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It’s no mystery that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter offer vast opportunities to spread your word quickly, efficiently and without any hard labor. When you upload a video to Youtube, you obviously want the world to see. You go about manually putting links to your videos in your Facebook status, email them or tweet them. Well, Youtube now offers a feature that can simplify the job of sharing your uploaded videos and it’s completely automated. If you want, to autoshare your videos uploaded to Youtube to Facebook, Twitter or Google reader, here’e how you go about it:

1) Login to your Youtube account and go to your ‘Account' settings.

2) In the left pane, click ‘Sharing’.

3) In the right pane, you will find the ‘AutoShare options’. Click on the service on which you wish to autoshare your uploaded videos. Authorization on respective services will follow.

4) Finally click ‘Save Changes’. Here after, whenever you upload a video, it will get autoshared on the connected services. (Videos marked ‘private’ won’t be shared.)

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While slideshows are easier and fun to watch, it is equally tough to make them appealing. Not all who think they can turn those vacation pictures into a stunning slideshow can actually do so. And displaying one photo after the other at a regular time intervals is not what I call a slideshow. So if you are agreeing with me on this and want to make stunning and spectacular slideshows for free, then you might want to check out these online slideshow generators.

7 awesome online slideshow generators:

Slideroll

» Lets you create flash photo and video galleries and allow other users to comment on them.

» You can embed the slideshow on your website.

» Optional downloadable desktop editor available.

Imageloop

» Easy. Recommended for beginners.

» Many presets to choose from.

» Intuitive interface.

Kizoa

» Easy to use.

» Creates flash based slideshows.

» Can get a little rough at times.

Moblyng

» You can add text, skins and music tracks to the slideshows.

» Embed code is available.

» Nice interface.

Smilebox

» Easy and quick.

» You can add captions and music to your photos and videos.

» Hundreds of templates to choose from.

Slide

» Various music and design options to glorify your slideshow.

» Designed specially for sharing slideshows to social networks.

» Easy and intuitive interface.

Animoto

» Creates extremely professional and stunning slideshows.

» You can add predefined music to your slideshow or you can upload your own.

» Very efficient and quick slideshow generator.

Use any of these awesome slideshow generators and let us know your experience with them. If you have found any other online slideshow generators, let us know in the comments.

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I love music. I love by 20GB+ of music library. And I love it more when they are properly organized in an orderly fashion. That’s why I always double check ID3 tags for proper Artist, Album and Year information before adding any new mp3 song file to my library. Nowadays the music players have become so flexible that they can organize your music collection based on ID3 tags and presents you automated playlists based upon them. But for this, you need to have a music collection that has superbly well-organized ID3 tags.

While on one hand you can easily set Artist, Album, Year and Contributing Artists tags through the mp3 file properties, very few might know that you can add more information about Lyricist, Copyright, Mix artist, Recording company, Composer, Publisher, Album art and even full Lyrics into the mp3 file itself. All these information can be added to the mp3 file. All you need is a good ID3 tagging software and I think MP3Tag is the best out there. Download it and get ready to optimize your music library by adding extended ID3 tags:

1) Open MP3Tag and drag n’ drop some mp3 files into it. Select mp3 file(s), ‘Right click’ > ‘Extended tags…’

2) In the window that appears, you can edit the existing extended tags or make your own.

3) Press the ‘Add Field…’ button as shown above and the ‘Edit tag info’ window will appear. Use the drop down to select the desired field you want to set. Enter its value in the ‘Value’ field below. Press ‘OK’. Likewise you can set many such extended tags which are inaccessible otherwise.

4) Some of the important extended tags you would want to set are: Composer, Lyricist, Lyrics, Copyright and Website information.

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Ever found yourself in quite a baffling situation where you play your favorite movie on your computer but it’s hardly pleasing to eyes and ears? That happens when the audio and/or subtitles is not in sync with the video. Nowadays, you may find rips of DVDs and Bluray discs which are not properly encoded. The result is unsynchronized audio and video. One solution is to have your own video editing software, a technical know how and at least an hour of spare time. If you don’t want any of them, then follow the trick:

1) Download VLC Player and install it, if you haven’t got it yet.

2) Open the video file in VLC Player.

3) Click ‘Tools’ > ‘Track Synchronization’

4) In the windows that appears, you can change the values in milliseconds to get the desired results – right away.

If audio and/or subtitles are lagging behind: Use + to advance the audio and/or subtitles to match the video.

If video is lagging behind: Use – to slow down audio and/or subtitles to match the video.

You can even change the speed of subtitles in frames per second to get optimum results. Most videos have frame-rate of either 23.976 or 25 FPS. The best part is, you can tweak the synchronization on trial and error basis without encoding the video which saves time!

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This happens every now and then. You are watching a really good video on YouTube or any other video hosting site but the only glitch you face is that the volume of the video is really low. The worst part is there is nothing much you can do except for maxing out your speaker’s volume. Most of the times this trick turns out to be a mediocre solution. But here is a quick and efficient way to go about it. For this you need to have VLC Player installed on your computer. I am not sure if Media Player Classic (with K-Lite Codec Pack) can do this job. So, install VLC player and let’s get started.

1) Open VLC Player and click ‘Media’ > ‘Streaming’.

2) In the window that appears, click the ‘Network’ tab. Choose ‘HTTP’ as the protocol and paste the link of the video in the ‘Address’ box. Make sure you does not include ‘http://’ again.

3) Additionally, check mark ‘Show more options’ and you will be able tweak the advanced options like caching and start time of the video. Click ‘Stream’.

4) When the video starts playing, you can increase the volume of the video by 400% just by sliding the volume control of VLC player. Enjoy!

