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How To Convert Dates Between Australian & US Formats In Excel

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If you’ve got a bunch of dates in US mm/dd/yyyy format and need to convert them into Australia’s dd/mm/yyyy format (or vice-versa), it can be hard to know where to start. Office expert Helen Bradley details how you can work through that process in Excel.


March 18, 2011
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Media Converter For OS X Is The Simplest Video Converter Around

Mac OS X: If you need to convert a video for your iPod, a DVD or even just rip the audio out of a movie, free app Media Converter will do it with just a quick drag-and-drop.


February 23, 2011
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Zamzar Converts iWork Files To Handier Formats

You love your Mac life, but iWork documents and presentations aren’t so convenient in the greater, multi-OS world. What’s the easiest conversion solution? Upload to Zamzar, then get back an Office-formatted (or plain text) file. [Zamzar]


January 5, 2011
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WinMP3Packer Decreases The Size Of Your Music Library With No Quality Loss

Windows: If your music’s starting to take up an uncomfortable amount of space on your hard drive (or small MP3 player), you can decrease the size of it by converting all your songs to Variable Bit Rate with WinMp3Packer.


January 4, 2011
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Handbrake Updates To 0.9.5, Adds Batch Scanning, Queue Editing, Blu-Ray Support

Windows/Mac/Linux: Our favourite DVD-ripping, video-converting program Handbrake just updated today, bringing with it many annoyance fixes that speed up the process, like batch video scanning, queue editing, Blu-Ray disc recognition, and drag-and-drop file additions in Windows.


December 1, 2010
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HandBrake Batch Encoder Simplifies Multiple Video Conversions

Windows: HandBrake is many things, but a simple-to-grasp interface it is not, at least for newcomers. A simple, graphical batch encoding helper app makes lining up multiple files for encoding much more simple.


October 31, 2010
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Mangle Formats Manga And Comics For Easy Kindle Reading

Windows/Mac/Linux: Mangle is a handy tool for formatting your Manga and comic collections for easy reading on your Kindle. It includes page sorting, downsampling, and auto rotation for fuss-free reading.


October 28, 2010
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Pandoc Converts Text Documents Between Dozens Of Formats

Windows/Mac/Linux/Web: Pandoc is a powerful command-line tool for converting text documents between formats like Markdown to HTML, HTML to MediaWiki, and more.


October 20, 2010
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DownloadTube Does One-Click YouTube Conversions And Downloads

If you’re looking for a simple, one-click solution for converting and downloading YouTube videos sans software, DownloadTube is a free tool for web-based YouTube file conversion.


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Hamster Free Video Converter Is A Drag-And-Drop Conversion Tool

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/m88d16sqNno&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );

Windows: If you’re looking for a simple drag and drop solution for converting videos for on your iPod, PS3, or other portable device or media centre, Hamster Free Video Converter is a no-fuss video conversion tool.