MediaHuman Audio Converter: Convert Music Files via Drag & Drop

With the huge number of music files with different extensions available on the internet, the issue of compatibly often arises. With so many different types of devices and applications available out there, it is a problem that we all have faced at one point or another. While almost all mobile platforms including Android and iOS, support every kind of audio format, but some formats are still left unsupported, for proprietary reasons. There are a lot of audio converters available that can convert audio file from one format to the other, but the process involve in changing the extension of music files is usually very complicated, especially for newbies. MediaHuman Audio Converter is here to resolve the issue. It is an audio converter that makes the process of converting your music from one format to another very lucid and easy. It allows you to convert your music in WMA, MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, OCG, AIFF and Apple Lossless format in just three simple steps. The intuitive interface is both user-friendly and good-looking. Complete review of the application after the jump. Read More

XnViewMP: Free Mac App To Edit, Compress, Classify & Convert Images

We’ve reviewed small Mac apps that edit, convert or compress images in a few formats, but finding an app that converts and compresses images between a large number of formats, and that too, for free, isn’t easy. XnViewMP is a Mac app that compresses images in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, JPEG-XR, JPEG 2000, PCX, PDF and TGA formats. The app offers a way to organize your images either into categories, or to add colored tags to them. It comes with a built in file browser that keeps track of file locations, and a color enhancer that allows you to adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, lightness and to increase red, green and blue color levels. The app allows you to save a set of presets, and reuse them on an image. Changes made to an image can be previewed live. Read More

Convert EPUB eBooks to MOBI Format For Use With Kindle Fire

For ebooks, EPUB and MOBI are the two most famous formats used by ebook publishers. EPUB (Electronic Publication) is a free and open ebook standard format, whereas MOBI was initially used by MobiPocket Reader before Amazon acquired it. One of the most famous devices for reading eBooks, in recent times,  is axiomatically the Amazon Kindle Fire. The cheap yet robust device has a large user-base and considered to the best android based ebook device to date. The problem however, faced by a lot of Amazon Kindle users, is that it only supports MOBI ebook format. The reason is MOBI ebook format  has the ability to DRM protect ebooks, something the EPUB format lacks. If you had previously purchased ebooks that were in EPUB format, and recently made a transition to Kindle fire, then don't consider your previous purchases, useless. You can now use EPUB to MOBI to convert ebooks in EPUB format to MOBI. Coupled with an easy to use interface, the application lets you convert the files in batch, an added advantage if you have a large set of eBooks and don't want to waste time converting them one by one. More on EPUB to MOBI after the break. Read More

Contenta Converter Basic: Image Compressor, Resizer & Converter [Mac]

Format conversion software aren't that hard to come by, as you can find even web apps that do as much, but there are few options for file compression, and not many of them deliver reasonable quality images. Contenta Converter Basic is a Mac app that converts between various image file formats, and compresses them. The app also helps you organize the converted images by setting renaming patterns based on one of several parameters provided in the app. Similarly, it lets you create folders for organizing images, where folder names can be pre-defined based on available tags. Read More

Any Video Converter Lite: Free Audio & Video Format Converter For Mac

Versatile video converters are hard to find, as the majority of freely available format conversion apps allow you to convert videos to common formats only. When it comes to the Mac OS X platform, the number of free options diminishes even further. Any Video Converter Lite is a free Mac app that supports conversion to a large number of audio and video formats. The app’s built in media player is somewhat buggy, but it converts files without error. While format conversion is the main feature, the app also has a side feature to download videos from YouTube in Flash format. It installs a Video Downloader app, and downloads files directly from YouTube when you enter a video’s URL. Read More

TOAU: Convert Text To Audio & Export It Sans Terminal Command [Mac]

Mac has the built in capability to convert a text file to speech format, and read it out loud, but it isn’t something that can be done in one click or less. You have to open Terminal and input the correct command. TOAU is a text to audio converter that makes this whole process simpler and Terminal-free, by automatically sending the same command you would use manually to read a text file out loud. Additionally, it lets you export the file in audio format. Read More

Edit And Convert RAW Images To JPG With Scarab Darkroom

When you capture photos in DSLR camera, you have the choice to use RAW or JPEG file format (where the post processing is automatically done by the camera in latter format). However, many professionals opt for using RAW image, as it is a non-processed image file and there is far greater room for fine tuning and retouching the photos. RAW image file is not ready to be printed or edited, and normal image viewers cannot even open a RAW image file. Each camera manufacturer, such as Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Samsung, etc, has its own variation of RAW image format. The image is loaded into a RAW converter and processed before users are able to view, edit or print it using a normal image viewer. As there are is no unified structure for RAW format, it can become difficult if your software doesn't support it. For that very matter you can try Scarab Darkroom, which is a digital camera RAW file converter and image editor that supports a lot of cameras. The supported RAW format capable cameras include Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung and Sony. Check out the complete functionality of Scarab Darkroom after the jump. Read More

