Embed Music In Your PowerPoint – Tips & Tricks

A good presentation impresses with more than just written content. Graphs, diagrams, graphics and even videos can provide additional visual aid. Furthermore, transition effects and other animations can bring a presentation to life when used properly and in moderation. But that’s not everything!

In addition to you talking, audio files such as music and sound effects, recordings and other clips can help you to get your point across! In this article, we explain how to insert an audio file to a presentation and how to solve most problems you may encounter!… Read the rest

De-Skew Crooked Scans – Website Tutorial

Nowadays, it’s crucial to have all your hardcopy information stored digitally as well. Flooding, house fires, simple carelessness, all these are threats to books, transcripts and other paper you have stored away or lying around. Furthermore, many departments and offices nowadays require you to hand in forms and proofs digitally.

So what do you do if you have a certain document in print only? What if you want to use a large quote from a printed book?… Read the rest

Will MP3 Prevail?

 

Experts have been saying that MP3 is on its last legs for years. And yet, MP3 remains the de-facto standard when it comes to music files format. Even with the advent of higher-quality encodings such as AAC and FLAC, people still run to MP3 when they want to download their favorite songs.

Will MP3 Prevail?

Very likely, yes. People who enjoy listening to music are mostly not die-hard audiophiles.… Read the rest

Writing Your First eBook Draft

So, you’ve set your mind on making your first eBook, huh? Understandable. The market share for eBooks in the US alone is keeping going up by the year. New writers better plunge themselves into the eBook publishing sooner than later.

That said, have you completed your first draft yet? If it’s still somewhere in your head don’t worry. That’s normal. Many fresh writers have experienced the same thing. They kept going back and forth for months or years never finishing so much as a draft.… Read the rest

De-Skew Crooked Images – Website Tutorial

Before digital cameras, photos had to develop and you received them printed on special paper. This was common even when digital cameras slowly took over and even today, people like to print out their favorite shots. What if you want to digitalize old photos and albums though? Then you have to scan those images to make a digital copy.

Usually, scanners give you numerous ways to make sure your image is angled correctly.… Read the rest

Crop Images Online – Website Tutorial

Image editing is an almost substantial part of our lives by now. Almost no image is uploaded to social media that hasn’t been enhanced in some way. Face tuning, filters, adding stamps and emojis, and more.

On Online-Convert.com, you also have the possibility to apply some basic image editing when converting your image files. Of course, this is also possible when creating screenshots from a video. We have explained the image enhancing settings already.… Read the rest

Organize Your Music Library

 

Vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs, … All those were (and still are) used to store music. However, in modern times, more and more people maintain their music library digitally.

Audio files take up way less physical space than shelves and boxes full of CDs. Furthermore, you don’t need to keep a whole album if you only prefer one or two songs from it. Many artists stopped producing costly records even, sharing their music online via Spotify, iTunes or other vendors.… Read the rest

What Are TAR, GZ, and BZ2?

If you’re someone who loves downloading software from the internet, you will most likely have encountered files with .tgz, .tar.gz, or even .tar.bz2. Still wondering what those files are? Well, read on and you will learn more about them.

What are TAR, GZ, and BZ2 anyway?

TAR is short for Tape Archive. It’s a common file format to use in the Unix/Linux world when you need to package source codes. A TAR file is just that, an archive.… Read the rest

The Perfect eBook File For Your eBook Reader

eBooks are the perfect way to take not only one, but several books with you wherever you go. To the gym, on vacation, during commuting, … Hardcover and paperback books become heavy and get dinged when crammed in an already packed bag or briefcase. eBooks quickly became the lighter, popular alternative in these and even more cases.

With the growing popularity, more and more eBook readers came to the market. They are constantly improved and developed for our reading pleasure.… Read the rest