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Help Harry Help Others
Zamzar is excited to announce our support for the Help Harry Help Others campaign. The campaign is supported by the Cancer Research UK charity and was inspired by a young man named Harry Moseley.
Harry was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour at the age of 7. Sadly he died when he was 11, but not before he had raised £500,000 through his “Help Harry Help Others” campaign as part of his wish to rid the world of brain tumours. Zamzar is proud to support his campaign, having donated financially and helped to raise awareness of the cause, and we hope that some of you may wish to get involved too.
A group of 7 men and women are aiming to run all 430 miles of the London Underground in their pyjama bottoms to raise money and awareness for Harry’s campaign. They are running 25 half marathons every week and 4 marathons over the course of 6 months. So far they have raised over £7,000 but they are keen to raise more, and have issued an invitation for you to join them, wherever you are in the world !
International Tube Run for Harry Moseley
On Saturday March 10th Harry’s Tube Runners are organising the International Tube Run for Harry Moseley.
If you live within close proximity to a tube, subway or tram and can walk or run just one mile then they woud love for you to get involved.
Why not invite friends and family to join you, get your pyjama bottoms on, get sponsored and head down to your local tube / subway / tram stop and walk or run a mile ?
So far there are runners signed up from London, Delhi, Auckland, New York, Madrid, Sydney, Hong Kong, Chennai, Barcelona and Bangalore. The Zamzar staff will be getting their own PJ bottoms on and running part of the London Underground for the cause !
For more information visit the tube runner blog, drop them an email with photos of your efforts, or visit the donation page. We hope you can join us on 10th March in raising money and awareness for this incredible charity.
Using the Zamzar Web Browser Button with Google Chrome
Filed under: News | Tags: bookmarklet, chrome, YouTube, Zamzar
Leave a Comment Happy 2012 to everyone ! We start the year here at Zamzar HQ with the curious case of the button, the browser and the global international mega-corp …
The Button
The Zamzar Web Browser Button has been around for a few years now, and is the best way of converting your files at the touch of a button from within your web browser. If you don’t have it already stop everything and get it here now !.
The Problem
Recently some of you who use the button reported it isn’t working in the Google Chrome web browser when trying to convert YouTube videos.
We’ve taken a look into this problem and there is a bug in Chrome which is causing this to break. If you want the juicy technical details you can see them here, but in layman’s terms we can tell you:
“Google broke it”.
How to fix it
Fortunately there is a simple way to fix the problem … unfortunately it’s something you need to do rather than us.
Step 1 – Open a new tab in Chrome and click “Apps” at the bottom of the browser
Step 2 – Right click the YouTube app and select “Remove from Chrome”
Step 3 – Click uninstall
Step 4 – Restart the web browser
Step 5 (optional) – Sing joyfully
Hopefully this will help if you come up against the problem whilst we wait for Google to pull their fingers out and fix things in Chrome 
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
We’re improving Zamzar …
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: docx to doc, file conversion, keynote to ppt, pdf to jpg, pdf to xls, pub to pdf, Zamzar
Comments (4) Our rocket scientists have been working hard to make Zamzar better for you over the past few months.
Here’s a quick rundown of the things we’ve been fixing in recent months.
If you’ve noticed any other bugs, or want us to improve anything else with the service please let us know.
Conversions
- PDF to JPG – In some cases we noticed that very large files (500+ pages) were failing to convert.
- Keynote to PPT – Some Apple Keynote presentations had issues when being converted into Microsoft Powerpoint.
- DOCX to DOC – Some larger .docx files were failing to convert correctly to the .doc format.
Note: We’re still aware of an issue whereby some files with a non-Latin alphabet fail to convert. Our engineers are working to fix this. - PDF to XLS – A bug in our conversion process caused a number of these conversions to fail. We’ve now fixed this to improve conversion success for these files by over 40%
- PUB to PDF – Files with very long filenames were failing, an issue which we’ve now fixed.
Video conversions
We fixed an issue which had been preventing video file conversions from the popular video sharing website at GodTube. Yay !
Notification Emails
- Delivering to your inbox – We’ve improved the way we send email notifications for conversions so that less of them end up in your spam folders.
- Look & Feel – In some email providers (most notably Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail) Zamzar conversion emails looked wonky. We’ve now tidied them up to look all nice and shiny.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Introducing new file format resources
Filed under: Announcements, News | Tags: file extensions, file formats, format info
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We’ve long realised here at Zamzar that file formats can be a confusing business – it’s why we created an easy tool to convert between them in the first place. There are literally hundred’s of different formats around for all sorts of different programs. Heck, you can even get file formats for your sewing machine !
We thought it would be helpful to start providing more detailed information about the various file formats that Zamzar supports for conversion to help give you a better idea of how you can use them, and in what programs they are supported.
