Share software and computer ideas to help you save time and money, including music maker, photo panorama maker, DVD copy, DVD ripper and other easy Windows software.
You can now import Flickr photos into Facebook and share with friends.
Here's how to share flickr photos on facebook:
1. Login your Flickr account and go to Extending Flickr tab, or directly visit http://flickr.com/account?tab=extend.
2. Locate "Your Facebook account", and click "Link your accounts" to share your Flickr updates on Facebook.
(You may be asked to login your facebook account)
After this is done, your latest Flickr uploads will be added into your Facebook News Feed and Mini-Feed.
Make A Heart Shape Photo Collage as Valentine's Day Gift
Shape Collage is an free photo collage maker software and completely automatic. It allows you automatically create picture collages in any shapes with just a few mouse clicks. Moreover, you can custom your shape photo collage at a snap, e.g., adjusting photo collage size, photo size, photo number, and spacing between photos. You could also change the photo collage background, the border color. Finally save your photo collage as JPEG or PNG to share with the world. Or save as PSD to edit in Photoshop and free GIMP.
Download Picasa web album to desktop and burn Picasa DVD for TV
First, Download Entire Picasa Photos Album On PC
Two methods are available: with or without Picasa software.
1. Download entire picasa web album to computer with Picasa 3
Picasa web album is one of the best image sharing service provided by Google and Picasa 3 software works seamlessly with Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family & the world.
To download entire Picasa web album to desktop, login your Picasa web album and enter desired album, locate Download button and click the side down-arrow button.
Here is the detailed steps to download an entire picasa web album:
1. From the gallery, click the album you'd like to download.
2. From the Download menu above your photos, select Download to Picasa.
3. In Picasa, if you're not signed in to your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums, you'll be prompted to do so.
4. In the window that appears, click the Download button.The downloaded picasa web album photos will be saved to My Documents\My Pictures\Downloaded Albums.
Note: if you are view specific photo, clicking the download button will have only one option: Download photo. You use this method to download individual picasa photo.
2. Download any picasa web album with Picasa Downloader
Picasa Downloader lets you download multiple Picasa web albums of a selected picasa user with only a few clicks and without Picasa being installed.
To download entire Picasa web album using Picasa Downloader, open the program, enter picasa web album ID, and click List to search all webalbums for this user. Then highlight desired picasa album and click Download button to start fetching picasa web albums. When finished, click the bottom button "x album(s) Fetched" button to open save folder.It locates at My Documents\My Pictures\PicasaDownloaded.
Note: If you'd like to download an entire album with Picasa Downloader, you must enable 'Allow any visitor to download my photos' on the Privacy and Permissions tab of the Settings page.
Second, Burn Picasa Photo to DVD
Magix Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8 is my favorite photo DVD creator. I like its wizard guided photo slideshow making steps. Superb easy to turn picasa photo to dvd and watch with DVD player for your beautiful picasa photos. See how to copy picasa photos to dvd with slicking transitions.
Finally, Watch Picasa Photos On TV
Now, sit down and relax, insert the burned picasa dvd into DVD player and watch your picasa photos on TV!
Picasa 3 is the free photo editing software as well as photo collage maker from Google that let you enhance your pictures and get more from photos. I mainly use it to organize all photos on my computer, edit photos and easily share on Picasa web album with friends. Now Picasa 3.6 has more powerful features, including name tags, collaborative albums, geotag, etc. At this article, I will introduce how to make Picasa photo collage and share on Flickr.
To use Picasa 3, download here and install. On the first run, you will be asked whether scan the whole computer or not. It will cost lots of time if you have loads of photos. So scan it later when you have spare time. Now let us see how to make collage using Picasa 3.
Make Collage Image using Picasa 3
Now, let me show you how to make collage images with the Picture Collage under Create menu. First import photos through File/ Import From and then finish by clicking Import All or Import Selected. Afterward, select your desired photos and click through Create/Picture Collage. A Collage tab will open. On the left hand side Settings tab, you could select the collage type and other settings like borders, background color, page format, etc. I think these two tools are most useful:
Scramble Collage: change the collage layout Shuffle Pictures: keep the layout but shuffle pictures
Tips: click Desktop Background to set the picasa collage as system wallpaper; if you are not satisfied with a photo in collage, click View and Edit to make some change to select photo.
