Converting applications to other formats

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on July 5, 2007 at 9:32am

http://www.zamzar.com will transform
Documents
Images
Music
Video
to a wide range of formats either from file upload or by inputting the URL
The resulting file is sent to your email, often in less than minutes.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Moses on July 5, 2007 at 2:02pm

I'm really happy with Zamzar as well. To pull things from the internet, video etc., if you're using Firefox all you have to do is drag a link from their site (http://www.zamzar.com/tools/) to your bookmarks toolbar. When you find something that you want to convert just click the bookmark and Zamzar does the rest.

Fair warning: when I went there to get this think two ad pop-were forced on my computer. Apparently this sites getting more and more aggressively ad based. That's too bad.

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Permalink Reply by amywag on October 6, 2007 at 12:25pm

Susan,

I am currently stuck. I am trying to use Zamzar for the first time. It says I need "to upload a file" first. Could you (or anyone explain this). It must be common knowledge because I am trying things and don't seem to be making sense of it.

Thanks,
Amy

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Permalink Reply by Kevin amboe on July 5, 2007 at 11:26am

Chris,

I quickly checked out the site. It looks good. I was hoping for a tool to easily convert PDF to MP3. Media-convert doesn't do that though.

I have a few sites that do media conversion in delicious at http://del.icio.us/amboe_k/convert

A tool (not free) that I am piloting is called GhostReader to convert PDF to audio. It does a good job and has many voices to choose from in addition to those within the operating systems.

Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Chris Clementi on July 5, 2007 at 2:17pm

Kevin, you have some great sites posted. I am just getting into this. I have had frustration with trying to import video into Movie Maker and now those days are over.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart Brown on July 5, 2007 at 1:35pm

hi chris, check out xfruits http://www.xfruits.com/ i've used it a lot and it's useful! also take a look at Dapper http://www.dapper.net/ .


You could also try your hand at XML and XSLT if you were feeling adventurous!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Clementi on July 5, 2007 at 2:15pm

Thanks for the feedback.

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Meg Ormiston on July 5, 2007 at 1:36pm

Thank you for the tip on this converting web site, I could have used this last week! We used http://media-convert.com/convert/ and it did work, but we had pop-up ad issues. I know there are many of these sites out there, I had to use Google to find one that would translate a midi file.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Clementi on July 5, 2007 at 2:09pm

Thanks Meg, I just joined this network and people are great about providing feedback. What a great resource.

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Torsten Otto on July 5, 2007 at 1:40pm

There are also:
zamzar.com
vixy.net
keepvid.com

They are each a little different, but all seem to work. Vixy seems to have better video quality than some for youtube videos, but has a limited range of destination formats.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Clementi on July 5, 2007 at 2:07pm

I did like vixy.net. I appreciate you getting back with me on this. I will definitely check out the other sources. Thanks again,

Chris

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