Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Sync iPad with iTunes

This article is about The Basics Of Syncing Your iPad with iTunes

When you first connect the device to your computer, Apple guides you through the setup, but at some point you will want to be familiar with the options available to you when syncing iTunes on iPad, which is basically the only way you manage most of your iPad’s contents, including music, contacts, photos, apps, and ebooks, and keeping it updated.

This article will give you an overview for syncing your iPad with iTunes. More detailed information can be found in Apple”˜s own free iPad User Guide and similar books. You might also want to check out my MUO article about the general settings of your iPad.

First off, I assume that you have already synced your iPad with iTunes at least once in order to get signed up. That process is required for you to own and use the iPad.
If you’re like me, you probably won’t be syncing your iTunes on your iPad on a regular basis. It’s much better when you can sync and update content wirelessly than having to plug and connect the USB cord between your iPad and your computer. Syncing your iPad to your iTunes is mainly useful for adding songs, TV shows, podcasts, photos and other related content to your device. Some content like purchased iTunes songs, apps, and ebooks for iBook Reader can easily be downloaded wirelessly, via Wi-Fi and 3G connections from the iTunes App Store.

By connecting your iPad to iTunes you get to see all your media content – apps, music files, movies, TV shows, podcasts, etc. One of the first things you can learn, if you have forgotten, is the memory capacity of your iPad. In other words, how much stuff it can hold. The above screenshot shows that my iPad can hold up to 14 gigabytes of content. 64GB is the largest capacity iPad model you can purchase right now.

At the bottom of the information panel is a bar that illustrates a breakdown of content on your iPad. This is very important to know especially if your iPad is filled to capacity. If you’re new to the iPad, I’ll assume you haven’t added a lot of apps to your device. But basically, you will want to keep in mind that songs and videos will take up most of the space on your iPad. Photos, apps, ebooks, and other documents (e.g. PDFs, iWorks documents, other graphic files) tend to take up less space.

In the left panel of the iTunes interface, when you click on the triangle of the iPad folder under Devices, it will reveal all the media files, except for your apps and photos, currently added to your iPad.

Software Update & Backups

Typically when the operating system (OS) of the iPad needs to be updated, it will be checked and done automatically by iTunes via a Wi-Fi connection. But if you have missed an update or you want to make sure that your device has the most recent update, just click the Check for Update button and you will get a report back. A recently released iOS4 for the iPhone is scheduled for the iPad next Fall. But there may be minor updates for the iPad before then.

Each time you sync your iPad with iTunes, it will back up new content, such as new apps and documents, added to your iPad since the previous backup. It will not back up your songs and videos that already stored in your iTunes library.

Depending on the size of the content, backing up and syncing the content of your iPad can take several minutes. If you need to know the last time your content was backed up, you can click Apple>Preferences>Devices.

If you want to keep iTunes from automatically syncing your content when you connect it to iTunes, you can disable it on the Preference box. When disabled you will need to manually sync it by clicking the Sync on the bottom-right of iTunes.
If you want to sync your device to add or delete content without backing up, you can cancel the process by simply clicking the little x in the progress bar at the top of iTunes.

The same can be done if you want to cancel a sync before it's completed.

Restore

If you ever need to restore your iPad to its original state, you simply click the restore button. Official how-to details about restoring your iPad can be found here on the Apple site. The important thing to remember is to periodically allow iTunes to backup the content of your device just in case something happens.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Embed Video Audio on HTML5 Page

How to Embed Video/Audio on HTML5 Page
In HTML 4.x, the only way to reliably embed video on a web page so that all users can see it regardless of browser or operating system, is to use Flash. This requires the Adobe Flash plug-in and a combination of the <object>and <embed>tags.

In a long time to come, you may have to provide both HTML5 and Flash to be compatible with all web browsers. But you could learn how to embed video/audio in HTML5 now and when the HTML5 time comes, you can switch to it easily. As the proverb goes: Chance favors only the prepared mind.

This article will take a look at what might be the most-hyped part of the HTML 5 specification - the audio and video tags.

