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Top 5 Essential Video Converters You Shouldn’t Miss

April 29th 2008 in Useful Tips by James Yeang Please leave a comment... (7)

This post was co-written with Kay, who blogs about Technology news and tips, make money online and blogging tips over at K-Director.com, and edited by James Yeang.

Video conversion websites are dime a dozen these days, but here are 5 picks which stand out from the crowd.

1. How to convert video formats easily

youconvert

YouConvertIt is the complete online conversion suite.  It converts audio, video, images and documents into an array of formats.  It even throws in unit measurement conversion to round it up.  It terms of features it is pretty much complete, and the clean user interface makes it a joy to use. 

2. How to edit online videos

cellsea

Cellsea provides a web-based interface to edit online or uploaded videos.  Resize, crop, join videos, add audio, convert and download it when you’re all done. 

3. How to download purpose specific video conversion software

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DVDVideoSoft provides free mini-programs which allow you to do various things like rotate videos, convert them to Flash, change a video in to jpg pictures etc.   Extremely useful.

4.  How to convert files the professional way

heywatch

Hey!Watch is a premium video encoding site which supports the basic conversion, but with great bonus features.  For example, Hey!Watch allows you to take a link and automatically send the file to your storage space (FTP, Amazon S3 and HTTP server).  There is no limit to the file size (which is a stark contrast to the usual 10-50MB limit on most free sites), and you can actually create DVD images with this site.  

You can also create podcast feed of your converted videos, meaning you can, for example, add your feed to iTunes, which can then automatically download your converted videos and sync them to your iPod.

It isn’t free but the depth and breath of features cannot be denied.

5. How to convert online videos into XviD format

youtubehack

Youtubehack is a site which allows you to convert online videos from YouTube, Metacafe and the like - into multiple formats, but it is one of the very few sites which allows output into XviD format - which is one of the best compression formats.  On the page, it also displays thumbnails of featured videos on Youtube so you can easily find interesting content to download on the spot.

What other video conversion sites do you like?  Tell us in the comments!

Thank You TechCzar

April 29th 2008 in Happenings by James Yeang Please leave a comment... (1)

 thanks

For the last 6 months TechCzar has been helping to keep this blog going by providing lead sponsorship.  Unfortunately, TechCzar will be putting its entire blog network on hold to focus on other priorities at the moment, and from May onwards will no longer sponsor any blog. 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for helping out with the sponsorship, and enabling me to help people of other languages by providing free hand-translated texts for this site. 

How to Set Website Specific Text Sizes

April 26th 2008 in Firefox by James Yeang Please leave a comment... (4)

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We’ve already talked about various ways to save your eyes from your screen, but here’s one more tool that I came about on which makes your life so much easier if you’re having vision problems and struggling to read text on the screen. 

NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful if you have a small display or run at a very high resolution. NoSquint also gives you the option to remember the zoom level per site.

Now that latter point means that you no longer need to constantly change your text zoom back and forth as you visit different sites, making the web much more accessible.

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Works on the Firefox browser (and yes - Flock too), sorry Internet Explorer users.

What other web accessibility tools do you like?  Let us know in the comments!

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