Want to watch DVD movies in HD?

The impact of movies on society has been enormous and it had been like that for a long period of time. For example, rewind back 30 years and take some random movies released on that year. Let the movies be of any genre. How they can tell about the living conditions at that time? Well, consider the following facts.

A blockbuster or cult movie wouldn’t have succeeded without its dialogues. If a film’s dialogues were at length and revolutionary, it means the state of that society is not stable. Audiences of those movies would be at end of their youth and feeling the responsibility in them. An epic or love movie wouldn’t have succeeded without its music. Even silence would have been the best music in those movies. Emotional bursts and real life scenes would have raged the pulse of youth. They form the major audience for those movies. 

Many of us associate movies with our state of life at that period. The feeling a movie would impact varies from simple emotions to strong emotions. The common complaint would be with the quality of the video and now HD has become the hot favourite. There are a lot of Video editors available but using the imtoo DVD ripper will make life more simple and easy! It rips dvd's to more than 150 formats available and you can play it even on your iPhone, XBOX and Blackberry! Its not only available on windows but also on the Mac platform. Here you go - DVD ripper MAC. In addition to this, there is also a Video converter for Mac that rips dvds to various video formats like avi and mpeg. It allows some editing too.  So why waiting, Feeling nostalgic now, go ahead, grab your favorite movie. Enjoy the movie and enjoy the feel!

Get the New Rupee Symbol On Your PC

With India announcing a new symbol for its currency - Rupee, people have been working overtime to bring it to the next obvious place your PC.

A Mangalore based company Foradian Technologies has already made a new font available for users who would like to use the new Rupee symbol on their computers. While the sign may take time to be adopted by Unicode, that doesn't mean you should not be using the font all the while.

The font, available for download here. Foradian has also posted instructions as to how the Rupee symbol can be used in your computer for various applications including MS Excel, Lotus Notes, Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio. They even have versions for Linux and Mac users.

Foraadian's posterous blog has all the details you need to use the new Rupee symbol on your PC.

 

Mozilla Releases Firefox 4.0 Beta

Mozilla has released the first beta of its Firefox 4.0 web browser based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform layout engine. Obviously, all the add-ons you've been using with the Firefox 3.7 version won't work on with the new Firefox 4.0 beta. This new 4.0 beta version of the web browser mainly revamps the looks and brings a sizeable number of features that include WebM video format and HTML5 support.

The first noticeable feature of this new Firefox 4.0 beta is that all tabs would be visible on the top. However, this is visible for Windows based OS users only. We believe that the visual delight would slowly appear for the Linux and Mac OS X versions of the web browser when the final build of Firefox 4.0 releases. The new significant features included in the Firefox 4.0 beta are:

* Add-ons Manager: More space to efficiently manage your favorite add-ons, plugins and themes.
* HD Video: The future WebM format is supported and promises HD-quality hardware accelerated HTML5 video on the web.
* HTML5 Support: Better HTML parsing, support for HTML5 form controls and also runs the latest web apps based on HTML5 such as Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail interface for the mobile phones.
* Full WebGL support for in-browser 3D rendering.

Apart from these features, the new Firefox 4.0 beta also promises performance improvement and the necessary security improvements to protect browser history.

Download the Firefox 4.0 beta for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X from here.

Apple unveils new iPhone

Apple Inc has unveiled a speedier iPhone, but contrary to rumour its convalescing Chief Executive Steve Jobs did not make an appearance. The new iPhone 3GS is twice as fast as its predecessor, and features an improved digital camera and a new service that lets users locate their phones if they have been lost or stolen.

The 3GS will cost $199 for 16 GB of memory, and $299 for 32 GB of memory. The existing iPhone 3G will get an immediate price cut to $99. Among other incremental announcements, the consumer electronics giant showed off a new 15-inch notebook with improved battery life, a $300-cheaper Mac Air, its thinnest laptop, and, as expected, its highly previewed "Snow Leopard" Mac operating system software.

Apple's new MacBook Air notebook now starts at $1,499. The company also unveiled a new 13-inch MacBook Pro starting at $1,199, and a 15-inch laptop with longer battery life, addressing a perennial consumer concern. Apple's stock is historically volatile during the company's June developer conference. It dropped about 7 per cent over the course of the conference in 2008 and about 4 per cent in 2007.

Suspense and speculation had mounted in the months before Apple's annual Worldwide Developers' Conference, with hopes ranging from a cameo by Jobs, out till the end of June on medical leave, to revelations of a game-changing tablet computer.

Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, announced his leave of absence in January by saying his health problems were more complex than previously thought. Despite a slowing product line, worsening consumer spending and an uncertain succession plan, investors have quickly got comfortable with the idea of a Job-less Apple. Shares in the maker of the iPod and iPhone have surged 85 per cent since shortly after the bombshell was dropped on January 14.

Jobs, a college dropout, co-founded Apple in 1976 with his friend Steve Wozniak in a Silicon Valley garage. After a falling-out with the board, he left the company in 1985. Apple floundered, setting the scene for his return in 1997. The company has flourished under Jobs 2.0, rolling out the concept of a computer as a 'digital hub' along with the now-ubiquitous iPod and iPhone.

Source: TOI