Microsoft will open Windows store for Metro-style Windows 8 App in February

Microsoft on Tuesday brought its Windows 8 road show to San Francisco, where the company previewed its upcoming Windows Store for app developers and media. They will open the online marketplace for Metro-style Windows 8 application in late February 2012. The key ingredients of the Windows Store are easy app discovery from within and without the online marketplace, built-in app trials with quick upgrade paths, support for both x86 and ARM-based hardware, and a flexible business model, Microsoft's Antoine Leblond said.

With Apple's Mac App Store and iTunes Store already operational and selling both computer and tablet applications, Microsoft is keen to highlight the differences and promises to make an application store that was more flexible, more transparent, and ultimately more lucrative for developers than Apple's. The Windows Store will make it easy for Windows customers to find, try and buy useful, high-quality apps from practically anywhere in the world. With code-named "Windows 8" and the Windows Store, developers can enjoy a built-in distribution and update mechanism for their apps. Built using HTML5 and JavaScript, the Windows Store is a fast, fluid, full-screen Metro-style app taking advantage of the Metro-style design principles inspired in Windows 8. Easy to build for, submit to and sell through, the Windows Store is designed with app discoverability and visibility in mind. The Windows Store will open its virtual doors to consumers and begin allowing for submission of free apps for Windows 8 Beta in late February next year.

The Windows Store will support both free and paid applications, with paid applications ranging from $1.49 to $999. As with Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace, developers can offer free trials, with integrated support for converting trials to full versions. Microsoft will provide its own advertising and in-app purchase infrastructure, but these will be strictly optional, if a developer wants to use a different ad network, or its own subscription and billing system, that's not a problem. With a standard validation process that developers can use even before they make their submission and an online tracker that tells them which phase their application is in and how long they can expect the process to take. But money is, for many developers, the most important feature of any online store. The Windows Store will take a 30 percent cut of application sales, just like Apple's store.

The Windows Store follows the path of Apple's Mac App Store, a software marketplace that's built into Mac OS X. That's provided a way for customers to quickly download both free and paid applications for their computers. Microsoft will offer the app marketplace around the world. Leblond said it will support more than 100 languages in 231 different markets. With the dominant operating system software as a lure, the Windows Store could evolve into a meaningful revenue generator for the company, which rang up just shy of $70 billion in the last fiscal year.

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DVD to iPad Converter -- Make your iPad a Portable DVD Player

DVDs have completely revolutionized the way we watch movies. The days of VHS tapes causing the top of the screen to curl and bend are long gone. We finally have a high quality format which satisfies even the most hardcore entertainment enthusiast. Now, Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter is also changing the way that we use iPad -- it makes our iPad like a portable DVD player.

Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter, as the name implies, is a tool to rip and convert DVD files to iPad. Exactly speaking, this Best DVD to iPad Converter can help you convert DVD to iPad and other mainstream video formats, such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, RM, MOV, 3GP, 3GP2, MP4, H.264, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, HD H.264, HD DivX, HD WMV, HD XviD, etc. In addition, it can also extract audio from DVD and convert it to your iPad.

For Mac users, Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter for Mac is a good assistant. It provides iPad fans an all-in-one solution to convert DVD movies to iPad compatible formats and other mainstream video/audio formats, including MPEG-4, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MOV, M4V, MP3, M4A etc. To meet more Mac users' needs, this best Mac DVD to iPad Converter is perfectly compatible with Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger, Snow Leopard and even the latest OS X Lion.

What's more, Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter software allows Windows and Mac users to create personalized video effects. You can rip DVD to iPad with different resolution, select subtitle and audio track, trim DVD clips, crop video size, add text/ image watermarks on video and so forth.

Freely download Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter and use your iPad as a Portable DVD Player right now!

Price and Availability

iPad Converter Suite is now priced at $29.00

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

How to Enjoy Your Favorite Videos on Portable Devices at Will For Mac Users

Are you a Mac user?
Do you still feel frustrated that you can’t enjoy your favorite videos on portable devices at will?
Now, a professional software—Aiseesoft
Video Converter for Mac
can help you to solve all the problems. With it, you can convert between all popular video and audio formats with super fast conversion speed and high output quality, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB Video, MP3, AAC, and AC3 Audio etc. In addition, the best video converter for Mac can also extract audio from video file and convert video to MP3, AC3, and AAC…as you want.

OK, let’s move to how to use the amazing software.

Step 0: Download and install Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac.
After a while, you can use the following interface:


Step 2. Load Video
You can load your video by clicking “Add File” button or clicking “File” button, you can choose “add file” on a drop-down list.

Step 3. Output format and Settings
From the “Profile” drop-down list you can find one format that meets your requirement.

After doing the 3 steps above, you can click “start” button to start conversion.
Wait a minute, the conversion will be soon finished.

