http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/giveaway Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: giveaway - Recent Posts en-US Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:47:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6773#post-69748 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:27:50 +0000 spud 69748@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>despite several attempts using there instructions would not register deleted </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6773#post-69706 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:28:40 +0000 rezidue 69706@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/giveaway/softpedia-97nw8e" rel="nofollow">http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/giveaway/softpedia-97nw8e</a></p> <p>Offer expires December 31, 2009</p> <p>Happy Holidays - Regards - Damian</p> <p>(this was brought to my attention from an email list I&#39;m on) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-68048 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:45:18 +0000 goodgotd 68048@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>ah, if only I had a video card with enough GPU to do any good. sad. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-68047 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:16:14 +0000 Txnnok 68047@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>most of these converters get about a 3 to 1 conversion rate which is really slow. Format Factory does it a little faster it uses avi synth,ffmeg, the standard free stuff and gets a little abit better than that. 3.5 to 1</p> <p>this mean 2hours of movie equals 1 hour of conversion. so really a 2 hour movie is what about 30 to 45 minutes. my times are a little off, but you get the point.<br /> I&#39;m not a math genius.</p> <p>there are some quicker free ones like staxrip or avi recomp and there are plug ins to speed them up, make the pictures sharper nicer, cleaner.</p> <p>I have hard time with stax rip, but use the crude out of the other, but it still takes 20 minutes regardless of what plug in you use.</p> <p>NOW There is a speed demon out there and will convert a whole movie in minutes.<br /> It is called Badaboom. It uses gpu, by using a program called cuda. It will the wave of the future. I guarantee it.<br /> <code> <img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/midsize/9454340-6cb.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;"></code><br /> You can get info here, there site is vague.<br /> <a href="http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_badaboom_description.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_badaboom_description.html</a><br /> <a href="http://www.badaboomit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.badaboomit.com/</a><br /> The trials though are cool though, they are not time based. They are used based, so they last for like 20 tries and then its gone. Oh and bad conversions count , so pay attention and read what works and what don&#39;t.<br /> Here&#39;s a link if anyone wants to try or you can click the badaboom site link trial, same one.<br /> <a href="http://download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/demos/nzd_Badaboom_Setup_1.2.1.74.exe" rel="nofollow">http://download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/demos/nzd_Badaboom_Setup_1.2.1.74.exe</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-68044 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:23:41 +0000 GMMan, Game Hacker 68044@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I entered different names and I got the exact same codes. Maybe it&#39;s different for each IP/computer/session. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-68033 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:00:37 +0000 MSC 68033@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>For Being Called &quot;Fast Video Converter&quot; it sure is slow. I used the same file with the same video converting parameters in both Fast Video Converter and Format Factory and the result was, in time, Format Factory - 1 min 40 seconds Fast Video Converter - 3 minutes 30 seconds. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-68031 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:24:17 +0000 Face 68031@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Chip, et al<br /> for the link and the discussion &amp; analysis.</p> <p>For those not too familiar with downloading from sites other than GOTD:<br /> Read very carefully before olicking on &quot;Download&quot; buttons - you will see a few for other software before reaching the one you actually want. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-68009 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:57:09 +0000 Txnnok 68009@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Speak of the devil and we get it for a giveaway,lol</p> <p> hey y&#39;all this is really is a good ripper get it while you can.<br /> -------------------------------------------------<br /> Also on another note, I noticed I put a pic up of the ripper posted above. Here is a pic of the converter.</p> <p>It is a bit different,but still the same.</p> <p><img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/midsize/9440292-bc3.jpg"> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-68001 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:46:01 +0000 Txnnok 68001@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This makes sense why there are so many of these converters now. They just do something similar to this and your in business. Iobit is fortunate cause name recognition will sell for them.