Using HTML5 Video Tag
Famous video sharing sites such as YouTube is chomping at the bit to use the HTML5 video tag. It will greatly seize a chunk of web size. Here's the code to embed a video in HTML 5:

<video src="path-to-html5-video.mp4"></video>

Really simple, right? But you will embed video something like below because not every browser can recognize the <video>tag.

<video src="path-to-html5-video.mp4" controls>
<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="path-to-fallback-flash.swf">
<embed src="path-to-fallback-flash.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>
</video>

This method lets the browser choose the video or flash to play, with their default video player. So your video will be played in different style player, maybe the Safari style or Chrome style. Another free option is to use the third-party HTML5 video player like VideoJS, FlareVideo, JW Player, etc. Here VideoJS is recommended for it's free, fullscreen, and consistent style in all HTML5 browsers.

Using HTML5 Audio Tag
The code looks very similar to <video>. However, the Mozilla only supports Ogg Vorbis files, while Safari can handle pretty much anything QuickTime can.

<audio src="path-to-html5-audio.ogg" autoplay>
Sorry, your browser does not support the <audio>element.
</audio>

Similar to the <video>tag, the same Flash solutions would give you near universal support for today's crop of browsers.

Take Good Photos for Your Kids

How to Take Good Photos for Your Kids

Well, you may take lots of photos to memory some special occasions like wedding, family reunion, baby born, school sports meeting or graduating; and everyone want to make it perfect photography, so here are some tips on how to take good photos:



The first thing to remember is to keep clicking! You're more likely to get good photos of them if you're taking more photos, and sometimes the cutest photos of them are when they're not looking straight at the camera with a "cheese" smile.

Get down to their level - photos always look better when you're on the same eye level as your kids. So crouch down and get more detail in your photos rather than lots of the tops of their heads.

Use a fast shutter speed if you're using an SLR camera to keep blur at bay - if you're using a point and shoot camera, sometimes using a flash can help if they're running around like little monkeys or you can set your camera to the picture of the running man (sport) on the menu for a faster shutter speed.



Use natural sunshine as your light as much as possible - brings out better colors in the photo and doesn't create the same "sheen" that a flash can create. The best time of day to do this is in the morning and just before sunset as the light is warm rather than harsh and doesn't create a shadow like it will during the middle of the day. Keep your background in mind - you might get the best photo of your children but the background might let the photo down in the end.

For a photo you can blow up of your kids and frame, make sure you don't have undesirable things in the background. Make sure you get in the photos yourself. If you're always the one taking the photos, ask someone else to take the picture for you - you don't want your kids looking over their photos in years to come and not see you as you once were (young and gorgeous!!). If there is no one else to take it, put it on timer and set the photo up... and if all else fails - book a family photo shoot.

Every family should take the time to have at least one professional photo shoot in their lifetime. It not only gives kids something of a keep-sake of their family from their younger years, but it also is a great way to save that time (or that "phase") in life forever. Just remember, you can't get that time back in their lives and it's hard to remember them so small or so cute or pulling certain faces... so get clicking - I'm sure they'll thank you in the future when you can show them what gorgeous little monkey's they used to be.

Flexible Reader for PDF file editing

PDF X-change Viewer—Flexible Reader for PDF file editing

As I have introduce before, that Adobe PDF reader and Foxit reader are the most popular Viewers for PDF reading. And these days a survey on AnyBizSoft Facebook shows that, in addition to the readers I mentioned above, PDF X-change viewer attracts the attentions of some users. And actually, I am one of them. I nearly cannot help me to love the reader because it just like PDF editor at my first glance. Here is my experience on the third great PDF reader.

