Welcoming 2012

It is a Happy New Year for 2012. Mood is feel good.

There are some things I too would like in this year.

1. I would wish that SSD intake increases on the major storage boxes.

2. This would change the game in the storage industry, the way OS are written, the way file system drivers are written, and ultimately how we see applications.

3. SSD’s can be a role changer at all levels. The most effect in the storage industry would be seen around best practices. Best practices seem to be a decade behind current technology.

 

The second change I would like to see, basically in Singapore where I live now is, adoption of cloud computing at the enterprise, SME as well as the home model. The Community Centres can become data centers. Computing as well storage can be centralized here. Home laptops or desktops can harness this power. But this looks something that might materialize only in 2013 or later.

 

By the way, at the personal level I would like to do some basic video editing this year. I have hundreds of video clips taken using my mobile. I wanted some discipline to come in this direction.

 

Happy New Year again.

Video Converters : Free Solution

Now a days recording can be done from typically any device that supports photography. I have put down some devices and the formats into which they store the video.

Device	File Format
Digital Cameras	MOV, AVI
iPhones	MOV
Mobile Phones	3gp, 3gpp

But the format that we need to play on PC’s or on VCD’s or DVD players is MPEG. So there is always a need to convert these files from one format to another.

You can get a lot of paid versions of these software. But why not get a free software that promises to do all this. This way we can keep our memories intact. We can copy the contents to a CD, USB and give it to our friends to play those who don’t want to use computers.

One good software I found was Pazera Converter. You can search on google for other Pazera converters from any to any format. Download and install it. (Small file of < 5MB). Run the program. Please see the screen shots

1	Drag and drop your files that need to be converted
2	Select the format you want (for eg PAL-DVD)
3	Select the destination folder where you want to put the files after converting
4	This will get highlighted when you copy the files. Click this to begin the convert process. You can alternatively press CTRL+E.
END	Once converted use your favourite player. My fav player is VLC Media Player another opensource gem.