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8
May
DVD Slideshow Builder Standard

Get DVD Slideshow Builder Standard FREE this Mother’s Day

Looking for an easy yet impressive way to burn your photos to DVD or share photos online? With Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Standard, literally drop-in your favorite photos and music, add built-in cinematic effects with a click and instantly create a compelling photo slideshow complete with title menu, soundtrack and even special effects.

DVD Slideshow Builder Standard

Key features:

  • Add filters like negative and black and white, adjust brightness/contrast, remove red-eye and much more
  • Drag-and drop-text captions, clipart and audio
  • Add special transition effects like wipes and fades
  • Choose from an array of Intro/Credit templates to create a movie feel
  • Create photo slideshows in 3 steps
  • Standard version supports 140+ static templates, 10 dynamic menu templates and 210 free movie styles
  • Supports most popular image formats including BMP, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIF, TIFF, GIF and music formats including MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, MKA, AAC, AC3, APE, OGG

Now, you can get DVD Slideshow Builder Standard completely free until Mother’s day. Simply visit the giveaway page and get the software completely free.

The Mom’s Day giveaway will expire at 12:00am, May 14th, EST. The keycode is only for single use and can’t be shared. One email address generates one keycode.

- Download DVD Slideshow Builder Standard
- Mom’s Day giveaway

About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

1
May
Beebble

Have some fun while saving the bees with Beebble!

Beebble

SeventhSide Games recently launched its first game “Beebble“, a city builder (a virtual town simulator) geolocalised at a junction between Farmville, Sim City and Foursquare, offering players the possibility to allow their virtual environment to interact with their real world location.

The game’s story was inspired by one of Albert Einstein’s theory, stating that the survival of humanity rests on the bees’ destiny: “If bees disappear from the planet, Man will only have four years to live.”

To save humanity the Professor Beebblestein, a crazy scientist, created a new genetically modified species of bees names the Beebbles, capable of communicating with humans. During the professor’s experiments, an explosion occurred, scattering the Beebbles contained in his incubator to all four corners of the world.

By downloading the free game, the players will be asked to explore real locations around them to uncover the Beebbles who may have found themselves there after the blast. As well as enticing players to discover new areas of their real world, the game pushes them to create communities for these bees by placing towns within the Beebble universe but positioned in the real world. These towns will then be developed by the players, as well as any new friends they may make within the game.

Thus, by saving the Beebbles, will humanity be saved as well?

How to play Beebble?

Download Beebble! Free from the App Store

About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

3
Apr
Nokia Play To

Play To Brings DNLA Sharing to Nokia Lumia

A new treat is in store for Nokia Lumia owners as the company releases a video streaming app. Nokia has just released a beta app that is designed for streaming video content from a Lumia device to a TV.

Users can download the beta Play To app that will work with a Nokia Lumia 710 or 800 and link it with any device that is DLNA which means the Digital Living Network Alliance, so a TV, Blu-Ray player or a laptop. The connection means you can link devices wirelessly and it is designed especially for streaming media content.

DLNA is nothing new to the smartphone world. Many Apple and Android devices already have the capability. It is increasingly important for manufacturers to emphasise how a smartphone can sit within the rest of peoples’ technology, so a tablet or a TV, PC or Mac, as smartphones get more powerful it becomes more important to share data between different platforms. A big deciding factor for people buying phone contracts today is how easily a handset can interact, either for sharing work, transferring photos or accessing multimedia from other sources.

The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with an 8 megapixel camera with an f/2.2 camera lens and a dual LED flash. It is capable of 720p HD video recording. The camera app allows you to set automatic settings for different scenes as well as setting a white balance to achieve colour correction. The video app has been criticised in some corners for not having a zoom function while recording. However when you shoot video in the day there is a depth of colour as well as sound quality but it does take the app a few seconds to adjust to a change in light and brightness settings.

The Play To app can be downloaded straight to the device and can then be used to stream any videos or pictures straight from the handset. It does not yet support music streaming, but Nokia says that is planned for a future update.

As Play To is still in beta, Nokia says they are looking for responses and feedback from users to the app. Now that it is available in the Windows Marketplace they want to encourage feedback as it will make the app perform even better and reduce any glitches or problems with interactivity or performance.

For Nokia the app will be big news as people look for more from the Finnish firm’s first Windows Phones. The link with Microsoft, and the fact that there is already a Xbox Live licence that comes with the handset means there is great potential for linking up with a console. More and more Xbox and PlayStation users are streaming through their console, thanks to existing apps like Netflix and Love Film, so having a smartphone link up with a console makes it even more integrated than many existing DLNA enabled phones. Nokia says that as well as music they are hoping to plan functionality that allows the handset to act as a DLNA Media Server. That would be increasing link up with an Xbox 360 and other similar devices.

About Simon

Simon writes on behalf of Best Mobile Contracts - the best place to compare mobile phone contracts in the UK.

21
Dec
CAPTCHA.jpg

Protect your blog from spam with Confident CAPTCHA

So you’re worried about spam bots attacking your site. You must have heard of CAPTCHA. Maybe even implemented it with the hope that it will stop those spam bots.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the fool proof solution, because spam bots are known to break these. So, CAPTCHAs tend to become even more confusion, with distorted lines and text and more.

Confident CAPTCHA™ is an easy to use, clickable picture CAPTCHA that stops spam and bots on websites by asking visitors to simply click on images, rather than decipher the warped and distorted text used in most CAPTCHA tests.

Picture CAPTCHA vs. text CAPTCHA

Confident CAPTCHA stops spam and bots on blogs, Web forms, new account registrations, ticketing websites, social networking sites and more. Our image-based CAPTCHA alternative: 

  • Eliminates the user frustration associated with ugly text CAPTCHAs
  • Reduces website abandonment
  • Increases online interactions
  • Stops spam,fraudulent registrations and other threats caused by bots
  • Improves the user experience, resulting in repeat visits

Confident CAPTCHA is available for PHP, ASP.NET, Python, WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.

It does not take up space on the Web page. Only a small button sits on the Web page and the CAPTCHA image grid appears as a fly-out or a light box when a user clicks the button.

Web developers and website owners can get Confident CAPTCHA for free by registering for an account here, which provides access to the API.

About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

6
Apr

Enhance your Windows shell with SecondShell

Windows is powerful, but then we all crave for more power. SecondShell is a free portable software, providing useful enhancements for the Windows shell with some extra help to netbook users.

SecondShell

Key features:

  • Maximize windows Horizontally or Vertically
  • Move and resize windows easily
  • Minimize and close applications easily
  • Use up to 10 custom hotkeys to launch your frequently used application
  • Change the CapsLock button into middle mouse button

The best part of this is that the software is portable, which means you just need to unzip it to a particular folder and run it.

Download SecondShell

About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.