Tips:
1. Trim
"Trim" function is for you to select the clips you want to convert.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons(1) 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(2) when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time on the right side of the pop-up window.
It is for you to select the clips you want to convert.

2. Crop
Cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen using the "Crop" function.
There are 3 ways that you can crop your video.
a. We provide 7 modes on our “Crop Mode”(1)
b. You can set your own mode on the right side of the pop-up window(2)
c. You can drag frame to set your own crop mode(3)
You can cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen using the "Crop" function.

3. Snapshot and merge into one file
If you like the current image of the video you can use the “Snapshot” option. Just click the “Snapshot” button the image will be saved and you can click the “Open” button next to “Snapshot” button to open your picture.
If you want to make several files output as one you can choose “Merge into one file”.

If you are windows users, you can go to Aiseesoft Total Video Converter to get more information.

How to Make iPhone Ringtone, Put DVD/Video to Your iPhone and Backup iPhone Files

Since first released on January 9, 2007, iPhone become more and more popular for its mutiple functions: as a portable media player (equivalent to an iPod), a camera phone (including text messaging and visual voicemail), and an Internet client (with email, web browsing and local Wi-Fi connectivity).
Here, I’ll tell you how to enjoy your iphone fully, such as, how to create your favorite iPhone Ringtone, how to enjoy DVD, videos on your iphone, and how to backup things from your iphone to pc.
The guide includes four parts.
Part One: How to create free iPhone Ringtones by yourself?
Part Two: How to enjoy DVD movies on your iPhone?
Part Three: How to enjoy videos on your iPhone?
Part Four: How to transfer music from one iPhone to another iPhone, iPhone to PC, PC to iPhone?

Part One: How to create free iPhone Ringtones by yourself?
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. While now, 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.

Part Two: How to enjoy DVD movies on your iPhone?
We all know DVD can’t be put on iPhone directly. We need to transfer DVD to iPhone supported format first. Aiseesoft DVD to iPhone Converter can convert DVD to MP4, MOV, H.264, MP3, M4A, formats for iPhone, iPhone (3G), iPod, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, Apple TV easily and fast.

Step 0: Download and install Aiseesoft DVD to iPhone Converter.

Step 1: Import DVD
Place the DVD into your DVD drive and click the “Load DVD” button to load DVD.
Step 2: Video settings
Select the output video format you need from the “Profile” drop-down list. Click “Settings” button to set your video and audio parameters.
Step 3: Start Conversion
Click “Start” button to start your conversion and it will be finished in a short while.

Tips:
1. "Trim" function is for you to select the clips you want to convert.
2. Click "Effect" to make special effect for your movie.
You can adjust Brightness, Contract, and Saturation of the movie, etc.
3. Cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen on your iPod using the "Crop" function.
4. This software allows you to join several DVD chapters into one clips by using "Merge into one file".

Part Three: How to enjoy videos on your iPhone?
Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter offers a powerful and easy way to convert almost any video files such as MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, VOB, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, MKV, TS, MPV, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, MPV, MOD, TOD to iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPod Touch/iPod Classic/iPod Nano MP4 and H.264 video formats with high speed and excellent image/sound quality.

Step 0: Download and install Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter.

Step 1: Click the "Add Files" button and add the video files you want to convert to the program.
Step 2: Set output video format
Click "Profile" button to select the output format for your video. You can click the "Settings" button to to set parameters of your output video such as Frame Rate, Resolution and Video Bitrate, etc.
Step 3: Click the “Start” button.
If you want to your own conversion path, you could click “Browse” button to specify a location on your computer to save the converted movie. If you want to open the output folder, you can just click “Open”.
Tips
Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter also has functions of Trim, Crop, Snapshot and merge into one file.

Part Four: How to transfer music from one iPhone to another iPhone, iPhone to PC, PC to iPhone?
Apple has make it difficult to copy or transfer the songs, music, audio, videos and files that stored on iPhone to iPhone, or transfer the computer files to iPhone, as well as from iPhone to computer for the protected copyrights on iPhone videos, music. But sometimes we reaaly need them.
Now Aiseesoft Studio provides you a full solution for iPhone (3G) - Aiseesoft iPhone Transfer, which can meet all your needs.
Download and install Aiseesoft iPhone Transfer.

One usage: Copy video and audio files or folders from Computer to iPhone
Step 1: After Running the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Click “Button 1” to seek the files or folders that you want to import to iPod and click OK. The process of importing will be finished instantly.

Two usage: Copy your iPod/iPhone files to your computer.
Step 1: After Running the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Open the library/playlist that you want to export files, and then check the file(s) you want to export in the file list.
Step 3: Click “Button 2” to select the destination of the exporting files and start exporting files.Otherwise, you could also choose the Export to local option from the Actions menu, and then export the files from your iPod/iPhone to actual device.
Tip: Click “Button 4” to use "Track Filter" function to help you quickly browse your library by genre, artist and album.

