How to Insert SWF to Keynote with SWF to Keynote Converter for Mac

Keynote is absolutely a great helper for Mac users to create their presentation and slideshows with amazing tools including beautiful themes, smooth and natural transitions and special effects. To make our presentation or slideshows more vivid and attractive, we not only insert pictures, graphics and table, background music to it, but also videos. Many users would like to use Flash SWF videos as material for their presentation. However, Keynote has a problem with SWF format. So, how can we insert SWF to Keynote on Mac?

To solve the problem, you might as well convert SWF to Keynote supported format with SWF to Keynote Converter for Mac. It is well known that keynote recognizes any QuickTime and iTunes file types including MOV, MPEG-4, and H.264 video formats. So, you can convert SWF to MOV, or H.264, or MPEG-4 before insert it to Keynote.

If you are still looking for a helpful SWF to Keynote Converter, we recommend you the iOrgSoft SWF Converter for Mac which supports plenty of videos formats including video like MP4, H.264, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, M4V, WMV, etc, and audio like MP3, AAC, AC3, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, AMR, WMA, WAV, etc, and image like BMP, PNG, JPG, GIF. Additionally, it can help you crop the original file and add watermark to it before you start the conversion. You have control over settings like video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, and audio sample rate, channel. So, you can make the output file better fit into your device.

Besides, it can record SWF games. If the SWF file that you want to insert to Keynote is a SWF game with interactive button, you can play the game during conversion. The application is able to record and convert it at the same time. So, you are able to show how the game plays to your audience.

You can see the duration time when conversion is processing. Just click Stop button to stop conversion if you just need certain length of the file. Of course, it would be much convenient if there is a Trim tool so that it is easier to just get targeted parts converted. If you want this feature in the tool, you can contact the iOrgSoft Team at their official website http://www.iorgsoft.com/ to give them your suggestion.

We are happy to inform you that iOrgSoft is running a Holiday discount event on their official website. The SWF Converter for Mac is 30% off. You might as well have a check to save money.

If you purchase the software, do give it a test drive and tell us how the software works for you.

6 Android Apps Bring Happiness to Your Christmas

 

Merry Christmas! In the most wonderful time of the year, everywhere in the city is bustling. People are busy shopping and sharing time with their friends and families. However, if you would rather to stay at home than to be crowded with the crowd, you can also have fun with the Android Christmas themed apps that we are going to recommend to you.

Christmas Food

In the most wonderful time, a generous dinner is necessary. Most people would like to go out for a Christmas dinner, but sometimes, it can take a lot of time for us to line up for a table in such holidays. It sounds sort of upset to spend much time to wait for a table, right? So, why not try to cook at home for your family and friends? If you are in the mood to cook at home, you must need the Christmas Food app which offers many recipes perfect for the Christmas season. With the help of it, there is no problem for you to make a decent dinner. Just surprise your family and friends with your cooking in this Christmas.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.christmasfood.app

Google Santa Tracker

On Christmas, Santa is busy giving gifts to the kids who have been behaving well this year riding in his sled. Do you want to know where he is now? Do you want to track him with Google map? Google Santa Tracker is just the app for you to track the Santa as he travels. When you are waiting for the Santa, you can play the built-in mini games. Go to find out how the Christmas tree made by Google and how the elves prepare candies and gifts. With it accompanied, you won’t feel lonely when waiting for Santa.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.santatracker

The Player：Christmas

Want some music for Christmas? You cannot miss the Player which is a rhythm game with 15 of the most popular Christmas songs built in. There are various levels for your challenge. You don’t need to be experienced in playing a music instrument. You just need to tap the right point at the proper time. This Player is just the perfect game for Christmas. It is easy to play. Don’t wait! Hurry up to play a “Jingle Bell” for your family.

