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Godaddy Web Hosting – Great Service And Support!

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After so many years of using free web hosting providers for my tiny, insignificant blog, I have finally decided to take the plunge and go with a paid hosting plan. Part of the reason is because eversince migrating my blog to the WordPress platform, I started encountering weird limits imposed by free hosting providers… limits which I don’t see in the stats that I have supposedly breached, but the provider says I do. Because I’m on the free plan, I can’t say anything, so I can only suck it up and move on.

Well enough is enough. I decided to look for a hosting provider and I didn’t have to look far. Godaddy.com is where I bought my domain name from, and it also provides hosting services. Comparing prices, Goddady’s were also cheaper than the rest of them. I am only paying about US$40 for 1 whole year of hosting, on the personal economy plan. Typical prices from other providers would be about US$60 to US$120, depending on which hosting provider you go with.

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AnyVideoConverter – Possibly The ONLY Video Converter You Need

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I’ve been using something that’s very simple to convert videos for quite a while now. Some readers may know I make machinimas, ie, movies using games. Sometimes, the final product after editing  is in a format that is not so desirable, especially when I intend to upload to one of the many video sharing sites like Youtube, Dailymotion, WeGame, and so on.

Before discovering AnyVideoConverter, I was manually splitting video and audio tracks, and re-merging them into an acceptable format via VirtualDub. Don’t get me wrong, VirtualDub is still very much part of my video editing arsenal. However with the addition of AnyVideoConverter, it has eliminated quite a number of steps which I needed to take previously. As the name implies, it is advertised as being able to convert from ANY video format to ANY other format. I’ve tested it with the usual .mov, mkv, avi, mp4 and so on, and it does its job wonderfully well. Being simple doesn’t mean it’s lacking in features – it packs enough features, for example, to convert a .wmv (Windows Media) to .avi (Xvid/DivX/etc), while enlarging the video (320×240 -> 740×408) and changing the framerate from 25 frames to 30 frames (PAL to NTSC). Continue reading AnyVideoConverter – Possibly The ONLY Video Converter You Need →