Christmas is coming on, and then comes on the heels of the New Year. Here I collected three online E-card-making sites which can customize Christmas card with your picture to give your friends or family a big surprise.

1. ElfYourself

Upload photos of yourself or friends, adjusting well to his head and the coordination of cartoon characters, and then choose Disco / disco dance, Charleston / Charleston dance, Country / rural and dance Classic / classical dance of four into a dynamic Greeting cards, send to a friend.

This site also provides E-card download service, you can download the customized card and play it on your iPod, mobile phone, or burn it onto a DVD to send it to your frinds.
Here are two guides tell you how to have fun after downloading the video.
1. How to convert video to iPod, iPhone, PSP, mobile phone, etc?
2. How to burn video to DVD?

2. CardFunk

Similar as ElfYourself, but CardFunk supports up to 5 individual picture upload , suitable for groups wishing to send cards.

3. GushyGram

Is a unique e-card Web site rich in greeting card templates, some of the greeting card templates includes a short interesting story, for example, the Turkey Run, I believe you can get a lot of fun from this site.

To use these sites for the production of greeting cards, will surely be able to give your friends a pleasant surprise when they received the blessing.

Note: If you want to use the photos of others, with the consent of the person in order to avoid unpleasant.

More powerful than ever, Aimersoft upgraded iPod Converter Suite released in Christmas

22, November 2008, Aimersoft Studio announced releases its upgraded version of iPod converter Suite, more powerful and more user-friendly than ever before. This upgraded version is special for Christmas meanwhile Buy 1 get 1 free is available.
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Aimersoft iPod converter Suite is a perfect solution includes two excellent iPod conversion tools, DVD to iPod converter can rip any DVD to iPod video, iPod music with high quality and fast speed; iPod video converter helps you convert videos and audios in almost all popular formats.
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Why more powerful than ever?
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1) Optimized basic codec system, and no problem with video/audio sync.
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2) Two real time preview windows can realize what you see is what you get.
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3) Added the functions to categorize, save, rename, delete and customize watermark for output video files;
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4) Optimized the interface, more convenient and more easier-to-use for users, you can operate in most simple way, just click and everything is done.
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5) Added the “apply to all” function to apply a profile to all selected DVD chapters/titles.
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6) Support importing ISO file, and can convert HD video files with high quality (rarely found in other programs).
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7) Support playing with full screen in main interface
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Special offer:
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Christmas is coming; New Year is on the way, happy holiday greetings from Aimersoft Studio: Special offer to you — Buy 1 get 1 free!
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Just click the link to get this powerful iPod converter suite ONLY39.
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More details about iPod converter suite:
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Get more information about this software click here:
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Or you want to know more upgraded products about Aimersoft:
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How to convert DVD to WMV for Zune/Crentive Zen/Xbox 360/Dell Player/HP IPAQ/Pocket PC/iRiver etc?

Convert DVD to WMV for some mobile devices
When we bought mobile devices such as Zune, Crentive Zen, Xbox 360,Dell Player, and want to get some DVD Movies onto them, even want to get one chapter off them which is our favorite one onto Mobile Devices, how can we do that and which formats we could choose? Convert DVD to MP4? Convert DVD to WMV? Or other formats? Convert DVD to WMV
, the WMV is better one.

Part one: Some knowledge about WMV
First of all, WMV is launched by Microsoft, it’s a very popular streaming media format, is of high quality video, large amount of compression, so it is suitable for online playback and transmission.

Another, a lot of mobile devices that support the WMV video format, such as Zune, Crentive Zen, Xbox 360, Dell Player, HP IPAQ, Pocket PC, iRiver and so forth.

Again, the Windows Media Player (WMP) does not support the current format of the VOB file, if we Convert DVD to WMV
, it can do that very well.

Part two: Which software or tools can help us do that?
I use http://www.google.com to search for some Convert DVD to WMV
and download, try to use them; they are iSkysoft DVD Ripper, Imtoo DVD to WMV converter, DVDZip. These DVD to WMV Converters all can convert DVD to WMV, support WMV conversion, and you can select a better one for your needs.

1. iSkysoft DVD Ripper

Key functions:
(1). Directly convert DVD into popular video/audio formats (MP4, WMV, AVI, FLV, MOV, 3GP, WMA, M4A, and MP3 etc) with high quality.