Download:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.kr.IZSoft.ThePlayerChristmas

Touchnote cards

When you receive a Christmas gift, it is polite to say thank you. Sending a thank you card is a good way to say thank you. With Touchnote Cards, you can select a photo and make it a stylish greeting card. After done with it, you can either print it or directly email it to your friends.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchnote.android

Doodle Jump Christmas Special

You must know the game Doodle Jump which is simple yet entertaining. It is well-known around the world. This Christmas, it is given a holiday makeover. The visual of it has been changed. And also, it is built in new paths and challenges. Additionally, there are also new monsters and rocket power-up. You are gonna love it more.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lima.doodlejumpcs

Holiday Charades

This holiday themed game is perfect for family gathering. It contains various levels of challenges from singing and dancing to acting. After dinner with families, it is a good idea to play Charades to spend the warm and happy Christmas night together. Can you guess the word before the time runs out? Just have a try! And get the punishment ready for those who haven’t given the right word.

Download:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fatchicken007.holidaycharades

Digital Accessories for Christmas

If you still haven’t got the Christmas gift ready for your families or friends or you didn’t have time to do it, we have some recommends for you to grasp the last chance. Today, we are going to recommend you several digital accessories.

                              

Bone Stylus

Technology has changed our life with a variety of creative ideas. Bone realizes this and has used colorful and playful design elements to join the creative and technological era. Christmas Deer, a pen from Bone, is what we are going to introduced to you. It is made from 100 percent eco-friendly washable silicone which is soft and won’t scratch. There is no pen lead and no exposed metal part. Served as stylus, the pen writes with black cap. It is compatible with most capacitive touch devices. Additionally, it is also a ball-point pen which allows you to write on common paper.

Bone Creative USB Driver
 

Mr. Deer Driver is another design of Bone. It is a USB driver. Different from common USB driver, the Mr. Deer Driver dressed in Santa Claus is given separable limbs which allows users to build their own action figure. Its cover and coat are designed in just one piece in case of missing easily. The coat can protect the internal core from dirt. If the coat is dirty, you can wash it with water. Besides, its capacity is 8GB.

O!music Zoo-unplugged Speaker
 

Designed by Taiwan manufacturer OZAKI, this Deer-shaped iphone seat is also an unplugged speaker. It is able to increase the original phones volume to 15 dB, which can be the best amplifier. As the previous recommendations, this phone seat is also made of eco-friendly and waterproof silicone. When using it, you only play your favorite music/movies on your iphone and put away the iphone to the seat, you can directly feel the audio volume enhanced, without no power required. It also has a charging slot that enables you to always charge to your iPhone. It will be the perfect gadget on your desk and countertop.

Remee Sleep Mask

Have you recognized that you were dreaming when you were still in the dream? Do you want to take control of the dream world? You should get the Remee sleep mask which help increase the frequency of your lucid dreams. Hidden in the comfortable sleep mask, there are low profile electronics. By using them, Remee offers customizable light patterns which your dreaming mind can recognize, which enable you to control your dream.

Above are the accessories we would like to share with you. If you have better recommendations or you have received interesting and useful Christmas gifts, welcome to share it with us in the below comment box.

Useful Tips and Tricks for Apple iPad

There is no doubt that Apple iPad is an amazing tablet. To get the most out of the great tablet, we would like to give you some tips and tricks when using your tablet.

1.       How much you know about the Home button

Most of iPad users know that when pressing the Home button, it will take you to the homepage. But do know that it can do more than that if you want. To give the Home button more ability, you should go to the “Settings” to make it. When comes to the “Settings”, click “General”, and then select “Home”. You are able to select a function that you would like a double click of Home button to carry out. 

2.       Pause an App Install

How to pause a loading app and start a waiting one? Sometimes we download or update several apps at a time. Usually, the first one shows as “Loading”, and the other shows as “Waiting”. What if you want to pause the first loading and start the waiting one? It can’t be easier. Only tap the one that is loading to pause it and then the following waiting one will starts loading.

3.       How to watch downloaded Flash SWF videos

Due to the lack of support from Adobe Flash, Apple can’t playback downloaded SWF videos on its iOS devices including iPad. So, if you want to play SWF on iPad, you are suggested to convert SWF to iPad supported formats like H.264, MP4, etc.

