Software Reviews

ACA Capture Pro is a professional screen capture software, which captures and manages your screen images, icons, web images, menus and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D game and video player screen. It allows you to apply capture masks, including circular, rectangle and other shapes, Captures can optionally include the mouse cursor, or can be automatically sent to MS Office applications, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

ACA Capture Pro has many enhanced features: capture all flash file from web page, create videos of your computer screen (make AVI Video/Movie), and capture any icons whatever from a file, a directory, or whole harddisk on your computer. With ACA Capture Pro’s many features, you can save time and enhance your screenshots.

With ACA professional screen capture software, you can see all your capturing easily and quickly, — no matter where they are. Capture any part of your screen quickly and easily in 14 ways! It is so easy and friendly to use !

With ACA Capture Pro, you can take screenshots of entire Web pages, no matter the length, you can capture an entire Web site’s JPEG, BMP, TIF, GIF and PNG files in one click!

Captures the action from your Windows screen and saves it as a standard AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file, including typing, sound, and cursor movements, easily edited.

ACA Capture Pro performs fast scan of all hard disks for ICON images. The program handles lots of different file formats, like DLL, EXE, ICO etc..

ACA Capture supports for managing, viewing, editing and publishing screenshots and digital pictures, both singly and in batches. Seeing and manipulating all of your captures at once not only aids in organization, but also saves your time.

With Zune is slowly more and more popular, you can enjoy tons of music and videos using Apollo DVD to Zune, which is a professional software for Zune users. I was attracted first by its clear interface and powerful features. With Apollo DVD to Zune, you can rip your favorite DVD movie to WMV, H.264, MPEG-4 (.mp4), MP3, WMA that playable on Zune. The conversion speed is super fast with high quality.

There are two modes for you ripping a DVD movie, preview mode and list mode. The preview mode is totally different from common ripping process. It is faster than traditional ripping mode and experiences without sync problem. In list mode, you will see all the titles and chapters of your DVD movie, and you can rip several DVDs at a time in this mode. There are 8 system languages available by Apollo DVD to Zune: English, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, French, Russian and Hungarian. It is the most mulit-languages I have ever seen in the market.

As an advanced user, Apollo DVD to Zune allows you to set customize parameters at will, including video size, frame rate, bit rate, codec, channels, etc. Before converting, you can check the following options:
1. Check Fast forward to main movie when playing you can skip the non-recordable part in a DVD.
2. Check Get DVD information automatically after loading to get Title, Studio, Genre, Release Date from the internet.
3. Check Shutdown computer when job is done to automatically shut down the computer when done.
4. Check Deinterlace video when ripping you can avoid deinterlace in output video file.

Apollo DVD to Zune is a perfect software compared with the peers in the market. It is priced at $29.95, quite reasonable to its high quality. So I highly recommend it to Zune users.

4Media PS3 Video Converter is a professional software for PS3 and PSP users. Although named PS3 Video Converter, it is also a PSP Video Converter. It supports almost all popular video and audio formats such as 3GP, 3G2, AAC, ASF, AVI, CDA, VOB, FLV, MKV, MPEG, RM, WMV, MP3, AC3, etc. The output video and audio supports: PS3 MPEG-4 Video, PSP MPEG-R Video, PS3 AVC Video, MP3, AAC, and M4A audio.

4Media PS3 Video Converter supports multithreading and batch conversion so that you can convert at most 10 files at a time. The conversion speed is over 200%, beyond your imagination. The output video is excellent as the original files. If you are an advanced user, teak any video and audio as you like for your best quality. However, if you are a newbie, just follow the default settings, it will output the standard video for you enjoy. 4Media PS3 Video Converter allows you to convert pictures to video, which is an innovative feature compared with the common converters in the market. Before starting to convert, you can set ‘after done’: Exit, Shut down, Hibernate, Stand by, no need to wait for the conversion process around your PC.

PlayStation 3 can be connected with several kinds of external devices, such as Video iPod, Sony Memory Stick, CF Card, SD Card, Mini SD Card, Hard Disk and USB Flash Drive. So you can add your favorite compatible-videos to the devices and play them on PS3. So you can enjoy tons of splendid videos, TV shows, Home videos on your PS3 anytime, that’s indeed a new lifestyle to experience!

The PlayStation 3, commonly abbreviated PS3, is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with the Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and the Nintendo’s Wii, as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. But the console goes beyond gaming, doubling as a Blu-ray and DVD movie player.

How to convert your favorite DVD movie to PS3? 4Media DVD to PS3 Converter is an innovative software helping you convert DVD to PS3 Video or PSP Video formats, and ripping DVD into most popular audio formats MP3, AAC and M4A.with high quality. Besides, 4Media DVD to PS3 Converter provides you fast access to real HD, supporting 1080p, 720p and 480p high-definition). The software is quite easy-to-use without previous study even you are a beginner.

Except offering the most important conversion function, 4Media DVD to PS3 Converter provides you with some powerful editing features. The profile settings consist of video and audio parameters for better video quality, such as video size, bit rate, frame rate, etc. and audio bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc. When the DVD is playing for preview, you can take snapshots as you like and save the snapshots as bmp format. It allows you to split one source file into several.

The interface of 4Media DVD to PS3 Converter is intuitive. It is designed for multi-languages, including English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, and French. You can select your favor color UI from Silver Grey and Silver Blue. It is priced at $29.00, good product with low price. From my view, it is deserved a high rating 9.5 out of 1-10. So there is no need to hesitate to buy such a powerful DVD to PS3 Converter!

As an Apple iPod user, we often use iTunes for transferring our favorite video, music, to our iPod. As we all know, Apple only allows users “one way” to transfer video, music, photos to iPod, no the other way around like iPod back to iTunes. Maybe they think you want to copy and illegally distribute the protected music after taking it off the iPod. However, we have enough legitimate reasons to require iPod music back to iTunes, for example, if your hard-drive crashed and the only copies of the music were on your iPod, what to do? Or what if you accidentally deleted a song from your hard-drive and you wanted it back? What would happen if your PC was stolen and you want to retrieve your music collection? In this situation, you need to turn to the third party software.

iPod 2 iTunes helps you retrieve your valuable music, playlists, and excellent videos from iPod to iTunes safely. The useful software supports all types and generations of iPod, such as iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Video, iPod Nano, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, etc. It allows you to connect multiple iPods to one iTunes account. By dragging and dropping, you can get the intact playlists and videos from your iPod to iTunes. You can also move the entire genres, albums and artists to iTunes. iPod 2 iTunes optimizes the iPod storage space, so it will find and delete the duplicate songs on your iPod and iTunes.

iPod 2 iTunes can be run on Windows 2000, 2003, XP or Vista. Remember you should install .NET Framework 1.1 even you have .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Spending $24.95 for such a useful tool is quite worthy! I’d like to give it 9 rating out of 1-10 scales.