#25 Pop goes the letter

I started to create my mock up invitation before I'd signed up for Letterpop and discovered that there was a limit to how much I could do without signing up. Once I'd registered, I could upload images, preview etc.

In the end, I wasn't too happy with my creation because I couldn't seem to edit as much as I wanted to - you're confined to the allocated space - any extra text does not appear in the space provided. And I completely lost a column of text (the option to add text completely disappeared). Next time, I would choose a more fancy template as the one I chose was very basic. Anyhow, here it is warts and all: http://letterpop.com/newsletters/?id=86083-e0ecd3


Once I get better at using Letterpop, it will actually be quite a useful tool for publishing invitations for work and otherwise. I'm actually glad that I persevered with it and got as far as I did.

Now, back to the desk...

Zamzar - Shazam!

I've added this tool to my Favourites as it has the potential to be very useful: clients have asked us how to convert files in the past. As long as the files are unclassified, I can see no problem with using Zamzar.

Zamzar was very easy to use (in fact, the hardest part about this session was finding my Blogger password ). I requested a file to be converted from Word to pdf. It took some time for it to be emailed to me - the email was waiting for me when I came into work the next day. It worked - yay Zamzar!

For some reason, when I hear Zamzar, I think of Shazam - a 1970s cartoon about two kids, a camel and a Genie who appeared whenever two halves of a ring were united and the word, Shazam, was yelled victoriously!