Friday is Free Day – Freemake Video Downloader

Download videos from 40+ video websites using Freemake Video Downloader. YouTube, Comedy Central, MTV, Vevo, Facebook are some of the sites supported by this free app. The app can also extract audio losslessly from videos. It can convert them to formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, MP3 and to other formats supported by mobile devices like the iPhone, PSP, and Android.

Freemake Video Downloader would also let you download videos in High Definition or any quality you want to specify at a fast download rate. Learn more about this free app and download it from Freemake’s website.

Friday is Free Day – Pages Converter

iWork Pages

Last time, I made an article on how to open Pages document as PDFs on Windows systems. This would allow users to print or view the documents created on iWork Pages. On today’s Friday is Free Day, I’ll feature an application that will convert Pages documents to text files.

Pages Converter is an app created by David Cohen who goes by the name synth3t1c on SourceForge. On its 0.6 version, Pages Converter is able to convert Pages documents to text files. This also means that formatting, tables, and images are all ignored. This uses the XML file contained in the Pages document so you have to extract its contents first.

Also, you need to have at least Microsoft .Net Framework 3 installed on your system. Here’s a link to the 3.5 version. Download the Pages Converter software from the SourceForge site. Unzip the contents and run PagesConverter.exe. Assuming that you have extracted the contents of your Pages document, click the Add File button and search for the XML file. Once the XML file is added, click the Convert to TXT button. The converted file is located in the same directory as your XML file.

Convert Office 2003 Files to PDF

I have featured a free PDF converter for the Office 2007 suite. But since there are still a lot of Office 2003 suite users, and Microsoft did not release any add-in or tools, I’ll be featuring a freeware to publish your documents, spreadsheets, and even your presentations into  PDF files.

PrimoPDF

Launched in February 2004, PrimoPDF is a free tool for high-quality PDF creation, comprising a user-friendly interface that enables printing to PDF from virtually any Windows application. This freeware which  may be downloaded from CNET’s Download.Com website is consistently ranked number 1 software by Download.Com under the Business & Productivity category.

Before installing the software, make sure you have Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 installed in your system. This may be downloaded form the Microsoft website.

Unlike the Office 2007 add-in, you publish your files to PDF by going to File>Print and selecting the PrimoPDF printer. If you need to edit something, edit the Office 2003 file and reprint it overwriting the existing PDF file.