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An ISO image is a disk image of an optical disc, it includes all the data of files contained on the archived DVD. Many people store their DVD iso on computer as backup. Now let me show you how to extract the movie part out of the DVD iso and make it play on your computer.

Here we will use Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, it is capable to recognize DVD iso files and rip/convert iso to avi/mpeg/divx/vob and other regular video formats. You don’t have to burn the DVD iso to DVD to make it play any more.

The interface for Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum is organized well and you can access all the features you want by the top navigation bar.

Load DVD iso files

Load the DVD iso into Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, since we only really want just the movie, we can select which titles/chapters you want to convert, this is a good feature so that we needn’t to convert the entire disc.

Once you’ve selected your movie you can choose the format you want to convert to. You can also edit the settings by clicking the the ‘Settings’ button.

Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum enables you to do a little video editing before you start to convert the movie .

After these things, you can click the Start button to start the conversion, it will take about 20 minutes to convert DVD iso to avi/mpeg/divx/etc on an average computer.

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YouTube has HD Videos for quite some time, it provides 720p HD videos.  Now I will share a trick to download Youtube HD videos to computer as MP4 format.

1. Drag the following bookmarklet to your browser’s Bookmarks toolbar.
   Download YouTube HD Videos
2. Once you are watching a HD YouTube video, click the bookmarklet and the download should begin.

Note: This Youtube Download hack can only download Youtube HD videos, if you want to download regular Youtube video, you can use Youtube Download for Windows / Youtube Downloader for Mac

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How do you take a movie that is stored on your hard drive in  AVI/MPEG/WMV/MOV format and burn it to disc so that you can watch it on a standard DVD player? This is a frequently asked question for most users.  We often take a little videos using digital camcorder or digital camera, it is nice to burn them to DVD to share with friends and family, but the problem is, most dvd burner cannot burn DVDs for standard DVD player.

I recommend that you use Cucusoft Mpeg/Mov/RMVB/DivX/AVI to DVD/VCD/SVCD Converter Pro, with it, you can convert and burn any video file directly to VCD, DVD, SVCD, MPEG1 and MPEG2 format.

1. Download and launch Cucusoft Mpeg/Mov/RMVB/DivX/AVI to DVD/VCD/SVCD Converter Pro, and you can see the interface like the firgure below:
   

   Cucusoft MPEG/AV to VCD/SVCD/DVD Burner Pro

   Click on the “To DVD” button, choose DVD as output format

2. Select tab of “Merge/Join” or  “Batch”
3. Click “Open” button to load your video files
4. Set your preference:  Set the DVD properties here. You don’t need to change it in most situation.
5. Set the  advance settings (DVD video and audio settings, and other parameters.)
6. Click “Start to Convert” button and start to burn AVI/MPEG/WMV/MOV to DVDs.

After a few minutes, you can play the video files on your DVD player.

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It is prettey easy to rip CDs to mp3 with iTunes. Let me show you:

1. Insert the Music CD

Insert the CD to the CD-ROM,  it appears in iTunes after a few seconds.

2. all I have to do is click on the “Import CD” button and it’ll start copying all the music onto computer.

3.  Before you start to import CDs to iTunes, you can change your default music format to mp3 format and iTunes will rip CDs to mp3 format instead of AAC. Click  “Controls” –> “Preferences…”, then click on the “Advanced” tab and go to “Importing”,   Click on the “Import Using” pop-up and Choose MP3 as default importing format.

Isn’t it easy to rip CDs to mp3 with iTunes?

If you want to  rip DVD audio to mp3 , iTunes will not work, you can try Aimersoft DVD Ripper

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Here’s a step-by-step guide that will help you sync iPhone contacts with outlook.

First of all, you must make sure that you have set outlook as default program.

1. Open Outlook
2. Click “Tools” » “Options” and click on”others”
3. Check the box  “Set Outlook as default program for messaging, contacts and calendars.” Click on “OK”

You can also do it like this:

1. Open start menu, Click on “Set Program Access and Defaults”
2. Select “Custom”
3. Choose “Microsoft Outlook”  and click “OK”.

Once you are set with the configuration, open iTunes, proceed with the following:

1. Click on the iPhone icon  in the left column
2. In the right tab, select the “Info”
3. Then, select the contacts list to synchronize

I think you can sync iPhone Contacts with Outlook without any problem now.

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This is really a frequently asked question.  This used to be impoosible if you have lost your music on your computer. Now let me show how to  transfer music from iPod to another iPod. Now we can use Cucusoft iPhone/iTouch/iPod to computer Transfer to help us copy ipod music back to computer, thus we can transfer the music to the new iPod. It is also capable to copy other stuffs like videos, photos, playlists, podcasts, etc.

