There have been several media converters that we have talked about in the past on VirginTech. Pretty much similar or probably better than them is an iMedia converter from iSkysoft. Its a media converter, having different versions for both Windows and Mac OS, that allows media format conversion in addition to many other useful features:

Features of iSkysoft’s iMedia Converter:

A full licensed version of iMedia converter have the following features:

• DVD ripping to various available media formats.
• Sometimes digital content have some restrictions (DRM) in the form of their access prevention,  conversion to other formats and their copying restriction. iMedia converter can eliminate these restrictions.
• Video conversion to number of different media formats such as MP4, MP4 AVC, M4V, AVI, WMV, MOV,etc. and HD videos like HD MKV, HD WMV, AVCHD(MTS, M2TS), etc. These different of output media formats enables you to have all your video content on your mobile devices like iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch 4, iPod nano, Apple TV, PSP, Android phones and more.
• Audio extraction from DVD and videos which can be saved in formats like WMA, MP3, AAC etc. Also the snapshots in the video can be saved in the JPEG image format.
• It includes several settings for video customization such as changing resolution, frame rate, bit rate etc.
• Picture or text watermarks can be inserted in the video for the purpose of branding or video protection.

iMedia converter for Windows, comprising of all the above mentioned features, sells for $49. But luckily six of you can win the lifetime iMedia converter license completely free. All you need to do for winning a free lifetime license  is to follow the two simple steps given below.

Step 1] Comment with a working email address (you will contacted through this email on winning a license ) telling us how would you use iMedia Converter?

Step 2] Share this post either on Facebook Or Twitter. Post sharing widgets are available at the end of this post. (This step is not mandatory)

Winners of this Giveaway contest will be announced on Friday, 1st July, 2011 and 6 winners will be selected solely on the basis of their response to a question asked in step 1. Please make sure you type in your correct email address while commenting on this post because you will be sent the license keys via email.

UPDATE: Many thanks to all of you for participating. On the basis of the criteria that we mentioned above, here are the names of the winners that we have choosen.

1: mit thakkar

2: vhick

3: Naits

4: George Jhonson

5: Sunkumarspace

6: L F

Congratulations to all six of you!. You all will be contacted, either by us or iSkysoft itself, regarding the license you won. I hope you will enjoy using iSkysoft’s iMedia Converter.

We would like to thank iSkysoft for arranging these licenses for VirginTech Readers. If you are interested in sponsoring at VirginTech then get in touch with us via our contact us page. We would love to hear from you.

[Giveaway] Win Six Free Lifetime Licenses of iMedia Converter for Windows [Updated]
Originally Published at VirginTech

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Well before getting into the matter of this post, first of all, I apologize to all sincere VirginTech readers for being away for such a long time and putting no content here on VirginTech. Hopefully from now onwards I will be a bit consistent.

Anyway, lets move on to the main motive of this post that’s about making your Facebook account more secure with Facebook advanced security features which are namely HTTPS secure connection, login notifications and Facebook On time passwords. All these features could be extremely helpful to you if you frequently access facebook over unsecured Wi-Fi networks or on public computers. Lets get to them one by one.

1] Facebook HTTPS Secure Connection:

HTTPS secure connection is basically intended to create a secure connection on a network that’s itself insecure. The main idea of introducing this site wide HTTPS secure connection is to ensure that that the user’s sensitive account information is not intercepted by hackers and phishing attacks are avoided.

To enable sitewide Facebook HTTPS secure connection, simply go to Account Security located in your Facebook Account Settings and Check the box below Secure Browsing (https)

2] Facebook Login Notifications:

Facebook login notifications are meant to warn or notify you whenever there is unauthorized access to your facebook account. When someone logs into your account with a new device or a device which has not been registered by you already then Facebook sends the login notifications corresponding to those unauthorized logins.

We have already written before about how you can enable the login Notifications. Check out this link: How to Avoid Facebook Account Hacks by Enabling Login Notification Feature

3] Facebook On time Passwords:

If you’re reluctant (you should be!) to access your facebook from a public location or accessing facebook over an unsecured Wi-Fi network then making use of the Facebook On Time Passwords would be the best move.

So how do you get a facebook On Time Password?, Well thats pretty straightforward! Simply use your mobile phone to text OTP to 32665 or FBOOK . Once you sent the message you will recieve a unique password, which you can use only once, and it will expire after 20 minutes.

