Archive for December, 2008
We are currently developing the new interface of Total Audio Converter. And we wanted to discuss with you the first sketches.
Many of our users use Windows Explorer. So Total Audio Converter should be more compatible with it. Now it has the feel and look of Explorer file tree and common options. Besides, we wanted to care about iTunes fans. So now you can take the files that you want to convert from iTunes or iPods and later automatically save the newly converted files back to iTunes.
We thought it a good idea to divide the interface into 2 parts (“face” and “back”). In the “face” you select files for the conversion. Note you can select files from your hard drive as well as from CDs, iPods, Zunes, or dictaphones. Sure drag and drop from the desktop will work too. New – you can select tracks from different folders.
After you created the list of files for conversion you select the target formats in the right. After that press Convert button and the process starts. New – TAC predicts the size of the output file.
After the files are converted you see the “back”. Here you select where to put the newly converted files. As you see the list of options is wide enough. You may save files to one folder keeping (or not) the structure. Alternatively, you may write the files to a CD with your standard burning app. Or send the files in attachment of an email. Or send them via bluetooth to your cell phone. Or save them to your iTunes library to copy to your iPod afterwards.
How it works: Imagine you are going on a vacation and want to fit as much music into your mp3 player as possible. You select the songs from different folders and create one big list of files that you want to take with you. Then TAC helps you to convert them to the format you need. In case you do not like the result (i.e. the quality is too low and you want the higher bitrate) press Reconvert button. When you are satisfied TAC helps you to upload the converted songs directly to your player.
So it’s just an idea. What do you think?
December 28th, 2008
First, we wish you happy holidays. Take you time and forget about crisis for few days:)
Traditionally we make a short report of what we have done/improved in CoolUtils programs. Let’s start.
In 2008 Total Audio Converter began converting a part of an audio file. It’s very handy when you have a 2-hour sermon or lecture and want to convert a part of it. We fixed lots of bugs and polished the engine.
We added new formats to Total Image Converter. Now it can convert PDD and DNG files. Besides, we improved support of non-standard WMF files.
By your requests we enhanced our TIFF and PDF tools greatly in 2008. For instance, Total PDF Converter converts PDF to HTML and places each page to a separate file. Tiff Pdf Cleaner has a new option – History Journal. It summarizes the jobs and tells you how many pages were deleted. Tiff Combine has advanced sorting options now. Tiff Splitter can enumerate the split pages based on number of files in the destination folder. Tiff Paging now sets delfault extension (tiff or tif ). PDF Combine creates table of contents in the merged PDF file. Many of these new options were described in earlier posts of this blog.
Total Excel Converter supports Excel 2007 (XLSX to Word, PDF, Text or Lotus files). OpenOffice is getting more and more popular and we added OpenOffice support to Total Excel Converter. Now it converts odt, ods, xml, sql, wk2, dbf, tex, dif, slk, xtODT, xtODS, xtXML, xtSQL, xtLotus, xtDBF, xtLaTeX, xtDIFF, xtSYLK files!
Total Mail Converter now converts emails to TIFF.
Visual Renamer now can generate a log file in csv format.
So if you downloaded your copy several months ago – please redownload. Probably you are missing new handy options! As usual our registered users get all upgrades for free:)
Sure you can get all those handy tools in one bundle. Even with a 20% discount as a little Christmas gift.
December 25th, 2008
We often add new features by our customers’ requests. Sometimes people write long emails describing their needs. Sometimes the request is too short. Like this:
“Hi, i need msg to tiff, it is possible?”
But it the length of the request is not sufficient to us. Many of our customers do not speak English so it’s hard for them to write long emails. We added MSG to TIFF functionality to Total Mail Converter. So if you are one of those who convert Outlook emails to TIFF redownload the new version now:)
More info about Total Mail Converter can be found at www.coolutils.com/TotalMailConverter
December 21st, 2008
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