Will Apple Notebook Use Self-developed ARM Processor?

This article is first written by Video Converter for Mac Club.

Gus Richard, a senior analyst for Piper Jaffray reported that Apple is developing a self-developed processor notebook in a research on Friday, which is working on an ARM-based notebook whether Apple is actually manufacture or not. It will have a great impact to Intel.

Richard said: “a number of data we get indicate that Apple's processor design group is developing a product based on the ARM architecture, the future will be used for notebook and it is unclear whether this processor is put into operation, but ARM enter to the PC market, Intel is facing the greatest risk.” “While the smartphone market is important to Intel, its core franchise of PCs and servers are where of the company's profits emanate from,” Richard wrote. "We believe the PC market remains weak in part due to the shortage of hard disk drives, and while we expect an increase in demand with improving disk drive supply, we do not expect it to be robust. We also see the cannibalization of the PC market by tablets." At present, the processor of the ARM architecture is widely used in smart phones and tablets. Apple iPad and the iPhone 4S uses the A5 processor, which is also based on the ARM architecture. Apple will soon release the next generation iPad which also be upgraded A Series processor.

An ARM-based notebook would technically fall under the category of a “smartbook” a product that Qualcomm started showing off in the middle of 2009. Ironically, the concept died in part, then, because of the lack of Windows. Fast forward three years, however, and Windows on ARM is one of the more intriguing aspects of Windows 8. For his part, Richard called Windows 8 “late”, but also a “likely Dud on Arrival.” Relative to Intel processors, ARM processors consume less power, but the computational performance is weak. In last May, it is reported that Apple will be the future of the MacBook Air products using self-developed A - series processors.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple iPad product line will continue to expand this week, to meet the needs of the users of similar notebooks. Apple, of course, exists in a separate ecosystem, and the company's A4 and follow-on architectures are based on the ARM processor technology. Richard did not say what OS he believed an ARM-based processor would run, but the iPad/iPhone's iOS would be a likely choice. Apple has also successfully ported its Mac OS from the PowerPC to the Intel X 86 platforms.

While Apple's A - series processor performance continues to improve, but the Intel processor is continuous improvement in energy consumption. For example, the further Haswell processor of Intel is expected to adopt the architecture of the system on a chip, to provide a better balance in terms of both power and performance. This can meet the needs of Apple to notebook processor.

How to convert DVD to iPod/iPhone/Sansa/PSP/Zune/iRiver/Google Phone/Cell Phone, etc. on Mac

Many people like enjoy movies at home and they have piles of DVDs. So do I. I like watch lastest movie on my new Mac and it is wonderful. However, I always break and lose my DVDs and I was really sad because they cost most of my money. Luckily, I find a way to store my DVD movies on my new Mac computer and evern put it on my iPod because I use a DVD Ripper for Mac and it can rip DVDs to so many video formats, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB and so on.

To do this you must have a nice dvd ripper for Mac. So I find Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac

OK, let’s do it.
Step 1. Download and install Aisesoft DVD Ripper for Mac.

For Intel

For Power PC

Step 2. Load you DVD.
Click the “Load DVD” button(a), find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your DVD-ROM, and Click “Open”.

Tick the check boxes(b) before the titles and chapters that you want to rip.

Step 3. Chose output profile and settings.
Selecting output format is really easy, you can chose your output format according to your devices players and the default setting works great.

For a veteran of digital player, you could customize your own settings by clicking “Settings” button to chose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.

Tips: Sample rate (Hz) = any value up to 48000 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)
Bitrate (kbps) = any value up to 160 (higher value = better sound quality = bigger file)

After setting your own output and settings you can click “Start” button to start your conversion. (The time of the conversion depends on your DVD and the settings you chose.)

Do a few more clicks to make your movie more enjoyable.
1. Trim

If you want to rip only a part of the DVD movie, please click “Trim” button and drag the “Start trim slider” to set the start time and “End trim slider” to set the end time.(a). You can also do that by clicking the “Start trim button” and “End trim button”(b). The third way you do that is set the exact Start/End time at the right of the pop-up window and click “OK”.

2. Crop
If you want to remove the black edges or you want to rip a certain area of your video, please click the “Crop” button. You can do this either by drag the frame around the movie (a) or set the crop value: “Top, Left, Bottom, Right”.(b). Another way to do that is choose mode from “Crop Mode”(c).
Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac also allows you to choose the output aspect ratio above the crop pane, “Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3” are available.

3. Effect
If you want to adjust the effect of your movie, please click the “Effect” button and a pop-up effect window will appear. It allows you to edit your movie’s effect including “Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and Volume”.

4. Merge into one file/audio track/subtitles
If you would like to put several titles and chapters into one output file, please tick the check box of the “Merge into one file”.
You can choose audio track and subtitles you like according to what you prefer and the DVD supports.

Follow what I said above I hope you could enjoy your DVD movies on your Mac and also on your iPod and other portable players

Why More and More Developers Choose IOS Platform than Android?