ConvertAll: Perform Mathematical Conversion Between Any Unit Formats

Many mobile devices and computer application provide unit conversion facility; however, they provide only a handful of formats and little support for inter-conversion of different unit types. ConvertAll is a portable application that allows you to calculate the different unit types with almost any format. For example, you can convert different kinds of units such as converting inches per decade, meter-pounds or cubic nautical miles. Read More

Convert Encrypted PDF Files Into DOC Format With PDF To Word Converter

PDF, or Portable Document Format, is an open standard for document exchange. It is used for sending formatted documents and have the other party receive them exactly as intended by the sender. The author of a PDF document has the option to restrict the level of control a receiver has on the document. While working with PDF files, one often comes across protected PDF documents that do not allow you to copy, modify, or even print your required pages. One choice you have is to retype the whole thing, but it wastes a lot of time precious time that can be used in doing other useful stuff. Instead of typing everything again manually, try utilities such as Free PDF Editor, a free portable app for Windows that lets you create and edit any PDF file instantly, and Quick PDF Tools, an all-in-one PDF utility that lets you perform numerous operations on PDF files, allow you to edit any PDF document. Today, we have another application for Windows called PDF To Word Converter that automatically decrypts protected PDF documents, and converts them into DOC format. You can add and convert multiple PDF documents and a time, and even define start and end pages, something that can come in very handy if you are working with a rather large document. Read More

antillesXML Is Swiss Army Knife For XML Files

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) file is a self-descriptive markup document that stores data in user-defined tags and transfers the data to required programs, web applications, databases, etc. Unlike HTML  documents which contain data values in pre-defined tags, XML allows users to specify the tags to carry the type of data they want. Many web applications employ XML files to interact with HTML pages, while desktop applications and program APIs use XML to share data with both users and related applications and databases. antillesXML is an all-in-one application to validate XML files against XML Schema, DTD, Schematron file and convert XML into RTF, CSV and PDF format, generate syntax highlighted XML code, create XML schema documentation, assign style sheet (XSL) to XML and execute XSLT style sheets. Read More

MDF to ISO Lets You Convert Files From MDF To ISO Format With Ease

MDF (Mirror Disc File) is a disc image format like ISO, Bin, Nrg etc, used by several virtual drive software. It is basically CD/DVD data saved as a disc image, using a disc authoring tool like Alcohol 120%. Disc image files created with such formats can be mounted with applications such as MagicDisc, PowerISO, DeamonTools and the like. MDF file data is stored in two separate files, with the main data being in the .MDF file, while the header and track information is stored in a corresponding .MDS file. Read More

How To Convert Disk Images From IMG To ISO Format

IMG is a disk image format like ISO, Bin, Nrg, etc used by many virtual drive software. Disk image files created with such formats can be mounted as virtual disks with the help of disk mounting applications such as MagicDisc, Alcohol, DaemonTools and the like. Over a period of time, the ISO format has become more popular than other disk image formats. For this reason, one is likely to find support for ISO images in numerous applications as compared to other similar formats. Moreover, many users have become more acquainted with the ISO format and prefer it over other formats. For example, most CD/DVD images are released as ISO images such as operating system versions (e.g. Linux distributions), files uploaded to torrent websites, etc. If you would like to convert an IMG file to an ISO image, then IMG to ISO application might just be what you are looking for. It is a simple tool which converts an IMG file to the ISO file format. The best part is that it not only converts an IMG file to an ISO file format but also retains the quality of the disk image. The converted ISO file that is created using this program can conform to the standard ISO-9660 format. Read More

Create Vintage-Style Photos In A Few Taps With Old Photo For Android

iOS users have the luxury of resorting to Instagram - a beautiful and easy to use photo editing and sharing app that converts your minute-old photos into memories of the past, but as far as Android users are concerned, we currently have to make do with several third-party apps that bring all the exotic and vintage filters to the fore. Now there are quite a few image editing apps  that come with the support for image beautification feature, but standalone apps based on the concept of transforming fresh images into old-looking captures are few and far between. Therefore, if you're tired of looking at your most cherished photos in the same crisp and flamboyant colors? May be it’s time to find out how your captured snaps would look like when they get transformed into the vintage style images of yesteryear. Old Photo is a smart little photo-editing app for Android that converts your snaps into rugged and fusty pictures and enables you to share the results with your friends over the internet. Read More

