Zamzar

Hi,

The Zamzar team are gonna’ be mixin’ it up this weekend in Silicon Valley - We’re off to Stanford University for Y-Combinator’s startup conference, where there’ll be a host of great speakers talking tech.

We’ll be in town from Thursday 17th April - Sunday 20th April … if you’re around why not let us know in the comments to this post ?

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team

Hi,

Update: All fixed and back to normal now. Please let us know in the comments if you have any problems.

Unfortunately today (24th January) we are experiencing issues with YouTube conversions. We are currently working round the clock to resolve these, however this means that at present we cannot offer YouTube conversions from our service.

Please note file conversions are unaffected.

We apologise for any inconvenience this causes, and will update this blog post with progress in fixing this issue.

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team

Zamzar is celebrating its first birthday today !

For the curious amongst you, we share our birthday with a little known beach footballer, a car mechanic and a chap who enjoyed writing.

Since we launched the site a year ago we’ve added support for a whole host of new file formats and have enjoyed every minute of converting your files

We’ve got some exciting new features lined up for launch over the coming weeks, and we’re looking forward to sharing them with you … so stay tuned !

Here’s to another action-packed year of converting !
The Zamzar Team.

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.

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.

You can now use Zamzar to convert “xlsx” files generated by Microsoft Office 2007 to a variety of different formats, including plain old “xls” (enabling you to view and edit your spreadsheets in older versions of Microsoft Office) and “ods” (allowing you to use OpenOffice). Conversion happens online and is completely free !

The new 2007 “xlsx” format is based on open XML standards, but is incompatible with older versions of Excel. To get round this problem you can simply head over to Zamzar to perform conversions from “xlsx” to any one of the following formats:

• csv - Comma Separated Values file
• doc - Microsoft Word Doc
• html - Hypertext Markup Language
• mdb - Microsoft Access Database
• ods - OpenDocument spreadsheet
• pdf - Portable Document Format
• rtf - Rich text format
• xls - Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
• xml - Extensible Markup Language

Why not head over to Zamzar right now and start converting ?

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

Hi,

Some users of Zamzar are reporting problems getting hold of their converted files via email links (the file appears to be “expired”).

This problem is being caused by network connectivity problems at the datacenter which runs Zamzar’s servers. We are working hard to get this resolved as quickly as possible, and will update this post with further information when we have it.

In the meantime if you hit this problem try checking back for your file after around 1 hour, as the problem seems to be intermittent at the moment.

Update: The problem has now been resolved, although if you had problems with expired files you may need to reconvert them. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team

Zamzar continues to receive attention from mainstream media - the latest to feature the site was the BBC on their flagship technology programme “Click”.

They recognise that using Zamzar “you can convert almost anything into pretty much anything else”. Here at Zamzar we aim to continue living up to that description and are working on new features to broaden your conversion capabilities.

To read more of their review just check out the program notes or watch the whole programme online.

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team.

Hi,

We’re honoured here at Zamzar to have been featured by the popular “PC Magazine” as one of the top 100 undiscovered websites for 2007 - you can read more about some of the other great sites that made the list here. Why not discover some other great online applications ?

Congratulations to everyone else who made the list - especially the guys over at Mediafire - They launched around the same time as Zamzar and are doing a great job with their site.

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team.