe you will be astonished.

First Attraction, With it, you can easily preserve your favorite videos like AVI, MPEG, DivX, DV, VOB, WMV, MP4, M2TS, MTS, etc. to DVD-format disc, and also it allows users to burn video to DVD folder and ISO files, which can be stored in local disk.

Second Attraction, Compared with other DVD Movie Creators or DVD Burners, Aiseesoft DVD Creator is more personalized. With it, you can first edit the video effect, such as brightness, saturation, contrast, hue and volume and also you can cut off any video segment and crop the video frame, etc. Thus, you can make your DVD as you wish not like the DVDs in the market that you can only watch them.

Third Attraction, In addition to Edit the video sources effect, you can Customize the DVD menu. There are many beautiful menu templates for users to choose, and certainly, you can prefer that there is no menu in your DVD, if you like the simple template.
After you have chosen the menu template, you can also select the menu frame and button style. Also you can edit the menu text content and define its font, size and color.
Moreover, this software enables you to attach your own background picture/music and opening film to the DVD menu.

Fourth Attraction, This DVD Creator allows users to choose the audio track for the DVD. Besides of the exciting audio track, you can also add your own audio track or background music to the DVD.

You can choose a language to sign the audio track you preferred, adjust the volume, and choose audio encoder/bitrate/channels. If the audio track and the video scenes do not match, you can adjust the audio latency to make the audio track sync with the image of video.

Certainly there are many other creative functions waiting for your discovery.
Please have a try by yourself: http://www.aiseesoft.com/dvd-creator/

How to convert video to iPad 2

With Aiseesoft iPad 2 Video Converter, users can enjoy any video files on iPad 2 through converting it to iPad 2 compatible video and audio formats. This iPad 2 Video Converter is able to convert most popular video formats to iPad 2. Also this software owns powerful video editing functions to help users customize video effect.

Step 1: Download iPad 2 Video Converter and install it

You could download the latest version of this iPad 2 Video Converter by clicking here. You can double-click the installation package to install it. After running this software, you can see the interface like this:

Step 2: Input source video file

This iPad 2 Video Converter supports most popular video formats. You can input any video file by clicking the "Add File" button.

Step 3: Customize video effect

Aiseesoft iPad 2 Video Converter provides users with powerful video editing functions. With it, users can conveniently trim video length, crop video frame, modify video effect, etc. All these settings can be finished in the "Edit" interface.

Step 4: Choose audio track and subtitle

This iPad 2 Video Converter will list all audio tracks and subtitles available on the source video file. You can choose your preferred one for the output iPad 2 file.

Step 5: Choose profile

Aiseesoft iPad 2 Video Converter can convert video to iPad 2 MPEG-4 video, iPad 2 H.264 video and iPad 2 H.264 720p video for TV. You can choose any one according to your need. And you can do some further settings by clicking the "Settings" button.

Then you can press the "Convert" button to start converting video to iPad 2.

Inside Apple’s new flagship store in Grand Central Terminal, New York

Apple’s new flagship store, occupying 23,000 square feet, is one of the world's largest Apple stores, opening on Friday at Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal in New York. It is located in the heart of the historic terminal and convenient for commuters and tourists alike. Apple signed a 10-year lease with the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) for the space, once occupied by a restaurant. The store is so huge and owns a staff of 350, bringing the number of Apple's New York area employees to more than 4,000.

The company’s newest retail location will offer everything Apple customers are accustomed to -- a full product line, a “genius bar,” and personal training -- as well as a few amenities designed for time-strapped commuters, according to Bob Bridger, Apple’s vice president of retail real estate and development. “Whether you are on the train, in a taxi or walking to the store, when you arrive to the station, just pick it up,” You're greeted with an iconic glowing Apple, under which Apple's best-selling products are available right at the front of the store, meaning if you want an iPad, you can be in and out in a flash.

Besides, Macs and two Genius bars are located through the doors to the left and iPods, iPhones, iPads, and accessories are to the right. As you browse through products, you look out over the enormous hall, with the station's beautiful mural on the ceiling above you and various commuters below. The store seems to have been carefully crafted to fit in with the architecture of the building, which is no surprise since Apple has stores in historic spots all over the world, like underneath the Louvre and London's Covent Garden.

While many customers have been expressing frustration at difficulties with getting the attention of store employees to complete simple transactions, the new self-checkout avoids that situation entirely while freeing those staff members for more specialized consultation and training with other customers. Apple has reportedly noted that it envisions self-checkout and another system in which customers can pickup online orders in-store eventually being the primary ways in which customers make purchases from Apple retail stores. As an extra bonus to commuters, Apple is providing free Wi-Fi throughout the terminal. Also, the store will be the first to offer 15-minute Express Workshops of "tips and tricks in a streamlined format to serve customers on a tight schedule".