PDF-XChange Viewer is another excellent alternative to Adobe Reader except Foxit Reader. It free and fast, just as Foxit Reader. Its interface looks remarkably like Adobe Reader, but with more command icons on the top. Besides viewing PDF files, this PDF Reader also have some additional functions:

* Add Comments and Annotations to any PDF file (subject to security settings)
* Markup pages with text and objects
* Type directly on any PDF page, not just Adobe enabled forms documents - in Typewriter mode.
* Export PDF pages or entire files to any one of the supported Image formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and many more
* Extract text from a PDF page/File
* Make your navigation of large or complex PDF files both simple and enjoyable switch the extended functionality of our 'Loupe' and the 'Pan' Window tools
* Fill and Save Adobe Forms to disk, email or 'post'
* Full JavaScript Engine included
* Updated JPEG2000 Compression support - improving speed
* And many more features such as Rotate and 'Save', Email files etc.

If you are carefully enough and if you have used Foxit Reader before, you may find many functions are the same in these two PDF readers. And actually, either of them can meet our ordinary needs to read, comment and simply edit PDF files. The mainly differences i guess are mainly because different using habits that divides the users into different groups. Generally speaking, they are both excellent alternatives to the bloated Adobe Reader. If you are not used to use Foxit Reader, or if Foxit Reader sometimes doesn't work properly, you can give PDF-XChange Viewer a try without hesitate. On the opposite case, you can choose Foxit Reader as the best alternative.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

HTML5 VS Flash

HTML5 VS Flash, what is your choice?
HTML5's been pitted against Flash as the savior of web video since the release of the iPad, on which you can't play any Flash contents. There are those that suggest that HTML5 will one day supplant/replace Adobe Flash. On that day, you could finally enjoy web video on your iPad (and more mobile devices). I am only a website owner, rather than a programmer. What can I do in this revolution (is it) ? HTML5 is rapidly growing as a new standard of online video technology, and we need to be prepared in advance to accommodate it. It is still early to say that HTML5 will replace Flash totally,Html5 doesn’t provide all the features and functionality that Flash does today, so we’ll have to consider our choices wisely.

HTML5 VS Flash
Before comparing HTML5 to Flash, we need to know what exactly they are, right?
Flash: It's a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages by Adobe (formerly Macromedia Flash). As far as you know, Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Application (RIA) ". Flash is the most widely used content delivery methodology up to date. By the way, The Microsoft counterpart of Flash is SILVERLIGHT.

HTML5: It's the next awaited version of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) which is expected to bring about a radical change in the client side web coding. However, when people refer to HTML5, they usually mean the combination of HTML as a markup language, CSS which specifies how it is rendered, and the javascript code which manipulates the HTML and CSS dynamically.

HTML5 not only has the standard text elements, but also elements which embeds the video and to element to embed the audio, which was brought to web browser by Canvas - a more relevant method compared to Flash. Below is the general Flash to HTML5 comparison.

Why choose Flash
Good to great web presentation
Excellent Flash player penetration
Browser independent
AS3 is a strong typed language

Why choose HTML5
Doesn't require a plug-in
The best bet for animated content on mobile devices
Fast bitmap rendering
Fast JavaScript render speed
Great open source initiatives trying to push Canvas further

HTML5 Will Beat Flash, But Not Now.
So, there are both advantages and disadvantages of HTML5 and Flash. But in my opinion, HTML5 improves interoperability and reduces development costs by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements, and how to recover from errors. It has more opportunities to win the war. HTML5 will replace Flash and Silverlight eventually, maybe 5 years, maybe 10 years. Do note that both Adobe and Microsoft are giants, you don't know what they will do to affect the result. Only one thing is sure: HTML5 and Flash will go together for a long time to come.Flash is offering value to a lot of people and will not disappear overnight.

Now stay far away from the debate of replacement of HTML5 to Flash. You need to move your business on. But the situation is now or will be like this: Many people use the web browsers that don't support HTML5 like Internet Explorer 6,7,8, while others have upgraded their browsers to which well support HTML5. How would you do?

The mix solution like HTML5 video player seems to be unavoidable. And keep your eyes on HTML5 is also necessary.

Monday, May 23, 2011

How to make PDF file Editable

When viewing PDF files by Adobe Reader, we sometimes want to edit some contents as we usually do in Word documents. But sadly, most of time, we would find that we just try in vain to do that similar work. This up to the portrait of PDF format, whose structure makes the editing functions unavailable.

