Personal Technology Tips in Plain English
Archive for November, 2008
The Most Flexible File Converter Around Online
Nov 11th
These days, media abounds.
You can download video, audio, photos, images, compressed archives of folders filled with more files.
Once you get them to your PC, there are many times when you need the actual content, but not in the file format that it currently resides in. So how do you go about getting what you want?
Once you discover file conversion, you’ll start to think about what videos you’ll want to push to your cell phone, etc.
This is when you need file conversion software. And there are a bunch of great applications for various circumstances.
However, as always, there are online services that will do the trick for you without installing any software. Zamzar.com and media-convert.com are 2 of my favorites. But I just found another one that seems to handle almost anything you can throw at it. . . Read the rest of this entry »
How to SEE If What Your Are Trying To Saying Is Really What You Are Saying
Nov 9th
Do you have a good sense of what impression others have of you?
Especially if you have a blog that dives into the depths of your thoughts and pondering of life, you may want to take a step back and think about this. Is the picture that you’re putting out there really what you are trying to convey?
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s a neat tool that allows you to capture the essense of your blog or website with a couple dozen words…
I created a word cloud of this blog as an example so that you get a sense of the interesting way it portrays the conversations it’s analyazing:

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