March 30th, 2010
Description
Share your photos. Watch the world. Flickr® for the iPhone enables photo-sharing on the go – from your phone, to the world.
Shoot, upload and share photos & videos: Geo-tag your photos or add them to a set. View your photos by set and tag.
Stay up to date: See recent photo activities from your friends and family. Search and view photos by contact. Make comments or mark them as favorites.
Explore the world: Search photos & videos from the Flickr community all over the world – by subject, people, or places.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
by rotorglow
Looks nice, but….
1. Sometimes it crashes when you take and upload a new pic within the app. Sometimes it doesn’t.
2. Pix from the camera roll are only uploaded at 800×600 (on an iPhone 3G) instead of 1600x 1200. (Yes, most apps are limited to 800×600, but you can upload full res photos by copying them from the camera roll and pasting them into a mail message.)
3. And uploads don’t respect existing geotags: you can only choose to tag with your current (at time of upload) location, or none at all.
Looking forward to improvements….
Finally! Some improvements and bugfixes needed
by _arvind
Great to see an official app. This is a well-designed, fun app. Great visual presentation (love the zoomy home screen), clean & simple interface.
But:
- it’s SLOW, and seems to slow down more and more with use. Commenting takes forever
- it focuses purely on one’s network – so you can’t explore the global ‘interesting’ set, for instance
- no groups! Though group activity appears in the ‘recent’ section
About time!
by Curb Stompin’
Finally an official app!…Nice clean, easy to navigate user interface.
Pros:
1) Landscape mode.
2) Two views, thumbnail and thumbnail with picture title.
3) Ability to email picture.
4) Search
Cons:
1) Can’t delete a picture.
2) Can’t delete comments.
3) Can’t zoom in or out of a picture.
4) Can’t edit tags or picture title.
5) Can only email one picture at a time.
6) Can’t save pictures from the app to iPhone/iPod touch photo’s.
All in all a nicely done app, just needs the above added.
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March 30th, 2010
Twelve UW-Green Bay students and a staff member spent their Spring Break visiting southwest South Dakota, where they spent time on the Pine Ridge Reservation and in Rapid City building relationships, learning Lakota culture, and working on service projects.
The group visited Red Cloud School, Oglala Lakota College, the Lakota Fund, Wounded Knee, and much more. They had conversations with Betty O’Rourke, great-granddaughter of Black Elk, and Will Peters, recent recipient of a Native American Music Award (also known as a “Nammy”). The students played with children in an after-school program, built a new porch, and prepared a wall for a large mural.
The trip was organized by the Ecumenical Center and co-sponsored by Student Life. Photos from this high-impact learning experience can be found in the flickr window on the Student Life website.
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March 30th, 2010
JVC camcorder users are usually troubled by MOD and TOD files that generated by their JVC camcorders, because the two formats generally can not be accepted directly by most video players or editors. If you want to enjoy these video files on your computer or portable devices, or even do some further editing with video editing software, you have to convert them to some other common formats previously. This article here will introduce you how to convert MOD and TOD files generated by JVC camcorders on Windows and Mac？If you are in need, please go ahead with it.
Part 1: About MOD and TOD:
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Both MOD and TOD are the informal tapeless video formats produced by certain digital camcorders. And both of them have never been given to any meaning explanations or official names by their creators JVC or Panasonic. The differences between them lie in: MOD are used by JVC, Panasonic, and Canon in some models of camcorders, such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255, Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21, SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on, while TOD is only used by JVC camcorders, like JVC GZ-HD7, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6, GZ-HD30, and GZ-HD40; Moreover, MOD is only used for standard definition video files, while TOD is exclusively used for high definition video files.
Part 2: How to convert MOD and TOD files on Windows?
Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter
Step 2: Import video files, select output format and specify store path
Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to this program, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of “Format”. If you want to play on your cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select FLV. Meanwhile, press output folder to specify where to locate the output files, or you can use the store path set by default. Further more, suppose you need to join several files to be one, you can check “Merge into one file” to realize it.
Step 3: Set advanced settings:
You are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. In this section, you are able to set parameters for output video, the bigger value, the better quality, but the larger size.