4.       Export keynote from iPad to Mac or PC

Here is the tutorial that shows you how to export Keynote presentation from iPad to Mac or PC with iTunes:

First of all, you need to connect the iPad to Mac or PC, and then choose iPad from the Devices list in iTunes. Secondly, choose the Apps tab from your iPad Settings window and scroll down to the File Sharing section to pick Keynote. There is a list of all Keynote presentations on your iPad Keynote Documents section. Pick the one that you’d like to export to our Mac or PC and press Save button. Finally, choose the destination to save the desired Keynote presentation.

5.       Back up iPad data

As a safety precaution, you might want to back up your files on iPad. We know that iTunes can automatically back up your data on iPad if you’ve synced the device with iTunes. However, if you want to make sure your iPad data has been backed up, you can force the iTunes to back up it. Sync your iPad with Mac or PC and then open iTunes. Find iPad in the Devices list in iTunes, and then right click it. You will find Back up there.

6.       Change a Mail Signature

After you send out an email using the mail app, you will see the signature “Sent from my iPad”. If you want a more stylish and personal signature, you can change it with the follow steps:

Go to “Settings” - choose the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” – tap “Signature” on the right panel- clear the “Sent from my iPad” and type a desired one – tab the “Mail, Contacts” button again after typing the new signature.

Above are the tips and tricks that we want to share with you. Hope that helps you. And if you have other ideas for using an iPad, please let us know.

Catchbox-A Throwable Microphone to Let Your Audience Speek out Freely

When the conference organizer asks the audience to participate in a discussion or debate, or pose a question, there is always a faffing around caused by passing the microphone. In order to reduce the faffing and offer an easier way to interact with the audience, Catchbox has been designed.

Catchbox is a new microphone that is throwable and inspires the audience to participate in the questions parts of the conference. Catchbox features a colorful padded cube with a wireless microphone. It can be thrown across a room and it can be passed from one person to another. Take it easy. It won’t be broken even when it drops. And, when it is thrown to fly through the air, or when it falls or is caught by the audience, it is able to automatically mute the sound. The inventors, Timo Kauppila, Pyry Taanila and Mikelis Studers have applied for patents for the tech. It is now under progress. 

Dfferent apps of smartphones and cloud-based tools have tried to make it easier for audience to engage in the live events, allowing them to uses their own devices to participate in real time polls. However, inventors of Catchbox believe that audience can totally overlook the microphone.

Mikelis Studers, CTO of Catchbox, says that there are many products in the market to enhance audiences’ engagement, such as voting systems, citing event applications, and conventional wireless microphones. But he thinks that these products cost too much and it is complicated to set up and deploy. It often requires audience to download an application, and sometimes, it even requires some training. By contrast, Catchbox seems to be much simpler and more intuitive. Audience will understand what it is used for right away-- a throwable microphone. 

This Finland hardware startup not only targets at events with large number of audience but also aims at the markets like education, consultants, and company conference. Studers says, “There is a high expected value from every group session in those fields so we want to provide a tool that would make each session more efficient,” and “The internet has created new ways for sharing. We want to enhance sharing of ideas when people physically come together”.

Catchbox is available for preorder so far with the price of $549/€395. It includes a separate receiver. You can plug it into different sound systems, like stereos, computers and professional audio equipment. In fact, it is not the only product of the company. Studers says they will expand the business to the field of “crowd interaction devices”.

Tips on Downloading YouTube Videos and Uploading SWF Videos to YouTube

As one of the most popular video sharing websites, YouTube has brought us a lot of entertainment and enjoyment. However, YouTube only allows users to view videos online, which means it doesn’t allow users to download video from it. It is a great pity if we cannot save the wonderful YouTube videos on our amazing devices for playback especially when we have to spend much time on vehicle.

Anyway, human beings are the smartest animal in the world. We have figured out effective ways to download videos from YouTube. If you are still searching how to download videos on YouTube on Google, you can stop from here. We are going to show you three ways to make it. Just keep reading forward.

