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Drag & drop file uploads, faster file conversions
Filed under: Features, News | Tags: faster file conversion, multiple file conversion, Zamzar
Leave a Comment We’re pleased to announce that you can now use Zamzar to convert your files faster and more easily – Here’s what you can now do:
Drag & Drop Your Files !
We’ve upgraded our upload tool so that you can now drag & drop multiple files into the main window rather than having to select them individually – this is especially handy if you have lots of files to convert at once.
Multiple File Select
You can still use the file picker tool if you want but we’ve upgraded that too, so that you can select multiple files there as well (using ⌘ on Mac, or shift on Windows):
Faster Conversions
We’ve also improved our conversion process to give you even faster conversions – When you upload multiple files we now start converting as soon as each file has uploaded (as the other files upload in the background). We report the status of these conversions back to you in the progress column of the status window:
Why not try out the shiny new upload & conversion process today ?
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
High speed downloads for all Zamzar subscribers
Filed under: Announcements, Features | Tags: cloudfront, download, high speed
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We’re excited to announce the launch of high speed downloads for converted files for all Zamzar subscribers.
If you signup, you can now download converted files from Zamzar up to 5 times quicker than previously. This applies to any newly converted file, and also any file you have already converted.
If you’re still a free Zamzar user, what are you waiting for ? Sign up today to experience this high-speed goodness !
What do you get ?
Benefits for our subscribers include:
- Super fast downloads – We use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to give you high speed downloads
- More reliable downloads – No more annoying “download interrupted” messages
- Better safety for your data – Files are now backed up across multiple devices in multiple secure datacenters
Fast. Very Fast.
If we applied this speed increase to other areas of human endeavour:
- Running the 100 metres would take 1.9 seconds
- You could travel to the moon in half a day (Apollo 11 took 3 days 4hours)
- Formula One cars would travel at over 1000 miles per hour
If you’re already a Zamzar subscriber why not go convert a file now to try it out, or if you want to dig deeper read on to understand all the geeky details of how we did this …
The Geeky Details
Still with us ? Ok, so to achieve this speed increase our engineers have taken advantage of some technical wizardry from the folks at Amazon.com.
All converted files from Zamzar account holders are now stored in a highly secure Content Delivery Network provided by Amazon – This network (known as CloudFront) employs a network of edge locations that cache copies of files closer to wherever you guys are on the internet.
CloudFront then ensures that any download requests for those files are served by the closest edge location. As a result, requests travel shorter distances which means that file downloads get delivered to you far more quickly.
This means that if you happen to be located in a picturesque city such as Frankfurt instead of your computer having to send requests across the Atlantic to download a file from Zamzar:
… you now automatically get the file from a server nearby:
CloudFront has effectively given Zamzar edge locations all over the globe, from San Jose to Singapore, so no matter where you are you should see a significant boost in performance:
We hope you enjoy these improvements, all of which are available immediately.
Happy Converting (and downloading !)
The Zamzar Team.
Convert files by email
Filed under: Announcements, Features | Tags: convert files email
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We’re really excited to announce a brand new feature which allows you to convert files by email.
Instead of using the Zamzar website to convert files you can send files from your email account to:
format @zamzar.com
(e.g. pdf@zamzar.com, gif@zamzar.com etc)
… we’ll convert them in lightning quick speed and email back a link to your converted file.
So what’s the beef ?
Let’s look at what you can do:
- Email any file which is a supported “from” format on our conversion types page to the format you want it converted to – For example to convert a PDF into a Word Doc (.doc file) email your PDF file to doc@zamzar.com
- Forward email which has been sent by friends and colleagues to the email address of the format you want it converted to.
- Send multiple files in the same email message for conversion (as many as you want if they are within the size limits)
- Convert an email attachment into multiple different formats, by specifying multiple “to” addresses (e.g. jpg@zamzar.com, gif@zamzar.com).
- Convert files sent to your iPhone, iPad, Android or Blackberry directly from your mobile device using email.
- Convert videos into a format you can watch directly on your iPad or iPhone using our new streaming support.
You can read more about the details of this new service on our FAQ page.
Any limits ?
Most email clients only allow you to send attachments up to 25 MB in size, so limits for the size of file you can email us to convert are less than on the main Zamzar site. At the time of launch they are as follows (per file, not per message):
Free Service – up to 1 MB
Basic Plan – up to 5 MB
Pro Plan – up to 15 MB
Business Plan – up to 25 MB
Email and the dinosaurs
Email is old, maybe as old as the dinosaurs.
Even though many of us have a love / hate relationship with email, we all use it to stay connected. Here are some interesting statistics:
- If email was a country, its 1.4 billion users would make it the largest in the world. Bigger than China, bigger than the USA and EU combined.
