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Jumat, 11 Maret 2011

how to get free phone connection

you can make free phone calls using the Internet! Free internet phone programs let you make free phone calls, usually only to the US and Canada, using special software.

Most of the free phone call applications I list below are PC to phone programs, meaning you can make a free call from your computer to a real telephone number so you don't even need a telephone yourself. Some of the other free internet phone programs will connect your real phone to another real phone for free, making a long distance plan unnecessary.

No matter how it works, it's a free call!

To make a free call using an Internet phone, you might have to download free phone call software or use a soft phone from an Internet phone provider website.

Important: A free Internet phone can not be used to make a 911 or similar emergency call. If you need to call 911, use a traditional land-line or mobile phone, or a VoIP telephone service that's approved for 911 use like Vonage.

1. Google Voice
"Google Voice - Free Internet Phone Calls"

As of January 2011, Google Voice is the very best way to make free Internet phone calls. With Google Voice, you can make free phone calls, free PC to phone calls (via Google Talk browser plugin), and free PC to PC calls (also via Google Talk).

Google Voice is much more than a way to make free phone calls on the Internet. Google Voice is primarily a way to manage the phone numbers in your life and can be used to intelligently route incoming calls to your free phone number provided by Google Voice to any other phone you have. With Google Voice, you can also get free SMS, make a free conference call, and get free voice mail services.

Free calls you make with Google Voice must be to numbers in the United States or Canada.

Google Voice is available as a web app that you can use in any browser, including mobile browsers (as pictured here). Dedicated apps are available for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone users.

Free phone calls with Google Voice are limited to three hours. However, you can continue to make a free call to the same number again and again.
Make Free Phone Calls With Google Voice
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2. iCall
"iCall - Free Internet Phone Calls"

iCall is another tool you can use to make free internet phone calls. With iCall, you can make free calls from PC to phone using their free software.

The computer that you make calls from can be anywhere in the world but for the call to be free, the number you call must be in the United States or Canada. You can't make free phone calls using iCall if you're calling outside the US or Canada.

iCall is available as a free desktop application for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux and as a free iPhone app. Free phone calls will be disconnected after a short five minutes but you can call the number back again as many times as you want. You will also hear an advertisement before each call that's around ten seconds long.

A flash-based version of iCall is also available on their website but free calls here are limited to three minutes.
Learn How To Make Free Internet Phone Calls With iCall
3. Freebuzzer
"Freebuzzer - Free Internet Phone Calls"

Another Internet phone that can be used to make free phone calls is Freebuzzer.

Freebuzzer works a lot like Google Voice in that it connects your phone with the phone number you dial. Your free call is limited to a very short two minutes and you can only make three free calls per day.

The good news is that free phone calls with Freebuzzer can be made to over 40 countries. Since most Internet phones restrict free calls to the US and Canada, Freebuzzer might be your only bet for free calls to certain countries.
Use Freebuzzer to Make Free Phone Calls
4. EvaPhone
"EvaPhone - Free Internet Phone Calls"

EvaPhone is yet another way to make free Internet phone calls. EvaPhone lets you make free, but incredibly short, PC to phone calls all from a Flash-based interface right on their website.

What makes EvaPhone unique is that you can call nearly any phone in the entire world for free. Another thing that makes EvaPhone unique is how incredibly short that free call is. Free calls range from ten seconds to one minute in length, depending on the destination. You're also also limited to just two calls per day.

After dialing a number on EvaPhone, you'll watch a short video advertisement and then your free call will begin. A countdown timer will begin so you know when you'll be disconnected.

I certainly don't think EvaPhone is the best way to make a free call on the Internet, but if you need to tell someone something fast, don't have your own phone, and don't want to pay for the call or download software, EvaPhone might be the perfect free Internet phone for you.
Make a Free Call Almost Anywhere With EvaPhone
5. Tuitalk
"tuitalk - Free Internet Phone Calls"

Tuitalk is another Internet phone that works much like EvaPhone. With Tuitalk, however, you have to download their free Internet phone software.

Tuitalk lets allows you to make free phone calls to around 40 countries. Each country in which you make your free phone call is limited to a certain number of minutes per call and per day. For most countries, your free Internet phone call can be six minutes in length.

