tech tools

Mark this in the very cool utilities category – MediaConverter is a web based tool that will convert files from one format to another. The lists of files it can handle is impressive:

MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF TXT ODG ODP ODS ODT SXW WK1 MDB XLS VOB

… and that is to just name a few! So now when somebody sends you a file that you just can’t open, check this online file converter site to see if they can do something with it for you!

For a one-stop solution for converting your files, supporting all the file formats listed above as well as Mpeg, Rm, Rmvb and others, as well as offering batch video file conversion, Click Here.

Just because Digital Media Minute is a friend of the little guy (who finds it inconvenient to not have Facebook open all day at work), here is the simplest possible workaround to bypass internet filtering if your employer is filtering specific sites: just add an ‘s’ to the http line and you might find access to the secure version of sites when there was no access to the standard version.

Caveat: your employer might be filtering sites by way of keywords, in which case this method won’t work. At any rate, even needing to beat internet filtering on your work computer may be less relevant moving forward as we increasingly do our own thing on our own devices, but until then an internet filtering bypass like this could come in handy. (h/t Lifehacker)