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About Zune Video Converter | Zune Backgrounds

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

A good Zune video converter is supposed to convert movies from other formats such as QuickTime, MPEG, MOV, AVI, WMV, DIVX, XVID, ASF, RM, RMV, FLV (used by Youtube) as well as DVD and VCD to Microsoft Zune supported formats such as WMV, MP4 and MP3.

What other qualities should you be looking for in a Zune video converter? Fast conversion speed, user friendly interface, batch file conversion support are all great features that make a Zune video converter desirable. It also should not require the user to be a geek since I bet most Zune users don’t have advance technical knowledge. Price is also an important factor since you don’t want to spend too much money on one.

Zune backgrounds or wallpapers have also become very popular recently since the release of the new zune.net wbsite. There are quite a number of sites offering free Zune wallpapers, and many of the graphics are really cool. Although a few of them are an inheritance of Zune 30 (the original Zune released in 2006), many are brand new and will fit nicely in your Zune 8 or Zune 80.

In case you’re wondering what Zune is, it’s Microsoft’s newest brand of digital music products and services which includes digital audio players, client software, and the Zune Marketplace online music store.

The Zune devices play music and videos as well as display pictures, and receive FM radio. They also share files wirelessly with other Zunes and via USB with Xbox 360s, and can sync wirelessly with Windows PCs. Pretty cool, huh?

The Zune Software, which runs on Windows Vista, XP, and the Xbox 360, allows users to manage files on the player, rip audio CDs, and buy songs at the online store.

You can read more about the history of Zune on Wikipedia, but if you’re looking for a Zune video converter and Zune backgrounds you should search the internet and visit a few sites that offer them. Free zune wallpapers are great but I’m not too sure about free Zune video converters but you can always give them a try.

Have fun with your new Zune!

Posted by Aiden


MySpace Christmas Comments Important Tips

Friday, December 21st, 2007

MySpace Christmas comments are being searched a lot this time of the year. Funny comments are especially popular. If you’re on MySpace most likely you post comments on your friends’ pages and they do on yours on a regular basis, such as on birthdays and holidays like Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, etc. Many even post comments on each other’s page on a weekly or sometimes even on a daily basis.

I’m sure you have seen MySpace comments for every day of the week as well as those wishing you a good morning or good night. Most people do that only with their closest friends but for major holidays and special occasion they would send MySpace comments to most of their other friends on their list. You can find cute and funny MySpace Christmas comments all over the internet and they’re free. Just look around or do a search.

These MySpace Christmas comments come with beautiful graphics, many of them animated and glittered. Some are serious while others are funny and cute. They’re just like e-cards or virtual Christmas cards. All you need to do is copy the codes provided with each comment and graphics, and post it onto your friend’s “add comment” page. However, you have to be careful since some of these sites may contain a virus or other malicious codes which can infect your friend’s page, your own page, and even your computer. That certainly spells trouble!

It’s kind of hard to know which sites are safe as you’re surfing around looking through those cute and funny MySpace Christmas comments since even some of the most popular sites can be infected without the owner knowing it. You just have to take your own precautions. So what can you do to protect yourself and your MySpace friends?

The most important thing is to have good security system on your computer which at least includes an antivirus, a firewall, and an anti malware (adware). Most of the time these programs will protect you from viruses, hackers and malware if you keep them up to date. A few times my antivirus caught a virus during my visit to some of these MySpace comment graphics sites.

There’s also a few things you can do to protect your friends’ and your own MySpace pages. You can choose to approve each comment that everyone sends before having it posted to your page to make sure it’s not a hacking attempt. You can also enable the “captcha” on your “add comment” page, which is those letters and numbers you have to type in before posting the comment to make sure every MySpace comment is being posted by a human.

Probably the safest thing is for you to disable HTML on your “add comment” page since malicious codes are often embedded in the HTML. However, if you do this you won’t be able to have pictures or graphics on your comments. So you can forget about those beautiful and funny MySpace Christmas comments with Santa, Snowmen, Teddy Bears, etc. Your comments will only consist of plain text. Pretty boring if you ask me! But hey, you and your friends can get original and creative writing your own MySpace Christmas comments :)

I guess if you have lots and lots of friends on MySpace and you don’t have time to approve every single comment they post then this is the way to go. That’s what most celebrities do. The choice is yours.

Whatever you decide, have fun looking for and posting those MySpace Christmas comments, and be safe! Happy holidays!

Posted by Aiden


How To Save Money On Inkjet Printer Cartridges

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

If you’ve ever bought an inkjet printer cartridge you would know how expensive it would cost. If you use your printer only once in a while it may not be a big deal since you would only need to buy a new inkjet printer cartridge once every few months. However, if you’re running a business you would have to purchase them a lot more often, and the costs would add up.

If you buy inkjet printer cartridges at a local store you have to pay retail prices although they may have specials on occasion. That’s ok if you only need them every once in a while or if you suddenly run out of ink and have some printing job that can’t wait.

Purchasing inkjet printer cartriges online will save you big money and you should start doing it if you haven’t already. Yes, even if you buy new ink cartridges only every once in a while. If you can save money, why not?

Learn more about How To Save Money On Inkjet Printer Cartridges.

Posted by Aiden