The Interactive Whiteboards are the smart boards that are popularly being used today. These smart boards are finding their utility everywhere ranging from a teaching field to the training and demonstration field. These presentation boards provide interaction with other technologies, so they are used for multipurpose requirements. These boards have interfaces to attach to computers, laptops, screen projectors and many other devises. These portable smart boards are not simple boards but the boards carrying features of today’s rapidly growing world.

These smart whiteboards offer great benefits to every age group and for people of varied fields. The boards have an attractive look to entice kids to enjoy their studies. Not only this, but these boards also provide easy readability to the students as they have a base of white color, which is the most suitable to our eyes and this color has its own brightness which helps release the stress on eyes.

The smart board is compatible for making connections with slide and projector technology and the computer interactive technology. If it is used in schools or colleges then it expunges the need to go to other places for giving demonstrations. It also increases students’ interest in learning. Through this way a teacher can address large number of students with a single whiteboard, which otherwise would have been very difficult with a single computer or laptop.

One of the great features of these Interactive Whiteboards is that these allow the data on board to be saved on computer hard disk. Is it not a great feature? This way the classroom tutorials can be saved and be redisplayed when required. This feature can also be very useful for business meeting purposes where slides are displayed on whiteboards and record of meetings are to be made.

The Interactive Whiteboards due to their multiuse features are finding use in many fields. Today these smart boards are being used for delivering presentations, video conferencing, training, e learning, demonstrations and still many more. Their video conferencing feature has offered a great advantage; the computer or laptop display can be transferred to the white board, so the small conferencing equipments can be made to suffice the need of large equipments.

With the training application of Interactive Whiteboards, the trainers can very interactively teach their trainees, which otherwise through simple computers or laptops might have been very difficult to substantiate. Their feature of delivering presentations is remarkable. Due to this feature of Interactive Whiteboards, these are ubiquitous whether it is seminar halls, presentation and speech rooms, and product demonstration halls, coaching institutes and even in shows, parties, gatherings and events.

It is omnipresence is easy to understand. It is an interface for addressing a large group of people, for example in gatherings or parties, where people are not able to see distant happenings; these smart whiteboards make their utility there by shortening the distance between them. So, the whiteboards now have become a must for companies, educational institutes, exhibition centers and demonstration halls and for many more places.

After creating a good multipurpose product, its time to officially launch the product in the market. And of course you will be using a nice video presentation in the conference to introduce your product. Once you have done the presentation part and when your product lures the conference, all credit goes to video presentation you created. Yes! A good presentation is always equals 50% of the work done.

To create a clear video presentation you have lot of tools to help. But are they really gonna help when you need to present a video in next hour or so? For that, you need fast, reliable, and just easygoing screen recording software that will capture all your efforts. And that’s exactly what our new SCREEN2SWF software can give. Stepok Image Lab proudly presents you next generation screen capturing software, the fastest one among all present desktop recording software.

Our Lab is actually a studio where we professionals research and develops image processing, recording, and all multimedia software. We have several multimedia software, and SCREEN2SWF is one of them. This high-speed second-generation software uses Stepok Screen Codec V2, the fastest screen codec developed by the lab, specially designed only for recording and compression purposes.

So first up on, what we mean to high compression?
Compression is a term used for compressed data in small packs so that it frees up the hard disk memory for additional data. Usually in regular video recording software a 1 minute video would end up in using around 270 MB space, which is of course not viable for a long video. But software having a good compression ratio can save the large part of memory, almost 40 to 60 % of the original. It also speeds up the uploading time, in a case where you need to send across the clients or customer.

SCREEN2SWF is software having compression rate 600:1. That means you will create a video of 1 minute by just using 500 Kb’s of memory. Consider this, keeping a screen resolution to 1024 X 768, the calculation for 1 minute video using regular recorder can be

1024 x 768 x 3 (RGB) x 60 (s) x 2 (frames/sec) = 283115520B = 276480KB = 270MB, a huge loss of memory.

Now, in SCREEN2SWF you can fix this up in merely using 5 MB of your disk space. Amazing isn’t it? In a standard mode, for an office style screen SCREEN2SWF can compress 1 minute video to 100 – 600 k, and for webpage loaded with multimedia presentations, SCREEN2SWF uses disk space of 2 – 6 MB with a compression ratio of 70:1.

So what are other benefits of using SCREN2SWF?
There can be a long list of benefits of using SCREN2SWF. Here some of them listed,

A. You can export recordings directly to AVI, EXE, or SWF, along with an HTML code to incorporate in a website.
B. You can readily put annotation and comments in your video for easy understanding
C. Narrate the video at the same you are recording it.
D. Create presentations with great speed and simplicity in operations.

What else you need to launch your product successfully in the market, once you have an excellent tool that will demonstrate how your product is going to change the world.

Audio books now have gained more popularity then ever before, as you can see in many online stores there a lot of popular titles in this type of formats such as CD’s and cassettes. Audio book has been around since the 80’s so it’s not actually a new thing in the market, but still there a lot of people who find it as a new experience and very excited about it.

So is it better than the traditional book? What are the advantages of using audio books over traditional books? Now here are some of the main advantages.

1. Save more time. There’s no doubt that this format is perfect for busy people. You can still listen the books while you’re working, it’s like having someone reading the books for you and follow you where ever you go.

2. Save more space. It’s using a form of files that you can simply put in your hard disk, so you don’t have to worry about having hundreds, thousands, even millions files because it will never take any space more than the space of your hard disk or your computer. But can you imagine having thousands of books laying around in your room?