Like all of Apple's stores, the new digs are set up as a place of learning to explore Apple products along someone who can guide you in your purchases and get you up and running before you walk out of the store. The mega-brand is sure to get lots of foot-traffic, with the crowds passing through Grand Central each day and over 1,000,000 people during the holidays. And Demographics listed on Grand Central Station's website show that an average 7,500 people an hour pass the corner of 42nd and Vanderbilt Avenue, making it one of the busiest intersections in the city. Apple recently renovated the Fifth Avenue store and is in the process of expanding its SoHo location.

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Microsoft updates Xbox 360, adding more contents to enrich your life

Microsoft releases a new Xbox 360 dashboard update to all Xbox users in this week, and Xbox uses can enjoy much more contents apart from games. The Xbox console's various channels now headline the top of the screen, listing the familiar "games," "music" and "video" sections between the new Bing search feature and the console's settings page. A few of the channels have been renamed -- "My Xbox" is now "home" and a very Zune-esque "social" replaces "friends." Core content hasn't changed much, but the way you access it has, with yesterday's single-file tiles retired in favor of single page Metro layouts, packing more than twice as much information on screen as the previous Dashboard.

The contemporary update keeps the Metro, heavy on typography and flat squares and live tiles and swiping, the Metro lives in Xbox, Windows Phone 7 and the upcoming Windows 8, it's a fresh yet familiar take on UI. Metro looks so good and easy-to-use whether you already know how to use it or you've never used it before. With Metro on Xbox, Microsoft can elegantly pack more contents onto one screen. A horizontal menu details the various categories on your Xbox (Games, Video, Music, Apps, etc.) with each category getting its own hub organized neatly with independent tiles of content.

In addition, the Xbox companion application is powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. The search functionality allows you to search the entire Xbox Live catalog of TV shows, movies, music, games and apps on your Windows Phone device. Once you’ve searched a title, you can find out more information about it, and launch it on your Xbox from your handset, controlling it with the usual play, pause, rewind and fast forward functions we’re all used to. By bundling all digital subscriptions and content through the Xbox 360, Microsoft wants to make sure your gaming console is at the heart of your entertainment center. Xbox Live subscribers and subscribers of these digital services won't have access to much in the way of new content, but it will all be centralized in one location. Microsoft has also baked in deeper voice control of the console for consumers using its Kinect sensor. The Kinect is better known as motion-controller that gives gamers the ability to use gestures to play games. But Kinect also has a microphone array in it. When Kinect debuted last year, gamers could use their voice for some limited voice-controlled navigation.

In a word, the move is part of a growing effort by media companies to bring some 21st-century pizzazz to the experience of navigating and watching television, a medium that is largely watched using traditional remote controls and set-top boxes that have changed little in the past 10 years. Xboxes are already 57 million households worldwide, so the decision to update such a gigantic installed base is a shrewd move on Microsoft’s part. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen whether the Xbox can juice the Windows Phone platform, which could use a serious boost in adoption.

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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said: “Android has been leading Apple iPhone”.

Google Cairman Eric Schmidt said today, in intelligent mobile phone market, Android has already been ahead of the Apple iPhone.

Google Cairman Eric Schmidt

Today Schmidt at the LeWeb meeting in Paris said: "Android is now ahead of the iPhone." After Schmidt published the speech, that room is filled with the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Having heard Schmidt's remark, the audience suddenly fell into silent for a moment. Maybe they doubt on Schmidt's speech.
Schmidt then gives his own criteria:" huge volume, high performance Android 4.0, lower price, as well as many mobile phone manufacturers’ support."

Industry insiders said, in the intelligent mobile phone market, Android is developing rapidly. But compared with Apple iOS, the obvious disadvantage is Android has not become the preferred platform for developers. Notebook application developer Evernote today only released a new application Hello for iPhone.

Social News reader Flipboard has already launched iPhone application. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue said:" We have been concerned about the iPhone. As with the Android version, we are still waiting."

Schmidt believed that, with the Android 4.0 and huge volume, Android will win. Schmidt said: "in the end, application developers will be affected by the volume, and Google's open strategy will promote the shipment growth. So many manufacturers promote Android mobile phones to the world, whether they like it or not, people will support this platform, even considering it as the preferred platform."

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How to Rip DVD to iPad 2 on Mac?

For Mac users, if you want to enjoy DVD movie on the iPad 2, you must need the help of DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac. This Mac DVD to iPad 2 Converter can help users rip/convert any DVD to MP4, H.264 , etc. videos supported by iPad 2. And this DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac also possesses powerful video editing functions to customize output video effect.

Step 1: Download and install Mac DVD to iPad 2 Converter

You can download the .dmg installation file from our website and install it on your Mac. After running it, you can see the interface as below.



