Download WinX DVD Video Converter “Lifetime Upgrade License” for only $9.95 [Sponsored] | Dramel Notes

Christmas is already here! This year, Digiarty decided to hop on the holiday bandwagon again and offer a time-limited deal which enables you to make a purchase of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum, WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe and WinX DVD Copy Pro individually for only $9.95. Each of them will save you big bucks and give you the privileges of Lifetime Free Upgrades and tech support.

You can get each of the software packages individually at the following links for one low price:

• Get WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Full License with Lifetime Free Upgrade for $9.95
• Get WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe Full License with Lifetime Free Upgrade for $9.95
• Get WinX DVD Copy Pro Full License with Lifetime Free Upgrade for $9.95

But instead of buying them each individually from the aforementioned offers, you can alternatively get all the above products through an all-in-one software bundle as the WinX 2015 Christmas Gift Pack.

What will the Pack bring you?

1. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: the world’s leading DVD ripper software capable of ripping any DVD to mainstream videos and portable devices.
2. WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe: all-in-one video software that was recently upgraded with the world’s most advanced Intel QSV and Nvidia CUDA/NVENC hardware acceleration tech, making itself the fastest tool to convert UHD 4K and 1080p video.
3. WinX DVD Copy Pro: a digital DVD duplicator that sports 9 copy modes to meet users’ up-to-date DVD backup demands in Windows (10).

In addition, a DVD/4K/HD video software is presented as Christmas gift along with the purchase of the Pack. Save Big on the Best-in-class DVD Video Software Pack (4-in-One)

Just in case you aren’t convinced, keep reading for more about the software included in the pack.

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum

This application supports ripping DVDs (even the latest strongly encrypted DVD discs/ISO images) to AVI, MP4, H.264, MPEG, WMV, MOV, FLV, M2TS and the like for playback on Apple (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, iTunes), Android (Nexus, Samsung, HTC, Kindle Fire), Microsoft (Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox), Chromecast, Sony, Nokia, etc.

To top that off, this DVD ripper also boasts four unique DVD backup methods for longer storage and better protection. Due to the implemented cutting-edge technologies like Multi-core (up to 8) CPU and Hyper-threading, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a contender for the No.1 fastest DVD ripping software.

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe

It is one of the best encapsulation of HD video Converter (that can handle the conversion between nigh all the SD, HD and 4K videos), online video downloader (that helps you download sharp 2160p/4K videos and pop music video/audio files from over 300 video sites), slideshow maker (capable of turning the freeze-frame pictures to vivid videos with special BGM) and a video editor (giving you total control over the video parameters).

WinX DVD Copy Pro

This DVD copy program gives its user a glut of DVD backup schemes: clone DVD to DVD disc for safe storage; copy DVD to ISO image for later burning, playing or ripping; copy DVD to MPEG2 file with intact content for further usage in media center, DVD library establishment and DVD playback in PS3, HTPC. Equipped with ISO mounter and DVD burner, this DVD copy software can also help mount ISO to a virtual drive and burn DVD to DVD.

Save Big on the Best-in-class DVD Video Software Pack (4-in-One)

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How to Stream Local Movies and TV Shows to Your Apple TV | Dramel Notes

The new Apple TV is pretty cool on its own and we believe that it’s a good purchase if you’re looking to buy or upgrade to a new streaming device, but you still can’t play anything you want on it right out of the box.

The good news is, with a simple $5 ($4.99 to be exact) app and a computer, you can turn your Apple TV into a very capable video streaming device that will play virtually any TV shows or movies you have secreted away on your computer hard drives.

Install Air Video HD on Your Apple TV

The first thing you will need to do is install the Air Video HD app on your Apple TV. To do this, first open the app store and search for it. The Siri Remote might make this a little annoying, but you should be able to find it with just a few letters.

As we mentioned, the app itself will set you back $4.99 but considering what it can do, we think it’s well worth it.

When you first open Air Video HD, you will almost certainly get an error telling you no computers were found.

This is because you need to install the Air Video HD Server on one or more of your computers. In the next section, we’ll show you how to install it on a typical Windows-based PC.

Install Air Video Server HD on Your Computers

In order to stream video content to your Apple TV, you will first need to install the Air Video Server HD application on your PC and/or Macs (Linux support is coming soon).