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Step 4: Convert
Pavtube provides you a friendly interface while converting, and all the conversion info can be found out in the following window, like total progress, the time have spent, the file size have been generated, as well as the possible left time and the entire size probably produced during the conversion.
Tips:
1. The converting speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar converters. Batch conversion can be done in a few minutes. Merge multiple files into one file is also available.
2. It does not have the audio-video sync issues.
3. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.
4. You can use the “Trim” function to select certain video clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the “Crop” function to remove black edges or change the screen size.
Part 3: How to convert MOD and TOD files on Mac?
Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac.
Step 2: Select formats and do advanced settings
Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to it, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of “Format”. If you want to edit with iMovie, you can select MOV or MP4; to play on your cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select FLV.
Meanwhile, you are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. For instance, you can reset the screen size or change the bit rate. Increase the bit rate, video quality will be improved, while file size will be enlarged. Decrease the bit rate, file size will be reduced, while quality is inferior to the original.
Step 3: Export To
Set which destination folder the output files will be exported to. You can export them to the default path or specify a path to locate them by clicking “Browse”.
Step 4: Convert
Tips: Introduce you two more special functions to optimize your conversion.
Suppose to add logos or images on your videos to show your personalized settings or to reserve your own copyright? The following step will show you the methods of adding watermarks.
1. Add watermarks to your video
There are four ways to add watermarks, including adding text, adding images, adding GIF animations, and especially adding videos. Don’t you think a picture-in-picture function is really wonderful?
2. Audio Replace
If you want to add some soft music or some other audio resources to match your recorded videos, you can have a try about the function of “Audio Replace” to replace the original audio in your videos. You can click “Browse” to select which audio resources will be used to take place of the original audio.
Hope this article could definitely relieve your format troubles while handling MOD or TOD video files no matter you are a Windows user or a Mac user.
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March 29th, 2010
To play Blu-ray ISO backups on your WD TV Live, one thing you should know is that WD TV Live can well play ISO files from a USB drive, while network shares do have problems actually.
In order to get an ISO backup, what’s your workflow? As all I know, some people use tsMuxeR to back up the Blu-ray disc, and then converted it into an ISO using Daemon Tools. Personally, I use Pavtube Blu-ray Copy to make ISO backups for my Blu-ray discs.
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Within several clicks, this program can finish its task, and enables you to get an ISO image file. What you should do is just loading your BD files via “Source” option, and then choose “Image File (*.ISO)” from the pull down menu of “Target” to specify the destination folder. BTW, you’d better indicate your USB drive as the save path, or you need spend time to copy the ISO image to your USB drive repeatedly. Once the two steps finished, the backup process will begin, and then you just need wait for the resulted ISO files for your WD TV Live.
As long as copying task is completed, plug the USB into your WD TV, and connect it to your HDTV via HDMI cable, what you should do next is enjoying your BD movies on your widescreen TV leisurely.
One more thing I should mention is that some users have problems to play Blu-ray ISO files via their WD TV, but DVD ISO is working well. Not clear about the accurate reason, but another solution can be recommended. Since WD TV is able to beautifully playback HD MKV files up to Full HD 1080p, thus we just need a utility to convert BD files to HD MKV, and then everything will be OK. Because of the Blu-ray copyright issues, some discs are highly protected, we must take advantage of a powerful application to do so. In that case, the following Blu-ray ripper is suggested, it is able to remove nearly all kinds of BD protections, including BD+, AACS, and even MKB Version > 10 is supported as well.
This Blu-ray ripper allows users exporting “MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” format, and also enables users to reset audio and video parameters via clicking “Settings” button. You can set the resolution at 1920*1080 to remain 1080p quality of your Blu-ray movies, as well as keep 5.1 channel of the original surround sound. All in all, all the parameters like bit rate, codec name, frame rate, sample rate are all changeable in the following interface.
After your preferred settings for your WD TV have been set well, just click “Convert” button to start conversion. Once finished, you can watch them on your TV via WD TV with ease, and the high quality of the Blu-ray movie has never been changed at all.
Is this helpful? Hope it is.
