Microsoft's standardisation move divides experts
News Industry observers have expressed concern about Microsoft's decision to submit the file formats for its new Office 12 applications to ECMA International, a European standards body. The software giant said on Monday that the creation of a fully...
[November 22, 2005, 16:55]
illumi RM Converter Plus
Downloads illumi RM Converter Plus supports almost all video formats, especially RM, RA, RAM, RMVB. You can easily convert RM, RMVB and RAM to popular video formats. It's not just a video converter, it also supports lots of popular audio format.
[February 17, 2009, 8:40]
Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Talkback MS file formats are the landmine buried for the kids here. MS has had worked hard to maintain an egregious track record in interoperability, especially when it comes to providing documentation for it's APIs and formats to its competitors, even when...
[January 15, 2006, 17:31]
Sneak Preview! X
Downloads X is a complex 'autotyper' that allows you to take partially downloaded video files of many formats and play them using the appropriate application prior to completing the download. Currently it supports .mp3, .mov, .moov, .mpg, .mpeg...
[December 30, 2003, 7:00]
IntrospeQt iCapture Desktop
Downloads IntrospeQt iCapture Desktop is a simple document capture solution designed to effectively capture, classify and convert paper documents into searchable electronic formats. Documents can be scanned at source in color, black and white or grayscale...
[July 14, 2009, 4:08]
Actually, you're making all the "fuss ... about backwards compatibility".
Talkback Basically, you're saying that OOXML having backwards compatibility with old binary Microsoft formats is a Good Thing, whereas ODF not having such backwards compatibility with Microsoft is a Bad Thing.
[February 28, 2008, 19:41]
Microsoft throws governments a standardisation bone
News Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats.
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
HP tunes up DVD burners
News In the latest salvo in the struggle between recordable DVD formats, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced faster DVD burners based on its favoured technology. Hanging over the DVD recorder industry, though, is a standards squabble echoing that of...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
iDefense launches format testing kit
News New tools could help bug hunters find vulnerabilities in popular file formats, such as the JPEG and GIF image formats. Flaws in how applications handle those file formats are drawing interest among security researchers, according to speakers at the...
[July 29, 2005, 16:50]
Cool All Video to iPod Converter
Downloads Cool All Video to iPod Converter is the best ipod video converter software which can convert almost all popular video formats to iPod video format. No other program can convert so many video formats including AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, ASF, VOB, 3GP...
[July 15, 2008, 8:00]
Verifyer
Downloads Verifyer can read description lists in the .csv or .crc file formats. The program can read file description lists in three different formats: .CSV, .CRC and its own Collection file format Verify files against a file description list.
[May 21, 2002, 8:00]
UMXblu
Downloads UMXblu is a utility that converts .UMX audio files into more easily readable formats. These audio formats can be read by many applications, such as Player Pro or SoundApp, both available from popular download sites such as CNet's Download.com...
[December 2, 2002, 7:00]
RealNetworks takes open-source route
News RealNetworks will unveil a new open-source version of its media streaming software Monday that will support multiple file formats for audio and video, including those that use Microsoft's Windows Media technology.
[July 22, 2002, 15:51]
Office 12 to 'bring XML to the masses'
News Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. Company officials said the move to replace Microsoft's...
[June 2, 2005, 9:15]
Blu-ray and HD DVD face-off in Vegas
News The battle over next-generation DVD formats heated up on Thursday as groups supporting two incompatible and competing technologies introduced new partners and revealed further details of what consumers and manufacturers can expect to see from them...
[January 7, 2005, 12:25]
FLAV iPod Video Converter
Downloads FLAV iPod Video Converter proves to be an all-in-one conversion tool excellent in converting video from all supported formats to iPod compatible formats , such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, M4V, 3GP, FLV to iPod MP4 video formats.
[October 17, 2008, 11:38]
PSP VideoConstructor PRO
Downloads Convert your videos between various video formats, quickly join and split your video files, capture video streams from your mini-DV camera, TV-tuner, Web cam and other sources. Build video slideshow by photos (jpeg) Output file formats: AVI (DivX...
[October 7, 2007, 8:00]
Jodix Video MP3 Extractor
Downloads Jodix Video MP3 Extractor can extract audio from all popular formats of video into MP3 files which can be played in MP3 Players. Jodix Video MP3 Extractor can also be used as an easy converter that can convert all popular formats of media files...
[January 11, 2006, 7:00]
AZImage
Downloads A program to effectively convert between most common image formats (jpeg, gif, tif, raw. Features: automatic upload to Google Picasa, drag and drop files to the AZImage, integration with Windows Explorer (extending context menus for images...
[December 2, 2009, 3:25]
Google Docs gets .docx and .xlsx support
News Google on Monday announced that Google Docs now supports .docx and .xlsx, two file formats found in nearly every modern-day word processor or spreadsheet editor. Previously, when trying to import either of these formats into Google Docs, the...
[June 2, 2009, 9:30]



