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.