Fortunately, by some special programs, we could make PDF files editing as we edit documents on Word Processor.

Type 1: PDF Reader
Actually, most of PDF readers have some simple editing functions. Take PDF X-change Viewer for instance, we can add comments and annotations to the original contents. And we can copy the text from PDF to word, if the PDF file is not protected by PDF owner password. The most commonly used PDF readers include Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader and Nuance PDF Reader.

Type 2: PDF Editor
We can directly edit PDF documents, if which has not been protected, by PDF Editor such as Adobe Acrobat or Foxit PDF Editor. The whole editing process is visualization By Adobe Reader, for example, you can replace the original contents, crop images and insert links and any other elements necessarily. The bookmarks also could be created by the edited documents.

Type 3: PDF Conversion Software
When talking about editing PDF, we inevitably image that PDF editor would be the best and direct choice. But things not always like that. We need to notice that PDF editor, that we could use, are not the real editing functions. We just cover the contents on the original text or images. The efficiency is low and it is not easy to master it. Besides, they are always very expensive.

The best way, which works perfect for me, is using PDF conversion Software, like AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter, by which we can convert PDF to word and editing the contents easily in Word processor with high efficiency. It can preserve all the original text, layouts, hyperlinks and graphics in Word documents.

All in one conclusion, we need to choose them by our requirements.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

PDF XChange Viewer Alternative Adobe Reader

PDF-XChange Viewer - Another Excellent Alternative to Adobe Reader

According to a survey on Facebook of AnyBizSoft recently, on Windows, besides Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader, there are also some PDF-XChange Viewer fans. If one people love one product but others don't , there maybe some personal reasons on the people. But, if lots of people love one product simultaneously, this should be a proven that the product is really good and valuable. So let's have a general view of PDF-XChange Viewer.

PDF-XChange Viewer is another excellent alternative to Adobe Reader except Foxit Reader. It free and fast, just as Foxit Reader. Its interface looks remarkably like Adobe Reader, but with more command icons on the top. Besides viewing PDF files, this PDF Reader also have some additional functions:
• Add Comments and Annotations to any PDF file (subject to security settings)
• Markup pages with text and objects
• Type directly on any PDF page, not just Adobe enabled forms documents - in Typewriter mode.
• Export PDF pages or entire files to any one of the supported Image formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and many more
• Extract text from a PDF page/File
• Make your navigation of large or complex PDF files both simple and enjoyable switch the extended functionality of our 'Loupe' and the 'Pan' Window tools
• Fill and Save Adobe Forms to disk, email or 'post'
• Full JavaScript Engine included
• Updated JPEG2000 Compression support - improving speed
• And many more features such as Rotate and 'Save', Email files etc.

PDF-XChange Viewer Interface


If you are carefully enough and if you have used Foxit Reader before, you may find many functions are the same in these two PDF readers. And actually, either of them can meet our ordinary needs to read, comment and simply edit PDF files. The mainly differences i guess are mainly because different using habits that divides the users into different groups. Generally speaking, they are both excellent alternatives to the bloated Adobe Reader. If you are not used to use Foxit Reader, or if Foxit Reader sometimes doesn't work properly, you can give PDF-XChange Viewer a try without hesitate. On the opposite case, you can choose Foxit Reader as the best alternative.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Recover Document from Formatted Hard Disk

How to Recover Document from Formatted Hard Disk?
Before show you how to recover the documents from formatted hard disk, let’s learn some knowledge of “what is format?”

Beneath quick, format is actually both the initialization we have personally before taking try hard disk. On this, we will record information upon the hard disk on easy. It's just like storing lots books in one big house. We tend to cannot throw book into the preventing however put up one bookshelf firstly and place all of books beneath forms. Furthermore, one computer operating system can't recognize a image new daunting disk and read info from it just when such irresistible symbols are usually leaved into any section of it. In an fact, both the leaved process is actually format.

