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8 articles tagged Free tools
Digital Workflows9 min read
Renaming, resizing, converting and filing are the tasks people either do by hand forever or buy a utility for. Both operating systems already automate them, and almost nobody uses it.
Video Tools9 min read
Every export dialog offers a quality slider and tells you nothing about what it does. Four settings decide the file size, and understanding them replaces trial and error.
Online Tools8 min read
Background removal, transcription, OCR and format conversion increasingly run inside the tab. That changes the privacy question for a whole category of free tools.
Image Tools8 min read
Your operating system already does most of what screenshot tools charge for. The parts worth knowing are the shortcuts nobody discovers and the metadata nobody removes.
Productivity9 min read
Some browser tools do the work on your machine and some send your document to a server. The difference is invisible in the interface and easy to check yourself.
Image Tools8 min read
Modern image formats are substantially smaller at the same quality, and choosing between them is simpler than the comparisons suggest. Three questions settle it.
Text Tools9 min read
Text pasted from a PDF, an email or a spreadsheet arrives broken in a small number of recognisable ways. Each has a fix that takes seconds once you can name the problem.
How-To Guides10 min read
PDF size is almost always images, and almost every compression tool solves it by making them worse. Knowing which knob is being turned lets you choose the trade rather than accept it.
