Thursday, December 17, 2009

Make DVD Menus for Free using DVDStyler

Do you have some home movies that you want to convert into a nice-looking DVD playable on any standard DVD player? Most computers come with some kind of DVD authoring software, but if you aren’t already using something, check out DVDStyler.

DVDStlyer is a free DVD authoring program that lets your create professional looking DVDs with full menus easily.

So what are some of the features that make DVDStyler a program you would want to install on your PC?
Ability to create and burn DVDs with fully interactive menus
Support for many video formats including AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV, OGG, MPEG and other formats
Support for many audio formats including AC-3, MP3, MP2, Xvid, and more
Support for multi-core processors for faster rendering
Support for VOB files without having to reencode. This means you can rip and DVD and use the VOB files in DVDStyler
Clean GUI interface with support for dragging and dropping
Menu creation is based on scalable vector graphics
Ability to place buttons, images, and text anywhere on the menu screen
Supports DVD scripting

The program also has a built-in file browser for quickly importing images, audio, and video into the program.

Along the left side are the different items that you can add to your DVD, such as buttons and background. If you click on buttons, for example, you will see different types of buttons for moving forward or backward, etc.

If you click on Documents, you will get a list of resources for learning how to actually use the program to create a DVD with menus. Overall, it’s a simple to use and powerful application for anybody who wants to create their own DVDs! Enjoy!

Visit this website for DVD Style http://www.dvdstyler.org/

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Change Windows 7, Vista & XP Boot Animation with Boot BMP Changer

You have already covered number of tools which allows you to change Windows 7 Logon Screen. However these tools don’t provide any option to change Windows 7 boot animation displayed before logon screen. Here is simple tool Boot BMP Changer with which you can easily change Windows 7 Logon animation & replace with your own static image file.

The Boot BMP Changer application uses two flags that you can add to your boot.ini file to change the Windows loading animation to a static bitmap file.

The program can be set to run at start up, and copies a different bitmap to your WINDOWS directory, so that every time you reboot your computer, a different loading screen will be displayed. The bitmaps that can be used must be 640 x 480 pixels and 16 colors only.

Features of Boot BMP Changer

1. Easy to use graphic interface.

2. Audit function checks the bitmaps in the program directory and adds any valid files to the list to be used by the program. Files that are the wrong size or colour depth are reported.

3. Change the current image by scrolling through the currently avaliable images.

4. Run the program silently on on start up.

5. Optional display a message when the screen is changed.

Download Boot BMP Changer.