DVD and CD Burning Software Monday, 28 September 2009
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If you need free software to burn your CDs/DVDs with your products and soft copies of your work, you may use
- Burn for Mac OS X or
- CDBurnerXP for Windows (works on Windows XP, Vista, etc.)
GarageBand-like applications for Windows Wednesday, 15 July 2009
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Quite a common question, especially after using GarageBand (included with iLife, from Apple) — Windows users would like something similar that they could use at home.
Fortunately, there are alternatives such as:
- Acid Xpress (free, but you also have to download loops to make it work)
- Music Maker (trials) — (classic & premium) by Magix
- and Acid Pro by Sony (trial)
My advice: Magix Music Maker. Yes, it’s not free, but I find it worth the money. Cheaper than getting a Mac.
Windows Movie Maker Wednesday, 11 February 2009
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Please visit the following web pages if you need tutorials on Windows Movie Maker:
or
Free Video Editor Wednesday, 11 February 2009
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If you need video editing software alternatives to replace Windows Movie Maker, try
- VideoSpin (Freeware)
or
- Adobe Premiere Elements You need to register (registration is free) in order to download the time-limited trial at http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/
Video DownloadHelper Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Posted by Delta in miscellaneous, tech support.Tags: add-on, convert, download, firefox, free, software, video
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Please try this Firefox add-on if you need to download and convert online videos.
More information and download instructions:
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
- http://www.downloadhelper.net/install-converter.php
I would recommend you to convert your files to MPEG format, in case you’re confused by the large amount of options offered.
Also, you may want to check the resources shared in this previous post.
“Older” Apple iMovie Thursday, 20 November 2008
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If you’ve got a new Apple Mac computer that came with iLife ‘08, you may have been frustrated with the new iMovie.
At school we have both iMovie 08 and HD 6, so if you have a Mac at home and want to get iMovie HD 6, just head to this webpage to download it. It’s free for iLife 08 users.
Desktop Publishing Software Monday, 10 November 2008
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For those of you considering creating a brochure, booklet, leaflet, or any form of printed (paper) product, you may consider the following software applications:
- PagePlus SE / v9.0 (Windows – there is a free [PagePlus SE] and a low-priced edition [v9.0], which can also be found at some computer stores in Singapore)
- Scribus (Free, Open Source, cross [multi] platform)
- Pageplus X3 (Windows only, professional,
- Adobe Indesign (Win & Mac, professional, trial may be available)
- Microsoft Publisher (Windows only, professional, trial available)
- Apple Pages (Mac only, user-friendly, trial available as part of iWork)
- Quark Express 8 (Windows & Mac, professional, 60 day ‘test drive’ available)
Screencasting with Jing Sunday, 26 October 2008
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jing logo screenshot
The best free software to capture screenshots (static pictures or “photos” of your computer screen) or screencasts (short video clips of what you are doing in your computer screen) is Jing. Techsmith has better paid alternatives (Snagit, Camtasia Studio), but then again, they’re not as cheap as free.
Jing comes in Mac OS X and Windows flavours, is a free download, and you can find lots of information (FAQs) and tutorials on how to use it at the developers’ blog.
In our case, I recommend you to save the captures as files to your Local storage to be later embedded into a webpage.
Many of you have commented on not being able to edit Jing’s SWF videos.
If you want a more powerful application, the “professional”, alternatives to Jing are Adobe Captivate and Camtasia Studio. Both have trial versions that you may want to use. Windows only. These two are not free, obviously.
Enjoy!
Back up your iPod Sunday, 26 October 2008
Posted by Delta in tech support.Tags: backup, copy, free, iphone, ipod, software
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This article is the answer to a question I’ve been asked many times: How to copy music from an iPod to a computer?
Hope you find it useful.
For those of you who don’t read articles (or simply don’t have the time to do so), here are the links (for all iPods, except the iPod touch/iPhone) to free software that will allow you to backup the music library from your iPod:
- Recommended application for Linux
- Cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) application
- Recommended application for Mac OS X only
If you have a newer iPod (touch) or iPhone, you’ll have to read the article, sorry.
