Want a media converter program that could help you convert video between different formats like WMV, AVI, MP4, FLV, MPEG, RM, MTS, MKV, etc. on your Windows 8 PC or laptop? Or, need a Mac DVD converter to rip and convert DVD movies from disc or folder to common videos in MP4, MKV, AVI, FLV, etc. for playback on your iPad 4 and other devices? No doubt, you could get a lot of choices online to meet your requirements. However, now, you get the chance to grab a combo of video converter and DVD converter for either Mac or Windows at ZERO cost. Leawo is right now giving out Video Converter Pro and Video Converter Pro for Mac as free giveaway gift in its Back to School Giveaway Activity.

Leawo’s Video Converter Pro, both Windows version and Mac version, is actually a media solution suite that includes video converter and DVD converter. It could convert video and DVD to various video/audio formats like AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, RMVB, MPEG, 3GP, MKV, MP3, WMV, WAV, AAC, OGG, M4A, etc. for various players including iPhone 5, iPad 4, iPad mini, Android mobiles, Windows Phone mobiles, BlackBerry mobiles, etc. Meanwhile, Video Converter Pro is attached with trending 2D to 3D creating and practical video editing features for better home theatre entertainment.

The upcoming major upgrade to the OS X desktop operating-system from Apple for their Mac product lineup named Apple OS X Mavericks got it's sixth "Developer Preview" release. The beta release is now available for download exclusively to registered Apple developers for testing and development purposes only, the beta build is tagged “13A558” for reference. As with every internal/dev-only release their are numerous channels from where non-developers can grab this "EXPERIMENTAL" build (DevUpdateOSX10.9DP6Combo.dmg) as also shared below.

Out of sync audio and video can be very tricky to handle, on a computer multimedia players like Videolan VLC provides easy methods to experiment with timings and fix audio sync with video correctly. However, you need to use other utilities when you want to save the fixed audio-video sync as we will be demonstrating ahead.

File-format incompatibility between Apple Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating-systems is something every user faces utilizing both operating-systems. One such incompatibility is the disk-image format used by both operating-systems, while Apple Mac OS uses .CDR format Microsoft Windows utilizes the international disk-imaging standard .ISO, so you would need something to convert .CDR to .ISO file-format and vice-versa to use them under rival operating-systems. Luckily, the only difference between two is the file-extension, and all one needs to do is to change the .ISO/.CDR extension to make them work interchangeably without any real file-format conversion. We can also use this fact to make perfectly bootable USB disks from .CDR files from Windows and Linux using existing tools allowing cloning of .ISO format to USB.

Scamming users looking for Apple iOS 6.1.3+ jailbreak is something we covered earlier, and it seems the trend is here to stay with another entry named Firest0rm claiming to offer untethered Jailbreak for iOS 6.1.4 & even iOS 7. Using the same modus-operandi as earlier, the perpetrators of this scam asks users to download their utility asking them to complete a survey to unlock the zip file containing the Apple iOS 6.1.4 and iOS 7 untethered jailbreak which is nothing but fake/dummy. This is not all, as suggested by many comments in the previous post this could even be a virus/malware and can harm users computers - so the bottom line is stay from it.

Good news for Indians, the powerful anti-corruption utility for citizens "The Right to Information Act (RTI) Of India" applications can now be filled and paid for online. The act allows increased transparency and greater accountability for the government as it enables Indian citizens to ask for information from any Indian constitutional authorities, including the executive, legislature and judiciary; any institution or body established or constituted by an act of Parliament or a state legislature. The process to get this information got more easier as now users can file RTI applications and first appeals online along with the applicable payment. The online payment can be made through internet banking of SBI & its associate banks and debit/credit cards of Mastercard and Visa.

German government experts have given everybody another reason to hate Microsoft Windows 8, the experts after research concluded that Windows 8 is too ‘dangerous’ to use and pose an unacceptable security risk for companies and authorities. Issuing a warning to the government they called the so-called "Trusted Computing" framework in Windows 8 to be a backdoor for the NSA which can leak sensitive data.

Apple iPhone is a great piece of technology and like any other gadget can be the source of little annoyances which are simple but tricky to solve, one such commonly encountered problem is when your iPhone thinks it's always connected to a dock and no sound comes out of the device speakers as it diverts all audio to the phantom Dock Connector. Once stuck into the "Dock Connector" mode the volume slider becomes nonoperational and no audio comes out from internal speakers with no option to change the behavior and route audio to internal speakers.

Using simple commands and phrases to perform easy tasks is what we get using Apple Siri and Google Voice in there current form, imagine what would be the reaction when you see someone coding in Python without touching the keyboard at all and that too faster than the using one - Just watch the amazing video demonstration below.

While debugging this blog's theme files I encountered an mysterious "404 Not Found" HTTP error for file jquery.min.map when accessing the image file directly from the CDN. On further research it turned out this to be only specific when using "Chrome DevTools" which tries to load the file for debugging purposes, users won't be hitting this 404. It is also very easy to disable this JavaScript source maps completely from "Chrome DevTools" settings as shown below.