Probs with Media File Conversion? Not Anymore…

I bet you are one of those whom at one point or another received mail from your friend/co-worker with attached document, unfortunately your computer was not able to open due to unknown file format. Well, there are plenty of Internet resources that provide us with an easy fix- Online Conversion. I’ve compiled simple list of the most interesting and useful web-resources for document conversion. All these need no software to purchase, download and install, no time wasted in waiting for your PC to finish its conversion tasks… . Use it at work, use it at school…its your choice, after all, IT’S FREE and ONLINE.

Koolwire

Word (doc, docx), Powerpoint (ppt, pptx), Excel (xls, xlsx), Visio (vsd), MS Project (mpp), Jpeg, GIF, RTF, txt. into PDF, PDF to RTF,

WAV to MP3, MP3 to WAV [all above conversion is done via e-mail]

Zamzar.com

This web is, to my account, the most universal free online conversion tool you could find out there [or at least I've run into so far]. More than 70 different file formats are supported so I am not gonna list them all. If you are curious, check here. Videos download is supported too.

Youconvertit.com

Yet another multi format converter. All supported files listed here. Very comparable to zamzar.com

Media-convert.com

Another heavy duty converter, with something extra. Cell-phone users, this is the site to check out for you…

Others…

www.mediaconverter.org

vixy.net -Download of online videos directly to PC/Ipod/PSP

Best Online Documentaries

More than 650 documentaries can be found at http://www.bodocus.com/ web-site, which covers wide range areas of interest [from natural sciences, history, mysteries, business, lifestyles, religion, politics, health, to environment]. Vast majority of these movies are in English, however, some specific issue areas are in the languages of those areas. If you are one of those information thirsty people, then you certainly won’t have free time for long time to come. All of these online [in decent quality] and for free. Good deal, huh?

Map Of The Whole Internet

 

Do you have feeling that the internet is infinite and expands faster than the Space itself? Authors of http://thewholeinternet.wordtothewise.com/ decided to map whole address space IPv4 so that you can now see in a graphical format, which address spaces belong to whom. Maybe you’ll find out who’s your neighbor, or simply that why there is so much free space despite the fact that many warn us that we will have to soon migrate onto new addressing IPv4.

This crazy map contains 4,294,967,296 IP addresses and processes them onto a huge image and let you zoom into it and pan around. “Just like google maps, but more internetty.”

Best Free and Freeware Software and Games for Windows™

It’s not always the case that something quality has to necessarily cost $$$. Most of Windows users can have legal software in their computers without having to buy something. www.freeware-software.org collects freeware software for Windows OS which are fully capable of what even hellish expansive software can do. Office Applications, Graphics and DTP, Internet, Security and Privacy Protection, Multimedia and other tools and utilities. As nice extra, web has decent directory to games we used to play when we were all little younger, and have become cults over time.

[including, GTA, Fish Fillets, Super Mario, or even tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the U.S. government, financed through U.S. tax dollars and distributed free by the U.S. Army :]

#1 Christian Porn Site

[NO, this is not another conventional porn site!]

This is by far the most interesting web-site I ran into this year. This community of XXXchurch brings together people who want to discuss the issue of porn and try to make sides to it. The title is so provocative [hence enormously original since bringing almost impossible to connect together] that I am sure none of you will just pass by and leave it un-clicked. Brief info below is gathered from their official xxxchurch.com web-site.

The Team: Craig Gross is the founder and leader of XXXchurch.com. Working alongside Craig is an amazing group of people including Clint McManamam, Brandon Piety, Rob Supan, Ginny Spears, Michelle Truax, Donny Pauling and some great interns and volunteers.

The Board: XXXchurch is a non-profit 501 C3 organization that sits under the umbrella of Fireproof Ministries. There is a board of directors overseeing this ministry that is made up of Rob Supan, Jake Larson, Craig Gross, Bryan Johnston, and Matt Shatto.

The Name: XXXchurch is provocative, memorable, and it combines the seedy and the sacred. Enough said.

The Mission: XXXchurch is here to make you think, react, and to decide where you stand on the issues of porn. We’re not here to sling mud, but to shove the envelope and try and do some good.

The Tag Line: The “#1 Christian Porn Site” is what we are.

The Vibe: It’s hip, relevant, irreverent, honest, fun, and designed for people just like you.

Write Your Blog Within Microsoft Word

As stupid as it may sound, I have just discovered that one can type out his own blog directly within his Microsoft Office Word 2007. Nevertheless, this just underlines the general notion that this feature of new 2007 Office Package is not well known, therefore I decided to check it out. Actually, this post is being typed out in Word right now. So let’s see what it can do.

As any other document in Office, you open new blog exactly same way [It gives you nice option between Blank Document and New Blog Post]. If you are using this feature for the first time, a dialog box pops out asking you for your weblog provider [Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint, Community Server, beloved WordPress, Typepad, etc.]. Even if yours is not listed, you should still be able to proceed with registration that follows right after, asking you for your login information so that Office knows where to send these blog posts to.

