Thursday, October 14, 2010

Windows Phone 7

The day before yesterday, Steve Ballmer unveiled features of new Windows Phone 7. It is already available on Europe this month, and is said to come to U.S. next month.



We can see that windows phone 7 emphasis on user exprience, unique and stunning style. It was designed to help bring together the stuff most people care about and help get these things done faster, like work emails, Facebook status, taking pictures, playing games, music and video.

Microsoft seems to be confident about the Windows Phone 7 for the mobile market. However to catch up and compete against current mobile giants Apple and Google, Microsoft has long way to go still.

Microsoft is coming to the mobile space years behind Apple, to catch up to the App market could take years. Also it lacks of the support from Verizon who is now the partner of Google android.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Beautiful Places - World wonders

It is very difficult to pick few places and rank them as most beautiful places in the world. As we live in a world blessed with  breathtaking and beautiful sights and wonders.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Blogger flash photo gallery maker

Flash Slideshow Maker is an easy yet powerful flash slideshow creator, photo gallery builder.  It helps you organize thousands of photos on your computer into flash albums in just several minutes.

You can easily import photos into Flash Slideshow Maker from cameras, photo CDs, etc. You can quickly make video slideshows with custom transistions and background music, turn these photos into stunning photo albums and publish to internet to share with friends and family or make CD, DVD with them.

To decorate your blogs, make Blogger flash photo gallery, Myspace flash photo gallery,  is a great and creative way to make your blogs stunning and stand out.

To download the free trial flash slideshow maker and make flash photo gallery, web album for your blogs, you can visit bellow url:  www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/ver2/download/index.php

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Flash Slideshow Maker



Flash Slideshow Maker



It is a software helps you with photo albums and photo organization.

It has many built-in templates to make attractive photo album/galleries.

With Flash slideshow maker, you can share your photo galleries and web albums on popular websites like Blogger, Myspace, Wordpress, Facebook etc; make a slide show that people can see on the web; make CD, DVDs.

It offers free trial, you can try before you buy. You can download and test see if it is the one that integrates well with your blogs, websites or other services where you already participate.
 

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Share pictures with Flash Slideshow Maker

Here is a simple way to share your photos with friends and family, to organize your photos into flash galleries and display your photos in flash slideshow, you can try Flash Slideshow Maker. Drag and drop your photos into the program and you can output fantastic slideshows easily and quickly.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

How to embed flash video into Blogger posts

I sometimes get questions from people who want to insert photo galleries in their weblog or websites. Yesterday my friend who sells zircon on ebay asked if i can help her put 360 degree product review onto ebay, because she knows quite limited computer stuff.

I provided a simple solution to her. With nothing more than a free web album account and few lines of code, she can can show off her products images on ebay now. And it is the same method as with Blogger.

As we know blog service providers like Blogger often limit the possibilities for bloggers to upload files, especially flash video, flash SWF file, folders , special scripts to their servers. As a result we need to find a separate webspace to upload these flash video, SWF file etc and embed them in our blogs or websites.

If you have a self-hosted website, you can publish the flash to your hoster first then integrate the flash SWF with your webpage or blog posts; if not, you can host your flash video, photo gallery with a third party hoster, such as google site, skyalbum etc. There are many similar service available around the web nowadays.

We tried to upload the flash album to google site first, but it is loading a bit slow, sometimes even hangs forever. So we published to skyalbum instead. And we get the URL of the flash gallery there. It is something like

http:// www.skyalbum.com/album/jack/1234567/sample.swf

you can insert the flash file to ebay, blogs or websites by a few lines of code, as bellow:

Please note: need to change the Blogger editor to HTML mode, then insert above code; and you have to change the URL above to your own photo gallery URL, you can also set its size for display; For more sample code, you can click the Flash Slide Maker Website

Friday, July 16, 2010

Books Really Interesting and Worth Reading this year 2010

What are the most interesting and worth reading books this year in 2010?
Current bestseller list as bellow, list of best-selling books for your information.



1. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler
2. BATMAN AND ROBIN, VOL. 1, by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Philip Tan
3. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. FAMILY TIES, by Danielle Steel
5. FINGER LICKIN’ FIFTEEN, by Janet Evanovich
6. MEDIUM RAW, by Anthony Bourdain



7.-- MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern
8. SIZZLING SIXTEEN, by Janet Evanovich
9. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis
10. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson
11. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
12. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
13. TWILIGHT: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, VOL. 1, by Stephenie Meyer and Young C. Kim


The top-selling books, best seller books 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

what is Pan and Zoom effect about 2

Nowadays, the Ken Burns technique(Pan and Zoom effect) is widely used. Most video editing software provide pan and zoom effects, for example the windows movie maker, the flash slideshow maker or even powerpoint etc.


Following are two Flash slideshow with and without pan ans zoom effect:

Demo1 with Pan and Zoom effect



Demo2 without Pan and Zoom effect


From above two flash demos, we can see what is Pan and Zoom effect and what it brings. However except the simply zooming in on subjects and panning from one subject to another, it can create illusion of movement thus give life to still photographs, highlight en elment to attract more attention, allow you more control over video motion etc.

http://web-frog.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-is-pan-and-zoom-effect-about.html

Note: you can refresh the browser to reload the flash if it does not autoplay.
Thanks to Flash slideshow maker for code support to embed flash into blogger.