<br /> They are liable to make a ton off this when this promotion ends and people start buying it. I just can&#39;t see this going off without an update though and I have been waiting for that from Winx, since their promotion was over.</p> <p>They have flawed marketing strategy it is good, but it needs work, like selling an updated version once the promotion is over that is faster and does more. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67993 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:35 +0000 goodgotd 67993@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <blockquote><p>Well guys I found out about this giveaway through Iobit.</p></blockquote> <p>Not much of a surprise there Chip! did a bit of whois and link chasing.</p> <p> dvdfast<br /> Domain Name: DVDFAST.NET<br /> Registrar: MYDOMAIN, INC.<br /> Whois Server: whois.namesdirect.com<br /> Referral URL: <a href="http://www.namesdirect.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.namesdirect.com</a><br /> Name Server: NS9.IOBITLIVE.COM<br /> Name Server: NSA.IOBITLIVE.COM</p> <p>somehow (see end of message) I think they became an affiliate of winxdvd...<br /> =============<br /> now, winxdvd lists mastersoft as a partner..</p> <p>winxdvd<br /> Domain Name: WINXDVD.COM<br /> Registrar: ENOM, INC.<br /> Whois Server: whois.enom.com<br /> Referral URL: <a href="http://www.enom.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.enom.com</a><br /> Name Server: DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS2.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS4.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS5.NAME-SERVICES.COM</p> <p>so- again, no surprise:</p> <p>mastersoft<br /> Domain Name: ALLDJ.COM<br /> Registrar: ENOM, INC.<br /> Whois Server: whois.enom.com<br /> Referral URL: <a href="http://www.enom.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.enom.com</a><br /> Name Server: DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS2.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS4.NAME-SERVICES.COM<br /> Name Server: DNS5.NAME-SERVICES.COM</p> <p>but then, don&#39;t get out the DMCA spud-spitter just yet, look at <a href="http://www.winxdvd.com/affiliate.htm">WinXDVD&#39;s affiliate page</a> and all is revealed:</p> <p>Become an affiliate</p> <p>Join our Affiliate Program and start earning up to 85% commissions through your website!<br /> ~<br /> Our default sales commission is 60%, but you can get more commission easily!<br /> * If you can create a link back to us which page&#39;s PR &gt;= 4, we will increase 10% commission for you.<br /> * If you can sell more than 60 copies/month, we will increase 10% commission for you.<br /> * If you can sell more than 100 copies/month, we will increase 15% commission for you.</p> <p>Enjoy these benefits:<br /> 1. At least 60% commissons for every sale of Digiarty products.<br /> 2. A wide range of creative banners and text.<br /> 3. Professional support for your web site.<br /> ~<br /> and down at the bottom of the page, the terms:</p> <p>Terms &amp; Conditions<br /> * Affiliates interested in paid search activities, shall contact us for approval into the program.<br /> * Affiliates shall not bid on trademarked terms without consent of WinX, Digiarty Software, Inc. ect.<br /> * Affiliates shall not advertise any coupon or discount without the authorization of Digiarty Software, Inc.<br /> ==&gt; * Affiliates should not submit our products to other websites by using the same name of our products.<br /> * All right is reserved by Digiarty Software, Inc.</p> <p>so IOBit is just getting into the action using an existing advertising channel, advanced systemcare- business as usual. </p> <p>60% [minimum! I always knew I was in the wrong racket!] of $30 leaves a lotta wiggle room to rake in the loot. iobit sells at $25, gets at least $13 for every sale after the giveaway loss-leader gets name recognition and some recommendations. Which might not cost them much at all, if they have a deal set up with WinXDVD... </p> <p>who I gather are planning an update soon, which of course the gobble-day edition probably won&#39;t upgrade to free.</p> <p>Feels a lot like chasing down that &quot;my audio studio&quot; and finding the shell game Audio Editor Deluxe was (is still?) playing, trying to find how to sell more of the same thing rebranded or with a shell for people that don&#39;t want to read the manual. (I&#39;m rather amazed that one didn&#39;t stick around longer)</p> <p>Ha- cross-typing strikes again Txnnok! different methods, similar result. IOBit did the setup, not digiarty. (sure sounds like sherlock holmes&#39; nemesis, doesn&#39;t it?) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67992 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:52:02 +0000 Txnnok 67992@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Got some news from Digiarty. The Converter is not a rip off. Here is a copy of the email it is short and I am going to leave the guys name. I don&#39;t know how public or official they want to make it.</p> <p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <blockquote>For &quot;Fast Video Converter PRO&quot; issue, iobit is just one of our OEMs. Thanks very much for your information.</p> <p>Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of further assistance.</p> <p>XXXXXX<br /> WinX DVD Support Team<br /> XXXXXXX @winxdvd.com<br /> <a href="http://www.winxdvd.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.winxdvd.com</a></blockquote><br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> I just found this out. I have to many thoughts flying around my head as typing. I had come back and erase a lot conspiracy speculation about companies, branches, divisions,etc..., You get the point.