Thanks for iPad 2 Converter delivering this article.

Flurry announces the latest data that the number of the application development in January for the Android platform is below than last period compared to Apple iOS platform, Flurry finds that the number of application developers for the Android platform is one- third to iOS platform, but a year ago, the ratio is two-thirds.

The survey only relates to developers who use the Flurry tools for application design, but this change still confirm that Google tried to go beyond the Apple’s App Store, the efforts may lose motivation. The data shows that Apple's App Store has more than 550 thousand applications, while the number of applications of the Google Android Market – 400 thousand. Both companies rely on apps to enhance the attractiveness of their mobile phone products, while retaining the users that have purchased their products. Peter Farago, the vice president of marketing of Flurry said: "Our survey found that developers are more inclined to iOS platform." Since the launch of the Android phone in 2008, Google is constantly eating away at Apple's market share. Nevertheless, Flurry data show that the number of applications in 2011, the Android adds only half of the iOS.

According to a survey conducted by Appcelerator and IDC about 2000 developers discovered that the number of the developers for Android phone and tablet apps in November last year, their interest of iOS devices in the development and application of five months has not changed. Google spokesman Christopher Katsaros and Christine Monaghan were all declined to comment. The reason why developers declined interest in the Android platform for that it relates to the time and money spent on this platform. IOS application development is faster and easier to get profit, which to some extent, thanks to Apple's iTunes store. Farago said: "The developers can make more money from iOS applications.”

According to game developer GameHouse vice president Ken Murphy, the iOS game revenue of the company to create Android game three to four times, but on the Android game development time than iOS game more than two months. As a result, the time of the Android game release later one third than iOS game. Murphy said: "developing the Android platform game is more difficult than the iOS platform game." GameHouse had developed a "Doodle Jump" and "NCIS the Game" and other popular games. The Marmalade president of software developer Alex Caccia said: "about 90 of the Android platform app store, if you place great emphasis on this market, then you must bear this suffering".

In addition, with the iPhone and Pad, the user's credit card information already stored in the iTunes store, so that the application to purchase a breeze. Murphy said: "In the short term, the contribution of the iOS platform will give application developers a lot of income, but in the long run, we are very optimistic about the earnings outlook for the Android platform.

Windows Phone 8: Support NFC integration of Skype

By Total Video Converter, which is dedicated to developing apps for Windows portable devices.

Microsoft has just finished a period of internal release product video was leaked to website PocketNow focus on mobile devices reported on Thursday. This video of the latest smartphone product, Windows Phone 8 Apollo performance, originally provided for a reference to Microsoft’s smartphone partners.

To the study of the video, some analysts said that Windows Phone Mango is a very stable platform, compared with the Android run faster, smoother response. However, when compared to Microsoft, Apple, and Google products, find that Windows Phone always miss some attractive features. Prior to Windows Phone project leader Joey Bell , Phil , Joe Belfiore, has said that Microsoft will launch a new product in the fourth quarter of 2012 , it now appears likely that this Windows Phone 8 Apollo.

To the hardware, Microsoft is under a lot of effort to improve the quality of the entire mobile phone to a new level , the product will support multi-core processing technology , the NFC complete microSD card storage. Apollo will also support four kinds of different screen resolutions, but Bell Phil temporarily unwilling to confirm these details.

The PocketNow introduced, developers should be welcome this product, they can quite easily be a Windows 8 applications ported to Windows Phone platform up. This is because the two operating systems will use a similar interface. NFC technology allows users to easily information between many Windows 8 devices “click and share”.

While Microsoft has been promoting its Tango video chat application, but the company’s acquisition of Skype industry is not worthless. Windows 8 still will integrate Skype, and will greatly improve the quality of the audio calls and video calls. Microsoft is expected to be officially on sale at the Apollo, the market should have been more than 10 million lines of application. While developers also should be given the development code, and will be able to integrate communication functions between applications.

In addition PocketNow said that the Apollo will be the use of data to the DataSmart a named technical support. This feature will give priority to a wireless hotspot link; the IE browser will be compressed placed in a built-in server-side, thereby reducing the share of the data. In addition, the Local Scout, the module will help users to automatically find nearby hot spots, and with the link.

Windows has always been a giant among enterprise applications, and Windows Phone is also about to show its dominant state. Apollo will support BitLocker full disk encryption options, each enterprise’s own dedicated application can also be installed within the corporate firewall.

Newly Upgraded Aiseesoft iPad Converter - Highly Supports iOS 5

The other days, a very little mistake drived me crazzy on iPad. I planned to copy some DVD movies onto my iPad so that i can watch them when i travel. I think this is a good idea to kill the boring time. However, as is known to all, iPad supports only the video formats below:

* 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 file formats are M4v, Mp4 and Mov;
* 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 per channel, 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 u-law, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

Audio formats supported like below:
* AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC; MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV.