Before your free call with Tuitalk is connected, you have to watch several seconds of a high-quality video advertisement.
Use the Tuitalk Program to Make Free Internet Phone Calls

just with PC to PC we can get free international and region connection, this is mobile revolution

Jumat, 25 Februari 2011

Roll of Distant Thunder Ushers In New MacBook Pros

Apple has released a new line of MacBook Pros with faster processors, sharper webcams and a new I/O technology called "Thunderbolt," based on Intel's Light Peak. It facilitates super-fast data transfers -- up to 10Gbps. While a few Thunderbolt-ready accessories are in the works, it may be some time before the technology is truly ubiquitous.Optimize software licensing, boost cyber security. Click for white paper & demo.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) on Thursday announced four new MacBook Pros with next-generation processors and graphics; high-speed Thunderbolt input/output technology; and new FaceTime HD cameras.

MacBook Pros
Apple's 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros

These run on the latest dual- and quad-core Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Core processors and are claimed to be up to twice as fast as their predecessors.

Thunderbolt is a technology Apple codeveloped with Intel, which calls it "Light Peak."

Apple also released the developer preview of Mac OS X Lion Thursday. This includes features from the iPad's iOS operating system.

The initial reception for the new MacBook Pros may not have been as warm as Apple expected.

"I can't see anything that's really that revolutionary except maybe Thunderbolt," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told MacNewsWorld. "The newest version of their operating system is really the most interesting thing," he added.

"Thunderbolt will handle multiple DisplayPorts, and that's big news for analysts who need to look at lots of data at once," Carl Howe, director of anywhere consumer research at the Yankee Group, told MacNewsWorld.

Apple did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
Reading the MacBook Pro Specs

There are three new MacBook Pros, with screen sizes of 13, 15 and 17 inches.

The 13-inch version features either a dual-core Intel Core i5 or i7 processor with a speed of up to 2.7 GHz. It also has an Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor.

The 15- and 17-inch models have quad-core Intel Core i7 processors rated at up to 2.3 GHz. Apple's spreading the love with graphics processors, using the AMD (NYSE: AMD) Radeon HD graphics processors with up to 1GB of video memory in these larger MacBook Pros.

"More cores are good for battery life," Howe stated.

All three models of the new MacBook Pros will include a built-in FaceTime HD camera with triple the resolution of the previous generation of the camera, Apple said. This allows HD video calling between all new MacBook Pro models. It supports standard resolution video calls to other Intel-based Macs, the iPhone 4 and the current-generation iPod touch.

However, Apple didn't state whether it was referring to the GSM version of the iPhone 4, offered by AT&T (NYSE: T); the CDMA version, which is from Verizon Wireless; or both.

All three MacBook Pros will have aluminum unibody enclosures, glass multitouch trackpads, LED backlit widescreen displays, illuminated full-size keyboards, and batteries offering 7 hours of life between charges, depending on how the laptops are used.

Pricing for the 13-inch MacBook Pro will begin at US$1,200. The 15-inch MacBook Pro will start at $1,800 and the 17-inch version at $2,200.

Optional add-ons include faster quad-processors, additional hard drive capacity, solid-state storage up to 512GB, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, and 'antiglare and high-resolution displays, Apple said.
Releasing the Thunderbolt

The new MacBook Pros also include Thunderbolt I/O technology codeveloped by Apple and Intel.

This features two bidirectional channels with transfer speeds at up to 10Gbps (gigabits per second) each.

Thunderbolt uses two protocols -- PCI Express for data transfer and DisplayPort for displays. It is compatible with existing DisplayPort displays and adapters, Intel said. All Thunderbolt technology devices share a common connector and let users daisy-chain up to six peripherals with electrical or optical cables.

Thunderbolt delivers PCI Express directly to external high-performance peripherals such as RAID arrays. It can support FireWire and USB consumer devices and gigabit-speed Ethernet networks through adapters, Apple stated.

"The storage guys would be happy; imagine what NAS [network-attached storage] guys could do with data transfer speeds like this," In-Stat's McGregor remarked. "But this applies more to corporate than consumer solutions."

Thunderbolt technology requires an Intel controller chip and a small connector for mobile devices that will be included in products supporting the technology. The controller chip provides protocol switching capabilities to support PCI Express and DisplayPort over a single cable.

