Woaw… That is certainly a long list of file formats, they handle… Most of them I’ve never came accross.

Convert from PDF:
(some conversion support OCR conversion for scanned PDF)
PDF to Open Office Writer format
PDF to Open Office Calc format
PDF to Open Office Impress format
PDF to image BMP
PDF to image JPG
PDF to image GIF
PDF to image PNG
PDF to image TIF
PDF to text
PDF to HTML
PDF to MS Word
PDF to MS Excel
PDF to AutoCAD (dwg)
PDF to AutoCAD (dxf)

Convert to PDF:
Bmp to PDF
Word (doc, docx) to PDF
Gif to PDF
htm to PDF
html to PDF
jpeg to PDF
jpg to PDF
log to PDF
mht to PDF
mhtml to PDF
ODF to PDF
ODP to PDF
ODS to PDF
ODT to PDF
PNG to PDF
PPS to PDF
PPT to PDF
RTF to PDF
SDA to PDF
SDC to PDF
SDD to PDF
SDS to PDF
SDW to PDF
SXC to PDF
SXD to PDF
SXI to PDF
SXM to PDF
SXW to PDF
TIF to PDF
TIFF to PDF
TXT to PDF
WRI to PDF
Excel (xls, xlst) to PDF
Publisher (pub) to PDF

Convert from XPS:
Convert to Open Office Writer format
Convert to Open Office Calc format
Convert to Open Office Impress format
Convert to image BMP
Convert to image JPG
Convert to image GIF
Convert to image PNG
Convert to image TIF
Convert to text
Convert to HTML
Convert to MS Word
Convert to MS Exsel

Other File Conversions:
Excel to CSV (XLSTOCSV)
XML to LINT (XMLLINT)
HTML to RSS (HTMLTORSS)
ASC TO PDB
ASC TO EBC
UNIX TO DOS
DOS TO UNIX
MAC TO UNIX
FIX TO DELIM
DELIM TO FIX
CSV TO DELIM
SORT FILE
PDF INFO
COMPARE FILES
MP3 INFO
FILEINFO
ICONV

Tags: file, format

A GIF animation that tiles up perfectly and a driving you mad music, for yet another You’re the man now, dog! page.

Une animation GIF qui crée une parfaite “tapisserie” et une musique qui rend fou, pour une page YTMND de plus…

Tags: YTMND

This is either a big fail or a major win…

German to French translation of äääääääääääääää…

Thanks Séb for the heads up!

Tags: Google, bug, fail, win

Voilà. Tu peux porter un manteau de vison impunément alors que la race s'éteint, mais en revanche, pas question de porter du chat, alors qu'ils pullulent de façon totalement incontrôlable…

En plus elle faisait peut-être ça après qu'il lui ait rayé le capot de sa voiture !

Tags: chat, Lady Gaga, viande

What do you do when you have to deal with a file on your Mac and you never even heard of this kind of file type?

Well… Google. And a few minutes later, you know that, yes, you’ve probably downloaded the file you wanted and that it’s indeed an archive and, more importantly: it’s definitely in a weird format.

Turns out this .alz file is an archive format which is mainly popular in South Korea, as explained in the “supported unusual formats” section of the web page for The Unarchiver… Well, South Korea is really another world.

Thanks to this, the plain icon turned into a very nice one. And… I could open it.

Great utility, versatile and powerful. Simple and effective. And, as far as I know, the only one available right now, capable of decompressing this kind of file. It also runs on windows, but who cares? And Linux, which is more important.

I’ll have to donate something to Dag Ågren. It’s deserved.

And visit his website, the guy made an impressive list of useful and nice softwares, utilities, web applications, games and screen savers… and for technical types, the source code is provided for each project.

Now, to go back to the subject, the archive was 5.3 GB and the uncompressed folder is 5.3 GB. To be more precise, the archive was exactly 5 297 847 479 bytes, while the uncompressed folder is exactly 5 298 986 966 bytes. Only 1 139 487 bytes saved… that is about 1MB saved on a 5.3 GB folder. All this trouble, to save so few?

Anyway, I got the file I wanted.

Tags: archive, .alz, Mac OS X, unarchiver