Three usage: Transfer files from one iPod/iPhone to another iPod/iPhone
Step 1: After Running the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Open the library/playlist that you want to export files. Pick the files that you need to transfer.
Step 3: Click “Button 3”, it will show you the folder of another iPod that you want to transfer to. Click OK. The transfer can be finished automatically.

And if you want to enjoy both DVDs and videos on your iphone, you can have a look Aiseesoft DVD to iPhone Suite.

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

The Competition of Indoor Navigation

I believe most of you have the same experience that I have. When you fist step in a new building, airport or school, you will feel loss and do not know what to do first and where to go. For example, you are in a hospital. It is difficult for you to find the place you want to go. Many hospital use a not that effective way to solve this problem, of course, it does not work at most of the time. They just set different kinds of sign post or just use different colors to guide people. However, now we have a really nice way to solve this problem, using intelligent map system in mobile phone. It makes it's easy to find some places in a building and other indoor places.

In the latest Android map, it includes US IKEA and Macy's and other 18 airport's detailed layout. Almost at the same time, Nokia announced they will release indoor map suing Bluetooth 4.0. Although use two totally different technology, we can smell that the war of indoor map is already begin.

For a long time, Bluetooth has a poor reputation. It maybe because that the headphone looks not like a human or something else. It makes people feel weird. However, Bluetooth is actually a really nice technology: powerful, simple, cheap. And it will be much more smart after the release of Bluetooth 4.0. Nokia's Location Extension Protocol uses the connection of locator transmitter on the ceiling and Bluetooth 4.0. And triangulation method that is similar to GPS. Through this way, your mobile phone can find the place you want to go accurately. It is said that the degree of precision is less than 8 inches.

Nokia has spent over one billion euros and hope this breakthrough technology will bring superority in the competiton of indoor map. They have also discovered the different application of this tech, from game to indoor navigation. Nokia is now trying their best to persuade Bluetooth SIG to make one uniform standard and hope this kind of mobile phone can come out into market in 2013.

Just like that if there is no specific map, GPS can not work, the indoor navigation system can not work without a detailed architectural and structural drawings. Now Google allows uses to upload or add architectural and structural drawings to Google Maps as they do the same to SketchUp. This is a simple process, users just need upload the picture of the floor's layout and then connect with satellite images of Google Maps. Through this way, Google not only gets many users' support, uploading indoor maps data day and night, they also uses the data for other users, such as services based on location and ads based on location.

What I have said above is not considering the crime, privacy and other safe question. People are now really sensitive to Google Street View. I believe this kind of indoor map data will bring bigger controversy. In conclusion, we need indoor navigation when we are in a strange building to find places fast. However, we need to use it carefully. Hope Google and Nokia will solve these problems and provide us indoor navigation one day.

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How to Put DVD/Video on iPod, PSP, Computer, Zune, Xbox (Mac/Windows)

Many Mac users have iPod, PSP and other portable devices, but they can only enjoy songs and videos from iTunes or buy them from internet, because there is seldom nice Mac DVD and Video covnerter for iPod, PSP and other devices. Today I will introduce you an excellent DVD/Video converter for Mac: Aiseesoft DVD Converter for Mac It allows you to put your own DVDs and you own videos on your iPod, PSP, Mac Computer and other players on Mac.

This article aims to show you how to put your DVDs and videos on your iPod, PSP, Computer, Zune, Xbox and other players for Mac users.

Part 1. Convert DVD for Mac with Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac

Step 1. 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 2. 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.

If you are very professional with your player, you can also set your output parameter values such as Resolution, Frame Rate, Bitrate and Sample Rate and so on.

Tips:
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).DVD Ripper for Mac also allows you to choose the output aspect ratio above the crop panel, “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”.

Click “Start” to begin your conversion.

Part 2. Convert videos for Mac with AiseesoftVideo Converter for Mac

Step 1. Choose “Video Converter for Mac” on the main interface.


Step 2. Add video
Click “Add File” to load your video that you want to put.
Step 3. Choose output profile and settings.
You can choose your output format from the drop down list and you can set the exact values of your output videos, such as Resolution, Frame Rate and so on.

You can do the video editing as the same way of convert DVDs.
After getting your satisfying video, then click “Start” button to start your conversion.

If you are a window user, Aiseesoft DVD Converter is your best choice.
It is the perfect combination of Aiseesoft DVD Ripper, Aiseesoft Total Video Converter and Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer. With this powerful DVD Converter Suite, you can easily convert DVD and video to all the popular formats: MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc
And transfer your iPod songs and videos to your computer easily.