Avid, Blackmagic, LaCie, Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) and Apogee are among the companies that have either announced products based on Thunderbolt technology or plan to support the technology in future devices, Intel stated.
Is Thunderbolt Ready for Prime Time?

Intel hasn't quite lived up to its promise of making Thunderbolt an optical technology. At the Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas January, Intel executive David Perlmutter said that the initial builds will be based on copper.

Copper's good enough for the majority of user needs today, Perlmutter said.

However, copper wires limit the speed and range of data transmission.

"Intel's whole thing with Light Peak is to enable optical interconnections, because you get over lots of limitations in terms of speed and distance imposed by copper," In-Stat's McGregor pointed out.

However, connectivity is going to be a problem for some time, McGregor warned.

"Nobody has external PCI Express ports on their PCs, or any peripherals that will connect to Light Peak," McGregor said. "How long is it going to be before your PC and TV and your peripherals support Light Peak? It might be years."

Although Intel's Perlmutter struck a conciliatory note when talking about Light Peak at CES -- he said it could coexist with USB 3.0 and run USB, display and networking protocols on top of it -- Apple took a more combative stance.

Thunderbolt technology is expected to be widely adopted as a new standard for high-performance I/O, Apple said when announcing the new line of MacBook Pros.

Intel did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Kamis, 24 Februari 2011

The philosophy of modern science and technology in China and France

Open philosophical concept of civil law. Try a solution of Citrus medica techniques to bring the impact of modern technology, anatomy of the two: the developer's on the user and the user's on the user, extracted from the micro level of modern technology on the impact of civil law, under the impact of the different forms were analogical thinking, and clearly the relevant measures. But the solution to the problem will eventually fall into the cases of judges to follow the legal interpretation.

After four decades on behalf of the twentieth century, human society has entered the microelectronics technology as the leading high-tech stage of development. Of modern technology to biotechnology, network, Information representative of elements of the social life of the people to form a broad and profound impact. As described by Mr. Wang Zejian: 'This is a peril and damage to society. Mine explosion, the workers suffering from occupational diseases; of daily car accidents, air crashes, pouring in; emissions harm human beings and animals, oil spills polluted farmland; a defective goods flooding the market; medical misdiagnosis or improper medication. In addition to this and other industrial disasters, traffic accidents, pollution and product defects, medical malpractice, other Zhaozhi the subject matter of the damage, but also forms and styles, such as the destruction of the reputation, one glimpse of privacy, theft of trade secrets of others, smuggling of pork and so the introduction of foot and mouth disease. There are ancient hazardous accidents, today is strong, mainly due to the Department of rapid socio-Economic development, science and technology developed, densely populated cities, living competition, the lack of government policy planning, and implementation of laws such as poor. '[1] (p1) public as members of society, on the one hand enjoy the convenience of modern technology to bring the material, in this modern technology just as the same as the benefit of mankind Puluo Mi Hughes; the other hand, technological Development made it increasingly dependent on outside material and information, man's own face in science and technology more and more insignificant. In the process of transforming the world of modern technology in the past can not develop the resources and can not be a large-scale effective development of resources is not only an unprecedented development, and development to compete looting, destruction of the natural environment, the extent of damage to the human right to life. Not only in the nature of the transformation of human existence, modern science and technology is also deepening a direct impact on the rights of persons as members of the public. Advanced technology makes the private sector be spread abuse of the privacy of private intellectual achievements easily be stolen, and even private possession of body parts may be used for trading. Modern science and technology itself is uncertain social effects, its impact on civil society, if not promptly respond to individuals in society will be a result of the use of technology and for power, the magic of science and technology itself may be able to play vividly, the effect might be a grave disaster.

