This post follows up on my previous post about podcasts where I recommended Webb Alert as a great source of tech news on a daily basis, well I’ve now had chance to do some more ‘research’ in this area and here’s what I found!

First a bit of background, I realise I’m perhaps a little late to the party when it comes to podcasts, but I recently bought myself an iPod Classic 80gb – the first ‘proper’ iPod that I’ve owned - I’ve only had an old iPod Mini which I bought off my brother a couple of years back, it was nothing special, but it was all I needed to play music in my car.

Anyway, this now means that I can play videos (a whole new world to me!) on my new iPod including video podcasts, so here’s a few of my favourite tech-related video podcasts.

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I recently wrote a post on my blog about a Speed Typing Test which ended up being pretty popular with my readers, so thought I’d share it with you here.

I’ve been using computers ever since I got my first in the form of a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2 back when I was 7, however the one regret I have is that I still cannot properly touch type, but how good am I currently?

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Webb Alert is billed as being ‘your daily tech round-up’ which serves up the biggest, and latest news and reviews of what is happening with regard to the Internet and technology.

I’ve been a viewer of Morgan Webb’s (almost) daily tech news video podcast (of sorts) for nearly 4 months now and can confirm that the around 5 minute show is of a high quality in terms of production and content. You can watch Webb Alert in a variety of ways, either by streaming directly from the Webb Alert website, by downloading it to watch later, or even as I have done below, embed it in your webpages.

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If you’re anything like me, the question of free file conversion on the Internet is something I’ve been searching for a good solution to for so long now. Along the way I’ve found tools that have looked good, but ultimately been a long way off ideal, it’s like searching for the Holy Grail – where the only real way has been to pay for specific software to achieve this, until now!

The thing that has really driven me to search and search in this area is specifically converting Adobe PDF files into an editable file such as a Microsoft Word file – this was something that got asked of me so much at work in the past year.

The main example I have is that of job application forms which you couldn’t fill in electronically without an awful lot of effort in re-creating text boxes etc. in a word document then you had to print it onto a printout from the PDR file – it was all very complicated – you probably deserved to get the job just on that basis!

However, I’ve now found a site called Zamzar which is a free file conversion website that can convert files into literally hundreds of different types and the resulting file, certainly in the ones that I’ve tested ends up being a very usable reproduction.

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