Step 2: Choose audio track and subtitle

If the DVD movie contains several audio tracks and subtitles, you could choose your preferred one among them for the output video file.

Step 3: Edit video effect

Aiseesoft DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac owns strong video editing functions. You can click the "Effect", "Trim", or "Crop" button to enter the "Edit" interface. There you can trim video length, crop video playing area, watermarking video and adjusting video brightness, saturation and contrast.

Step 4: Profile and further settings

You can choose the output video format that you need from the drop-down "Profile" list. And you can also do some further settings, such as setting Video Encoder, Frame Rate, Video Bitrate, Resolution, Audio Encoder, Sample Rate, Channels, etc., by clicking the "Settings" button.

Step 5: Start ripping DVD to iPad 2

The last step you need to do is to press the "Convert" button. And this DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac can finish the process of ripping DVD to iPad 2 on Mac.

Google Maps 6.0 for Android move into Malls and Airports

Google upgrades Maps version to 6.0 for Android, which lets Smartphone and Tablet users in the United States and Japan know where they are and what places they might want to check out while they are indoors.

Google Maps, the online location application, can help people navigate streets, landmarks, parks, and other outside locations all over the world, but Google's new updated maps application for Android will help you get around inside, too. "When you're inside an airport, shopping mall, or retail store, a common way to figure out where you are is to look for a freestanding map directory or ask an employee for help," Brian McClendon, Google's president of Engineering for Google Earth and Maps, wrote in a blog post. "Starting today, with the release of Google Maps 6.0 for Android, that directory is brought to the palm of your hands, helping you determine where you are, what floor you're on, and where to go indoors."

Google Maps 6.0 for Android will display detailed location when a user is looking at a map on the application and zooms on a building. Users’ approximate locations will be indicated with a blue dot icon within several meters. The newly added indoor maps don't quite offer the turn-by-turn navigation you've come to know and depend upon (that's outside-only for now), but the provided layouts should help usher you along to the nearest bathroom, clothing shop or elevator. There's no fancy equipment at use, either. All of your positioning information is culled from the same set of data (including GPS) used for "My Location," although here it's been optimized to detect movement along the z-axis. That’s to say, try a nifty feature called "Automatic Floor Detection" that'll keep track of your progress as you move about from escalator to escalator.

Indoor Maps was added to version 6.0 of the Google Maps application for Android, works with Android 2.2 or higher, and will presumably be added to additional mobile platforms in the future. Will Google Indoor Maps work on desktop Web browsers? Answer is that the new indoor maps feature of Google Maps is only available on Android mobile devices at this time. Microsoft, by the way, already has indoor mapping of major malls for Windows Phone and indoor mapping of airports and malls for the desktop.

Google has endeavoring to extend its indoor reach, opening up its mapping inventory with a self-service tool (currently in beta) that'll allow business owners to upload floor plans directly to Maps. Airports in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, and Tokyo are among the first to receive the indoor mapping treatment, joined by the Mall of America in Minnesota, certain locations of IKEA, Home Depot, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and others. While Google worked with these businesses to ensure a certain level of precision, the search company also set up a do-it-yourself site for other business owners to upload floor plans, blueprints, and directories and line them up with satellite images.

How to create iPhone ringtone with Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker

You bought an iPhone and love all its features, but wish you didn't have to pay for your songs twice to get a ringtone. (We know that iPhone, iPhone 3G Ringtones use the file extension .M4R. And the users must pay $2 for a piece of song through Apple iTunes store). There are plenty of songs in your music library, but no way to make ringtones from any of them. Rihgt?

Actually, with a little bit of trickery (nothing illegal) you can create ringtones from any one of your non-DRM songs.

This works on both Mac and Windows PCs.

Window Users
You can create free iPhone Ringtones by yourself with Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker.

You can take the following step-by-step instructions to start.

Step 0: Download and install Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker. After a short while, you can see the following interface:



Step 1: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Input File" to import the file that you want to make ringtone from it.
Step 2: Play it and listen the music to find the segment that you want to use it as ringtone. Then drag and click the start & end slider to set your wanted segment, or type the start & end time in the corresponding text box directly to get the exact segment. You also can pre-listen the converted audio before generate.
Step 3: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Local Output Folder" to choose the output destination.
Step 4: Check "Export to iPhone" option, the converted ringtone will be load to your iPhone directly.
Step 5: After all the settings are finished, click “Generate” to begin making your own iPhone ringtone.

Key function
● Convert any video to iPhone ringtone M4R
● Create iPhone ringtone from any audio files
● Get any clips from video and audio
● Edit Added iPhone ringtones
Using Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker, you are free to edit the added iPhone ringtone by removing it or renaming it directly.