3. Stimulate your imagination. I think this particular advantage will do more impact with children because by listening to this type of books, children will develop a certain imaginative perspectives in their minds and they will enjoy it even better than reading a book by them selves, and as their brains become more active they will become much brighter.

4. Save your mobility. Have you ever had an experience of canceling some appointments or other activities because you just bought a new book and wanted to read it immediately? Well I’ve been there and done that. But now when using audiobooks you can still go out there and doing anything you like without sacrificing your “Reading time”, you can listen the books using your MP3 player or your iPod anytime, anywhere.

So there you go the 4 main advantages over traditional books, I hope you enjoy it and if you never have or listen any audio book then perhaps today you can grab some and experience yourself the fun and enjoyment of using Audio books.

Here is the step by step guide of how to download videos from YouTube and convert YouTube videos to other video files with ImTOO YouTube Video Converter.

This guide includes three parts:

1. Download and convert YouTube videos in IE browser
2. Download and convert YouTube videos with the built-in YouTube Video Browser
3. Convert FLV video on the hard disk to other video

Before you start, please download, install and launch ImTOO YouTube Video Converter.

Part 1: Download and convert YouTube videos in IE browser

Step 1: Browse YouTube videos

Open your IE browser, go to www.youtube.com and browse YouTube videos.

Step 2: Create a new task

Click “New Download” button on the toolbar to open the “New Download” dialog, and copy the URL of the YouTube video you want, then paste it into the “URL” textbox.

Tips:

1. You can drag and drop the video URL directly to the main window or the suspended Drop Zone to create a new task.
2. You can download YouTube videos from the IE right-click menu while you’re browsing in IE. Right click the YouTube video thumbnail, and choose “Download with ImTOO YouTube Video Converter” option from the right-click menu, then the “New Download” dialog appears, and the video URL is automatically added into the “URL” textbox.

Step 3: Adjust the output settings

Destination: Click “Browse” button to open the “Browse For Folder” dialog box, select a folder for saving the output videos and click “OK” button. You can check the folder’s available space below the “Destination” field.

Format: Select an output format you want in the “Format” drop-down list. If you only want to save the original FLV video, then choose “FLV” as target format.

Start Task: The “Start Now” option is checked by default, which means the new task will start promptly after you click “OK” button. You can also set it as “Manual” to start the task anytime you want.

Step 4: Start downloading and converting
Click “OK” button to close the “New Download” dialog. If you set the “Start Type” option as “Start Now”, then the selected video will be promptly downloaded and converted to the format you choose and saved to the folder you set in the Step 3. Otherwise, click “Start” button on the toolbar to start the task anytime you want.

Part 2: Download and convert YouTube videos with the built-in YouTube Video Browser

Step 1: Adjust the task settings

Click “Tools > Settings” option from the main menu, then the “Settings” window pops up. Click to open the “Task” tab, and set the “Destination”, “Format” and “Start Task” options in the “Task Default Configuration” area according to your own requirements.

Step 2: Browse YouTube videos in the built-in browser

Click “Browse videos” button on the toolbar or check “Browser…” option in the “Tools” menu to open the “YouTube Video Browser” window, and use the filter buttons at the bottom to browse the YouTube videos by different categories: Recent Videos, Most Viewed, Top Rated, Most Responded, Spotlight Videos, Top Favorite, Watch on Mobile, Most Discussed and Rising Videos.

Tips:

1. You can search for the videos you’re interested by typing the keyword into the “Search” textbox and clicking the magnifier button at the right.
2. Click the link below the video thumbnail, or right click the video thumbnail and click “Play” option from the right-click menu to open the web page with your default web browser and watch the YouTube video online.

Step 3: Start downloading and converting

Click the down arrow at the left top of the video you want, or drag and drop the video into the main window, or right click the video thumbnail and click “Download Video” option from the right-click menu to start a new task.
If you set the “Start Type” option as “Start Now”, then the selected video will be promptly downloaded and converted to the format you choose and saved to the folder you set in the Step 1. Otherwise, click “Start” button on the toolbar to start the task anytime you want.

Part 3: Convert FLV video on the hard disk to other video

Step 1: Adjust the task settings

Click “Tools > Settings” option from the main menu, the “Settings” window pops up. Click to open the “Task” tab, and set the “Destination”, “Format” and “Start Task” options in the “Task Default Configuration” area according to your own requirements.

Step 2: choose the FLV files to convert

Click “New Convert” button on the toolbar to choose FLV files you want to convert in the “please choose the files for convert” dialog that appears, then click “Open” button to close the dialog and return to the main window. The selected FLV videos will be added into the file list.

Step 3: Start converting

If you set the “Start Type” option as “Start Now”, then the selected video will be promptly converted to the format you choose and saved to the folder you set in the Step 1. Otherwise, click “Start” button on the toolbar to start the task anytime you want.

Tips:

If your Internet Service Provider blocked YouTube site, you can bypass the firewall by setting the proxy server as below:
Open the “Tools > Settings > Proxy” tab, choose the proxy server type, enter the address and port of the proxy server, and if necessary, enter the user name and password, then click OK button to return to the main window and retry the downloading.

1. You can click “Start All” button on the toolbar to start downloading and converting all the files in the file list, and control the converting process by the “Pause”, “Stop”, “Pause All”, “Stop All” and “Remove” buttons.
2. There’re two modes to view the files in the file list: list and thumbnails. Click the “List” and “Thumbnails” buttons to switch the view mode.
3. If you set the “Start Type” option as “Manual”, then before you start the new task, you can change the destination and format freely.