Life Savers - Free Online Converters
Feb 26, 2008 
| As a webmaster you cannot afford to keep everything in your own computer such as big softwares because you already have too much in your computer. I know that i have three 750 GB external hard drives in which 2 of them are completely full and 1 is half way done. Because of my designs and photoshop files i cannot keep all in my computer, so i definately don’t want to waste the space keeping converters in my computer which i can find online. |
These converters come in handy because you might be away from a house and if you are a student in college and couldnot open your presentation or some file due to technical difficulties use these handy converters to help yourself out in hard times.
Here i have collected a list of some very useful online converters which i hope you will all like and appreciate. Some of them are webmaster related while others are just general use.
Image Converters
As a web designer i use them alot, and i recommend one of these to alot of my clients. I will start this list of with the converter for favicon as i have been getting a few queries about that.
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- Auto Favicon from Images - Make your life easy by converting the image directly to favicon.
- ConvertIcon - Converts .png to .ICO, and .ICO to .png
- Image to Text - Converts Images to text using Matrix, HTML, or ASCII.
A few days back i bought this database which was horribly coded, and it was in excel format. Not just that it had ridiculous characters in there. It was a pain to convert that excel file to mysql. Well now that i have that figured out and the script is running and will be out soon in my new project 
Here are some Excel Converters
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- Convert MS Excel file to CSV
- CSV to HTML - Converts CSV to HTML in seconds.
I know there have been alot of problems with editing pdf forms. Atleast my teachers have these issues alot. So i told her to buy Adobe Writer if she needs it that bad. She said that is too expensive. I found this converter that converts PDF to MS Word, but below there are few more.
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- Multiextension-PDF - The best one i found so far for pdf. This One lets you convert the pdf file to numerous extensions from MS Documents to Plain text and images, and the files are sent securely to your email.
- HTML to PDF - Converts html into pdf which comes in handy often.
Even though the great feedburner does this for all i thought i should just give two more option for those who don’t want to use feedburner to convert rss feeds to javascript.
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- RSS to Javascript - Converts RSS Feeds to Javascripts.
- RSS to Image - Converts the rss feeds into an image.
Now i will post some random converters that are html related, i didnt know what to categorize them under.
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- Html to CSS - This one converts html to css and vice versa.
- Html to … - converts html to java, php, perl
I have been keeping my favorite one to the last so if you bother to read this post till the end you won’t miss the best one of all time.
Zamzar - Zamzar is a file converter that converts many formats from images, documents, music, video, other. Convert anything you want there upto 100mb, so enjoy.
Hopefully i gave you guys a good list to play around with in your free time.
Very useful links - I too run into storage issues and these links are going to help out. Thanks Syed
Great resources - I’ll get a lot of use out of the .csv to HTML site.
indeed i know that i used the excel to csv for my newest project to convert the database from excel to make it work for sql.
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Good tips, i have indeed also ran into storage problems and have bought usb’s for them, but i’ll try it your way and see how it goes, thanks.
You spend a lot of time writing your posts and its visible when you see a post like this the time and effort you put into it. I actually use a converter called SUPER for video, I dont know if you’ve heard about it.