Very easy solution for converting your videos without any hassle of codecs

Video sharing, video blogging, video tutorials, video chat,  you see there is a lot of buzz about videos and its actually the future of internet. But video Conversion has been always a problem for the users who have not technically savy, they find it difficult to convert their videos from one format to another, usually for saving videos to their mobile devices or converting to DVDs etc.

And many companies have come on screen claiming to provide you the best  software capable of converting videos from one format to another for mobile phone, PC, Mac and Linux. A few of them are very good too, but not free or too expensive, many are just attracting users to increase their websites for traffic and getting their ads clicked.

Why video conversion was a big deal until now ?

1. Video Conversion software were too expensive
2. Very rarely produced by software companies
3. Almost no Open-source effort was involved

Today, if you go search Google for video converter you come up with more than 130,000 results.  Well many individuals adopted open-source software and produced their own tools by wrapping up the code with new GUI.

But yet, either expensive or lack of features, and none is there having all features.

What is the best solution for me?

First you need to decide and ask yourself; what kind of video you have and what kind of format you want to convert it to. Your answer may be one of the following:

I want to convert MPEG to WMV, or
I want to convert MPEG to AVI or
Convert MPEG to DVD (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to DV50 (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to VCD (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to SVCD (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to Quicktime MOV
Convert MPEG to FLV
Convert MPEG to MP4
Convert MPEG to 3GP
Convert MPEG to iPod or iPhone Video
Convert MPEG to Sony PSP Mobile Video
Convert FLV to MPEG, AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP etc

Or convert between any of the above-mentioned videos formats.

Well, thats’ not a big deal, toady we have such software in market (thanks to software companies), that can converts between (from, to) almost any known video format. The software I own license for video conversion  is VCON Lite, which is (at-least for me) the best software I ever stumbled upon.

No fancy stuff, I use it because it is so easy and user friendly, to the point. The very first time I downloaded it, it was in testing phase and I wanted all of its features to test so I requested staff and they provided me lifetime copy of license with 25% discount (thanks to Clixint Tech), I found the link to the software from GimpTalk. Just drag-drop videos on software window, select output and click convert button, you are done. Easy ? yeah..

I actually needed software to migrate my wedding videos to my Nokia mobile phone and it did the job perfectly, within 10 minutes I was able to transfer 5 of mobile mp4 files to my cell phone.

It is not just a video converter, when I opened it’s settings, it also converts DVDs and creates VCDs SVCD with NTSC, PAL, and FILM settings. And Price, you wont believe $15 US Dollars with lifetime support. I think VCON leaves competition in dust. Its help makes life easier, understanding some core features of this software.

Diggfish discount : Well, if you contact their support and tell them you are referred by Diggfish, they will cut $5 from the price, cool :). I would suggest you to download and test this video converter and let me know your thoughts.

VCON Lite Home..
http://www.convertflv.com

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This article is written by a good friend of mine and he has asked me to keep his name hidden, but I also agree to his points to some extent.

Well, before I start writing this review, I must tell you that Firefox makes me sick, so I thought this review was necessary for atleast my loyal readers, its upto you whether or not you use it. The details below is how I see Firefox, even though I still think it needs a lot of improvements, or a complete redo or abandon the project completely. You must know the facts before downloading FireFox.

Well the very first words about FireFox are:
FireFox is a web browser, which has been making false claims since years.

Fact Sheet 

Why many peoples are using this crap?

Well, people want change and few other people take advantage of this habit of human being. Everybody knew that Microsoft provides the best technology and is on top, anyone who tries competing Microsoft brings up his/her own disabilities in front of public just like FireFox did. Someone launched a new web browser claimed to be:

Fast Browser : To hell with the ones call FireFox fast, how on earth you can decide its faster than any other browser. FireFox loads Damn Slow on almost any latest machine. The ones created it tell the reason that Cold-Start is slow but later it is fast. Cold-Start on a latest P4 is more than 1 minute. Do not tell me that FireFox is fast on Core 2 duo. Everything is fast on that machine. And 95% people don’t have this processor. Here are the facts to confirm you FF is damn slow.