Here is a short video that briefly explains the implementation of all the three advanced security features  we mentioned above.

If you enable or make use of all the above mentioned security features with your facebook account then undoubtedly they will make your facebook experience more secure and hack free. We hope you liked them all. Make sure you drop in your comments in case you have something to say over these security features. We love to hear from you.

3 Facebook Advanced Security Features To Make Your Facebook Account More Secure
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Here is some good news for VirginTech readers! We have 20 copies of WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe to be given away among the VirginTech readers. Though we haven’t written about WinX HD video converter before but we are quite sure about one thing that once you get to know the features of WinX HD Video converter you would love to have your hands on it.

First lets have a look on what WinX HD Video converter has to offer to us.

1] DVD Burning: With WinX HD Video converter you can burn videos on DVD to create the DVD discs that allows easy handling and sharing of your special videos in a longer run.

2] Multi-core CPU and Hyper-threading: WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe supports Multi-core CPU and Hyper-threading which enhances the speed of the conversion processes manifold.

3] Online Video Downloader: This feature enables you to download online videos from various video sharing sites like YouTube, Metacafe etc.

4] Conversion Among Popular Video Formats: There are number of ouput video formats available. WinX HD Video converter can perform the conversion among all popular video formats like AVCHD to AVI, MKV to AVI, MTS to AVI/MP4, MOD TOD to MPEG/DVD, convert AVCHD to MPEG, DVD, OGG, WMV, FLV, MOV, etc, without assistance of any third-party codec.

5] Fixing Corrupt Video files: It automatically corrects the corrupt video files thereby making them normally playable on any video player.

6] Image and Audio Extraction from Video: If you liked any scene/frame in a video then you can extract it as an image in the Jpeg or Bmp format. Also if you’re only interested in the audio version of a video then you can extract the audio from a video which can be saved as a MP3 file.

7] Support HD-Camcorder Video: WinX HD video converter deluxe also supports conversion of Panasonic, Canon, Sony HD-Camcorder video formats AVCHD MOD TOD MTS to AVI MPEG MP4, JVC MOD to AVI and other most popular video formats.

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe license normally sells for $29.95 but here is a great chance for you to win a WinX HD Video lifetime license completely free. Keep reading to know how you can get into our giveaway and win a license for free.

Getting into Giveaway:

To get into the Giveaway follow two simple steps given below:

Step 1] Drop in your comment with a working email address (you will contacted through this email if you win a license ) telling us How would you use WinX HD video converter?

Step 2] Share this post either on Facebook Or Twitter (not mandatory) .

Share on Facebook

Or
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We will announce the result of this Giveaway contest on Friday, 8th October and 20 winners will be selected on the basis of their answer to question asked in step 1. Please make sure you type in your correct email address while commenting on this post because winners will be sent the license keys via email.

Download WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe

UPDATE: Since we’ve got very limited entries in this Giveaway so we will be sending out the Licenses keys to all of them. We thank you all for participating.  You all will get the License keys soon by email.

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There are times when you don’t not want to allow your PC USB ports to be used by other people around you either because you have highly confidential data in your PC or because you’re afraid of the viruses that spread through infected pen drives.

So in order to prevent your PC from USB viruses and unauthorized USB data transfer (data theft) you need to get your hands on a very easy to use freeware called USB Port Locked. It is a lightweight ( just a  few Kb ) application that can block all the USB Ports of your PC with just a one click.

USB Port Locked Features:

You can download this freeware from this link.

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Recently we reviewed PPT2Video Pro, a PowerPoint to Video converter, that converts PowerPoint Presentations  to number of different popular video formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, MOV, FLV, 3GP and multiple HD video formats.

A Single user personal license of Wondershare’s PPT2Video Pro converter sells for $49.95 but you can get one completely free by participating in our Giveaway.

To get into the Giveaway follow two simple steps given below:

Step 1] Drop in your comment with a working email address (you will contacted through this email if you win a license ) telling us How would you use PPT2Video Pro converter?

Step 2] Share this post either on Facebook Or Twitter.

Share on Facebook

Or

Share on Twitter

We will announce the result of this Giveaway contest on Monday, 23rd August, at 20:00 IST and three winners will be selected on the basis of their answer to question asked in step 1. Please make sure you type in your correct email address while commenting on this post because winners will be sent the license keys via email.

