Can you imagine what it would be like if you could easily create your own great looking video ads that attract clicks like a super powerful magnet?

A streaming video on your website can be just like having a top quality salesman working for you, 24/7 365 days a year. As high speed internet connections continue to spread, so does the reach of online video.

Now is your chance to leave your competitors coughing in the dust.

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Enough mystery? Not in the mood for another crime story? "Lost Horizon" brings the classic adventure back to its roots: the 1930s, exotic settings all over the world, and the dangerous quest for one of the greatest secrets of mankind makes adventurers' hearts beat faster.

The Makers of the award-winning Secret Files series invite you to experience a technically outstanding, carefully designed game featuring an absolutely thrilling story at the side of Kim and Fenton.

Features. Unique handmade graphic style. Exotic settings you've never seen before. Movie-like story by novelist Claudia Kern. Both realistic and funny dialogues.

Excellent technical appearance and minimal system requirements. Fast-paced presentation of the exciting story in movie style. Innovative puzzle design, always fair and logical.

Minimum System Requirements:Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7. Pentium IV 2 GHz Single Core or 100 % compatible CPU. 512 MB RAM. DirectX 9-compatible AGP or PCI Express 64 MB video card or better.

5 GB of free hard disk space.

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It has a simple and easy to use interface that lets you create professional screensavers in a short amount of time. With Active Screensaver Maker, you can create an unlimited number of shockwave flash-based screensavers, image slideshows, and even movie screensavers.

You can include different pictures, or make different animations and edit slide transitions, time and parameter settings. You can also add some background music (the program supports audio in MIDI, MP3, WAV and WMA format), create colorful texts, animations and more.

Using Shockwave Flash, you can also create small video games or a tic-tac-toe screensaver. Active Screensaver Maker supports a wide range of formats like AVI, MPG, ASF, MOV, RM and the like for movie screensavers.

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ASF Direct Writer filter is intended for capture video in ASF file format using most of codecs installed on you system. It is guarantied excellent audio-video streams synchronization.

This synchronization is preserved if you re-encode the file into other formats, MPEG1/2 for example. That is using ASF Direct Writer is the best way to create your own Video CD and DVD disks from analog video sources, such VHS, TV and so on.

ASF Direct Writer is attached to the iuVCR capture utility. Other capture programs are not supported. The filter has been tested under OS Windows XP with iuVCR 4.

9. 2. 354, DirectX 8. 1 and 9. 0c. To edit and convert captured file the following programs are convenient:Microsoftreg; Movie Maker; WMV Direct (see http://vlafy.

iulabs. com/); Ulead MediaStudio 7; other programs that supports ASF file format. It is possible to convert captured file in various software encoders such as Microsoft Windows Media Encoder, Canopus Procoder, TMPGEnc.

Re-encode is not affects the video-audio streams synchronization. You may also convert ASF file to the AVI format using the WMV Direct. See http://vlafy.

iulabs. com/ for more details. Starting with version 1. 2. 10 the ASF Direct Writer provides the easy way for using internal codecs such as Windows Media Video/Audio and so on.

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The most popular app in Windows Live Essentials is undoubtedly Windows Live Messenger, but that doesn’t mean the others are not as good. Besides Messenger, Windows Live Essentials includes an email client (Windows Live Mail), a photo viewer and organizer (Windows Live Photo Gallery), a video editor (Windows Live Movie Maker), a file and folder syncing tool (Windows Live Sync), a desktop blogging client (Windows Live Writer) and a parental control utility (Windows Live Family Safety).

The good thing about Windows Live Essentials is that you can use which applications you want to install and which no. All you have to do is run the installer and select those you plan to use - leaving the uninteresting ones unmarked.

All the apps in Windows Live Essentials feel very robust and stable. They’re generally easy to use and feature an intuitive, attractive interface design. The only drawback, if any, is that this suite can no longer be used on Windows XP; it only supports Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Windows Live Essentials is a complete suite with general tools to organize photos, create custom videos, write on your blog and chat with your family and friends, among other utilities.

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Windows Live Messenger 2011 is finally here. Far from being just a chat program, the all-new Microsoft instant messaging client is now a complete communications center with support for social networks.

As with previous versions, Windows Live Messenger 2011 is part of the Windows Live Essentials suite, which also includes other apps such as Mail, Writer, Sync, Companion, Family Safety, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker, as well as the Bing Bar. Luckily the installation process lets you choose exactly which apps you want on your system.

