VideoPhill: Finally found an Alternative to the Good Old Media Player Classic

The video formats I have in my local hard drive come from various sources. The most numerous format so far is AVI, which is ideally the file extension for movies and other 700MB video files that can be burnt on CD. Next to AVI, there are other formats such as MOV, WMV, MKV, and FLV. Most of the MOV files I have were recorded from my Apple device. Some MOV files are videos directly downloaded from the Apple website such as high-definition trailers and video tutorials. I used to have a separate player for MOV files, the Apple Quicktime, but then realized that I can just download the minimalistic codec to play the file on the Media Player classic. For more than a decade already, I have been a fan of the MPC, but not until I discovered VideoPhill. Just like the MPC, VideoPhill takes advantage of advanced video compression technology to deliver high-quality videos with the minimal use of resources. In addition, the player provides a very user-friendly interface for me to organize my own video archive.

The capabilities of VideoPhill are beyond that of a regular video player. The software application hosts a number of functionalities that truly redefined how I categorize and view my videos. A very convenient feature of VideoPhill is the thumbnail generation for virtually every file format, which is unlike the MPC that had certain issues with generating thumbnails especially for uncommon file formats.

VideoPhill may be downloaded by following this link. It's free to try and the developer has been very generous with the trial features.

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Archiving Videos with VideoPhill

While I was looking for a software application to manage my huge archive of video files consisting of movies, music videos and TV series, I came across VideoPhill player and VideoPhill recorder. It has an extensive feature set that will certainly provide video archiving solutions. In particular, I was interested with the player since I won't be doing recording assignments for now:

http://www.videophill.com/index.php?page=player

The software application is really worth a try so here's the download link:

http://www.videophill.com/index.php?page=download

Music App Updates on the iOS 5

When Apple announced the iOS 5, the company pointed out the convenient feature of deleting songs or entire albums right on the mobile device. This feature is in contrast to the previous capabilities only available when in sync with iTunes on the PC or Mac. Apple was certainly proud of this simple feature that they had to hype it up during the announcement.

Deleting an entire album

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Sprinkle: Most Addictive Gaming App of the Month for the iOS 5

In this physics-based shooting game, friendly-looking aliens are armed with weapons that shoot jets of water onto their meteor-stricken village to put out fire. In Sprinkle, the player is anchored on the left side of the panel with limited movements. The water gun can be aimed around 360° and its platform can be moved vertically upward or downward.

Welcome screen

iCloud Features Augment the Power of the iOS 5 on the iPhone

Cloud storage has been around for quite a while now. Servers first took advantage of this virtual infrastructure to enable online collaboration among the users working on the same project. Clouds also provide additional processing resources beyond the capability of the client computer. The iOS 5 implemented this feature with innovative features that surely stand out against contemporary cloud services.

iCloud configurable settings