Besides 3 winners, we will offer rest of the VirginTech readers a 40% off discount coupon. This means that a PPT2Video Pro license, which normally sells for $49.95, will be available to you for $29.95 only. This discount will be available only for one month duration (From Aug16, 2010 – Sep 15 ,2010).  So if you make a purchase make sure you make it with in the given time limit. To get 40% off discount, go to this link.

Once you go to the above link please make sure that the Sub total amount shown after 40% discount is no more than $29.95

UPDATE: We thank you all for participating. Here are the three winners that we have selected.

1: Evandro

2: Garth

3: Linu

Congratulations to you all. We will send you the license keys on your email with which you commented here. We hope you will enjoy using Wondershare’s PPT2Video Pro.

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PPT2Video Pro is a Wondershare’s all in one PowerPoint to video converter that neatly converts PowerPoint presentations to number of different popular video formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, MOV, FLV, 3GP and multiple HD video formats.

Wondershare PPT2Video Pro Features:

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Twitter has got more than 100 million active users presently and every twitter user wants to follow users in a specific niche. But finding relevant twitter users was a big problem till now as there was no tool from twitter that could find users with similar interest. To address this problem Twitter has rolled out a nice feature named “Suggestions For You” that greatly helps twitter users in finding users with similar interest.

Twitter wrote the following about this feature on its official blog:

With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests. The trouble is finding all of them. Today we’re beginning to roll out a simple, but powerful new feature to help address that — “Suggestions for You”. The algorithms in this feature, built by our user relevance team, suggest people you don’t currently follow that you may find interesting. The suggestions are based on several factors, including people you follow and the people they follow. You’ll see these suggestions on Twitter.com and the Find People section. If you like a suggestion, click “follow”; if you don’t, click “hide,” and we’ll try not to suggest that user again

To get started with this suggestion feature click on the Find People link in the top navigation of any twitter page and then click on the Suggestions For You tab which will list all the twitter users suggested by twitter to you . The twitter suggestions also appear on your twitter homepage (See the screenshot on the left). The user suggestions made by this tool are based on people you follow and the people they follow. To me this feature is really a great one as it helped me find more than 20 twitter users, in just one day, that are having quite similar interest as that of mine.

I am sure this is definitely going to help you a lot in finding users with similar interests. Also one more thing that worths a mention is that you can also find the twitter users on the basis of different area of interests like Technology, business, entertainment etc. To browse twitter users on the basis of their interests go to this link. Click on any of the interest and twitter will show you up a long list of users whom you can follow.

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There are many URL Shortening services on the web like tinyURL.com,  bit.ly etc and all of them are for converting the lengthy URL’s into the shorter ones. Shortened URLs not just make the sharing of links easy in fact they come in very handy when it comes to sharing links  on sites which are message length limited like Twitter.

The only problem with shortened URLs is that before visiting the link you can’t predict at all what the shortened link is all about because  shortened URL simply looks like this: http://bit.ly/dgAayN.

These links may contain viruses, malwares or they may even lead you to spam or phishing sites. So its always better to examine or preview such kind of links if they are not from genuine source.

How to Preview/Examine Short URL’s to avoid Phishing, Malwares and viruses:

There are many online services that allows you to preview a shortened link. Among all of them the one we liked the most is longURL.org as it provides  provides the screenshot of the webpage too along with the Webpage title, Meta description and Meta keyword information of the webpage. Depending on how frequently you encounter the shortened links there are two methods to choose from:

Method 1:

If you rarely find shortened URLs and don’t want to install any script or add-on to preview them then this method is for you. To preview any shortened URL,  go to longURL.org , enter the shortened URL in the given space and then hit the expand button.

It will show you the expanded URL (the actual URL), the thumbnail of the webpage that you’re about to visit, Meta description, meta keywords information and the title of the webpage.

Method 2:

This method will suit you if you are a heavy internet user (especially for bloggers) and you come across the shortened links quite frequently. In this case we recommend you to install a longURL tool as either a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script. Doing this will allow you to preview or examine a short URL without visiting the longURL website.

Once you’re done with the installation you can examine or preview any shortened link by simply hovering the mouse over it.

You can see in the screenshot above that by simply hovering the mouse on the shortened link the title of the webpage and its actual URL can be previewed.

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