</p> <p>The one clear thought I do have that isnt related to that stuff, is it possible they Digiarty wanted to see if how well this converter would sell under a different name, </p> <p>They create a &quot;mach&quot; co.(hope that spelled right), change up the product a little and sell it under a promotor.<br /> --------------</p> <p>I think their biggest problem lies in a few things. No mkv, no hd, and few other advanced features q-pell, gmc, bvop encoding, trell quantization.</p> <p>My point is these are features you can get on many other converters for the same money.<br /> Now that I a more aware I wouldnt buy Winx, I would buy something with more advanced features it matters. Thankfully I only paid 7.50 for it. The ripper was was the best purchase for that price to.</p> <p>I&#39;m gonna post a good converter in about 5 minutes that you can for free that does everything and then some.did I say for free, oh yea for free,lol </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67990 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:08:56 +0000 Chip 67990@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well guys I found out about this giveaway through Iobit. They have advertised this giveaway in their &quot;Advanced SystemCare.&quot; Iobit seems to be pretty trusted and I doubt they would advertise something that wasn&#39;t legit.</p> <p><img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/o8xy4k.jpg"></p> <p>P.S And yes the serial provided by the site is universal and the same for everybody. But please do not post it here. The point of the giveaway is for people to submit what they are thankful for so they can compile a list. And I don&#39;t think they want the serial getting out for people to use after the giveaway is over. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67989 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:50 +0000 Paul F. Quantum AKA "The Dragon" 67989@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Seems like a copy of someone else software like Txnnok said!</p> <p>Based on the Company Awards they list on their web page (BTW, they are NOT clickable), I searched for them on the different sites mentioned and found zero/zilch about it.</p> <p>It looks fishy to me!</p> <p>And they are not called <a href="http://www.dvdfast.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.dvdfast.net</a> for nothing, look at their copyright at the bottom of the page, it states: </p> <p>Copyright © 2009 - 2010 <a href="http://www.dvdfast.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.dvdfast.net</a></p> <p>Wow, that&#39;s what I call fast as we are still in 2009! LOL</p> <p>P.S.: The McAfee SiteAdvisor button on my browser is gray and <a href="http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/dvdfast.net?version=2&amp;core_ver=1.0&amp;pip=true&amp;premium=false&amp;client_ver=2.9.260&amp;client_type=IEPlugin&amp;suite=true&amp;aff_id=0&amp;locale=fr-CA&amp;os_ver=5.1.3.0">they have this to say about it.</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67983 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:11 +0000 goodgotd 67983@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>figured. I thought just the last 4 digits would be ok, but hey, I got my answer anyway.</p> <p>what tipped me off was the &#39;give it to 10 friends&#39; line- didn&#39;t think they&#39;d try and keep track...</p> <p>and this is the video converter. the ripper probably looks just as close, though. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67980 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:38 +0000 Txnnok 67980@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Mines is XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX . I decided to mix it up this time and left the 2 in the middle blank, so thats what the 2 underlines represent goodgotd.</p> <p>I&#39;ve rebooted since yesterday and that means my computer has a new ip and I getting the same code still.</p> <p>Its probably a universal code.<br /> <hr /><br /> Mod Edit: I relize you left some blank but let&#39;s let people get it for themself and not even have a clue as to what it is. Not sure what the website&#39;s rules are for this giveaway or if it&#39;s even allowed to be advertised like this so just being careful lol. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67978 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:33 +0000 goodgotd 67978@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I wonder if everyone gets the same code? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67971 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:22:38 +0000 midori 67971@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, Chip, for the link! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67968 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:19:57 +0000 ramfisher65 67968@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Txnnok, Ive finally was able to to convert video from my sony camcorder to dvd..sonys program as hard as heck to do thing,especialy since i have hours of videos..now all i have to do is put music to it and presto..instant Christmas gifts.<br /> Thanks againg and keep up the good work. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67967 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:03:12 +0000 Txnnok 67967@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I was coming here to post this, but I was downloading it at the same time. Now I have it installed.