Monday, July 12, 2010

what is Pan and Zoom effect about

How to make still images and photos look more vivid? Are you looking for laconic process but perfect outcome, easy to follow techniques to make your pictures pop.




You might looking for the Pan and Zoom effect.


Pan and Zoom effect, also known as Ken Burns Effect, is used in video production from still imagery.


It is principally used in historical documentaries where film or video material is not available. With the Ken Burns technique(Pan and Zoom effect) still photographs can be converted into documentary films.


Continued to read more about what is Pan and Zoom effect about part2

Friday, July 9, 2010

How to Build Flash for Websites

Are you considering making a Flash Website? A flash based website or website with flash have been very popular, as they make your website more expressive and interactive to attract more people.


However flash has always been the favorite of many big brands, like Coca-cola, BMW, Nokia etc. Flash intros, flash banners, flash menus...


A Flash animation can make your websites and blogs catchy. A flash menu helps you communicate with site visitors in a more interactive and empressive way.

A Flash intro can sometimes delineate your company's objectives, your visions much easier.

Try download the free and easy to use Flash creator.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

I like the flash slideshow creator but Not the watermark

I mentioned a shareware called Flash slideshow maker in a previous post, and got a comment on it, "How can I remove the watermark from my flash slideshow? The vendor discloses the Flash SlideShow Maker at the final slide..."



That Flash slide show maker is a shareware, it seems to me that the commenter however misunderstood it for freeware.


"In the early days of shareware, many users thought it was OK to register the software and then share the registered version with others, but this simply isn't the case. To avoid this problem, the more precise term trial software was introduced." (source: http//www.coffeecup.com/)


However, for free use, even the trial version, there is no ground for one to be too "critical" about this. Think about the benefits you get from it, the delicious slideshows, the gorgeous transition effects, you did not write a single line of code, just in a few clicks you made your Flash animation...


Monday, July 5, 2010

Easiest way to create Flash banner

To create flash banner ads, flash introductions, or swf with Flash Slideshow Maker  is as easier as a, b, c.
1. Add Photo
2. Select Theme
3. Publish and share
You do not need to learn any additional skills, to make a flash slideshow just several clicks away.

Free download Flash Slideshow Maker here
http://www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/setup_flash_slideshow_maker.exe

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Free Flash Slideshow Makers and Softwares Review 2

Yahoo Flickr and Google Pisaca web album are the two most popular photo sharing services providers. Both of them share some similar features. They are not standalone Flash Slideshow /Web Album Maker. Instead they are online photo management  systems with a combination of tools than as individual services. 

However a combination of various of tools and features sometimes could  turn into annoying as part of them are not necessary for most of us. It is a paradox to interconnect online and offline end user experience.

However if you need to make, edit and manage your favorite photos, albums both on your local machine and remote server for self-hosted websites or blogs,  some standalone software like Flash Slideshow Maker is ideal. No hassle of unnessary features ,  services, ads, full access to edit , simple to use. Plenty of themes, templates, transition effects, motion effects, background music and most of them are customizable.

 Most important of all,with google or yahoo's online photo management it is really different to make something special, think about how many users they have and how much customization you could make with their service.

Google stores our docx, spreadsheets, mail, calendar and google picasa now stores our photo.  Google is Big! Looks like we are all on the way to having google be the ultimate online storage system.

Software downloading : http://picasa.google.com/
http://www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/setup_flash_slideshow_maker.exe

Friday, June 25, 2010

Free Flash Slideshow Makers and Softwares Review 1

Wanna build a Flash introduction, flash banner for your website, or to turn your photo albums to flash albums?

In the advent of rising software for flash amateur, creation of flash banners, flash introductions, flash albums becomes much easier than ever before.
 Not everyone has to start learning Flash, HTML, CSS and Javascript, Flash ActionScript, you do not have to learn softwares for professionals .
You can find some programs like Flash Slideshow Maker out there today that allow you to create Flash animations much easier besides those original Adobe Flash softwares.

If you need only to make a plain flash and simply needs somewhere to store your flash slide shows, to share your flash online, Picasa is not a bad choice. Picasa is Google’s free online photo manager and sharing tool. Picasa is free to download, and Picasa Web Albums provides 1 G of free storage.

Flickr is another choice, which is powered by Yahoo. Flickr Slideshow also allows you to easily create a custom slideshow.

continue to Read more about various Flash Album Making Tools...

Monday, June 21, 2010

How to Create Flash Ablum with Photos

A Good news for web album fan who wants to convert static photos into flash animation slide show with background music.

Socusoft  Flash Slide show Maker version  5.00 was released finally.

Instead of mute and still image, you can create professional slide show with different transition and transformation effects. Socusoft Flash Slide show Maker helps  easily create high-impact yet stunning photo slide shows/ web albums from digital photos which you can upload to and display on your own web site and blogs.

Enjoy sharing your web album with your family, friends and colleagues on the internet.

Evaluation Copy Available for downloading at bellow URL, Flash Slide Show Creator Download