Giveaway - Aimersoft DVD Creator for Windows

"Before coming to this giveaway, do check the Summer Giveaway –which will end on June 6,2011, 2012. And now comes a giveaway from Aimersoft for Windows users!

Whether you're looking to create an original home movie with photos and videos, or watch downloaded movies on your TV, Aimersoft DVD Creator is a fast, simple-to-use, DVD burner that lets you do both.

Aimersoft is offering 3 keys of Aimersoft DVD Creator for Windows each worth $ 39.95. Thus in all a $ 39.95 giveaway! Aimersoft DVD creator is a nice DVD creator with user friendly interface. Following are the key features of this software:

· Burn all major Video Formats to DVD

· Create customized Photo DVD Slideshow with Ease

· Touch up Photos & Videos with a click

· Create custom DVD Menus

· Burn DVDs at High Speed

· Add Subtitles

· Easy to Use

Directly coming to the giveaway part, as usual, to participate into the giveaway, all you need to do is, fill up the form below with your name & email address!

GIVEAWAY FORM

The giveaway will end on June 6,2011, 2012 & the keys will be sent to the 3 lucky winners latest by 9^th June 2012. The winners will be selected using random.org. I hope you all will enjoy using this DVD creator! "

Zuckerberg's married status gets 1M likes

One after another Facebook news all over the world. It seems like people have nothing to do except either using Facebook or writing/reading about Facebook. Anyways , right after issuing IPO of Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg got married to his long time girlfriend Priscilla Chan Saturday in a small, surprise wedding. It was a small party and less than 100 guests were there to witness it. Surprisingly Mark didn’t wear a hoodie that day. Hehe

Must say, Mark must be having a great week. From his bday to IPO to now his marriage and later who knows what. Anyways, congrats to Mark and Priscilla in their marriage. Hope they have a wonderful life ahead. Opps sorry !! I missed out on why I actually wrote this post. Zuckerberg's married status gets 1M likes. Well, that’s it. What did you expected? Some news it was huh? Girls must be crying their hearts out.

Facebook's IPO price: $38 per share

Everywhere I see; all over the world; there is only one news today. The mother of all news!!! Finally, Facebook did it. The social networking giant has now been officially listed on NASDAQ stock market. It has raised a massive $16 Billion in I.P.O. on Thursday, in an initial public offering that valued Facebook at $104 billion. That is one hell of an IPO; more than 9 Google IPOs. And as of tomorrow Facebook will be worth about half of what Google is worth now. Can you imagine how big Facebook is now? Facebook shares are priced at $38 per share and are expected to increase as the stock starts trading around 11am today.

According to FB official statement: "Facebook (NASDAQ: FB Today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on May 18, 2012, under the symbol "FB." Facebook is offering 180,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and selling stockholders are offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock. Closing of the offering is expected to occur on May 22, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions."

This IPO of Facebook is 3rd largest in the history of America (after Visa and ENEL). Who could have imagined that this eight year old social networking site will someday be such a hit that it’d make history? Right now, everyone just seems to want a piece of Facebook. But the question is can is justify its mammoth valuation because a $104 billion market capitalization puts Facebook at more than 100 times its trailing earnings. So, obviously it will need to figure out ways to make revenue else the investors are going to pull Mark’s hair.

Trend Micro Enterprise Security - Maximize Business Value

I’ve been using Trend Micro Internet Security for a long time now and I have to say it is one of the best internet securities you can find. Trust me when I say this, because I am a tech guy and I’ve used a lot of different antivirus and internet security software in my lifetime. The maker of Trend Micro Internet Security is Trend Micro Inc., who also have other security related products and services like Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security, Office Scan, etc. Their sole mission is to make this world absolutely safe to exchange digital information which is pretty good for a security company.

Anyways I was recently asked by a friend to recommend security software for his organization and there was no doubt I would recommend anything than Trend Micro Enterprise Security. Even thought I hadn’t used the Enterprise Edition of Trend Micro I was sure it’d be a good choice because I have tried the home edition.

