It’s introduction time! This time, I will focus my attention to yet another site instead. This doesn’t require any software or downloads or installation. And what does this website do? It’s a website tool and it does all sort of conversions for you. That’s why it calls itself a free online file conversion site. It supposed supports a huge number of file formats, divided into different categories - documents, image, music, video and compressed formats. Examples of the format it supports are csv, pdf, doc, ppt, bm, gif, jpg, aac, mp3, ra, avi, flv, mov, rmvb, vob, cab, zip, rar and so on. You can take a look at all the formats the site supports here and what they can be converted to. It’s just amazing and mind boggling to see what they can do.

And all you have to do is to go to the Zamzar website, choose what type of files you want to convert and then upload the files to their servers. After Zamzar has finished converting the file (up to 100MB) for you, an email with a link will be sent to you. However, remember that the file will be active for only 24 hours and will be removed from their server. You need to re-upload the file to their servers again if you need the converted file. You can convert up to 5 files per session, making things much faster if you plan to do batch conversion. However, I would recommend you to sign up for their paid plans. You will get a storage space to store your converted files and you can easily manage your files through their interface. For just US$7 per month, you get a 5GB storage as well as file size increase to 200MB. Of course, if you pay more, you get additional features.

The weird thing for me is that when I do the conversion, it was pretty fast. But after finishing the conversion, I waited and waited for the email but didn’t receive any. It took more than 15 minutes for the email link to arrive! Hmmm…..weird right? Fast conversion, slow email? Even their download speeds were impressive. Maybe their email server was overloaded? Or perhaps they are trying to “convince” us to buy their plans? It’s still a business overall. Anyway, whatever their reasons, it’s still a good service and I think everyone should support them. They can really save you a lot of time trying to figure out which software will convert which format. I know it took me a long time to search for these softwares to do the work of Zamzar.