Technology comes and goes faster than we realize — there are products and services that were mainstays just a decade or two ago that are now extinct. The key to preserving digital media is through ...

Windows Explorer is great for finding and organizing files, but it’s sadly lacking in preview and thumbnail support for anything other than garden-variety JPEG and AVI files. FLV , OGG, APE, FLAC, PCI ...

Around this time 30 years ago, two separate working groups were putting the finishing touches on technical standards that would come to reshape the way people observed the world. One technical ...

PDF (.pdf) The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most universally recognized file formats, widely used for official documents, contracts, manuals, reports, and many other scenarios.

Definition: Graphic images are stored digitally using a small number of standardized graphic file formats, including bit map, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG; they can also be stored as raw, unprocessed data.

PNG is a popular graphic file format, perhaps second only to JPG today. It has a few advantages over JPG and is easy to work with because it's widely supported. Here's what you need to know. What is a ...

One of the hassles of working with audio and video files is that there are many different file formats, and not all are easily read or universally compatible with software you commonly use. Xvid is a ...

File format conversion has become increasingly important in today's file-based workflow environment. In the past, file format conversion was accomplished with dedicated services that provided their ...