When the picasa collage is perfect, click Create Collage and the collage image will be saved to default folder, usually \My Documents\My Pictures\Picasa\. Find your picasa collages there.
Upload Picasa Collage on Flickr
You need a flickr account to share photo stream with friends. No flickr account? Sign up here. After login, you will see the Upload Photos and Video button, start sharing your photo collage creativity now.
Make Collage Web Page using Picasa Collage Templates
If you are a super photo collage fans, why not make photo collage HTML page for website? I will show how next. You need the collage templates first. The above picasa photo collage page is made by Polaroid Flash Gallery v1.2 for Picasa. Download here.
Unzip the pack file and place PolaroidFlashGallery folder to picasa installation location, usually C:\Program Files\Google\Picasa3\web\templates\. Now open Picasa, select your desired photo, then go through Folder/Export as HTML Page, in the open dialog, specify collage picture size, web page title, and save folder, finally click Export button.
Once exported, the photo collage web page will open in the default web browser. Go to the specified folder to find all files. You could then upload all files to your website server and share with the world the picasa photo collage pages.
These days, I wanna make some awesome slideshow movie from my favorite photos. And I found an instant slideshow movie maker - muvee Reveal from Singapore. It lets me easily create professional looking slideshow movies in a few clicks. With automatic motion and advanced tech, your photos and video are synced to the beat of your favorite music. It's amazing! It's the most unique slideshow movie maker I have even seen.
Moreover, I can directly post my awesome slideshow to YouTube, Facebook or burn to DVD –slideshow movie making has never been so easy. Just add your photos, select a slideshow movie theme, and go to share.
OK, I have made a 3D cube slideshow movie from my collected car photos, along with a favorite song.
Created with muvee Reveal - Install Movie Making Software. Free Download Here
Here is the slideshow movie making screenshots:
Instant Slideshow Movie Making as easy as A-B-C
select 3D Cube Twist as the movie style. There are already many movie styles in the the slideshow maker, but you can download more free movie style on muvee's home page.
Add photos from anywhere for 3D cube desktop video
Valentine Songs to express your love feelings from your heart
Valentine's Day is the February 14, on which lovers traditionally exchange love notes and romantic gifts. I've carefully selected these Valentine's Day songs for you to brainstorm valentine ringtone, make playlist and create other musical valentine gift, e.g. a romantic photo slideshow story. When it comes to Valentine's Day, why not play a romantic Valentine song that expresses how you feel for someone, how you love her/him deeply, that comes from the heart.
Romantic Valentine's Day Song, Best Love Songs
All I Want to Do is Make Love to You - Heart
All Out Of Love - Air Supply
And I Love Her - The Beatles
Angels - Robbie Williams
As Long As You Love Me - Backstreet Boys
Baby I Love You - Jennifer Lopez
Because I Love You - Jewel
Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
Blessed - Christina Aguilera
Breathless - The Corrs
Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
Crazy For You - Madonna
Everything I Do, I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
Feel Like Making Love - George Benson
Give Me Your Heart - Backstreet Boys
Have You Ever Been In Love? - Celine Dion
How Did I Fall In Love With You? - Backstreet Boys
I Could Fall In Love - Selena
I Just Fall In Love Again - Carpenters
I'll Never Stop Loving You - Britney Spears
I'll Still Love You More - Trisha Yearwood
I Love You - Celine Dion
I Need Your Love Tonight - Elvis Presley
I've Been Thinking About You - Mariah Carey
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Love For All Seasons - Christina Aguilera
Love Is All We Need - Celine Dion
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Love Will Find a Way - Christina Aguilera
Make You Happy - Celine Dion
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
My Love Is Your Love - Whitney Houston
Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - Whitney Houston and Jermaine Jackson
Please Don't Stop Loving Me - Elvis Presley
Power Of Love - Celine Dion
Remember Me - Marc Anthony
Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
Shower Me With Your Love - Surface
Somebody Loves You - Crystal Gayle
Still In Love - Brian McKnight