1, the modern concept of science and technology to China and France to amend

Of modern science and technology itself, can be used for a number of interpretations: First, modern science and technology, is a monopoly in the capital stages on the basis of the full development of robust growth. High-tech is a sign of modern technology. High-tech R & D Investment from the Capital stage, the consequences are uncertain, and investors into the market although the uncertain effects of a positive response, but are unsure of the fate of the development of R & D results, he has to bear the risk of developing a huge failure. Call a huge Investment Risk huge capital support. Secondly, the enormous production of modern science and technology into force, will impact the existing social order. Traditions related industries wither thus a large number of workers lose their jobs. Over-development of modern science and technology capabilities, will sacrifice a certain degree of environmental or other biological species interests, and investors are unwilling to predict the development of negative consequences, such negative consequences has been passed on to all members of society. The development of technology will be derived from deformity contradiction between supply and demand, for example the Human Organ Transplant and technological progress makes the huge market demand for human organs, supply-side weakness in the market prompted the black market prosperity, and wanton criminal elements to seize the living organ theft. Able to accept an organ transplant groups, groups of mostly strong. This may be a new powerful group of vulnerable groups, an indirect denial of the right to life. Finally, the technical shortcomings of modern technology itself, the consequences are serious. More and more people rely on technology, science and technology content of less and less understood, once the operation of technology products is an aberration, people will become extremely fragile; Once the harmful consequences against the person, the individual price will be high to compensate for free in order to equal ( Perhaps nature is a non-market-oriented extent which rendered non-relative's equivalent). Modern science and technology investors even knowing that the case of product defect exists, compare the cost of transformation of defects and damage compensation for the cost of defective modification opt for a great profit. [1]
Modern science and technology in the external capital and the erosion of joint efforts of the endogenous defects in collision with the existing social order, manifested in the civil legal relations, as follows:
1. The right to become the main tool. China and France for the civil society of the law. In the civil society, human activities as a private. Members of the public is private, he has someone else as a tool to incorporate themselves reduced to tools. In the civil society, the rights of individuals to pursue vigorously, until the right to Experience the power of the regulation. Modern technology has created a strong group of natural habit, this is a great challenge to the rights of the general public. A small number of master modern science and technology advantages of the legitimate use of technology, or the criminal misuse of technological advantage, the general public might become a technology tool or a target.
2. The amount of capital input is to grab the object of the protection of the rights of the right to vote or not. Of modern science and technology Research and development cycle is long, large capital investment, income high-risk because of this, only those economic strength of a society or country can become a powerful real access to the development of modern scientific and technological achievements access to qualifications. These economic entities and their spokesmen in the legislative process, he also has the absolute right to speak, they shift the risk of developing the same time, the expectations of the development benefits are positive seizure, while the benefits grab highlight the surface will now be a legal right to proceeds of. This right of the process, even at the formation of the right to break the existing system. For example, the field of intellectual property law to treat scientific discoveries to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to develop intellectual property protection agreements are not protection system for the international practice, China's' Patent Law 'also have this clearly defined, but the subsequent' and trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement '(TRIPS) stipulates that failed. The genetic protection issues, the United States led the developed countries that deal with scientific discovery, the objective existence of the gene sequences [2] to be patent protection, which at least the protection of traditional rights to amend the meaning of the object. Labor theory of property rights in this inability to explain, but added the input-output economic theory persuasive. Developers are no longer with the amount of labor income to maintain consistency, no longer with the intellectual input to maintain the ratio because: (1) The labor theory of property rights, intellectual property rights in the interpretation of the legitimacy of the main access to the proceeds held that because the main paid the intellectual labor, so should receive a considerable return. But this can not explain the reasonableness of the amount of income questions. The social contract theory [3] to both sides (developers and users) interests of the game as its premise, to maximize the interests of society as the goal, provided additional explanation. (2) development, due to capital input to output so that it pleased and excited to receive the benefits, as to whether such proceeds are intellectual innovations in the do not ask. (3) The adoption of the law to protect the rights of the developer input output, promote social scientific and technological progress is the bounden duty legislation is a positive social investment, the protection of modern science and technology.