Note, in the following section we show you screenshots for the Windows version of the Air Video Server HD application. The Mac version is nearly identical, having no notable differences between the two.

Once you download the application, you will obviously need to install it like any other app.

Once installed, start the application and the server will start running automatically.

You will immediately see a bunch of options and settings but you can probably safely ignore everything for the time being. Right now, we’re most concerned about adding a location or locations to get things started.

Click the “Add” button and you will be prompted to select a directory. Browse to the location where your media is stored on your PC or Mac, choose the folder(s) you want to add and click “OK”.

Now, you will see your locations in the “Shared Folders”. In our example, we’ve only added one location for the sake of simplicity, but you can obviously add as many as you want.

At this point, you can close the server application and it will continue to run in the background. If you need to access it in the future, you can do so by clicking the icon in the system tray on Windows or in the Menu Bar on OS X.

Adding a Server on Your Apple TV

With the server up and running and our locations added, it’s time to go back to the Apple TV and access our content. Remember earlier when it told us it couldn’t find any computers? You should now be able to see your server(s) on the Air Video HD’s connections screen.

Go ahead and click on one of them (if you have more than one running) and browse to the content you want to view. Of course, if you have more than one location added, you will see all of them. As we said earlier, we only added one to keep things simple.

That then is all there is to it really, when you click on a title, it will begin playing and you can operate in the same way you do other video content using the Siri Remote’s play/pause button as well as the touch pad surface to fast forward and rewind.

Just remember, you can only access this content so long as the host computer is on and the Air Video Server application is running.

If you don’t see your shared folder(s) when you open the Air Video HD application on your Apple TV, then you should first check to make sure the computer from where you’re streaming your files is on or hasn’t gone to sleep.

What’s Up With All Those Settings?

Before we conclude today, we want to take just a few minutes to run through the various configuration settings you will see when you start the server software.

First, at the top of the server screen you will see two options: one to stop the server (if it is running) or start it (if it is stopped), and a button to check the server status.

The server status will show you three tabs. The Network tab will display important information such as the local IP address, port, as well as external port and IP if you want to allow your server to be accessed from the Internet.

The Session tab will show you any connected users and playback sessions, and finally the Conversion tab will display information on any files that are currently being converted.

Below the top section are the Remote Access options. If your server is accessible from the Internet, you can enable or disable it here.

Additionally, you can configure whether you want to set up single or multi user mode. If you choose the latter, then you can assign user accounts to persons in your household.

Below these options is a button to “invalidate passwords saved on devices”. All this basically means is that if you give a user access and later need to revoke it, you can quickly do so by clicking that button.

Finally, if you have file formats that first need to be converted before they can be streamed, then you can see where the conversion folder information is, and if necessary, you can change its location.

The remaining “Other Options” give you the ability to start the server software when you log into your account, as well as set the server to listen on a custom port.

More than likely, you will not have to mess with this last option, the remaining two “experimental” items, or any of the three buttons located on the right side of the server window.

As you can see, turning your Apple TV into a video streaming powerhouse is dead simple and cheap, so if you have a bunch of files residing on your trusty old PC or Mac, then you no longer need to futz with attaching it directly to your TV via an HDMI cable.

Now, all you need to do is fire up your Apple TV and pick the title you want to view with the Air Video HD app. With that said, please let us know if you found this article helpful by leaving your feedback in our discussion forum.

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How to Set Up Content and Purchase Restrictions on Your Apple TV | Dramel Notes

Apple TV has even more sophisticated content and purchase restrictions than its predecessors: it’s dead simple to restrict mature content, apps, and purchases. Let’s take a look at how to set and manage the restrictions.

Why Do I Want to Do This?

There are a wide variety of reasons you might want to enable content and purchase restrictions on your Apple TV and not all of them revolve around dealing with children. While the most obvious (and likely the most common reason) people want to lock down their media center hardware is to 1) prevent kids from seeing content they shouldn’t be seeing and 2) prevent kids from spending money.

At the same time, however, the content and purchase restrictions are also useful for more than just parents. If you have roommates and you don’t want them messing up your strategy game ladder scores you can turn off the online-multiplayer. The same things goes for purchases: no need to let roommates, visiting relatives, or Airbnb guests rack up charges purchasing seasons of TV shows, purchasing apps, or with in-app purchases.