<br /> This is an exact copy of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. They just changed the color up a little.<br /> Heres fast convrter pro pic<br /> <img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/midsize/9429191-468.jpg"></p> <p>Heres a pic of winx platinum<br /> <img src="http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper-platinum/pics/ripper_screen.jpg"></p> <p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>I don&#39;t what do y&#39;all think?lol<br /> But for free you might as we&#39;ll get it while you can. You can&#39;t be sure that Digiarty isn&#39;t licensing to dvdfast, esp. if they upgraded their software.</p> <p>I emailed them, since I used a licensed version of winx. That and it seems that digital thievery is rampant nowadays. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67960 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:19:44 +0000 Idunnobutiwastold 67960@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the link! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6569#post-67959 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:08:08 +0000 Chip 67959@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>If you visist the site below you can get a free serial key for Fast Video Converter PRO. They are doing a Thanksgiving promotion. All you have to do is enter in the box what you are thankful for, enter the security code, and hit the &quot;Get Free License&quot; button. They give you the serial and a download link for the program. They are compiling a list of everything people are thankful for. I thanked our brave soldiers overseas. I downloaded and activated the software fine and it seems pretty good to me. If anyone else wants to chip in their thoughts of it and maybe give a review for people that be cool. Just wanted to let you all know.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dvdfast.net/gift/thanksgiving.php">http://www.dvdfast.net/gift/thanksgiving.php</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-64013 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:08:41 +0000 goodgotd 64013@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>no problem for me- frameworks for posting images, base url&#39;s- all in a text file I keep synched across all computers. :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-64012 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:04:37 +0000 BuBBy 64012@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>ever heard of &#39;bookmarks&#39; or even better one of the speeddial options - such as <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810</a> or <a href="http://speeddial.uworks.net/" rel="nofollow">http://speeddial.uworks.net/</a></p> <p>For me - GOTD = Ctrl+1, GOTD Comments=Ctrl+2, Forums=Ctrl+3, PMs=Ctrl+4 and so on.</p> <p>It does a lot more than just this, but this would help in the above problem. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-64006 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:27:34 +0000 goodgotd 64006@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>my guess? ok, really WAG. they want people to go to giveawayoftheday.com and then use it&#39;s link to the forums. </p> <p>cut down on barflys that only check in on the forums and blow off the giveaway if it&#39;s not a game. and since games are hard to get...</p> <p>what? cynical? naw, not me.... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-63921 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:43:57 +0000 HappyPerson 63921@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Agree. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-63919 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:04:18 +0000 GMMan, Game Hacker 63919@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Definitely. They should bring back the old template and merge it with the new. Their upgrade probably consisted of deleting the entire bbPress folder, adding a new one, and reconfiguring it to use their current database. I hope they have a backup... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-63902 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:01:31 +0000 RosnSC 63902@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I miss that link, too.</p> <p>Sue </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-63792 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:25:49 +0000 rezidue 63792@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I use RoboForm and get to the site via the forums (don,t want to add both locations - I don&#39;y save bookmarks/favourites).</p> <p>All&#39;s good though - thanks for the reply!</p> <p>P.S. Also looks like <a href="http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/" rel="nofollow">http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/</a> link has been removed from the regular giveaway of the day site. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-63790 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:22:29 +0000 thenameipicked 63790@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>That, looks like it accidentally got removed from the website with the changes. Just be patient, and hopefully, it will come back.<br /> As an alternative, you can Ctrl-click your bookmark. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6136#post-63788 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:02:10 +0000 rezidue 63788@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Just curious as to why there doesn&#39;t seem to be any link on the forum page to go to Giveaway of the Day (I know I can remove the /forums/ part in the address bar but like to open in new tab most of the time).</p> <p>Regards - Damian </p>