Journalist's Toolbox: TinyWow

Sept. 20, 2022

Sep 20

TinyWow: File Management and So Much More

If you get tired of hopping around the web from tool to tool just to get a simple project done, you’re going to love TinyWow.

The free suite offers a range of file management tools, compression and photo/text layering resources. It has expanded to many more tools in recent weeks, so use the pulldown menus at the top to explore what’s available.

Among the best features are the PDF to Word, text and other converters. Need to split a PDF and you don’t have Acrobat? Just open it up in TinyWow and cut away.

No Photoshop? No problem. TinyWow has PNG, JPG and SVG file converters. You can even remove an image’s background.

Other cool features:

Paste a web address in and view all of the redirects
Meme and video to GIF makers
Convert web pages into images with just the site’s URL
Light webscraping with the XML to CSV converter
Lorem ipsum generator
Facebook video downloader

TinyWow isn’t the only Swiss Army knife tool out there. 123apps and PDF24 offer many of the same tools and some others unique to them. You can find many other tools on our Productivity page on the Toolbox.

Video: Learn how to use some of the TinyWow tools:

Around the Web

The Measure of Things
Great for when you need to contextualize numbers. E.g crowd sizes, distances, mass etc.
The Guardian: World Protests
News coverage and opinions from protests around the world.
Video: Live Shot Safety
Tips for broadcasters on how to safely set up a live shot.

Cool Tool Tuesday

Don’t forget that at 1 p.m. CT each Tuesday, we feature a new resource on #cooltooltuesday, like you see in our Around the Web section of this newsletter. Be sure to check it out and retweet it. Here’s a video of some of my past faves:

In Quotes …

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