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March 28th, 2010
As we all know there is no certain software developed for Mac users to transfer and replay TiVo DVR recorded
files as “TiVo Desktop” doing on Windows. But if you want to do format conversion between TiVo file and other
video formats on your Mac directly, what is your method? My way is to use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to
achieve my goal. Once you are sure you have the same requirement as I do, follow these steps to find the
solution.
Requirements:
- TiVo recordings: they can be from your own TiVo DVR or from the DVR of your friends
- TiVo Media Access Key: it is a specific 10-digit number assigned to every TiVo account
holder. If your TiVo source file are from your friends, then ask him/her for it.
- Pavtube Video Converter for
Mac
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Video Converter for Mac and click “Add” button to load TiVo files
In the first attempt, a dialog window will pop up as below, just click “OK” button.
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After that, the following window will allow you to enter your Media Access Key, just insert it, and click “OK” button
to confirm. What you should do next is clicking on “Add” button to load your TiVo files again. Or you can directly
drag and drop the file into this program. Meanwhile, suppose you want to let it alone and do something else during
the conversion, you can tick “Shut down the computer after conversion”.
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Step 2: Select output format
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select output format. This utility supports a wide range of output
format, including MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, VOB, and customized formats for iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3,
Apple TV, BlackBerry, etc.
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Step 3: Do advanced settings
Click on “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate,
sample rate, and audio channels. If you are not good at this step, you can totally skip it. By the way, if you wanna
combine multiple files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” in the main interface.
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Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
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March 28th, 2010
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To convert HD camcorder clips and other videos to a format that can be played on an iPod, iPhone, Apple TV
and shared on the web, some Mac users have purchased the not cheap Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder to
realize their format conversion goals. Turbo.264 HD is
not only an encoder, but also an accelerator to convert all popular video formats (including HD camcorder video) to
a high-quality H.264 file in standard or HD resolutions. It is incredibly fast and comes with an easy-to-use software
application.
Everything seems good, but when it comes to deal with copy-protected DVDs, it usually gives users CSS errors,
because it can only convert DVDs that are not copy-protected. Aside from the copyright issues, according to some
users’ review, Turbo.264 HD has one worse problem that sometimes the exported files are all out of sync. We can
have a look at some reviews on this point together. Written by PF from Ventura, 5-Nov-2009: “This product is a joke
… most of the files generated using this product have audio that is completely out of sync and are unwatchable”;
Written by AM from San Jose, 16-Nov-2009: “This product does exactly what it says on the box; it makes Apple TV
format movies in a very short time. The issue is they’re unwatchable. I’ve ripped 15 movies in the last 10 hours, and
not one of them has the audio in sync with the image.”
Well, how to fix the two problems? At this time, change your eyes on another affordable program would be a
better choice. Absolutely, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is for you to give solutions to the two problems.
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is able to read all copy-
protected DVDs from DVD ROM, DVD Folder, or IFO/ISO image files directly, and rip VIDEO_TS folders to playback
on popular multimedia players like iPhone, iPod, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, etc. The output format is wide ranging from
MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, etc. to HD video
up to 1080p. It also supports DVD chapter selection, and enables you to pick the audio track, subtitle, and camera
angle you want to go with the main feature when converting DVD files.
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Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac easily enables you to rip copy-protected DVDs fast and smoothly on Mac with
excellent output quality, and previewing, trimming, cropping, combining DVD clips, and adding text, image or video
watermarks to DVD files are all available within a few clicks. The advanced audio and video sync technology it
adopts will never let you be troubled by audio and video out of sync issues. Best of all, it is definitely cost-efficient,
only $28, much cheaper than $179.95 of Elgato Turbo.264. Consider having a try? Good luck.
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March 25th, 2010
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I’m trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv
file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track, but I can
understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track
as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a
forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are
looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.
First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter
here.
1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click “Add” button to load MKV files
As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.
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2. Click “Properties” icon to select your needed audio track
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of “Audio Stream ID” to see which one is your needed audio
track. After your selection is done, do remember clicking “OK” button to save your choice.
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3. Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3
I chose “PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance. To output vob files, you can select “VOB Format”
firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.
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4. Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings
If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click
“Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To
get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better
quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you’d better
make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip
this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically.
