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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.

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.

Following the much anticipated release of the new Apple iPhone, we’re pleased to announce that you can now use Zamzar to convert videos from almost any video format to view on the iPhone !

You can even download videos from YouTube to view on your iPhone as well ! Just head over to the Zamzar URL page and download your favourite videos today.

A quick technical note: The iPhone plays .mp4 videos encoded using the MPEG-4 H.264 standard. This method for encoding videos, first introduced in 2003, ensures that file sizes are kept down whilst also giving excellent quality.

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

We’re rolling out new formats all the time here at Zamzar, but we’d thought we’d take the chance to remind you of one of the most popular conversions you can perform - You can use Zamzar to convert pdf files to doc, html, odt, pcx, png, ps, rtf or txt … all online, and all for free !

The PDF, or Portable Document Format, was introduced by Adobe in the early 1990s as a means of displaying documents in a consistent manner across any computing platform, and guaranteeing that complex graphics and diagrams remained accurately represented wherever the document is viewed.

One limitation of the PDF format however is the time-consuming process to open up and edit PDF documents. Zamzar helps by letting you convert your PDF file into an editable format (e.g. Microsoft Word), and then convert it back to PDF again once you’ve made your updates ! Why not hop over to the site today and test out our PDF conversion process on your docs ?

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team.

Hi,

Thanks to those of you who’ve been donating. We’ve been upgrading our infrastructure here at Zamzar to improve the speed with which you can convert your files.

The new beasts we’ve put in place should mean that your files now get converted faster … almost at the speed of light

Happy converting !
The Zamzar Team.

Hi everybody,

We had a small issue with our email infrastrucutre over the weekend which resulted in some of you not correctly receiving email notification of your converted files.

The good news is that we’ve ironed out the problems and service has been back to normal as of late Sunday evening (GMT). Apologies to those of you who converted files over the weekend and did not receive email notifications of your file links.

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team.

Hi everyone,

It’s been a while since the last post and we thought we’d give you a quick update from Zamzar HQ. As you may have noticed we’ve been rolling out some new ads on the site over the past few days - these are designed to allow us to keep providing you with a great free file conversion service.

We also launched a page to allow you to buy us lunch if you’ve enjoyed using the service over the past 6 months

In other news, we have some great new features planned over the coming months to help enhance your file conversion experience - stay tuned for further news and updates. Why not post a comment and tell us what you’d love to see ?

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team.