Fact 1:

We turned off all add-on’s in both FireFox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, we restarted system, and launched IE first for Cold-Start testing on Pentium 4, IE started in 4 seconds and next start was half second means 500 milliseconds. Then we switched to test FireFox and it displayed the GUI after 1 minute and 43 seconds, next warm starts were like 4 seconds. You still call it fast?

Fact 2:

FireFox developers tried their best to make a browser that runs on almost all well known operating systems, such as Linux, Mac and Windows. This was the very first mistake towards creating an instable Web Browser. FireFox is built using wxWidgets which is a cross-platform library and, which itself is damn slow and bulky framework. It’s layout manager eats up the CPU even in a small single dialog based application. So fact 2 is wxWidgets makes FireFox even slower.

Fact 3:

Users scrapped old-fashioned browsers like Netscape Communicator, world’s moving towards adoption of what is best, and once Microsoft Internet Explorer was launched with updates all started using Windows’ native browser rather than paying just for nothing. That was I think Microsoft IE 4 or 5. Opera Browser revived very quickly by providing cross-platform capability. But few developers wanted to get popular by providing a web browser, so they adopted engine of Netscape Browser and put a new wrapper on it, this new strange vehicle is called FireFox today. Gecko is the name of the engine being used behind FireFox, which itself has no comparison with great speed of Internet Explorer Engine. So 3rd time FireFox is slow.

FireFox is not genuine effort towards building a web browser, but a strange vehicle built using parts of old scrapped vehicles.

FireFox is Fancy: 

Showing just a fancy interface does not attract serious users, 90% amongst all the FireFox users are teenagers who have only concern about the fancy look of their application. It’s fanciness also puts a hell of load over the load time.

Man get out of the fast operating system Windows, you do not deserve to be available for Window.

Secure: Really? upto what extent? 

Does it save me from spyware?
Does it save me from malware?
Does it save my PC from trojans?
Does it detect keyloggers on my System?
Does it save me from executable viruses?
Does it save me from hackers getting into my PC from unknown port?
Does it have any firewall?

No other browser does all above, then why is FireFox claimed to be secure?

Then how the heck it is Safe? It saves my passwords asking me for each site I visit, and if I mistakenly hit yes, I cant find a way to reverse it easily. FireFox simply includes a popup blocker that all other browser do have, what FireFox does extra is let not the document viruses come with images, that’s all. Does it mean it is most secure one? Heck.

Why FireFox is Junk?

Because every operating system has its native web browser, then why the heck there is a need of new browser, which is not that good after knowing all of the above facts. 

Linux– Konquerer
Windows – Internet Explorer
Macintosh – Safari 

Opensource but you don’t know programming:

They already have, and do not need aliens coming in, who knows, what does FireFox send to Mozilla server and collects from Mozilla server without your permission. You have never been into code of this thing, and probably wont get into it because you are not a developer.  

FireFox is good tool for hackers?

YES, users can manually edit cookies in FireFox; see the cookies and use for whatever purpose.

Finally – FireFox is propaganda not a web browser

SAY NO TO THIS PROPAGANDA AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THESE FACTS AND USE YOUR NATIVE WEB BROWSER THAT COMES WITH YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM. AFTER READING ALL ABOVE, IF YOU STILL WISH TO CONTINUE WITH FIREFOX THEN I WON’T SAY YOU ARE NOT STUPID.

Don’t email me telling me what is good or bad, I tried to open your eyes and if you want to keep them closed, do it, it wont harm me.

I have no personal dispute with Mozilla Foundation and/or any interest attached with Microsoft Corporation, What I see is what I write. Its upto you which one you use, I am a windows user and I prefer Internet Explorer because its faster and I also have installed Firewalls to protect myself.

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Today, I am going to tell you what has made me 40% of my earnings so far in my internet money making career. Before I start telling you the secret, let me make it very clear, this is the most easiest thing you can do to make money without doing anything un-ethical (blackhat), its purely whitehat and works wonders

I made $5800 in less than 8 hours

I was really amazed to see when I tried this for the very first time, I think it was march 2002, I sent a newsletter to my subscribers with my product and I went to bed, trust me when I came back and checked my emails, I was SHOCKED, and I was so excited that I went and told my mother about the results and the time was about 3AM, I still feel that excitement, I made $5800 in less than 8 hours, I was asleep in those 8 hours after sending newsletter.

