Tag: CONVERT

If you want a bit of text to be human-readable, but not read or indexed by bots, TxtNinja has got you covered. It converts your text to a GIF, with customizable size, font and color. Potential uses include concealing your email address from spammers, sending sensitive information over IM, and getting around text filters on forums. The downside of TxtNinja is that the choices of fonts and colors ...

SilverX is a Windows app that converts Flash (.SWF) videos to Microsoft's Silverlight format. It recognizes all the vectors, images, text and animations from the original Flash file, so you can extract all of those elements and edit them in a Silverlight app later. If you want to manipulate the individual elements, you can edit them like any other Silverlight solution, and even apply XAML. If you ...

With the discontinuation of VisualHub, one of the most popular video conversion apps for OS X, someone had to release an app to fill the void. That app might be VideoMonkey, which builds on VisualHub's source code and concept to convert videos to and from a number of popular formats. VideoMonkey actually improves on VisualHub in some ways, especially because it's a native Cocoa app, where ...

Fine, it doesn't really takes names, but you won't care after you download and install this do-all media converter. FormatFactory's simple interface and broad file type support make it an excellent weapon of choice for media file junkies. What could be better than a program that will convert audio, video, and image files from and to just about any format you can think of? How about one that does ...

Sure, there are plenty of ways to grab a video from YouTube, save it as an flv file, and convert it the file format of your choice. But Zunemytube's got to be the simplest method I've seen so far. All you have to do is install the plugin for Internet Explorer and a little Zune icon will pop up in your toolbar. Then you surf YouTube, Google Video or MSN Soapbox and find videos you want to save. ...

Awhile back I linked to Media-Convert, a web service that will convert files while you wait. I was duly impressed by Media-Convert, and I'm even more impressed by Zamzar, a very similar free service with a Web 2.0 touch. It can convert between five image formats, 14 document formats, 11 audio formats, and nine video formats, and unlike Media-Convert you can convert many files at once, up to 100MB ...

We've known for awhile that functionality built into iMovie could strip the DRM from music purchased from the iTunes Music Store, but the process wasn't exactly point-and-click. Now, thanks to the wonder of AppleScript, that process has been streamlined, and you're only a few clicks away from listening to your whole music collection on your non-Apple device. FairGame is a free Mac app from Seidai ...

Media-Convert is a fairly impressive web service that will convert a file from one file format to another. That sounds pretty benign, but what's impressive is how many formats it supports. There's a good chance Media-Convert supports almost every document on you computer, including dozens of audio and video formats, a ton of common and obscure image formats, documents from Microsoft Office, ...

From the quick and dirty tools category, FastStone image tools work well and don't ask many questions. There is the Image Viewer (which is a browser, image editor, and converter), Capture (a screen capture utility that captures almost everything on screen, even flash), MaxView (a image viewer), and Photo Resizer (a batch converter, renamer, resizer). I use both the Capture application and ...

TubeSock is a great-looking app for OS X that lets you save videos from YouTube and easily convert them for viewing on your iPod, FrontRow, or anywhere else. Freeware purists can skip over this one--it costs $15 if you want to be able to convert more than the 30 seconds of video allowed by the trial version--but the rest of you, read on: TubeSock integrates with Safari and Firefox, providing a ...

Need to create a PDF file? Don't want to bother downloading/buying/installing software to make PDFs, or stuck at a library or internet kiosk where you can't? Enter PDF Online. It's a free service that will convert (almost) any document you upload into a PDF file. It supports lots of file formats, including most Office documents (e.g. Word/DOC, Excel/XLS, PowerPoint/PPT), plus HTML and plain text ...

Unlike Google Video, YouTube doesn't have an option to download videos for playback on your iPod or PSP. What's to be done? Happily, Lifehacker has a short how-to on downloading those videos and converting them to an iPod/PSP-friendly format. It takes a bit of fiddling in the form of a Greasmonkey script or bookmarklet to download the Flash video file and a third-party conversion tool to make it ...

Popular open source DVD ripping app HandBrake has been available for Mac and  Linux for some time now, and has finally been ported to Windows. HandBrake is a slick all-in-one ripping app that will encode your ripped video in MPEG-4 or H.264 (MP4, AVI, or OGM) and has a great built-in calculator that takes the fuss out of choosing a bitrate, which is especially great if your ...

TiVo has released a public beta version of new software that will convert TiVoToGo video to formats playable on the iPod and Sony PSP. The software will automatically transfer your recorded TV shows to your iPod or PSP while you sleep, which is a blessing because apparently the transcoding takes awhile—up to twice as long as the video itself. The beta is free but when the final version is ...