The team that created WebM have been pioneers in video codec development for over a decade. WebM delivers high quality video while efficiently adapting to the varying processing and bandwidth conditions found on today’s broad range of web-connected devices. WebM’s efficient bandwidth usage will mean lower serving costs for content publishers and high quality video for end-users.

We are therefore very pleased to announce that Zamzar now supports conversion of all of our video formats into the new WebM format.

You can now convert all of the following video formats into the new WebM (Web Media) format:

• 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)

Why not head over to Zamzar to try these out now ?

Should anyone else have any suggestions for formats we should consider feel free to contact us at support (at) Zamzar.com.

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

Calling all bookworms … we love to support new conversion types at Zamzar and we’re excited to announce a major new addition – eBooks.

There are a huge number of eBook formats and Zamzar now gives you a one stop shop to convert between them – all online and all for free.

An eBook (short for electronic book, a.k.a. digital book, ebook, and eBook) is an electronic text version of a conventional printed book. Usually read on dedicated hardware devices known as e-Readers or eBook devices (Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad), PC’s and some phones can also be used to read eBooks. With the advent of these eBook readers most developed their own specialised eBook file format, fragmenting the eBook market.

As part of our ongoing mission to bring order to your filesystem, Zamzar is aiming to make it as easy as possible for you to convert between all these different eBook file types.

You can now convert a whole variety of eBook formats and we plan to offer more in the coming weeks:

• cbz – Comic Book ZIP Archive
• cbr – Comic Book RAR Archive
• cbc – eBook format
• chm – Compiled HTML Help File
• epub – Open eBook File
• fb2 – FictionBook 2.0 File
• oeb – Open eBook File
• lit – Microsoft eBook File
• lrf – Sony Portable Reader File
• mobi – Mobipocket eBook
• pdb – Palm Media eBook file
• pdf – Portable Document Format
• pml – eBook file
• rb – RocketEdition eBook file
• tcr – Psion eBook file
• txt – Text Document

Why not head over to Zamzar to try converting your eBooks now ?

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

These improvements will result in …

• Less failures
• Greater conversion clarity
• Provide the opportunity to either download a zip file containing all of the images from the converted PDF document or just individual images

Why not head over to Zamzar to try these out now ?

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

Should anyone else have any suggestions for formats we should consider feel free to contact us at support (at) Zamzar.com.

You can now convert EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile) into any of the following formats:

• bmp – Windows bitmap
• gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
• ico – Windows Icon
• jpg – JPEG compliant image
• pcx – PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic
• pdf – Portable Document Format
• ps – Postscript document
• png – Portable Network Graphic
• tga – Truevision Targa Graphic
• thumbnail – Thumbnail image
• tiff – Tagged image file format
• wbmp – Wireless Bitmap File Format

Why not head over to Zamzar to try these out now ?

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

The European Business Awards recognises and promotes excellence, best practice and innovation in the European business community. The Awards uncover and promote examples of individuals, and organisations that have achieved outstanding results setting them apart as the leading companies, business leaders and entrepreneurs in Europe.

Awards mean nothing without you guys though – We want to say a huge thanks to all of you who use Zamzar and have supported us since we first launched back in October 2006. We recognise that there’s still room to improve though. and we have a lot of great new features and conversions in the pipeline for you – stay tuned for further updates

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

Converting from Adobe’s PDF format to Microsoft Word’s DOC format is handy as it can allow you to make changes to otherwise un-editable PDF documents. We’ve made the following updates to Zamzar:

• Wider support for different PDF versions
• Improved results for documents with complex tables
• Better recognition of paragraph alignments

Why not try out these new conversion capabilities on the Chuck Norris factbook PDF ?

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

The FLV format is used by many online video sharing websites (such as YouTube, Dailymotion and others) as a means of encoding videos for users to view through web pages.

The improvements we’ve made mean that if you convert Flash videos through Zamzar into other formats you should now see:

• Higher resolution within converted videos (better picture quality)
• Noticeably improved sound quality

Converted videos will be larger, but we hope this is more than made up for by the higher quality you now get. If you want smaller files you can always convert files into a lower quality format such as 3gp, or a highly compressed format such as avi or mp4.

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve made improvements in the way that we convert Apple’s popular Quicktime movie format (known as “.mov”) into avi, mpg, wmv and other formats. Zamzar now allows you to:

• Convert a wider variety of MOV file versions
• Convert MOV files at a higher quality than previously

We hope you enjoy these improvements – do let us know in the comments or on our Twitter or a Facebook pages how we can continue improving things for you.

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

We hope this will be especially useful for all of you who have to deal with data locked away in PDF files that needs to be manipulated or analysed in a spreadsheet.

You might, for example want to use Zamzar to convert Apple’s latest set of financial figures into an Excel file:

.. or your local train timetable:

Don’t forget that you can use Zamzar’s URL feature to grab a pdf file directly from another site on the web and convert it into xls. Just head on over to Zamzar to get converting !

Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team

Zamzar is one of only 2 sites in that section which remain from the Guardian’s 2008 list (the other being NetVibes).

We’ve worked hard this year to improve the site with dozens of new conversion types (including CAD, Visio and MS Project) and the ability to convert documents into speech.

We’re excited about what 2010 has in store, but we wouldn’t be anywhere without you.

So a big thanks to all of you who use the service, tell your friends and colleagues about it and keep us busy with suggestions on how to improve it

Happy Converting,
The Zamzar Team.