Aiseesoft, one of the professional developers of digital multimedia software, has garnered long-time support from their loyal customers. In order to serve them better, Aiseesoft Studio upgraded their popular iPad Converter, and now it highly supports iOS 5, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2.

On the basis of transferring music, movie, pictures, TV shows, Podcasts, iTunes U, eBooks, Camera Roll, voice memos, camera shots from iPad to PC or from PC to iPad, this upgrade enables Aiseesoft iPad Transfer to highly support the latest iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and iOS 5. Besides, it brings users 6x faster converting speed due to the application of AMD APP and NVIDIA® CUDA™ GPU processing acceleration technology in DVD to iPad Converter and iPad Video Converter software.

As for iPad Converter Suite, it is composed of DVD to iPad Converter, iPad Video Converter and iPad Transfer. Thus, it should be your best choice to convert any DVD file or video to general output formats such as MPEG-4, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MOV, and M4V for iPad in fast speed and excellent qualities and transfer files between PC and iPad to share or backup whilst saving money. Besides, this iPad Converter Suite supports all versions of iPod/iPhone/iPad.

To conclude, the Aiseesoft iPad Converter Suite is an extremely useful tool to convert DVD / video to all video and audio formats supported by Apple Devices as you like. It is also the best assistant to manage your iPad files well. Give it a try it today!

Price and Availability
iPad Converter Suite is now priced at $ 35.00

System Requirements
OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7
Hardware Requirements: 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or above; 512MB RAM or more

Galaxy Nexus System Updates With Android 4.0.4 Exposure

Although Android4.0.3 has been introduced for a long time, so far the Samsung Galaxy Nexus operation is still Android4.0.2 system. And compared with 4.0.3, 4.0.2 version not only the application interface is not novel, but also often discovered some Bug. However, today good news comes, foreign science and technology forum members of the XDA-Developers Galaxy Nexus have released the latest ice cream sandwich version -- Android4.0.4, Galaxy Nexus users can upgrade to this version of OTA.

Reportedly, the new version of Android 4.0.4 is currently limited in version of CDMA Galaxy Nexus.

The system has revealed new features including:

- faster running performance

- Android operating system vulnerability ( battery problem ) repairs

- 3G / 4G switching improvement

- Signal intensity enhancement

- New Power menu ( Different from 4.0.2, near 4.0.3 )

- Quicker start

- Automatic brightness adjustment function change. Smooth transition

- Adjust the camera's Holding down button

- multi-touch solving ( which developers are not too sure )

- Automatic rotating more quickly

- the browser's performance improved significantly

- Recent list of applications to open more quickly

- Changes of UI - Camera

- increase the volume

- Keyboard fixing problems

- UI of updated news and weather application

- Browser's fast control improvement

To be frank, if you are interested in iOS devices, you can join the iPad Converter Club.

Updated iPad 2 Converter Suite - the Most Powerful APP for iPad Users

Apple is always the center of hot topics nowadays because it is constantly creating magic and fantastic products like iPhone, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPad 2, which is gaining in popularity because of its strong functions and convenience since it was released. The newly upgraded Aiseesoft iPad 2 Converter Suite is specially designed for iPad 2 users to manage video, audio or image files on iPad 2 much easier and more conveniently. Since more and more people prefer to use iPad, good iPad 2 converter software is becoming necessary in daily life.

Aiseesoft iPad 2 Converter Suite, composed of iPad 2 Video Converter, DVD to iPad 2 Converter and iPad 2 Transfer, possesses powerful functions to help users convert any video format including DVD to iPad 2 compatible formats in fast speed and high image/sound qualities. iPad 2 Video Converter allows users to convert any video format including MPG, MPEG, VOB, DAT, MP4, M4V, TS, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, MKV, AVI, etc. to iPad 2. By using the DVD to iPad 2 Converter, you can convert any type of DVD to iPad 2 easily and directly. The iPad 2 Transfer, the best iPad 2 Manager has the capabilities of transferring video, audio and image files between iPad 2 and computer without losing anything. In addition, all modes of iPod and iPhone are also supported by this software.

Key Features of iPad 2 Converter Suite

1. Convert videos and DVDs to iPad 2 and extract audio from videos
2. Convert one source to different video formats at one time.
3. Transfer files between iPad 2 and computer with quick and auto searching function
4. Customize output files through editing function. Users can merge, trim and crop videos, adjust video effects and add watermark to the videos according to their preference,
5. Preview video effect and capture video frame.
6. The newly adopted NVIDIA® CUDA™ and AMD APP acceleration technology makes it possible to complete the conversion and transfer process within a very short time.

To conclude, this iPad 2 Converter suite will absolutely provide you with the best and easiest way to help you manage your iPad 2 in order.

Price and Availability

Aiseesoft iPad 2 Converter Suite is now priced at $35.00

System Requirements

OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7

Hardware Requirements: 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or above; 512MB RAM or more