Firstly, we have Free Video Download Software. This video downloader developed by iOrgSoft.com, is absolutely free. And it works with more than 100 video sharing websites including YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, Vevo, Break, LiveLeak, Tv.tu, and much more. The software features simple and clean interface. What you have to do is simply about the matter of copy and paste the URL. New users are able to dive in without much guidance. 

If you want more than downloader and don’t mind paying for more, you can refer to Video Converter which is also developed by iOrgSoft. It combines video converter and video downloader into one. Like the free video downloader, it can also download videos from more than 100 websites. It supports batch downloading. After that, if you find the downloaded videos incompatible to your devices, you can directly import them for video conversion. Well, video incompatible issue often happens. So, if you are not in tight budget, we recommend you the Video Converter. 

If you are using Apple browser, Safari, do you know that you can download videos from YouTube with Safari? With Safari, open the video that you want to download, and then pause it before it plays for more. What you need to do next is to wait with patience. When the video finishing filling the grey progress bar, you can start download it. Here is the guide: click to select Window>Activity from menu bar-find the line on behalf of your video-double click to start download.  

Above are the ways of how to download videos from YouTube. Of course, you might not get a problem downloading, but uploading, for instance, you might fail to upload Flash SWF to YouTube. Well, to solve this problem, you just need to do the video conversion before you upload the videos to YouTube. Of course, you can still turn to the Video Converter we mentioned above, which seems helpful to both video downloading and uploading.

Ok. If you have better or more ways to handle YouTube videos, just feel free to leave your ideas here.

Waterlogue App-Make Your Photos into Beautiful and Stylish Watercolors

Developed by Tinrocket, Waterlogue is an app that is able to turn a photo into beautiful watercolors. If you want to make your photos taken by yourself into unique styles, we recommend you this photo handling app-Waterlogue.

Like most of the popular apps currently, Waterlogue looks simple, clean, and easy to use. Launch the app and you will find everything just simple and clear. You will get hold of it easily even for the first time when you use it. At the bottom of the interface, users can choose different watercolor filters; they can apply brush strokes that in various sizes according to the style of photos; and they can also adjust the photos’ brightness and use a border. There are two buttons above the strip. One is for adding photos and the other is for sharing.

It is just because the app is very intuitive and logical that new users can easily handle it without much guidance. To import photos to Waterlogue, users can either load photos from local library or take a new photo. Before you decide which watercolor style you want to use, you can check out how it finally looks like by testing with one of the 10 example photos offered.

Ok, when you got the photo ready, you can scroll to check the choices of filters. There are 12 different filters. (The default filter is “Natural”.) After choosing the filter, the app will guide the users step by step to process the operation. Users will see the animation of how it turns a photo into watercolor and finally a new unique photo comes to birth. 

If you are not satisfied with the style you’ve chosen, you can change it. Just tap on another one and there is a “live preview”. It will turn up on top of the original image as a miniaturized version. If you think that is the style you want, tap on the preview then to adopt it. You can see the animation of the painting process again then.

After choosing the filter, you need to choose the size of brush stroke. The sizes include small (4), medium (6), large (8), and giant (10). If you give up this option, the app will take the default size-medium (6). If you need to choose one, you are able to preview it first before applying it. Isn’t it a very sweet design? Following is the brightness settings. The options are dark, darker, normal, lighter, and light. And then, you can choose to use a border or not.

When your masterpiece is complete, you can share it by tapping on the share button. You are allowed to share it to Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr. Sure, you can choose to save to your photo library on your devices. Additionally, you can share it with your friends via email.

It seems everything is perfect so far. However, nothing is perfect. It is a little bit strange that the Settings buttons of Waterlogue are hidden at the end of the bottom row of the share button. This design is not good for users’ experience. In the Settings, users can choose to save photos as small, medium, large, or original, or they choose to output the photo in compressed JPEG or lossless PNG format.

Currently, Waterlogue can be downloaded from App Store. It costs $3.99. It is supported by iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It requires iOS 7.0 and later. If you have many beautiful photos saved on your devices, you can try this app to make them more special.