I was going through the website to find in details about Trend Micro Enterprise Security and I found out few very good stuffs. The enterprise edition secures your overall enterprise; from cloud to mobile devices. Unlike in home, an enterprise is a big place and it is vulnerable security wise in many ways. Your first target will be greater flexibility with less cost, for which you’ll need cloud and virtualization. Whatever you do, you’ll need good security. But then, in office people bring their own laptops, PDA and mobile devices. Maintaining security in that level; so called Consumerization of IT is a very difficult thing to do because of difficulty with technology such as mobile device management. If you use traditional perimeter security, your enterprise can easily be breached and important data can be leaked or lost.

Trend Micro Enterprise Security is the just what you need to solve all these problems that your enterprise might go through. It is one answer to all your security related questions and I am not only the one saying that; my friend who I suggested is pretty happy with it too.

External Harddrive Reviews

My friends keep me asking all the time for hardware and stuffs because they think I am some kind of computer freak who knows about everything related to computers. So, whenever they have some issues with their computer hardware and software, they’ll call me and ask me what to do. I am like; duhh; what am I supposed to do? Still I try to help them in ways I can. I Google out stuffs and try to solve whatever problems they have.

Recently a friend of mine was planning to buy an external hard drive. So, he called me and asked me ask me which one should he buy. So, I give it a quick Google and then I stumbled upon this cool rating website called External Harddrive Reviews for designed for external hard-drive only. They have reviews of different external hard-drives, with comments from users and their ratings too. I recommended him WD My Passport Essential SE 2011 model because of it compact size, faster transfer rate, a couple of year’s warranty and many other features. In my view that was the best external hard drive. He bought it and seems to be quite happy because he was talking about it and thanking me few days later. Obviously, I didn’t do much thing. It was the External-harddrive-reviews.com that helped me find out the details.

The best place to buy a diamond

Diamonds are one of the world’s most precious elements. They are the best gifts you can give to your mother, girlfriend or wife; of course only if you can afford it. We’ve heard time and again that “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”. They kind of match for every occasion and that is probably the reason why many girls prefer to have diamond jewelries than gold or silver one. Whether it’s your wife/girl friend’s birthday or if she is angry with you or it’s your anniversary; nothing can bring a better smile in her face than a diamond ring or necklace.

Anyways, buying is diamond is not an easy thing to do. You can’t just go around and buy diamonds anywhere. There are lots of places and shops where they buy and sell diamonds but all of them aren’t trustworthy. It’s difficult for most people to know the difference between real diamond and fake ones. Shopkeepers can easily cheat on the customers by faking diamonds and selling them for a high price. There are many examples of occurrences of such forges around the world.

So, the question is what should you do and where should you buy a real diamond from? You should get diamond jewelries from certified dealers only to be on the safe side. Motek Diamonds is a certified store in Dallas where you can buy diamond jewelries in wholesale and retail. I remember a friend of mine needed to buy round diamonds in Dallas and he got exactly what he wanted at Motek Diamonds. He was so impressed that he was thinking of buying wholesale loose diamonds Dallas and exporting it to other places. It thought it was a pretty cool idea and the margins are going to be pretty high too if can get diamonds in wholesale. This is one place I know where you can trust if you’re planning to buy diamond jewelries. If you know some other places, do let me know.

How to remove duplicate songs in iTunes

I’m sure many of you have faced a similar problem with your iTunes (those who are Apple product users). Unknowingly, there are times when your iTunes has duplicate songs on it and when you sync it with your iPhone or iPod, you will have duplicate songs on them too. This doesn’t seem to be much of a problem but if there are too many duplicate songs then it will consume too much of your hard-drive and iPhone/iPod’s space.

Similarly, another problem you might have faced with your iTunes is what we call the “missing track problem”. This is one of the most common problems I think with iTunes that it isn’t smart enough to delete the list of mp3s itself in they are missing.