What was in the newsletter ?

You might be thinking, what was in the newsletter and what product I am talking about. Well it was my ebook, shocked ? I was also shocked. My ebook was related to a web development related software Macromedia Flash, I wrote a comprehensive guide on how to use it, so you can it was a very well written book of its time. Now, yo might be thinking not everyone is a good writer, how can it help in this case ? well, I have a solution for that as well.

What kind of Information should I write about ?

It depends, I would say, you should write about anything you like, you have interest in,  It will be a good read for someone with the same interest. Information selling is the most profitable business of all time. Now, at this point I will give you 3 options to proceed with

• Write a report / ebook yourself about something you know
• Hire a writer (very cheap) from scriptlance.com or getafreelancer.com
• Find a PLR (Private Label Rights) product, there are tons out there

Writing yourself takes some time, but you are 100% sure about what you are saying and backup all what you are writing, but not necessarily. If you hire a writer from any of the sites I mentioned, you get a lot of free time to do anything else in that time, and trust me within 1-2 hours of launch you will get back your money back that you will be giving to freelancer, and investing on ebooks is actually a long term profit business.

Now, the third option is PLR product or finding  Public Domain articles or ebooks. This is the minimum effort and large profit business, trust me it works really well. If you already have a website and hosting, its better, otherwise you will only be investing $10 on domain and hosting then putting that product for sale.

Ok, I have got my guns ready, where to strike ? Where to sell ?

Now, this is very important to write an effective sales letter, this is actually the selling point, if you will not write a good sales letter, the product will not sell, so be creative and read more articles about writing effective sales letter. Once you are ready, go to forums and you will see money rolling in your account. Now go to the following forums to start selling your ebook.

1.First goto Sitepoint.com marketplace and list your ebook there (it costs a few bucks, but if you are clever enough, post in other free areas),

2.then go to Digitalpoint forum post in “Buy Sell and Trade” section,
3.then go to WarriorForum.com and post there,

4.and finally go to WickedFire.com and offer your WSO. Now I have only mentioned 4 forums, but you can post in as many you want to open more doors of money, so its upto you.

I would also advise you to do some joint ventures and offer affiliations, this way people promote your products, I mean if you offer 50% commission on your PLR product, you have done nothing but will get a lot of sales for sure.

Tip: I have noticed that the most selling ebooks are related to internet marketing, you cannot imaging about the results :), so Good Luck !

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Both of these are very active forums, Sitepoint’s users are more skilled in development areas however the DigitalPoint users are more skilled in internet marketing strategies.  One can find a lot of useful information spread in these 2 forums, and most of the people gather such information and sell it as “New Guru Ebook”, infact you can find it yourself and ofcourse for free.

Sitepoint.com
http://www.sitepoint.com/

I love this forum, not only because you can get quick help instantly but there are more mature people on this forum. If you post any kind of high level programming question, you get your answer very quickly, I have mentioned about programming questions since I got my answers very quickly. The other forums are also very active and tons of useful information is to digg out. Current statistics are

Threads: 526,161, Posts: 3,778,761, Members: 261,536, Active Members: 13,695

The main reason I stick to SitePoint and prefer it over DigitalPoint is that its more friendly community and their staff rocks, there is no foolish child in their staff, that makes a big difference. A teenager can act like a child and does not always make the decisions a mature person can make. The MarketPlace at Sitepoint is also great for the serious sellers and buyers, ofcourse you have to pay a few bucks to get listed as seller, but that shows that you are serious about make a sale and not just scamming people.

Final Thought: Sitepoint community rocks !

