Picasa 3 for photo editing

Few photos start out perfectly. One of the software I use frequently in editing photos taken by digital camera is Picasa. Picasa is Google’s freeware for photo management.

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How to convert mp4 to AVI in Windows

I usually use Windows Movie Maker which is bundled with Microsoft Windows to edit video taken using my digital camera. It supports quite a number of video formats like AVI, WMV and so on. However, MP4 is not support in it so far.

Following is a free software I found recently for converting MP4 file into AVI file:

Quick Media Converter

According to Quick Media Converter introduction, it enables users to convert between most audio and video formats, including AVI, DVD, Quicktime, Flash, Xvid, DivX, MPEG, MP3, WMA, MP4, 3GP and many others. Users can convert multiple files (of different formats) in a single process and optionally customize the output settings in Expert Mode.
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Learning digital camera

After experiencing problem with taking video and photo using my iPAQ Voice Messenger, I decided to learn digital camera now.

I bought a Canon PowerShot A560 recently.

Have tried taking some photos so far using this camera.

So far so good. It is quite easy to use.

As I never really learn about taking photo so far, all I have to do was to select the AUTO shooting mode. Following is a picture taken in front of my home. Not bad right
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Learn taking video using iPAQ Voice Messenger

The video taken is not clear - lightning & color problem. Need to study how to correct these issues … Have also taken two other videos using this digital camera during today’s morning walk.