Ok, right now let me personally help you recover your info from the formatted daunting disk step by step.

I take Wondershare Info Recovery for example as it's simple to use with regard to green hand. That you can and research many other info recovery tools alone. Click there for the trial on Wondershare Data Rescue

Step1. Install Wondershare Data Recovery
I have to remind you that you do not install Wondershare Data Recovery to the same partition where you lost data for avoiding overwriting the formatted hard disk.

Step2. Select the formatted hard disk to scan
When you open the application, you will find there're four options for recovery. Choose the second, Format Recovery, and then select the partition you formatted. Next, you can select the file system for your formatted hard disk or just left as Auto Detect.

Step3. Choose your target files
Here you can see all recoverable files on the formatted hard disk are listed. You can choose files or folders to continue recovery.

Step4. Select or enter a path for saving recovered data.
We highly suggest you never to select a path that is located in the formatted hard disk that you're searched data from, in case it would eventually overwrite the source data.

In this way, you can easily recover your lost documents. And the efficiency of this software is very high, basically several cups similar software for recovering data. Wondershare data recover is definitely a good choice for finding lost data from formatting disk in similar products.

Monday, May 16, 2011

use Zamzar convert PDF to Word

How to use Zamzar to convert PDF to Word

I have introduced Zamzar.com on one of my previous post named commonly used PDF Converters and Creators. Here I would show the details about the service of Zamzar and, particularity of how to convert documents from PDF format to word format.

When landing on the website Zamzar.com, we would find that it provides four free services for online users. They are “convert files” “download videos” “send files” and “Manage files”. Which are useful if we have simple requirements about document conversion and video downloading? Here I would put the emphasis on the file conversion, saying “how to convert PDF to word”

Firstly, let us have a glance about the operating panel.



We can clearly see that the conversion steps have been divided into four. And here are what you need to do.

Step 1: Select the file you want to convert. There are two ways: you can upload your PDF files from you local files or input a address which locates the PDF file. Once you can only upload one file and the size should be less than 100MB, and as the larger of the size, as the time consuming of loading would be longer.

Step 2: Choose the format. Actually, there are some other formats for us to choose if needed. Here I just take Word doc format for instance.

Step 3: Enter your email address for converted file receiving. When the file is converted, the system would send you a email with attachment which include the converted Word documents.

Step 4: Click “convert” button and then have a cup of coffee and the system would do the rest for you.

The service is useful but it has some disadvantages:
1. It would be not safe to upload secret PDF files to the server.
2. It can only convert one file at a time.
3. It depends on your speed on the Internet.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

How to recover deleted documents

Accidentally deleted important files, and the world have no regret medicine. So, what show we do? However, there are data recovery software in the world. Wondershare Data Recovery is a world famous masterpiece. Its professional version covers many features such as the disk diagnostics, data recovery, file repair, E-mail fix, and all four major categories of 19 projects of various data file repair and disk diagnostic programs.

Data Recovery can help you recover lost data and rebuild file system. What more, it will writing anything other files into you original disk. it is mainly rebuild file system in memory partition table, and then, making data can be safely transferred to the other drive. He can help you recover virus corrupted document and the document has been formatted. The software can recover more than 8.4GB of hard disk. This version uses the new data recovery engine, and the ability of the ZIP file and the Microsoft Office series of documents repair!

I am a little wordy, this Data Recovery software can restore the lost data due operational errors (such as delete). Using this software, you must understand that after the data has been accidentally deleted, you should never write any data in the diver that have lost the data. if data is written resume will most likely fail, or restored, the file can’t be used, such as the TXT format recovery will become garbled. Therefore, we delete the file, do not delete the disk copy to be any program, the move is also not to move it a bit.

Before the data resumption, the Data Recover will scans the hard drive data and the previous operating accidentally deleted files. this may take a little time, about 3-20 minutes, depending on your disk space. of course, the quantity of the documents will slow the scan speed. More documents, the slower speed.