DigitalPoint.com
http://www.digitalpoint.com/

This used to be a very friendly forum and had loads of useful information regarding affiliate marketing, seo, internet marketing strategies etc, and the good point was that many known musketeers were not only member of this forum but very active and that was a positive point. Currently it STILL has tons of good information but flooded with spam posts, what I believe and I have analysed that a year ago 10% of the posts were spam and 90% were with useful information, if you look at the current statistics and analyse quality of posts and threads, its 80% spam and 20% useful information, I believe that useful information comes from those golden days of DigitalPoint. Current statistics are

Threads: 859,719, Posts: 7,906,276, Members: 175,854, Active Members: 53,194

Now this looks like a busy forum, and it is, but most of the traffic is junk I would say, if you go to the buy-sell-trade section, you will quickly realise that there are only newbies selling junk to newbies. Lol, yea that’s right. I mean one would be selling 100 forum replies for $1 ? lol. If you browse this forum, you will be amazed to see how many banned members are there, why ? the reason is their childish staff, child banning another child, and banned child registering again with another username, and the loop goes on. But at the end, I would say it still has some good useful information from the old days, so you can digg out some gems but don’t waste your time by registering there.

Final Thought : Its overloaded with spam, but still has a lot of good information.

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I hate when I see people selling crap ebooks for $197 or the sites that offer $200 per month membership. Well in 2004 I remember am internet marketing course came up and its price was $1200, I mean its too much and they send you crappy DVDs telling you the basics. I am always yelling at such people because I have wasted a lot of money when I was a beginner, and I dont want my readers to do the same and trying to same you some money ! OH, “you are welcome”..

I am not talking about the most saturated keywords like internet marketing, web hosting etc, but for any other keywords if you follow this strategy, you will certainly get on the first page or atleast at the second page of big search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Follow me…

Get a Keyword Rich Domain Name

This is extremely important and from personal experience I can tell you that if your domain name is keyword rich, it will automatically climb in SERPs. My friend Ali is always looking for good domain names and whatever he registers becomes popular, why ? because he a;ways registers a keyword rich domain, let me show you an example of one of his domain. A few years back he was learning Gimp (an open-source graphic designing software, just like Photoshop), he registered a domain name called GimpTalk then after some time I would say about 1 year later he reached Google first page for the keyword “gimp tutorials” (without quotes). But later he registered another domain gimp-tutorials.com and this domain came on the first page within the first month on Google. wow, I mean Google gives so much weightage to the keyword in domain name, so grab a keyword rich domain name even if its .net .org or .info, any extension would work.

Post your website to Social Bookmarking websites

If you have some spare time to kill, do it yourself, or use any tool like Bookmarking Demon or pay someone $10 on Digitlapoint and they will post on 100 or more sites for you, this will save ot headache but you will have to spend a few bucks.

Post to Social Networking Websites

Create a few profiles on Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn. Well, this is very effective, just create profile with name as yourDomain.com and put the link your profile. You can create on as many sites you like, but I would suggest to create on atleast Facebook and MySpace.

Upload a random video on video sharing website

Just find a video and upload it to 4-5 top video hosting websites, and in title of the video insert your domain name, you can upload to YouTube, Break.com, AOL, MySpace, PureVolume etc. You can also create channels on youtube and groups on some sites, use domain name and keyword in channel / group’s title .

Article and Press Release Submission

This has been the most effective way of marketing and creating buzz for your product or website, and it still works like a charm. Write 1-2 articles and press release and submit to article directories, or hire any freelancer for no more than $10-$15 that will not only write but also submit to directories as well. You must use your keyword in your press release or article title.

Ask for reviews in forums

Go to busy forums like Digitalpoint, Sitepoint, WickedFire, Warrior Forum, WebhostingTalk, v7n, XiTalk etc. Post your domain name in thread / topic title asking for reviews or you don’t like this idea, then ask any quesiton about your own domain so that people can start talking about it.

Create groups on Yahoo and Google

This method was very effective back in 2007 but it is still not saturated, this will give you a quick boost.

 Post Comments on Related Blogs

I know what I am writing may take time, but don’t just spend all of your time on writing comments, you can pick 4-5 high page ranked related blogs and use your keyword in your name and post 2 comments on each blog.

This may take you 1-2 or maximum of 3 days, but the outcome is worth doing this. Just wait for 1-2 weeks or so, depending on how much competitive keyword you are testing, and search for that specific keyword after that and I am sure you will certainly be on first or second page for sure on many search engines. It has been tested and I have been doing this for the last couple of years and its is extremely effective strategy. I have not discussed teh basics like met tags, keyword in page title etc since those are basics. I would love to hear more comments and ideas from you.

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