Straight From The Heart - Bryan Adams
Thank You For Loving Me - Bon Jovi
That's The Way I Like It - Backstreet Boys
That's When I'll Stop Loving You - N Sync
The One - Backstreet Boys
The One - Jennifer Lopez
The Way You Love Me - Faith Hill
The Woman He Loves - Alabama
Until You Come Back - Whitney Houston
Valentine - Martina McBride
Waiting For Tonight - Jennifer Lopez
Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
When I Dream At Night - Marc Anthony
When I Fall In Love - Celine Dion
When You Love Someone - Bryan Adams
Where Do Broken Hearts Go? - Whitney Houston
Where Does My Heart Beat Now - Celine Dion
Who Do You Love? - Whitney Houston
Without You - Mariah Carey
You Belong To Me - Jennifer Lopez
You Belong To My Heart - Elvis Presley
You Drive Me Crazy - Britney Spears
You Give Me Love - Faith Hill
You're Still My Man - Whitney Houston
You Take My Breath Away - Rex Smith
You Were Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
You Will Be Mine - Faith Hill
Valentine Party Song Ideas
All for Love - Bryan Adams
Do That To Me One More TimebyThe Captain & Tenille
Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
Every Breath You Take - The Police
From This Moment On - Shania Twain
I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
I Just Wanna Spend My Life With You - Clinton
I Swear - All 4 One
I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi
I'll Make Love To You - Boys II Men
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Love Of My Life - Brian Mcknight
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain and Tennille
Night and Day - Ella Fitzgerald
Nothing's Gonna Change my Love for You - Glenn Medeiros
Something Stupid - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
The Way You Look Tonight - Frank Sinatra
They Long To Be Close To You - The Carpenters
Three Times A Lady - The Commodores
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
There are many free audio editor of your choice, but the most widely used are Audacity and Wavosaur.
Audacity - Free audio recording and editing software
Audacity is free, open source software for audio recording and editing. It works on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
To remove vocals in Audacity, see here. Then add your own vocals to it, you become the super star singer!
Wavosaur - Portable and Free sound editing software
Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing. This program has no installer and doesn't write in the registry. Use it as a free sound editor, for mastering, sound design.
Removing Voices to Make Background Music for Karaoke
In most MP3 songs, vocals are equally mixed in left and right channel, and can be subtracted by 180 degrees. Although this won't totally remove vocals from MP3 songs, it works fair on most MP3 recording, especially when your own voice is recorded, you are the singer of your favorite songs.
Remove Vocals from MP3 Songs Using Audacity - Audio Freeware
To remove vocals from MP3 song in Audacity, following these steps:
1. Open your stereo MP3 song file into Audacity, other formats also available: WAV, OGG, AUP, etc.
2. Click the arrow next to the track title and choose "Split Stereo Track" in the resulting menu.
3. Now there are two audio tracks. Select the lower track (the right channel) by clicking the area around the mute/solo buttons.
4. Click through Effect > Invert on the menu bar.
5. Click the arrow next to the track title and choose "Mono" on each audio track.
6. Press Space bar to play background music with vocals removed.
Alternatively, try the Center Pan Remover plug-in for Audacity to remove vocals. Also works well in Audacity for vocal removing.
If you want to add your own vocals to MP3 song, directly click Record button on top, the round one. Now record your vocal and you can see a new recorded track. Play it back again, and now you can hear your vocal recorded. You are the super star!
Download Audacity - The Best Free Audio Editing and Recording Programme
Remove Vocals from MP3 Songs Using Wavosaur - Portable Freeware
Karaoke Machine w/ Voice Canceller & Fx
Download this free vocal removing program and import your MP3 song. Then go to Process > Vocal Remover, it immediately turns your mp3 song to instrumental. Finally export your song to local disk through File > Export > Export as MP3 or other formats. As you could see, it's easier than removing vocals using audacity. But if want to record you own voice to MP3 song, it's not as convenient as what you achieve in Audacity, because Wavosaur record your voice into a new file, rather than new track added to original MP3 song.