(2). Select chapters to rip, can crop, trim video, adjust video effect as you want, very powerful Edit function.

(3). Capture any picture from video and save as jpeg or bmp format.

(4). Enjoy your favorite DVD movies freely on Zune, Pocket PC, iRiver, Creative Zen, Xbox 360, etc by the format of WMV.

2. IMtoo DVD to WMV converter

Key functions:
(1). Convert DVD-video into only WMV and convert DVD to WMV at one time, so can’t rip one chapter as you want;
(2). simply audio and video settings, such as quality, sample rate, channel, and split mode, to meet different needs.

3. DVDZip

Key functions:
(1). Copy DVD to VCD, SVCD, mpeg, WMV, RMVB files, DVD to AVI, DVD to MP4, DVD to MOV, DVD to FLV, convert DVD to DIVX ( but not with high quality)
(2). Select chapters to copy and select audio volume, frequency, or whether enable Dolby Surround
(3). Can rip from specified starting time and ending time

3. In Conclusion: iSkysoft DVD Rippercan Convert DVD to WMV
, convert any one chapter DVD movies to WMV, and can Crop, Trim, Adjust DVD Movies to WMV and its conversion quality is very high, although it’s not a professional WMV Converter, many people use it. Imtoo DVD to WMV Converter only can convert DVD to WMV, and simply settings, and you can’t select one chapter to rip, can’t edit the DVD movie, if your requirement is very less, it’s a good choice. DVDZip is also a DVD Ripper, can copy DVD to many formats, and can rip specified chapter, but its edit function is not very powerful and the conversion quality is not very high.

The newest version of TuneClone - TuneClone V1.30 - was released on December 15,2008!

TuneClone Audio Converter is a powerful yet easy to use DRM remover and music converter program for removing DRM from iTunes music, Windows Media Player music, RealPlayer music, WinAMP music, Napster music, Rhapsody music, etc., with the music metadata well preserved.

Unlike other media converters, TuneClone Audio Converter applies the virtual CD burning technology to remove the DRM. It generates a virtual CD-ROM drive, tricking your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM is removed without wasting a CD.

TuneClone Audio Converter can be used to convert iTunes protected AAC (M4P), M4B, M4A, protected WMA to MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA. It removes the DRM from protected iTunes M4P or protected WMA so as to help you play the DRM-laden music on media players or MP3 players like Microsoft Zune, Sony PSP, BlackBerry, Creative Zune, iriver, SanDisk Sansa, Sony Walkman, Cell Phone(Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia N-series, Samsung Anycall, LG, etc.) Pocket PC, PDA and so on.

Key features of TuneClone V1.30: (from http://www.tuneclone.com)

1. Easy to install and easy to use via a simple user interface.

2. Remove DRM from purchased or protected music from iTunes, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, WinAMP, Napster, Rhapster, etc, using automatically generated virtual CD drive.

3. Convert DRM protected music to plain MP3 format for playback on all kinds of MP3 players or media players like Zune, PSP, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, iriver, Walkman, etc.

4. Remove DRM from purchased music files by applying the virtual CD burning technology, which adopts the maximum writing speed so that your music files can be converted at a very high speed.

5. Convert iTunes protected AAC (M4P), M4B and M4A to MP3, WAV and WMA.

6. Convert protected WMA (Windows Media Audio) to MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA.

7. Well Preserve ID3 tags for artist, album, title names, artworks, etc.

8. The converted songs will have no DRM restriction any more.

Availability, price and support

More information about TuneClone V1.30 is available at http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php. You can free download TuneClone V1.30 from http://www.tuneclone.com/tuneclone_setup.exe for a try.

The full version of TuneClone V1.30 costs USD34.95.

If you have questions about or show interest in TuneClone V1.30, please feel free to contact TuneClone support team via support@tuneclone.com .

Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you bought a Microsoft Zune, you cannot use iTunes music.

So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media). After you burn the CD, you can rip it to your PC as an MP3 file which no longer has DRM.

Alternatively, you can use TuneClone (http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php).

TuneClone makes a virtual CD-ROM drive, tricking your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM is removed without wasting a CD.

Here is a link to a tutorial using TuneClone and iTunes 8:
http://itunesm4ptomp3.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/convert-itunes8-music-to-mp3/