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This is funny but if you believe in the research results, this might give you an eerie feeling. A research was done recently to see whether inserting more and more songs into an iPod or MP3 players make them actually heavy. The results turned out to be shocking.

The results showed that iPods, iPhones and MP3 players get a ‘little’ heavy upon installing files in them. The tests were done by weighing an empty iPod and a full one. The difference turned out to be 0.4 grams. Upon filling 3500 songs in a 16GB iPhone, it weighed 133.6 grams compared to an empty iPhone which weighed 133.2 grams. Professor Roger Banks quoted that this was for the first time a digital data has been measured in a real world measuring unit. We all know it is made up of 0s and 1s but the ratio of ones to zeros actually seems to make a difference. Further research is being carried on to ascertain whether different file formats weigh differently with the same file size. [via]

Nero 9 is one of the oldest and widely used CD/DVD burning software till date. It has evolved to the great extent overtime. But it is not a freeware. However, recently Nero.com announced that users can download Nero Free for Life edition without any cost. So you don’t need to crack and hack it illegally. Just download Nero 9 and enjoy CD/DVD burning. This version of Nero will be free of cost with its activation key albeit for a limited time period.

This particular version, ‘free for life’, is capable of CD/DVD burning and copying features. Additional features are available via an upgrade to Nero 9 full version. So grab your free copy of Nero 9 ‘Free for Life’ edition. The size of download is just 55 MB.

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I am a movie freak. And I know many of you also are. I love to see hi-res DVD and Bluray films on my laptop but many films does not have subtitles and it sometimes gives me hard times to grope up that important word. That’s why I download proper subtitles from OpenSubtitles, AllSubs, DivXSubtitles, etc. There are times when subtitles become inevitable when you watch movies in languages you don’t know.

Here, I am going to show you how to integrate the downloaded subtitles seamlessly and quickly to your video file. The point here is, we are not going to encode the video by hardcoding the subtitles on it. This will degrade the quality of the video and the subtitles will look jagged and tacky. We will use a tool called MKVToolnix to overlay the subtitles onto the video. So first, download MKVToolnix, install it and run it.

1) Drag and drop the movie file in the ‘Input files:’ box. Then, drag and drop the downloaded subtitle file into it.

2) The subsequent box will show the video, audio and subtitle tracks individually. You can keep or remove any of them by selecting/deselecting the checkbox. But you don’t want to do that. Keep everything checked. Once you click on the individual track (say, video) the ‘General track options’ will become active. Set those preferences accordingly. (See the image below)

Note: Set the ‘Default track flag’ to ‘yes’ for all tracks. This will enable subtitles (and ofcourse, video and audio too) to display by default.

3) The next step is to set the destination for the output. Note that the file thus generated will be a .mkv file. Click on ‘Start muxing’ button. For a movie size ranging from 700MB to 1.5GB, it will take upto a maximum of 5 minutes on a decent computer with 1GHz or more processor.

Now you can enjoy the film with decent looking subtitles. The best part is that the video does not get encoded which saves the quality of the video and the muxing time. This is what the final output will look like:

[The above screenshot is taken from the bluray version of Wall·E]

Most you must still be preferring Windows Media Player over other music players and why not? It is versatile, organizes your music pretty well, it comes bundled with Windows and does its job quite good. I personally prefer Windows Media Player 12 (which is the latest version in Windows 7) and AIMP2. Many other music players like iTunes can generate auto-playlists based upon Artists, Album, Genre, Play count, etc. Sadly, in WMP you manually have to sort them out and then make a playlist. What if you want to make an auto-playlist of your ‘most played songs’. Here’s a very simple trick.

1) Open WMP and on the left pane click on ‘Music’.

2) Once you get the list of all the songs, right-click on the column title and click on ‘Choose columns…’

3) In the window that appears, check ‘Play Count’ and click OK.

4) You will see a new column ‘Play Count’ is added. Click on it and your list of songs will get sorted according to the number of times a particular song was played. By sorting it in a ‘Descending’ manner, you now have your most played songs listed. Double click on the first song and the whole list will get into the ‘Now Playing’ list. You’re done.

Seems like Samsung wants to make a distinct mark in pioneering new technologies when it introduced its brand new, totally aesthetic, crystal and sleek LED Television. You have seen the classic picture-tube TVs, then the LCDs..now flaunt proudly with the new and stylish Samsung LED TVs series 6 and series 7. I am going to review them and let me tell you, you are going to just drool over its features.

Samsung came up with two series: Series 6 LED TVs and Series 7 LED TVs. Visit the Samsung official LED TVs page.

• Series 6:

This includes the models UA46B6000VR and UA40B6000VR. The former is a stylish 46” screen with a mega dynamic contrast ratio to give you life like viewing experience. Thundering with a 10W x 2 RMS sound output, you now experience the theatre at your home. The latter is just a same replica but with a little smaller screen size of 40”.

• Series 7:

This includes the models UA40B7000 and UA46B7000. Series 7 is a super set of Series 6 as you must have guessed. It has all the features of Series 6 plus some exciting features.

The Samsung LED TVs is a technological breakthrough. Some of the common features in all the models are:

1. The width of the LED TV is 2.99 cm which is quite slim compared to other such TVs and occupies very little space and gives a flat and clear viewing experience.
2. It has 100 Hz Motion plus
3. Crystal Design which not only increases the oomph factor but will surely make your neighbour jealous!
4. Samsung WS1* Sound Bar Surround System. So that you can bring the whole theatre experience home.

So just visit your nearest Samsung store now and bring the crystal experience of LED TVs home.