Remove Vocals Using Winamp Free Plugin - AnalogX Vocal Remover
Get this plug-in on Winamp Homepage for free. After installed, you can go through Options > Preferences (press Ctrl + P) and locate DSP/Effects. Select the AnalogX Vocal Remover on the right. Now while the song is play, you will notice that the vocals have been removed to some extent. Drag the slider to adjust mix effect. I usually set Mix to 80%.
Note that you need Winamp installed on your system to use AnalogX Vocal Remover plugin.
Several things about Vocal Removal From MP3 Songs:
1. To save as mp3 you need to have lame mp3 encoder installed. See how if need.
2. The MP3 must be stereo tracks, not mono track.
3. These free vocal remover software work better on some stereo audio than others. It's better to search for a good MP3 song first.
4. To save your time and anguish, you are recommended to buy a karaoke version of the song. You might even get by with a midi version, which is certainly better than what you'd end up with the free vocal removal programs.
This article offers some Windows Live Movie Maker tips on keyboard shortcut for easy photo movie making and movie editing. The following keyboard hotkeys or accelerators are the lists of common and useful shortcuts which built into Windows Live Movie Maker.
General Movie Making Operations
F1- Help
Esc - Stop current task
Alt + F4 - Close Windows Live Movie Maker
F12 – Save movie making project with new name
Ctrl + N - Create new movie project
Ctrl + O - Open existing project
Ctrl + S - Save movie making project
Ctrl + Z - Undo last action
Ctrl + Y - Redo last action
ALT+ENTER - Play video in full screen
Preview and edit movies
I - Trim the video so it starts at the current point in the video
O - Trim the video so it ends at the current point in the video
M - Split the video into two items at the current point in the video
Space or K – Play/pause
J - Previous frame
L - Next frame
Windows Live Movie Maker Storyboard
Delete - Delete selected item(s)
Ctrl + X - Cut selected item
Ctrl + C - Copy selected item
Ctrl + V - Paste selected item
Ctrl + A - Select all items on the same track
Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Up Arrow, Down Arrow - Move the selection one item in the direction of the arrow
Ctrl + Left Arrow, Ctrl + Right Arrow, Ctrl + Up Arrow, Ctrl + Down Arrow - Move the focus one item in the direction of the arrow
Page Up - Move selection up one page
Page Down - Move selection down one page
Home - Select first item on the storyboard
End – Select ast item on the storyboard
+ (plus sign) - Zoom in on the storyboard
- (minus sign) - Zoom out on the storyboard
Windows Live Movie Maker Timeline
Ctrl+Delete - Clear the storyboard/timeline
Ctrl+T - Switch between the storyboard and the timeline
Page Down - Zoom in on the timeline
Page Up - Zoom out on the timeline
F9 - Zoom the timeline to fit on the screen
+ (plus sign) - Expand the Video track when it is selected in the timeline
- (minus sign) - Collapse the Video track when it is selected in the timeline
Easily import directly from your video or digital camera and start editing straight away to make a beautiful photo movie or slideshow. With a few clicks, you make a great-looking photo movies that includes transitions, titles, captions and a music soundtrack, so that you can directly upload movie to Youtube or burn movies to DVD. If you are exploring Windows Live Photo Gallery, automatically make photo movie from selected photos and video by clicking Make a Movie.
One-click to Match Contents
In the old Windows Movie Maker, it's difficult to sync photos and videos with soundtrack. Now by one click, you perfectly match movie contents to soundtrack.
Easy Transitions and Effects
Windows Live Movie Maker provides smooth transitions to make your video flow seamlessly between photos and videos and you could add more motions (pan & zoom) to your photo movie creation. Before apply transitions effects, preview them in real time to get brief glimpse.