Convert eBook Files To Any Device With Hamster Free eBook Converter

If you hate hanging onto multiple eBook converters to convert documents and books to different devices, check out Hamster Free Book Converter. This freshly developed multi-lingual eBook converter is designed with minimal configurations to go around with; you just have to drag the document files over it, select your reader, and it will convert them in one go. Read More

2 Best Tools To Convert Or Encode HD Videos For Windows Phone 7

If you’ve been hanging around Windows Phone 7 device for quite a while, you may have struggled a lot to get the best video quality with Zune. Since Zune video encoder often fails to encode videos in high definition, it becomes indispensable to get a third party video encoder which can directly encode videos for Windows Phone 7 compatible phones. If you’re looking for a video encoder for your Windows Phone 7 device, you can use previously featured VidCoder or Oxelon for this very purpose. Both tools offer a wide range of Audio and Video parameters to tweak with. In this post, we will look at how to set Audio and Video parameters in both Oxelon and VidCoder for achieving best video quality on your Windows Phone 7 device Read More

ISO Workshop Is All-In-One Tool To Extract, Backup, Convert, And Burn ISO Files

ISO is the most widely used disc image format for creating copies of optical discs, including, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. The main advantage of ISO over other types of image formats is that it is not stored in a file container, and secondly, anyone can create exact same copy of optical disc in ISO format keeping all the data distributed in sectors in original form. ISO Workshop is an all-in-one utility to Extract files from ISO disc images, Backup data on optical disc into ISO and CUE image format, Convert ISO into various image formats, and finally Burn ISO image to CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray disc. If you’re using more than 2 applications to perform any of these operations with ISO files, ISO Workshop is an app worth trying. Read More

How To Convert .Rpm File To Deb File In Linux

There are several types of installation files for Ubuntu, and unfortunately many of them are not easy to install. Although a huge problem of finding and installing software is resolved by the Ubuntu software center, there are times when a good software is not available from there. The best file type to install download and install is the .deb file as DEB files are the default installation files for Ubuntu. DEB file can also be easily opened and installed via the Ubuntu Software Center which eliminates the need to use the Terminal. Nonetheless, some software are only available as a .rpm (Red-Hat Package Manager) file. Since .rpm is an alien format for the Ubuntu desktop, therefore there can be compatibility issues when installing a file from the .rpm package. In this post we will tell you how to convert a .rpm file to a .deb file to overcome this problem. Read More

DVDVideoSoft FreeStudio Is Complete All-In-One Multimedia Converter And Burner

DVDVideoSoft FreeStudio packages more than 40 programs for converting and burning into one eye-candy application. You can convert YouTube videos to MP3, Audio CD to MP3, WAV, APE, and FLAC format, Video to Mp3, Flash, DVD, MKV, AVI, and MP4 format. Despite having a slew of conversion tools, it lets you burn CD/DVD and Blu-Ray discs on the fly. It offers plentiful of disc authoring tools to burn videos, DVD files, audio tracks, and to create Audio CDs from MP3 files. Features list doesn’t end here, image manipulation tools have also been included to convert and resize images, convert video files into pack of JPGs while both 3D photo and video maker are also available. It supports all Apple Devices, allowing you to convert audio and video files into supported formats for Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Apart from supporting all the formats, it has an ability to convert audio and video files into famous portable devices, gaming consoles, and other smart phone formats, including, Andriod, Blackberry, HTC phones, Motorola, Nokia, Xbox, Nintendo, and PSP. Read More

View, Create And Download Webpages In PDF Format With PDF Download

We have all come across online PDF files that often cause crashes or hang our system. A remedy to this problem has been provided by Nitro PDF with its PDF Download extension which works on Windows, Linux and Mac based browsers. This extension allows users to not only view and download online PDF files but also provides the utility to convert and email entire webpages in PDF format with famous browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Flock and Safari. Read More

NorthBright CHM Tool Can Convert Windows Help CHM Files To HTML Format

CHM (Compiled HTML Help) is a format of help files, which is developed by Microsoft for publishing help manuals with their software and application releases. CHM is a compiled file which consists of hyperlinked table of contents referring towards corresponding main content. As it is a compiled HTML help file, users are unable to publish/extract single page or multiple pages from a CHM file. NorthBright CHM Tool is a decompiler which is built especially to let user extract either specific page(s) from the CHM file or decompile all the included content. Read More