Immediately, after doing so, it brings you back to the blank page where you can write your post. Already predefined is the title, but you are free to create your own too, as you wish. As usual, the spell checker works very nicely too. At the same time you are free to change the style of your text as you wish [just like in regular Word document]. Classically Undo/Repeat buttons are there too [just like /almost/ anything you find in Microsoft Word]…

Bold, italics, underlined, strikethrough, different
fonts, sizes and all the other effects that we are used to,

maybe even more that your basic blog plans provide you with.

Again, inserting hyperlinks, symbols [©®™№],

,

Tables…

1st place	John Smith	Male
2nd place	Jane Smith	Female

Charts …

including SmartArt…

Different shapes…

Or clipart/picture of your choice…and then you can easily resize, edit, add special effects or control the text placement.

Once you are done with playing around and you want to categorize your blog post, you can simply do so by clicking on the “Insert Category” button. Then it will connect with your blog provider service. Just below your title, a new pop-down menu will appear, where all your previous categories [as saved on your blog server] appear and you are free to choose or create a brand new one. However, I experienced troubles with finding the way of choosing more that one category, which I have not been able to proceed with, yet. The same applies for tagging, so I believe one has to do so through the individual web-editors. If there is some other way, bring it up below in comments, please. Any other further management of your blog would have to be done online too. Microsoft Word is just a tool for writing the individual posts.

In case you own several blogs hosted by different service providers, you can easily manage add, remove or edit the existing one [with an option of setting one them as default]. One can even open already existing blog, such as my first one I wrote on Danny DeFisho, see below:

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This post was published to Danny DeFisho at 11:27:28 PM 12/23/2007

WoW

Category none

so here I am, typing out my very first blog post, ain’t dat amazing? I just wonder for how long I will be motivated enough to run this thing… the more you click on here, the better chance of getting out some juicy stuff about your president

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Directly from Microsoft Word you have “Home Page” button which takes you directly to your blog page on the internet. The publishing itself should be easy too, and if you are reading this post on my blog, then it means that it works!!! Before you publish, you have an option of publishing it directly or as a draft. Now, if it will all really appear on my blog as it does on here [which it does], than I have no reason [if am not a CSS capable due to my plan] to stop writing my posts from Microsoft Word [this shall apply the notion that you own your own computer, because for public places, you will have to stick with the web].

For further info visit Office Help Cente.

Get Rid Of The Automatic Updates

Windows is capable of pissing me of very often. The Automatic Updates are one of those most irritating moments, especially when one has s***loads of work to do and this dialog box won’t stop bothering. It is very easy to oversee this box when you are working on lots of stuff [too many windows opened] or you just ran away to get your orange juice cup , the possible damage I do not have to talk about.

I, being very spoilt user, would expect the system to download any update necessary quietly without bothering, and sit there until the next time I restart the system, or what?!

If you hate this [threatening] dialog bog , here is the quick fix. In the commad box type in the following:

sc stop wuauserv

P.S.: Don’t forget that some updates may be really important and will not become active unless manually restarted.

Mac-Like Window [Mini|Maxi|Close] Buttons

Recently, I came across very interesting software-Leftsider-that moves your window buttons [minimize|maximize/restore|close] from the right side [where we are all used to see them] to the left side, just like position of these buttons on Mac. It is not much of a change, but for Mac lovers, I bet this would solve this ‘little’ irritating problem, especially if you are running some kind of Mac theme for Windows, but it fails to move the positions of these buttons. It operates from a little icon in the taskbar, so that you can adjust the alignment anytime you wish. Enjoy. /XP and Vista 32bit/64bit versions available/

‘The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web’

Using Photoshop nowadays is almost as necessary as any other software application out there. Whether you need to pimp up your party pictures, create poster for your event, or just play around with images for your web.

Nevertheless, it is always little problem when it comes down to learning of how to do something in Photoshop. There are many different tutorials that focus on basics, but for me and you this is far too little.

Recently, I was trying to come up with some cool poster for one of the movie nights that I get to organize at school, and was about to create some cool texting for my TITLE. I browsed Google to find something and this came across my Firefox- The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web.

Maybe its not the best tutorial page ever, but it has some pretty cool text effects that you might wanna check out.

Get Rid Of ‘Too Visible’ Recent Documents In XP Start Menu

“When I click on the start menu there’s a tab which reads “Documents”. This tab keeps track of all the files I open, and I want to know how I can turn it off, or get rid of it all together.”

Does that sound any familiar? Yes, the My Documents folder in your Start Menu on your Windows keeps track of all the files you have accessed recently /like your favorite XXX files?/ and thus help you keep track of your recent works. Personally, I have never really used this option in Windows /maybe for couple exceptions/but at times it gets pretty annoying by its visibility, especially if your computer is used by somebody else as well, and you simple do not want them to know what have you been doing before they sat there.

For those of you who would like to get rid of this little problem, Ask-Leo.com gives good guide of “How do I remove the Documents item on my Start Menu.” In the end you realize that it is not very difficult to erase this list, but get rid of it completely as well. This could help you sleep better at nights.