If you have similar problems, Tune Sweeper is what you need. It will search for the duplicate songs in your iTunes library according to different criteria such as track names, artist, and album and they will be marked for removal. Then all you need to do is to choose which duplicate file keep or delete and the rest will be done by the software.

About the missing track problem, Tune Sweeper will check the iTunes library and if the track isn’t there in your hard-drive, it will safely remove these tracks and also avoid those 'file missing' errors you sync your iPhone or iPod with iTunes.

So, Tune Sweeper will help you delete duplicates in iTunes and remove missing songs from iTunes too. Cool, isn’t it? Give it a shot and you’ll know for yourself.

Facebook Acquires Instrgram For 1 Billion

Instagram is a smartphone application that allows users to add filters and effects to a picture captured by your phone and share it with your friends. When started it was available for iPhone only but later this month they launched the Android version too. They have reported to have 30 million users since their launch in 2011.

But the question is does that make it worth $1 Billion? Facebook, the largest social networking site is all set to pay $1 billion in cash and shares for Instagram to its developers. Yeah, I know it’s shocking. It came to me as a shock too. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the deal on his Facebook timeline a couple of days back; just months before Facebook is expected to go public.

Instagram is a free app and they have zero revenue till date. All of a sudden they’ve jumped to a $1 Billion mark and that is probably the biggest achievement in the history of any company in such a short interval of time. Even though it has been acquired by Facebook, it plans to let the popular photo app to operate independently from the company.

May be it’s time for Apple and Facebook to unite

Yesterday Google dropped a bomb over Apple and Facebook by unveiling “augmented reality glasses”. This gadget is going to change everything I believe; the way we share, the way we communicate, the way we live. Check out the cool video below that they’ve come up with and you’ll get a hint of what I am talking about.

Even though this is just a prototype video and the real thing might now be as they’ve shown in the video, I am deeply concerned about my personal fav Apple and Facebook. I am not sure how they are going to cope with this brutal attack. Who is going to buy Apple iPhones and iPods when people can don’t even need to press anything to make a call or listen to music. Plus with these glasses you can share your location, find maps, chat, write your status and who knows what more it can do. Facebook will be swiped out.

So, maybe it’s time for both Apple and Facebook to put their ego aside and work together to counter this attack. Probably then they have some chances against the big daddy.

Convert your VGA cord into CAT5 cable

Something hardware related after a long time readers. This is going to be a little technical and let me tell you something; you got to try at your home. I’ve done this myself and it has worked 5 out of 6 times. So, we all know how much difficult it is to find a long VGA cord and even if you do find it, it is going to be pretty expensive. This is the problem which personally I faced when I was looking for a little longer VGA cable and I couldn’t find any and as I was Googling over the internet I came across a post where they had written a post of making a VGA cord out of CAT5 cable. I gave it a shot and it worked and then I was like; I have to write about it for my readers. A friend of mine was asking me if similar can be done and HDMI cable can be made because he needed something like 50 foot HDMI cable. I am not sure about that though.

I’m not saying it is easy though but I’ve uploaded the picture too so that it will be a little easier for your understanding.

STEP 1: Strip the CAT5 cable. Strip about half inches of the CAT5 outer insulation. Don’t strip too long; that would risk being short circuit. Well, that’s what was written in the instructions. So, then you have 8 colored wires.

STEP 2: Now you have to solder the colored wires to the VGA connector. Wait!! Did I mention that you need to buy a VGA connector and of course you need soldering stuffs too? The best connectors are male ones (again it was mentioned in the instruction and I don’t have a clue about it). So, solder it as in the image shown below. I don’t think it should be that hard.

STEP 3: Do the same thing (STEP 1 to STEP 2) in the other side too and it’s done. But just to make it all look tidy a little bit, what you can do is get some VGA connector housings and cover it up. Now you can check if it works. If it doesn’t there must be something wrong with the wiring. Re-check it and try again.