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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Peter Bengtsson: Video to screenshots app. “I made a web app that helps you extract screenshots from a video file. You technically don’t ‘upload’ it but you select a video file from your computer into the web app, and the screenshots are generated more or less instantly.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/01/peter-bengtsson-video-to-screenshots-app/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/01/peter-bengtsson-video-to-screenshots-app/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>University of Michigan: U-M develops free tool to empower municipalities, modernize financial reporting. “When Congress passed the Financial Data and Transparency Act in 2022, it required most municipalities in the U.S. to modernize and digitize their financial reports. This is a heavy lift for small towns and school districts, most of which still report their financial information in PDF […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/university-of-michigan-u-m-develops-free-tool-to-empower-municipalities-modernize-financial-reporting/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/university-of-michigan-u-m-develops-free-tool-to-empower-municipalities-modernize-financial-reporting/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Lifehacker: This Site Can Convert Files in Your Browser Without Uploading Them. “This is an open source, browser-based tool that can convert the most common image, audio, video, and document formats. It isn’t clogged with ads and you don’t need to create an account to use it. More importantly: the tool works (almost)entirely in your browser, meaning your files are never actually uploaded […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/lifehacker-this-site-can-convert-files-in-your-browser-without-uploading-them/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/lifehacker-this-site-can-convert-files-in-your-browser-without-uploading-them/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Calishat Snaps pointed me to this tool which converts sprite sheets to GIFs. It by itself is not quite enough to include in ResearchBuzz, but check the other cool free tools created by the same person. There’s a link toward the bottom of the page.</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/convert-sprite-sheets-to-gifs-and-other-cool-tools/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/convert-sprite-sheets-to-gifs-and-other-cool-tools/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Lifehacker: PowerToys Now Converts Videos and Audio Too. “A new feature means that Advanced Paste can turn any copied audio or video file into either an MP3 or an MP4 file. To use this feature, you need at least version v0.89.0 of PowerToys—open the application and check the General tab to make sure.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/04/lifehacker-powertoys-now-converts-videos-and-audio-too/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/04/lifehacker-powertoys-now-converts-videos-and-audio-too/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>TechCrunch: Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file. “On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents. Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) API that can turn any PDF into a text file to make it easier for AI models to ingest.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/techcrunch-mistral-adds-a-new-api-that-turns-any-pdf-document-into-an-ai-ready-markdown-file/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/techcrunch-mistral-adds-a-new-api-that-turns-any-pdf-document-into-an-ai-ready-markdown-file/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The New Stack: Convert a Google Spreadsheet to JSON-Formatted Text. “This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to convert data from a Google Sheet into JSON-formatted text. The author explains the importance of JSON as a lightweight and easy-to-understand file format used for data interchange. They then walk through creating a Google Sheets document with sample data, freezing the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/07/the-new-stack-convert-a-google-spreadsheet-to-json-formatted-text/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/07/the-new-stack-convert-a-google-spreadsheet-to-json-formatted-text/</a></p>
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