Windows Live Messenger features a revamped interface. Right after launching it, and thanks to new integration with other services such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, the so-called Social Highlights lets you check your friends’ latest news and status messages at a glance. If you still prefer the old style, worry not: Windows Live Messenger lets you switch to the traditional contact list by using the Contacts mode. Bear in mind though that if you use a different email account for your social networks, you’ll have to connect the services on the Windows Live website.

Besides the social element, everything else is pretty much the same on Windows Live Messenger 2011, only with a slightly fresher appearance. You can still do video and voice calls, play online games with your friends, share files, and of course customize the program’s appearance with skins and color themes. Emoticons have been revamped, and – finally! – you can have multiple conversations tabbed in one single window.

The main drawback to the all-new Windows Live Messenger 2011 is that it only works on Windows Vista and Windows 7. So if you still use Windows XP you’ll have to stick to the old version – or upgrade your system!

Windows Live Messenger 2011 is the long-awaited new version of Microsoft’s IM client, now integrated with social networks and other services.

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Windows Movie Maker is a useful tool that is a video editor and creator all in one.

If you think that creating a video with your photos is too complicated, think again and take a look at Windows Movie Maker.

Introduction

This easy-to-use movie maker software lets you create completely customizable multimedia presentations that include not only your best shots and favorite video clips, but also some nice video and transition effects that will add a professional touch.

How to use

Windows Movie Maker is really simple to use: import all the media you'd like to use (images, video files and even video captured in real time) and drag it onto the timeline. Add as many effects as you like, and check how everything looks in the preview window. There's even a special tool in Windows Movie Maker that lets you add titles and credits to your movie.

Additional features

Once your work is finished, Windows Movie Maker lets you export the video to several different formats, depending on where you want to use it: publishing it on a website, recording it to a CD or simply saving it to your hard drive are some of the options included.

That said, bear in mind that Windows Movie Maker is intended for people with little or no movie making experience, which means that more advanced users may find it a bit too limiting.

With Windows Movie Maker you can easily create video presentations with your favorite photos, video clips and some nice transition effects.

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Windows Movie Maker is really simple to use: import all the media you'd like to use (images, video files and even video captured in real time) and drag it on the timeline. Then add as many effects as you like, and check how everything looks in the preview window. There's even a special tool that enables you to add titles and credits to your movie in a very easy way.

Once your work is finished, Windows Movie Maker lets you export the video with two main options, depending on where you want to use it: saving it to your hard drive or recording it to a tape on your DV camera. I'm surprised to find only these two options, especially when the XP version of Windows Movie Maker features a lot more.

Also, bear in mind that Windows Movie Maker is intended for people with little or no experience in video presentations at all, which means that more advanced users may find it a bit too limited.

With Windows Movie Maker you can easily create your own video presentations with your favorite photos, video clips and some nice transition effects.

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Microsoft Photo Story lets you drag photos onto a window, arrange them as needed, then provide custom narration, transitions, zooms, pans, audio soundtracks and/or custom auto-generated music, then export the result as a WMV file.

Applying such features can prove tricky in some programs, but not in Microsoft Photo Story. The fact is, you don’t need to tweak a whole bunch of settings because the program does it for you, automatically generating transitions and zoom/pans without you having to set it up yourself. What's more, the ones generated by default look great.

While you can simply sit back and let Microsoft Photo Story do everything for you, there's still plenty you can play around with if you’re feeling adventurous. For instance, you can build your own custom soundtracks for your slideshow. You can pick from a bumper range of music genres, tempos, instruments and effects, giving you the chance to match the audio precisely to the mood of your show.

Output from Microsoft Photo Story is in Microsoft's WMV file format, which is more compressed than MPEGs or other movie type files. You can choose from various resolutions in order to optimize your slideshow. Unfortunately, however, the output movies from the software are not as sharp as they’d be in VCD or DVD format.

It's a shame that Microsoft Photo Story does'’t support burning DVDs and VCDs with the created slideshow, and you’ll need your own DVD authoring app to do this. There are applications, such as ProShow, that contain burning options and support for higher resolution output, but there's not much that can match Photo Story in terms of its ease of use and automated features.

So, if you want a quick way to create stand-out photo presentations, Microsoft Photo Story is well worth downloading.

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