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, OpenOffice.org, and others, compressed archives, and more. One particularly neat trick it can do is convert PDF documents to Adobe Flash (SWF) movies. It can also capture web pages as images, convert Microsoft Access databases to Excel spreadsheets, and, in case you're into this sort of thing, convert text documents to morse code. Of course, it's not lightning-fast. You have to upload your file or enter the URL of a file and then wait awhile while it's converted, but far as convenience and price (free!) goes it can scarcely be beat.[Via Lifehacker]
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10-06-2006 @ 8:32AM
james said...
You would not happen to know about a service like this for 3D files would you? I have old formZ files that I have not opened since I graduated about seven years ago.
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10-06-2006 @ 9:38AM
legalxchech said...
doesnt offer .pub (publisher) files unfortunately. i have one that i need to open but cant b/c no MSPUB. blasted MS! does anyone know of any good opensource softwares that could open it?
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10-06-2006 @ 11:43AM
letesrock said...
This is a great service and here's what I've used it for: viewing webpages blocked by my work. Example: www.wired.com
Now Google's cache does a pretty good job, provided the page that is blocked is cached. If not, I'll use Media-Convert!
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10-10-2006 @ 4:57PM
The 2012 Mustang said...
That site is pretty good. I can't believe how many formats they allow.
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