3. The content of civil legal relationships behind the distribution of benefits derived from the rights-based theory of the amendment. This competing interests, if the standard model of adjustment in accordance with the past, only to maintain civil law in the form of equity, but will ignore the law properly, resulting in substantial injustice. Mr. Liang Huixing features of modern civil law summarized as follows: for the modern market economy activities, codes of conduct; to provide basic protection for human rights; safeguard social fairness and justice; the promotion of democracy; promoting socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization. [2] (p38-39) the benefits of modern science and technology division, making the old balance the interests of mechanisms have been destroyed, the traditional rights-based concept of community-based concept has been revised and has a richer meaning: the rights-based does not mean that individual-based , rights-based pursuit of substantive justice, emphasizing basic human rights protection. The balance of interests is the ultimate goal of private law, rights-based tradition of civil law as a value orientation that, under the conditions of modern technology and the socialization of private law has not changed this goal, it should be said that the balance of interests has always been the development of the theory of civil law context; only Under the impact of modern technology, the old equilibrium model is broken, lawmakers began to rethink their personal interests and personal interests, personal interests and social interests of the whole interests of the system. Modern science and technology brought about by the distribution of the whole trend of social benefits is to be measured beyond the traditional civil law, in this, the social public interests of the whole civil order, the role played by more and more important. With the development of modern science and technology of civil society 'there is an inherent requirement to make equity and justice to overcome those forms of fair framework, which provides a driving force, from a methodological and systemic changes in the content of the traditional private law, there has been an absolute right of ownership , the restrictions on freedom of contract, thus the private law-based rights-based to community-based from the gradual shift. '[3] (p8) The so-called community-based legislation, its concentrated expression is:' First, restrictions on freedom of contract: the conclusion of the contract to the supervision of public law, focusing on protection of the economically weak. Second, the absolute principle of ownership restrictions, such as the Weimar Constitution, the ownership obligations. National law stipulates that the prohibition of abuse of rights. The exercise of ownership should also abide by the principles of honesty and credibility. Third, the no-fault liability principle is adopted: The law stipulates that, for high-risk, product liability, pollution liability, etc. to implement the principle of liability without fault. '[2] (p47-48) modern science and technology led to the development of social background of the traditional civil law changes, followed the provisions of civil law and civil law of the theory also changed. Such changes, common to quote those who are: '1. The principle of freedom of contract amendments, including whether or not freedom of contract, the contracting object freedom means freedom of contract, contractual restrictions on the content of freedom. 2. Absolute principle of ownership of the amendment, including the use, income, restrictions on disposition of the Almighty. 3. The amendment to the principle of inheritance, that is fixed by the limit of the number or restrict the inheritance taxes levied on the inheritance. However, the amount of a limit, Taiwan China and France did not use. 4. The amendment to the principle of fault liability, that liability through the dangerous part of the design to the exclusion of negligence applied to it. '[4] (p12-13)
Of the above discussion can be summarized as follows: First, modern technology on social life, the allocation of resources has created new interest dispute. Second, China and France-based ideas from the rights-based to a rights-based concept-based, taking into account the concept of community-based change; and has increasingly gained the majority of scholars and legislative recognition. [4] Third, the balance of interests call for real justice mechanisms.
Of modern science and technology to transform the concept of civil law is based on the impact of specific system based on, the concept of transformation has a specific system to better promote the design and innovation. Since the concept of flourishing community of legislation, the people of this thinking has also been deepened continuously. Some scholars therefore considered that: 'China and France is the people-the law'. Generated from the entire history of the development of civil law and all the system design perspective, China and France to implement and embody a people-centered purpose. Everything from respect for the people, caring people, the protection of human departure for human survival and development to create the necessary material and spiritual conditions, to provide and improve the living environment. [5] (p8) people-oriented 17 to 19 century, is no longer the kind of competitive individualism and liberalism as the basis of the emphasis on personal interests, but also not to deny the rights of private law-based concepts, but rather to restrict it and additions. 'That is the socialization of private law from the legal norms to see the surface is personal property and freedom, restriction of the right, but from the continuity of civil rights laws in the history of ideas to see, so far, private community-based thinking in order to better achieve the purpose of people's property rights and freedom. '[6] (p135) is a people-oriented perspective of standing on the rights of all citizens to take law enforcement, private law to guide the legislative, judicial, law enforcement measures to protect the rights of the people thought possible. When the negative aspects of modern science and technology seriously jeopardize the quality of the living environment of the public, the private members of the public should be given the right environment for its mention in tort to provide a legal basis. When the bio-medical technology developed to clone biological, transplantation of human organs, develop new plant varieties, the right to give what kind of new subjects of rights protection, in order to reconcile competing interests, private law should be a positive response. When the new network technology to bring the contract entered into force and change.

