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When you are making videos for YouTube, sometimes you’ll want to include media loops for background or simply some interesting movement to add to your presentation.  Perhaps your digital camera is storing your videos in .avi or another format that is incompatible with your video-production software.  In many video programs, you’ll need to convert .avi or other formats to QuickTime’s .mov format.  I found an excellent media converter that not only works great, it’s free.

Oxelon Media Converter will do that, and more.  Here’s a look at the screen shot.

In the screen shot above, if I wanted to change an .avi media file to .mov, I would select the .mov formats in the top sections, as shown.  Next, I would selct the file where I want my conversion stored, and then click Add Files.  You can add several files and the software will do a mass conversion.

This isn’t just limited to simple .avi format conversions.  The software will let you convert audio files, resize your videos and more.  The software is blazing fast.  For me, it’s taken a few seconds to convert files.

Frankly, I couldn’t believe that the software is free.  It works great.  If you’re making movies for YouTube, you might want to get a copy of Oxelon.  You’ll love it.

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For a limited time, you can get Adrian Ling’s brand new Wordpress plugin that inserts Adsense products into your posts.

The catch is that you need to buy a PLR package that Adrian is promoting.

Here’s what Adrian says about the plugin,

It’s different from the many free Amazon plugins out there.
This one allows you to select from the various Amazon
categories OR even drill down to specific product lines
in Amazon.

AND, it will automatically (and randomly) post to your
wordpress blog – not just display the items via javascript
(as most plugins do). This is important because each time
a post is made to your blog, it will notify the search
engines that your blog has new content.

The screenshot of the plugin shows its capabilities the best. I have not downloaded and installed the plugin because I have some other resources that I use, but I thought some of you might want to try it out. It will go on sale, probably next year, so the free download will not last long.

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If you need one-way links to your WordPress blog, there’s an easy way to do so.  By the end of the week, you’ll probably see some inbound links.

Head over to PostSwapper and sign up.  Getting one way links is as easy as installing a plugin into your blog.  That’s it!  Your blog will be sending links to other sites, and you’ll be receiving links from sites that you haven’t linked to.

Post Swapper is free while it is in beta, so the free offer is not going to last forever.

I’ve been using it and impressed with how easy it is to get links.  If your experience has been like mine, you’ll be receiving hundreds of links very quickly.  Add as many blogs as you wish!

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Sociable and the other social bookmarking plugins were an excellent feature for Wordpress, and I installed them on every blog I own.  However, I found that very few visitors used them.  Part of it, I think, is because the buttons were kind of small and newbies didn’t quite know that they could link an article with social networking.

Over at one of my busier and more controversial blogs, I decided to try the Digg Digg plugin, which has bigger buttons and uses only the social networks that most non-technical people are familiar with … i.e., Digg, Facebook, Yahoo, Redditt and a couple others, all of which are optional.  The difference has been amazing.  I will need to go in and add up numbers, but my initial guess is that Facebook promotions have gone up by at least 200%,  perhaps even more.

The plugin allows you to pick and chose the networks you want to promote, and then place your buttons wherever you want in your post, arrange them vertically or horizontally, and configure the buttons beyond the “standard” social networking features.

If you want easier, user friendly social interaction at your blog, I suggest you give Digg Digg a try.  Simply install it from your “add plugins” feature in Wordpress.

An example follows this post.

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The huge “Mage” launch has come and gone.  I’ve been using the plugin and the material from the “Adept” membership, which I’ve been happy with.  But when the huge launch came for the full blown software, I was impressed … but apprehensive.  It reminded me very much of the black hat days, when we were all building directories.  I personally prefer to have a bit more control over the quality of content in a site, but I have no doubt that the expert Mages are going to make a tidy sum of money while the “gettins’ good.”

I have tried J. P. Schoeffel’s “Site Profit Bot” software so I can add something quickly to domains that I’ve had for a few years and never used.  The software is easy to use and can generate some nice sites.  I have found that the CSS needs to be changed a bit so that you’re not stuck with just three templates, and the content that is pulled seems to be more on target when the niche is somewhat popular.  Obscure niches don’t pull much content.  J.P. makes an impressive amount of money with his SiteProfitBot sites.  Take a look.

I’m going to be writing more about this software and give a few examples.  So far, I’m impressed.  The videos show how easy it the software is to use.

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Wow.  I have had WAY too much to do lately, as I am in the middle of moving offices and handling year end business stuff for my offline business.

Anyway, I hope you had a good November and, if you celebrated Thanksgiving, an excellent holiday.

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Hey all!  I am out of town at the moment, so I don’t have much to report today.

For those who are new here, however, I was reminded again of an excellent free video program that I wrote about many months ago.  As a matter of fact, I’ve just used it again while translating some audios for another site.

Memories On Web has an easy-to-use interface that lets you add images, add and edit sound to go with the images, and then add special effects.  It will also create an .AVI file on the fly and upload it to your YouTube account.

There’s a great review here.

YouTube videos are a fantastic way to advertise your website.  With Memories On Web, you can create attractive videos easily and without breaking your budget.

Have a fun Halloween weekend!

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One of the reasons I don’t do a lot of promoting on free sites is because there’s no guarantee they’ll be around forever.  I am not saying not to do it … there is some benefit.  But there’s no long term guarantee.

Yahoo had purchased GeoCities in 1999 for a whopping $3.57 billion, offering free web hosting that had advertisements on them.  The technology became outmoded with Facebook and other social networking sites.

GeoCities was around for 15 years, dishing up some truly awful websites and some interesting personal sites.  Personally, I think it was the precursor to Facebook, Squidoo and others and a true pioneer in making the Internet usable for everyone.

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