Titles, Captions and Credits
Compared to the previous Windows Movie Maker, Live Movie Maker has greatly improved in Titles, Captions and Credits. Now you can easily tell a movie story with titles screen and end credits without complicated editing.
Burn Movies to DVD
Want to share the professional movies with others? The latest Windows Live Movie Maker allows you to directly burn Windows Live Movie Maker movie to DVD and play with any standard DVD player.
Share Videos on Youtube, Facebook and more
TWe make photo video for sharing. Windows Live Movie Maker best know what we need. It enables you directly upload movie to youtube provided you already have a youtube account. Moreover, with Facebook plug-in, you could also share videos on Facebook. The best video sharing experience is brought to you by Windows Live Movie Maker, totally free, fan, easy.
2. How do you get a windows movie maker video on Youtube?
Answer: a. Click the icon on the leftmost, and then click "Publish movie", Publish on Youtube.
b. In the resulting dialog, input your Youtube Username and Password to sign in and download movie to Youtube.
3. What can I do if I failed to upload movie maker video to Youtube?
Sometimes, you will be prompted that the video files is not acceptable by Youtube. In such case, you are recommended to save Windows Live Movie Maker video into high quality WMV files and open Youtube.com and upload movies manually. If needed, you could also convert Windows Live Movie Maker video to any format you want with video converter.
4. How to add music to Windows Live Movie Maker?
Answer: Generally, you can click the "Add music" and select the song of your choice, and press Play button to preview. You could also click the little triangle button and select "Add music at the current point" to selected place.
To get iTune songs into Windows Live Movie Maker, burn an audio CD in iTunes then rip it back as mp3 format. Or you can download a DRM Remover.
5. How to make fast and slow motion videos on the new Windows Live Movie Maker?
Answer: The Slow down, Half and Speed up, Double effects are only available in the 2.6 version of Windows Movie Maker. It's not a feature in Windows Live Movie Maker. But you can add Slow motion effect in Windows Movie Maker, then saved the video and used it in the Window Live Movie Maker. Learn how to use vista Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7.
6. How to split video in Windows Live Movie Maker ?
Answer: Two ways are available: a. While playing the video, select the point on progress bar and right click the video followed by selecting "Split" item. b. Select the point and go to Edit -> Split.
Wanna remove the vocal from your favorite and sing the song, being a super star? It's easy to realize with this free vocal remover software - Karaoke Everything. So how to remove vocals from audio file and CD disc? Only Three Steps needed:
Vocal Removal Step 1: Open MP3 Audio File or Load CD Audio
Vocal Removal Step 2: Adjust Karaoke Effect Slider
Vocal Removal Step 3: Play and Sing Karaoke with Your PC
Karaoke Anything uses a vocal removing technique that sums the left channel with the inverse of the right. It then places the results into both channels. We call it the "Karaoke Effect". Action now to remove vocals from MP3 audio and even CD, turn your computer into a completely Karaoke Machine - no money needed and be a super Karaoke star!
Remove Vocals from Audio File:
To play from an mp3 file, click "MP3 Player Mode" and then click File, Open and then select an mp3 file. Karaoke Anything will load the mp3 file into memory. After loading, click Play and sing with microphone connected to your computer. You could adjust the Karaoke Effect using the slide beneath the audio play control buttons.
Remove Vocals from CD Disc:
You remove the vocals of your audio CD's in REAL TIME (this technology is accurate for about 75% of the audio CD's of the market today).
To play from an audio CD, make sure you have an audio CD inserted in your CD drive. Now click "CD Player Mode". If you have multiple CD drives, you may to select the correct CD drive from the Source / CD Drives drop down menu.
You can also adjust the CD audio Karaoke Effect using the slider control. Adjust it to get a good balance of vocal removal but also do not lose too much instrumentals.
Several things you need to know about Vocal Removal Software:
1. The "Karaoke Effect" does not work on mono recordings or in stereo recordings where the vocals are mixed off center.
2. This free vocal removal software works better on some audio than others. It's better to search for a good song first.
3. There are also other free vocal remover software to reduce vocals from audio.