Jumat, 18 Februari 2011

second mobile revolution

A pedestrian walks past an advertisement for an iPhone 4 in Bangkok. Smartphones and tablet computers are driving a mobile revolution, allowing video to take the lead in a business once dominated by voice calls, industry players and experts say.

Smartphones and tablets are driving a mobile revolution, allowing video to take the lead in a business once dominated by voice calls, industry players and experts say.
Video already does or will soon account for the majority of mobile data traffic, according to companies that monitor traffic, and with the proliferation of tablet computers that is likely to increase.

"If you want to put 2011 into a nutshell you can say that for the mobile phone companies their business is changing from an ears business -- people speaking and hearing -- into an eyes business with people looking at little screens," said Stefan Zehle, CEO of Coleago Consulting.

Cisco chief John Chambers told the mobile industry's annual trade fair in Barcelona this week that the visual medium would soon become ubiquitous in mobile communication.

"It won't be fifty to sixty percent of traffic on networks in five years out that will be visual. It will be eighty to ninety percent. Everything you do will have visual capability."

Currently most of the visual traffic is video streaming, with video-sharing site YouTube the single top application accounting for 17 percent of total mobile data traffic, according to network firm Allot Communications.

However 2011 could be the year that video telephony finally takes off, nearly a half century after it was first invented.

Skype, which pioneered voice calls over the Internet, brought video calls to PCs in 2006 and says 42 percent of its calls are now video.

And now video calling is now moving to mobile handsets.

Skype launched last month video calling for the iPhone, and Apple has its own application, which is so far limited only to WiFi connections.

Another firm, ooVoo, now supports iPhones and smartphones running the Google-backed Android operating system for its free high-definition-capable video calling service.

ooVoo has gone from nine million users in January 2010 to 21 million last month.
"I really see 2010 as having been the tipping point for video calling," the company's chief executive, Philippe Schwartz, told AFP.

Stuck only to PCs, video calling would remain a niche service but "mobile is the enabler to make it mass market," he said.

US-based Syniverse Technologies announced this week at the Mobile World Congress a deal to provide a video calling service for Korea Telecom, the country's top fixed-line and second-largest mobile operator.

The service is highly interoperable as it does not require receiving handsets to have pre-installed software.

Another company, Aylus, announced a similar video calling service for operators which allows users to start conversations as audio calls and then freely switch over to video.

Both ooVoo and Aylus video calls can be made over existing 3G networks, and the video quality in demonstrations matched or exceeded PC video calls on fixed Internet conditions.

Not everyone is convinced video telephony will take off, however.

"I think the value for the end user to actually watch each other while talking is limited," said Magnus Rehle, managing director of Greenwich Consulting.

The consulting firm Deloitte said in a recent report it "believes that in 2011 video calling wil be cheaper, better and more widely available than ever; yet a boom in demand is unlikely."
Palestinians mobile phone users exchange images via their handsets. With many smartphones now equipped with high definition cameras, they are likely to become increasingly used as camcorders.
It said for most calls audio is sufficient for users, and that many remain uncomfortable with video calling as it makes them self-conscious.

However a Skype representative said people don't want to be bound to their PCs and that mobile video calls "give users the opportunity to share personal moments wherever they are and whenever they want."

Smartphone handset makers, as well as tablet manufacturers, would not be equipping them all with front-facing cameras if they thought video calling would remain a niche service, he said.

Skype's success with PC-based video calling showed "that if there is an easy and intuitive application to use to see the other party then there is a big number of people" willing to use it, said Aylus chief executive Mark Edwards.

Syniverse's Tony Holcombe said consumers have been ready for mobile video calling for some time, "but the key to unlocking widespread uptake is full-scale interoperability" so all camera-equipped phones can be called.

With many smartphones now equipped with high definition cameras, they are likely to become increasingly used as camcorders.

A company called muvee expects to start shipping this year on Android phones the first application for users to edit their videos directly on their smartphones.

"Whenever you film you always get a bunch of rubbish that you want to trim and cut out," said muvee founder and chief Terence Swee. "You don't want to go through the hassle of transferring video to a computer to edit, you want to do it on your phone directly and with muvee you can."