- 247 billion emails are sent each day, or one every 0.00000035 seconds.
- In the time it takes you to read this sentence, some 20 million emails entered cyberspace.
Even if you send us just one email we’d be delighted. We’d also scan it for attachments and convert them.
We hope you like the new service 
Happy email converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Stream converted videos and audio to your iPhone, iPad and iPod
Filed under: Announcements, Features | Tags: mobile, stream convert video audio ipad iphone ipod
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We’re excited to announce that you can now use Zamzar to stream converted video and audio files to your iPhone, iPad and iPod.
So if you get stuck in a hole with an odd format you need to view whilst you’re out and about you can just “Zamzar it” into a format which you can stream immediately.
We even offer optimised output formats for different devices – just select “iPhone”, “iPad” or “iPod” as the to format for your conversion and if it’s a video file we’ll make sure it looks great on screen for you:
Why not check it out ? Maybe you want to listen to a famous Winston Churchill speech or view a trailer about a rabbit with attitude.
As more people switch to using mobile devices to view and interact with their files we hope this is a useful addition to your toolkit.
We also have more exciting mobile announcements just around the corner – stay tuned !
Happy Converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert CAD formats – dwg, dxf to pdf, jpg, gif and more
Filed under: Features, News | Tags: cad, convert, convert cad, convert dwg, convert dxf, dwg, dxf, gif, jpg, pdf
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We’re pleased to announce you can now use Zamzar to convert two of the most popular CAD (Computer Aided Design) formats around – DWG and DXF – which are both used in AutoDesk’s hugely successful AutoCAD program.
Converting these files can be useful if you need to share them with friends or colleagues who don’t have AutoCAD installed – Zamzar now allows you to convert them to the following formats:
- bmp – Windows bitmap
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- pdf – Postscript document
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- tiff – Tagged image file format
We hope this helps all of you out there who use CAD files, and need to share them with others. If there are any other CAD conversion requirements you have do let us know in the comments below and we’ll do our best to look into them …
Happy converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Download TinyPic videos
You can now use Zamzar to download videos from TinyPic a popular video and image sharing site that was high on the list for Zamzar users of new sites to download from.
As usual videos can be converted into a variety of different formats, including avi, wmv, mov, mpeg and many more.
Happy converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Download GodTube videos
Zamzar now supports the ability to download and convert videos from GodTube, the popular faith-based video sharing site.
We hope you like the new addition – You can convert videos into a variety of formats, including avi, mpg, wmv and mov and then use them on computers which don’t have internet access.
Happy converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Download TeacherTube videos
You can now use Zamzar to download and convert videos from TeacherTube, the popular teaching resource site.
You can convert downloaded videos into a variety of formats, including avi, mpg, wmv and mov – ideal if you need to use the videos as resources in a classroom without internet access.
What other websites would you like to be able to download and convert videos from – why not tell us in the comments ?
Happy converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert zip files to 7z, tar.bz2, cab, lzh, rar, tar, tar.gzh, yz1
We’ve just added the ability to convert between various compressed file formats using Zamzar – This can be helpful if you get stuck with a zip format that you can’t open.
Zamzar now supports conversion from the following formats below to any of the others on the list:
- 7z – 7-Zip Compressed File
- tar.bz2 – Bzip 2 UNIX Compressed File
- cab – Cabinet File
- lzh – Compressed Archive File
- rar – WinRAR Compressed Archive
- tar – Gzip Compressed Archive
- yz1 – DeepFreezer Compressed Archive
- zip – Compressed Archive File
Click here to convert today, or read more about the different types of compressed files here.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert pptx files to ppt, odp, html, pcx, pdf, png, ps and swf
Filed under: Features, News | Tags: conversion, convert, docx, html, Microsoft, MS Office 2007, odp, online, open XML, OpenOffice, pdf, Powerpoint, ppt, PPTX, standards
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Great news ! We’ve been working hard here at Zamzar to round out our support for Microsoft Office 2007 files, and we’re pleased to announce that you can now use Zamzar to convert “pptx” files generated by Office 2007 to a variety of different formats, including “ppt” (enabling you to view and edit your presentations in older versions of Microsoft Office) and “odp” (allowing you to use OpenOffice).
A variety of other formats are also supported, enabling you to convert your pptx files into whatever format is most useful for the program that you happen to be working in. The full list of supported formats is below:
- html – Hypertext Markup Language
- odp – OpenDocument presentation
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- ppt – Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation
- ps – Postscript document
- swf – Macromedia Flash Format File
Why not convert some pptx files right now ?
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
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