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5. Click “Convert” button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob
Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now, it’s time to enjoy the
movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.
The end! Hope this helps.
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March 25th, 2010
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Apple’s iPad features a 9.7-inch high-resolution 1024×768 multi-touch display, which not only makes it
convenient and comfortable for users to read newspapers, magazines, and books, view photos, experience the web,
see and touch emails, but also makes it perfect for watching any kind of video, from HD movies and TV shows to
podcasts, music videos and more. Since iPad is without distracting keypad or buttons, you will totally concentrate on
this big screen, and feel completely immersed in whatever you’re watching.
As of March 12, 2010, Apple fans in the U.S. are able to pre-order the iPad. The iPad is scheduled to go on
sale in the U.S. on April 3. Are you ready for watching video and Blu-ray or DVD movie collections on your iPad? If
not, this tutorial will give you a solution to the problem of how to play iPad incompatible video files in a detailed way
with Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter
Ultimate.
Before that, go to see the iPad supported video formats as below:
TV and video playback:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz,
stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up
to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo
audio in .avi file format
Well, if your movies are out of the above categories, then please follow the following guide to do format
conversion before your playback.
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Step 1: Add videos, Blu-ray or DVD movies into this program
Click “Add Video” to import video files, and click “Load DVD” to import Blu-ray or standard DVDs.
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Step 2: Select “iPad” as output format
Click the pull down menu at the end of “Format” to select an output format for iPad. Here I choose “iPad Video
MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” as an example.
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Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters
You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup
window to optimize the output file quality. Do remember following Apple’s recommended settings I’ve mentioned in
the above contents:
Video:
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second
Audio:
Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo
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Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion.
Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly.
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March 23rd, 2010
We all pretty much knew it was happening, and Steve Jobs didn’t let us down: Apple introduced a tablet device called the iPad in San Francisco on January 27. As Jobs said, the iPad is a creative product. It can perform a perfect performance in E-mail, enjoying photos, music and videos, and playing games. The one hundred forty thousand application in the utility store will enable to you do lots of things conveniently. The online iBook store can allow you to enjoy millions of books anywhere and anytime. Smart design and powerful function will make iPad App fans’ favorite in the near future.
Video actually played a big role during the announcement, with Job’s saying that a new device only made sense if it was better at watching video, among other tasks, than current laptops and smart phones. And the fact is that iPad can do a good job in HD movies and TV shows playback. The 9.7— inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology will make you enjoy a more wonderful visual experience than ever. However, it is pity that there is no built-in optical drive, and the external drives are very expensive. So, how can we watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on iPad in an easy and cheap way? Here I will share the best solution with you all.
To rip Blu-ray disc and DVD, Blu-ray Ripper and BD drive are required. You may download Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper from here. It is naturally support DVD ripping and allows you to select audio track of any language of the movie. Now find a step-to-step guide below:
Step 1: Click “DVD ROM” or “IFO/ISO File” to import Blu-ray files.
Step 2: Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select an output format. Here I follow iPad-> MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance.
Step 3: Click “Browse” button to look for and set a save path to store the output HD videos.
Step 4: Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings.
After clicking this button, you will enter the window shown below, on which you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters like codec name, bit rate, image pixel, sample rate, etc., in that way you can take charge of the output file size as well as image quality on your hands freely.
Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping.
As long as the ripping work is finished, you can click “Open” button to find out the ripped HD files with ease. Then, you can transfer the generated file to your iPad to enjoy wonderful high quality Blu-ray movies.
Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/guide/rip-blu-ray-to-ipad-compatible-format.html
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March 23rd, 2010
I’m trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track, but I can understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.
First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter here.
1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click “Add” button to load MKV files
As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.
2. Click “Properties” icon to select your needed audio track
You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of “Audio Stream ID” to see which one is your needed audio track. After your selection is done, do remember clicking “OK” button to save your choice.
3. Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
I chose “PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance. To output vob files, you can select “VOB Format” firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.
4. Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings
If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you’d better make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically.
5. Click “Convert” button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob
Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now, it’s time to enjoy the movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.
The end! Hope this helps.
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