So from today we’ll be hotlinking to individual file format information pages on our conversion types page as well as providing a dedicated file formats information page. Links will go through to dedicated pages giving background information on the file format, what programs support it and useful links for it. They will look like the one below:
We’d love feedback from you on what information would be useful for you on these pages, and on any improvements you’d like to see so that we can make them even better. Please let us know in the comments below, on Twitter or Facebook !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert Keynote to Powerpoint, PDF, HTML and more
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: .key, conversions, convert keynote, convert keynote to pdf, convert keynote to powerpoint, iwork, ppt
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You can now use Zamzar to convert Apple iWork Keynote files into a variety of different file formats, including PDF, HTML, PNG and more !
Just two months ago we launched support for converting Keynote files into Powerpoint’s PPT format. As we promised back then we are now launching support for even more formats. You can now convert Keynote files to:
- html – Hypertext Markup Language
- ipod – MPEG-4 Video File
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- mov – Apple QuickTime Movie
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- tiff – Tagged image file format
We think these new formats offer a great opportunity for sharing presentations created with Keynote more widely – the various image formats enable you to share individual slides with friends, whilst HTML is a great format for getting your slide deck online quickly and easily.
Don’t take our word for it – Go try it out for yourself today !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) files to MS Office – online and free
Filed under: Announcements, News | Tags: Apple, apple iWork, convert iWork, convert iWork to Office, iwork, keynote, Mac, numbers, pages
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Zamzar now supports conversion of Apple iWork (Pages, KeyNote and Numbers) files into a variety of other useful formats including Microsoft Office formats.
We’re really excited about these new conversions – as the number of Mac users continues to grow rapidly more and more people are using iWork to generate and share documents, presentations and spreadsheets, yet not everyone can open them … until now.
You can use Zamzar to upload any Pages (word processing doc), KeyNote (presentation) or Numbers (spreadsheet) and convert them to any one of the following formats:
Pages (.pages) to:
- doc – Microsoft Word Document
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- rtf – Rich Text Format
- txt – Text document
KeyNote (.key) to:
- ppt – Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation
Numbers (.numbers) to:
- csv – Comma Separated Values
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- xls – Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, and Zamzar supports conversion for all versions of iWork from iWork ’05 right through to the very latest release (currently iWork ’09).
Useful tip: Files created by iWork before the iWork ’09 release are saved into directories. As you cannot upload directories to Zamzar, to convert these files make sure you compress them into a .zip format first so that your directory becomes a .zip file named “someName.pages.zip”, like so:
This is the world’s first support for conversion of iWork files – No other service exists (online or offline) to do this independently from a Mac (even Apple’s iWork.com requires you to own iWork to use it !), and as everything is based in a browser you can peform the conversion on any platform
We’ll be rolling out support for even more “to” formats for Keynote over the coming weeks.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
New Zamzar Status Page
Thanks to our friends at Pingdom we’ve been able to create a new Zamzar service status page so you can keep an eye on how well the main Zamzar website is holding up under all your conversions.
You can view detailed stats on uptime, response time and performance from various countries.
Over time we’d like to add more data to the page – what would you like to see ?
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Enough ! No more pop-under ads
We know that many of you have found the pop-under advertisements that run on Zamzar annoying:
Up until now we’ve been willing to put up with them, as they have provided much needed revenue for the business, and generally speaking if you were determined enough to block them you could.
However, we’ve decided that enough is enough – Ads we’ve seen recently have been obnoxious, distracting, misleading and downright annoying.
We are therefore very pleased to announce that we are removing pop-under ads from Zamzar for all users effective immediately
Say goodbye to this:
Phew !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert iPad videos – watch AVI, FLV, MOV, MPG & WMV files on your iPad
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: avi to iPad, convert iPad, convert iPad videos, flv to iPad, mp4, mpg to iPad, wmv to iPad
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Following the release of the iPad from Apple we’ve had a number of requests to allow video conversions to be optimised for this device.
We are therefore pleased to announce that you can now use Zamzar to convert videos from almost any video format into an optimised MP4 format especially designed for the iPad – see below for a list of supported video formats:
- 3g2 – 3GPP2 Multimedia File
- 3gp – 3GPP Multimedia File
- asf – Advanced Streaming Format (Microsoft Corporation)
- avi – Windows video file
- flv – Flash Video
- gvi – Google video file
- m4v – MPEG-4 Video File
- mod – Hard disk camera movie
- mov – Apple QuickTime Movie
- mp4 – MPEG-4 Video File
- mpg – Moving Picture Experts Group File
- rm – RealMedia Streaming Media
- rmvb – RealVideo Variable Bit Rate File
- vob – DVD Video Movie File
- wmv – Windows Media File (Microsoft Corporation)
We hope these conversions will be useful to you lucky iPad owners who want to watch videos directly on your iPad’s.
Happy converting !
The Zamzar Team
Convert doc to docx, pdf to docx
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: convert doc to docx, convert pdf to docx, doc to docx, pdf to docx
Comments (5) 
We’re always looking to support more formats and we have had a number of requests from you guys to look at supporting conversions into Microsoft’s .docx format – an increasingly popular document format introduced in MS Office 2007.
We’re pleased to say you can now use Zamzar to convert these formats into docx :
- doc – Microsoft Word Document
- pdf – Portable Document Format
We hope this conversion will be useful to those of you who receive documents in these formats from colleagues and friends who need them returned in the .docx format.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
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