How to Use the Area Auto Detection Mode of Icecream Screen Recorder

How to Use the Area Auto Detection Mode of Icecream Screen RecorderPlenty of people not only want to capture their desktops, but also record certain programs, YouTube videos, or other types of content that require you to record or screenshot precise areas. With our screen capture software it’s possible to manually select the areas and record video and take screenshots of the full screen. When it comes to separate windows or areas, such recording and screenshot taking mode as “Area auto detection” will become handy. If you’re not familiar with this feature of the screen recorder by Icecream Apps yet, read on to learn more about how to use the “Area auto detection” mode of Icecream Screen Recorder.
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Icecream Apps Answers Frequently Asked Questions: 2016

Icecream Apps Answers Frequently Asked Questions: 2016It’s been almost two years since we did such a post on our blog so we decided it’s right about time to answer the most frequently asked questions that we get from our users through our contact form, social media, emails, and online chat. We answered the hottest questions, spoke about our future plans, and cleared up some topics. If we missed your questions, then ask us in the comments section!
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Happy Second Birthday Icecream Apps!

Today we are celebrating our second birthday and invite you to celebrate with us.

Since our first birthday, we have added new, awesome features to our products and released 3.0 versions of Screen Recorder and Ebook Reader. We have also released Icecream PDF Split & Merge for Mac and Icecream Screen Recorder for Mac—our first products for Mac.
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Features of Icecream Ebook Reader 3.0

Icecream Ebook Reader 3.0We have just updated Icecream Ebook Reader to version 3.0 that has brought plenty of improvements and some new features. This eBook reader now has a new powerful engine, thanks to which the efficiency and the speed of work of the program that has increased considerably. With the 3.0 version, loading bulky books with thousands of pages has become much faster. Another novelty of the 3.0 version of this e-reader is that the images and the formatted content now appears in a much better, attractive and organized way. In addition to that, all the internal and external links of the eBooks are now clickable. However, a more powerful engine is not the only major improvement in this version, there are some other features that we would like to highlight below. To see how this eBook reader has changed within five months, you can check the throwback list of the features of Icecream Ebook Reader we implemented in October, 2015.
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Features of Icecream Screen Recorder 3.0

Features of Icecream Screen Recorder 3.0With the recent update of Icecream Screen Recorder to version 3.0, we managed to add new awesome features to make the screen capture process more advanced in its options yet still simple in use. Our intention was to create a really powerful screen recording software that can offer the most to those who create screencasts, video tutorials and instructional videos. We’ve considerably increased the number of available recording features of the program so we decided to make a full list of them in order for you to get to know them better. If you’re curious how the screen recorder improved within a little over a year you can read our review of the 10 best features of Icecream Screen Recorder written in October 2014.
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How to Convert PDF to JPG in Batch Mode

Icecream PDF ConverterPDF is a widely-known format that is mostly used for storing documents. Editing such files is not that easy and quite often users tend to convert PDF to other formats like JPG, DOC, XLS and others thanks to their simplicity in processing. Icecream PDF Converter can easily convert PDF files not only to JPG, but to such formats as DOC, ODT, BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF, EPS, WMF and HTML. Moreover, the program can convert PDF to other supported output formats in bulk mode; add as many PDF files to convert to JPG as you wish and turn them into images with a couple of clicks. Below, you will find a tutorial of how to convert PDF to JPG in batch mode in 3 simple steps with the help of Icecream PDF Converter.
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How to Resize Photos for Facebook Covers

Resize photos for FacebookFacebook has become an integral part of the lives of all Internet users. The majority of active online users start and finish their days by spending time on Facebook. There is no doubt that any person wants his or her profile to look top-notch, and that’s why tons of images and relevant media data is constantly uploaded to Facebook. When you open a Facebook profile, the first thing you see is the Facebook cover photo. That’s why it is so important to have an awesome image as a cover photo. However, cover photos have a pretty inconvenient size – 851×315 pixels – and you basically can’t upload any other photo of any size. Here is a simple three-step guide of how to resize photos for Facebook covers using Icecream Image Resizer.
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Happy Birthday Icecream Apps!

It’s hard to believe but it’s already been a year since the release of our first product – Icecream Media Converter. Icecream Apps is turning one year today, woo hoo, Happy Birthday to us!

Within a year of hard work we have released as many as 7 software products. You can be sure that even more programs by Icecream Apps are on the way! This summer, by the way, 2.0 versions of our most popular products – Screen Recorder and Ebook Reader – are to be released.

We would like to thank all our users for the feedback and ideas and hope you enjoy our apps as much as we enjoy the development process. Have a great day and stay tuned!
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Icecream Apps: Software Development in Numbers

Recently we’ve reached a milestone of 10,000 likes on Facebook and 1000 followers on Twitter and thus we decided to tell our supporters a bit more about how we work and develop our software. Quality software development is a complicated process involving lots of people and numerous technical details. Today we’ll try to tell a bit more about this process in numbers so it would be more easy to understand.
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Icecream Media Converter: Behind the Scenes

Icecream Media Converter: Behind the ScenesSoftware development is actually a complicated but super exciting process. First you have your initial idea that seems to be a very general one. Then you start improving it to the level where everything looks good and you are pretty much proud of the results of your hard work. Next comes the moment when you show your final version of so-far perfect software to your colleagues and you get tons of ideas of how to improve its functionality. And interface. And bug fixing. And more bug fixing. A lot of bug fixing, actually. So if you compare the first version of a program and its final ready-to-be-released version, we assure you they will not be the same program at all. From the pictures below you can see 5 versions of our first released software – Icecream Media Converter.
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