Let’s take a look at how to enable the restrictions by setting a passcode and then we’ll look at the individual restrictions you can toggle on and off.

Enable Restrictions by Setting a Passcode

The first stop on our lock-down-the-Apple-TV tour is, as you might have guessed, the Settings menu. Here we’ll need to create a parent/administrator passcode before the Apple TV will allow any content restrictions. That’s fair enough, after all, as it would be pretty silly to set a content restriction that had no “lock” as it were.

Navigate to the large gear icon on the home screen of the Apple TV and select it with the touchpad on your Apple TV remote to access the Settings menu.

Within the Settings menu select the General sub-menu.

Within the General sub-menu select the Restrictions sub-menu. If this is your first foray into configuring restrictions it will be, as seen above, defaulted to “Off”.

When you enter into the Restrictions menu everything but the top “Restrictions” entry will be grayed out. Click on “Restrictions” to enabled a passcode.

Select a four digit passcode and, when prompted, repeat the passcode to confirm. You’ll be returned to the main Restrictions menu. Now that we’ve secured the Apple TV with a passcode let’s take a look at the individual restrictions you can set.

Restricting Purchases, Apps, and More

With the passcode set, let’s turn our attention to what can be restricted and how you can restrict it. The one topic that is of interest to parents, roommates, and landlords alike is front and center at the top of the screen: iTunes Store.

In the “iTunes Store” sub-section you can toggle “Purchase and Rental” as well as “In-App Purchases” between the default “Allow” and “Restrict”. The former stops the user from purchasing or renting any content from the iTunes store (including music, movies, TV shows, and apps) and the latter restricts any in-app purchases so nobody racks up a $500 bill for Super Power Smurf Berries in some silly Freemium app.

The next sub-section, “Allows Content”, deals not with purchasing restrictions but with restrictions on the playback of content. Here you can toggle music and podcasts between “Explicit” and “Clean”, change the rating system to represent the ratings of your country (if available), toggle movies, apps, and even whether or not Siri will display explicit language.

The movies and TV shows can be left wide open, turned off completely, or adjusted based on the rating system you selected. Using the U.S. rating system, for example, means you can restrict movies to only PG-13 and below (or any other rating) and TV shows to, say, TV-PG and below. The apps rating system is based on the iTunes ratings and allows you to turn apps off, allow all apps, or restriction the based on the 4+/9+/12+/17+ system (handy for keeping your young children away from that zombie shooter you’re addicted to).

Finally there are two last sections to look at. In the “Game Center” subsection you can toggle Multiplayer Games on and off as well as the Adding Friends function. Both restrictions are useful if you want to allow younger kids in your household to play games but not to add strangers as friends or to play online with multiplayer games at all.

The last section “Allow Changes” has restrictions for AirPlay Settings and Location Services. If you use the passcode system for nothing else this is a handy thing to lock so people, grownups and kids alike, don’t mess with these settings.

That’s all there is to the Apple TV purchase and content restriction system. While overall we’re pretty happy with the restrictions system we will say that it’s a big oversight that you can’t filter apps on an individual level. The content restriction works great on movies and TV shows as the content is passive and it has already been reviewed and rated. It doesn’t work all that great on apps, however, as so many apps can deliver content (and it’s not the content but the app that receives the rating). The Netflix app, for example, is rated at 4+ but we all know that there is tons of content on Netflix that isn’t kid-friendly. It would be nice if you could create a white list of apps that your child could launch (or a blacklist of apps that required the passcode). Hopefully in future iterations of content restriction services on both the Apple TV and iOS devices this oversight will be addressed.

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Can You Outgive Literature’s Most Famous Gifts? | Dramel Notes

It’s the time of year where we all starting thing about giving (and getting gifts). Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but unless you went crazy shopping on those days, you probably have a lot of gifts left to purchase for friends and loved ones.

I bet you’d like to make the gifts you purchase this year truly memorable for the receiver, but can your gifts compare to some of literature’s most famous? Can you get something better than magic teleporting shoes? Can you find something cooler than a wooden horse filled with soldiers?

Check out the infographic below for a look at the most famous gifts ever given in literature and prepare to put your holiday gift buying skills to the test!

Via PackSend.Co.Uk

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