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Aiseesoft iPad Software Pack for Mac Gets New Update

Aiseesoft, a top-ranking Windows and Mac DVD/video converting software provider, brings a major update to Aiseesoft iPad Software Pack for Mac, which is a versatile and wonderful iPad assistant application designed for Mac users. The updated Mac iPad Software Pack is re-developed with the Qt development framework, and it has a brand-new and intuitive interface. So customers can conveniently do any operation on this amazing software.

Aiseesoft iPad Software Pack for Mac is packed with four applications- iPad Video Converter for Mac, DVD to iPad Converter for Mac, iPad Manager for Mac, and iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac. With this all-in-one software, users can rip DVD and convert all popular video files (3GP, AVI, FLV, MOD, MPEG, MKV, RM, TS, WMV, etc.) to iPad compatible video/audio formats on Mac. And it also possesses powerful video editing features, such as trimming video, cropping video frame, watermarking video, adjusting video effect, and so on.

Also this Mac iPad Software Pack can assist users to export iPad files to Mac and import files from Mac to iPad. And it can help users create unique iPhone ringtones with any source video/audio file. This software supports all versions of iPad, iPhone and iPod devices.

Plus, for iPhone 4S users, Aiseesoft has specially updated the DVD Ripper for Mac, which can rip/convert any DVD to popular video files on Mac, to support the new iPhone 4S.

System Requirements
OS Supported: Mac OS X v10.4 – v10.7
Hardware Requirements: 512MB RAM, Super VGA (800×600) resolution, 16-bit graphics card or higher.

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As a professional multimedia software provider, Aiseesoft Studio is dedicated to developing the best multimedia desktop applications to help the Windows and Mac users smoothly convert, edit and transfer various video/audio files. In order to meet users' various requirements, Aiseesoft Studio constantly brings in new ideas, technologies, etc.

Tips on iOS AssistiveTouch

As an old Apple fan, I always plan to share my experience on iOS tips. Every time I try to conclude tips on iOS, there will be a big upgrade of iOS and many features are changing after upgrade. Today I will introduce the AssistiveTouch on iOS to you and hope you like it.

Actually, iOS provides assistivetouch long time ago, but as the old version of it is really difficult to use and not many iOS users know it very well. However, after the new iOS release, it also brings us a brand new AssistiveTouch to users. It becomes a perfect instead of the Home button and makes the Home button has a long life. Today I will introduce you how to use the AssistiveTouch

It is first introduced into iOS as an assistant for people with disabilities. Nowadays, after the update it becomes an important role to protect the Home button and it makes some operation much easier.

Firstly, we need to find how to set the AssistiveTouch. Go to "Settings" and enter "General" and find "AssistiveTouch" option. Open it and you will find a round picture, yeah right, it is the "AssistiveTouch". Click the icon and you will find that it includes 4 parts. Each part represents the functions corresponding. It is really easy to understand.

The next part is "Gesture", click "Gestures" and you will see 2, 3, 4, 5 four different gestures. Those gestures represent many troublesome operations. For example, if you have an iPad 2 and you need to use 4 fingers slide from down to up to come to the Task Manager Menu. But if you click AssistiveTouch's 4 and you just need one finger to finish the operation. Just imagine that if you are really busy or it is really cold outside, use one finger is much better to use four.

AssistiveTouch's last important function is "Favorites". To use this function you need to create a gesture and you can use it. In the AssistiveTouch interface, you will find the "Create new Gesture" option. Click it and you can create your own gestures easily. The gestures you created will be found in the "Favorite" option. For example, you have set a gesture for the game "Fruit Ninja". You can easily open the game without find it on your iPad 2 from different apps.

After you set your own gestures you can easily find and open any files and apps. It is really shorten our operation. There is a lot of such features in iOS 5 and AssistiveTouch is only one of them. Hope you also share you own tips on how to easily enjoy our iOS devices and share them with me.

Jim Clark is the author of this article on iPad Converter. Find more information about iPad Video Converter here.

Convert AVCHD File to iPad 2

People are really excited that iPad 2 supports HD videos, however, iPad 2 users have to convert their HD video from their Sony and other camcorders before they put them on their iPad 2 to watch. Aiseesoft iPad 2 Video Converter is released for iPad 2 users to solve this problem. It can help people convert avchd to iPad 2 easily and fast. It provides both iPad 2 standard video output and high definition output.

Step 1. Add Video

Click "Add File" to find the video you want to convert and load it into AVCHD to iPad 2 Converter.

Step 2. Choose Output Video Format

Choose HD format for iPad 2 and specify your destination folder for output videos.

Follow: "Profile"> "iPad" > "iPad 2 H.264 720p Video(*.mp4)" to convert AVCHD files into HD MP4 format for iPad 2.

Step 3. Move the interlace from your AVCHD footage.

Click "Effect" and check "Deinterlacing"

Step 4. Convert

Click "Convert" to begin the conversion