In fact, there are many data recovery software such as FinalData, Undelete Plus, Recover4All, FileRescue Pro, FinalRecovery, Recover My Files etc. although I have not tried all of them ,so I have no right to speak. but, for me, wondershare Data Recovery can meet all my requirement in aspects very good. Including the speed and quality of data recovery are very good. I'd have tried to use FinalData, it takes more than 20 hours to scanning my disk. However, the scan is complete in ten minutes when I use Wondershare data recovery.

Friday, May 06, 2011

Restore Deleted Document From SD Card

How to restore deleted document from SD card?
Flash memory cards such as SD card have revolutionized the world of data transfer and storage. Their durability and size have made them ideal for carrying around data and for use in many mobile devices where hard drives might be susceptible to damage. While, Secure Digital (SD) is a non-volatile memory card format developed by Matsushita, SanDisk, and Toshiba for use in portable devices as flash memory cards.

Although SD card is a secure store devices, SD cards lack any solutions to be able to logical accident, which could be accidental deletion on files (naked problem), corruption for the report system which manages the info on the flash energy, and also many additional reasons, which may cause a logical accident. So, what should we do if some of our important data have been lost?

Don’t worry we have a great tools can help to restore the lost data. The first thing that you need to do is to download an data recover software or program such as Wondershare Data Recover. Actually, there are lots of the same software's in the market, so you will never run out of choices. You need to follow the installation step to install the program in your computer.

After installation, you need to plug your card to the slot provided on your computer, then double click the program icon from the desktop or any location you have saved the program to launch it.

• To recover deleted files from SD card, you just need to select the “common recovery”. then, you should select the drive that you need to recover data. Anyway, you just need to select your SD card, then you click “scan” button to scan all the data that have been deleted from the SD card. Of course, it will take some time for the software to scan the card.

•Then, it’s the time to recover your documents after scan the card. You just need to select the listed documents which have been found out, By pressing the next at the “recover” bottom at

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Top 8 free PDF Converter Creator

There is no doubt that PDF, known as a file format published by Adobe Systems, is very available for file sharing and storage. We wildly use it for work and study. However, PDF is easy to edit as we normally do in Microsoft word or excel. Thus, in order to make the problems clear, I will introduce top 10 free PDF Converters and Creators, apart from Adobe Acrobat, which will be your good accompanies in daily life.

1. AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter
I recommend it first because it is the best one I have used compared with the similar software. It is desktop software for file format converting from PDF to Word, which makes PDF files editing in Word documents. It supports batch conversion and the speed is fantastic. Besides, the conversion quality is also very well. All the original text, hyperlinks, graphics and forms in PDF files would be preserved in Word documents. The software has free trial version and totally free on AnyBizSoft Facebook fan page.

2. Hello Free PDF to Word Converter
This is software which has the similar functions as I recommend above. It provides free service. After first few conversions, you need to get a registration code every time before conversion. Besides, it cannot support encrypted PDF files conversion.

3. Zmazar.com
As a free service online, Zamzar.com has earned so much normal users who have the requirements of converting pdf files to other documents of different format. It supports exported formats such as Word, HTML, ODT, PCX, PNG, PS, RTF, and TXT. You need to upload your PDF file to the server, one file, at most 100MB, at a time.

4. PDFonline
No need to provide email address for PDFonline. The Word document can be downloaded immediately after the conversion is done. Images are merged to background, cannot edit them separately.

5. PDF Converter
With right PDF password, you can convert user password protected PDF files using PDF Converter. There are two formats for image: JPG and PNG. However, there is an interval of 30 minutes between each submission.


6. Office 2007 Add-in
Once installed Office 2007 add-in, you can save as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, etc to PDF directly. It preserves all the text, images and hyperlinks from Word document to PDF file.

7. CutePDF Writer
CutePDF Writer is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents. There's no annoying watermarks or pop ups Web Ads.

8. Open Office
OpenOffice.org introduces the one-click PDF export feature that enables you to easily create PDF files without the need for any additional third party software.

The software mentioned above provides free service and you can try to use them for a simple comparison, and then choose the favorite one according to your needs.