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Video Converters for Windows and Mac

September 29, 2011 – 4:21 pm

Windows

When it comes to video conversion Freemake does it right. Freemake Video Converter is probably the best video converter I’ve ever used. It supports batch processing and has a beautiful and intuitive user interface. You’ll takes less time to learn how to use it then it is to download and install it. Freemake’s software are so professionally designed you’ll have difficulty believing it’s really free.

Mac OS X

Since I shoot with a Canon Digital IXUS 100 IS and videos are saved in .MOV format, I don’t usually need a video converter when I’m working on a Mac with iMovie. Sadly though I haven’t been able to find a video converter that I’ve been satisfied with. The cross-platform HandBrake is one option, but it only converts videos to .MP4, .M4V and .MKV formats. The best I’ve used so far is the Kigo Video Converter Free for Mac (also available for Windows PCs)

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Amazon Unveils Four New Kindle Devices

September 28, 2011 – 11:21 pm

I was already aware that Amazon was going to unveil a new 7-inch Kindle tablet and since I am of the opinion that another Android-powered, LCD screen tablet is just not what consumers want from Amazon, I was not too bothered about this new product and decided to purchase the Kindle 3G earlier this month. Wrong move.

Amazon Kindle

Today Amazon outdid themselves by unveiling the tablet they call Kindle Fire and three new e-ink readers. There’s the Kindle touch 3G priced at $149, Kindle touch at $99 and bare-bones Kindle at a jaw dropping $79. Kindle Fire retails at $199 and they are all expected to be in stores later today. Perhaps I should have waited.

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Google Developer Day and DevFest 2011

September 27, 2011 – 12:56 pm

Google I/O is the search giant’s biggest event held each year to announce their latest developments on HTML5, Android, Chrome, Cloud and other projects. Google realised, of course, that not everyone is able to fly down to San Francisco to catch the event, so they organised several smaller events called Google Developer Day across the world and on the same breathe that was how Google DevFest came to be. Google I/O is usually held in the middle of the year while the Google Developer Day and DevFest events are held later in the year.

DevFest will come to Singapore in November. Registration, sessions and event details are not out yet, but I will update this post again when more information becomes available. Our Malaysian counterparts will have theirs this Thursday. Registration is open. They’ll be covering topics on the latest developments in Android, HTML5, Google Analytics and something new called Google Fusion Tables. Learn more from the event’s session abstracts.

As always, keep up-to-date on Twitter with the hashtags #gdd11 and #devfest. Oh, and one more thing, if you haven’t already seen the Google Developer Day website, I highly recommend that you do. It’s a superb example of what HTML5 can do.

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Microsoft Tech Days In Singapore

September 26, 2011 – 11:12 am

Microsoft Tech Days will be held in Singapore this 13 & 14 October 2011 at the Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Centre.

The two-day event will cover topics on HTML5, Cloud Computing, Visual Studios, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Office 365 and many others. You can sign up before 30 September 2011 and pay only S$69 (thereafter S$99) – be sure to apply the discount code DEV0100.

You can follow the latest on Twitter from Microsoft Singapore and their event hashtag #SGTECHDAYS.

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Tilt Shift Photographs In Photoshop

September 25, 2011 – 11:30 pm

Here’s a video tutorial on how to make a photograph look like it’s been taken with a tilt-shift lens in Photoshop. More great tutorials can be found at PhotoGuides.net.

A tilt-shift lens can give photographs a miniature-like appearance. When we look at an object at a distance it and all other objects will appear in focus, however, if we focus on an object that is in the foreground it will appear in focus while the background will appear out of focus. This is our brain’s way of distinguishing the relative distance of objects – those that are nearer will be in focus while those at a distance will appear out of focus relative to the foreground that is in focus. To learn more about how tilt-shift lenses work, watch the video below.

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