Copy iPod music and the playlists back to computer

1. After you connect your iPhone to your computer,  launch the program. Normally, the program will scan the device automatically, and you can find the songs/movies/photos  in the list.

2. Choose the list and files you want to transfer , Click the Export button.

3. After you clicking the Export button, the following window will pop up, you can choose transferring to computer or iTunes directly. You can set the output folder at Advanced->Options before transferring.

4. When the transferring finished, the following window will pop up. It shows that how many files have been done. You can click the OK button to view the output files.

Transfer music to the new iPod

Now you can transfer the muisc to the new iPod with iTunes.

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You can always find some great music on YouTube,  pity they are all flash videos. You can’t put a flash video file to a mp3 player.  Now there is a great solution for this problem, we take Microsoft Sound Recorder  into advantage, with it, we can record any audio we want as long as it could be played on your PC. No other software used!

1. Open Windows sound recorder : “Start” » All Programs » Accessories » Entertainment  » Sound Recorder.
2. Click “File” »”Properties”, Choose “Recording Formats” and click “Convert Now…”.
   
3. In the Sound Selection window, select the attributes like this (the best quality), then press OK.
   
4. Open control panel, and locate “Sounds and audio devices” option
   
5. Click “Advanced…” to open the Sound Control window.  Click “options” » “Properties” choose record mode and make the “Stereo Mix” and “Line in” Selected.
   
6. Then make the check box under “Stereo Mix” option  selected.
   
7. Now you can record the Youtube music and save it in WAV format. You can convert the wav audio to mp3 format using this free wav to mp3 converter

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Yes, you can make custom iPhone ringtones easily even though you have no iPhone ringtones maker at all. Here is how to make your own ringtones for your phone:

For simplicity lets say you want to convert the first 10 seconds of a song.

1. Locate the song within iTunes.
2. Right click on the song and choose “Get Info”.
3. Go to the options tab and set the “Start” and “Stop” times for the song.  for example:  “0:00″ and “0:10″.
4. Right click and “convert to AAC” , iTunes will convert the first 10 seconds of the song into a new AAC file.
5. Select the converted AAC file  and right click and select “Show in Explorer”/”Show in Finder”
6. Move this file to another folder.
7. Rename the file with a .m4r extension
8. Drag that file into itunes. it will automatically put it in the Ringtone playlist
9. Sync your iPhone - and the ringtone will show the music up as a custom rington.

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Here are a bunch of places that you can download legal and free MP3 music, stop using limewire,  keep your computer virus free. These downloads are all legal and they won’t make you break the law.

Free MP3 Music Download

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To make your own CD, you need:

• A computer with an internal disc drive that can burn CDs (CD-RW or SuperDrive), or a compatible external drive. (To see if your drive is compatible, choose Edit > Preferences, click Advanced, and click Burning. If your drive is listed, it’s compatible.)
• A blank CD. If you plan to play the CD on a consumer CD player (not only on a computer), you need to use a blank CD-R disc, not a CD-RW disc.
• An iTunes playlist containing the songs you want on the CD. You can fit about 74 minutes of music (about 20 songs) on a 650 MB CD-R disc. Some discs can contain 80 minutes (700 MB) of music. (You can see the size of the selected playlist at the bottom of the iTunes window.) For instructions on creating a playlist, search help for “creating lists of songs.”

To create an audio CD:

1. Select the playlist containing the songs you want to burn to the CD, and make sure all the songs you want to include have a checkmark beside them.
2. Insert a blank disc and click Burn Disc (at the bottom of the iTunes window).
3. Select Audio CD as the Disc Format.
4. Choose your options:
   • When you burn a CD, iTunes automatically adjusts the recording speed to the blank CD’s rating. However, if your blank CD is rated for a slower speed than the maximum speed of your drive, or if you experience problems creating CDs, you may want to change the CD recording speed to match the CD’s rating by choosing an option from the Preferred Speed pop-up menu.
   • To change the length of the silence between songs, choose an option from the Gap Between Songs pop-up menu.
   • To have all the songs on the CD play at the same volume, select Use Sound Check.
   • CD players in some vehicles can display information stored on CDs; select Include CD Text to use this option.
5. Click OK.

If the playlist contains more songs than will fit on the CD, iTunes burns only the number of songs that fit on one disc, and then asks you to insert another disc to continue burning the remaining songs. If the playlist includes Audible spoken programs with chapter markers, the chapters are burned as separate tracks.

It might take several minutes to burn an audio CD. You can cancel the burn by clicking the X next to the progress bar (but if you’re using a CD-R disc, you won’t be able to use it again).

If the playlist contains iTunes Store purchases that are not iTunes Plus songs, you can burn the playlist to a CD up to seven times.

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