Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

TIFF Most graphics file formats were created with a particular use in mind, although most can be used for a wide variety of image types. Another common bit-mapped image type is Tagged Image File ...

Free Editor is advised only if you really need a free editor, or an editor for multiple different formats. In our everyday lives, we use a number of different programs to edit the various file types ...

In this post, we will show you how to change the file type extension on Windows 11/10. Every file on our PC has a file type. For audio files, it might be MP3; for documents, it might be Docx or pdf; ...

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It’s time for another grab bag, selected from the many questions I get from readers. In this week’s column, I look at some questions about font size in iTunes (spoiler: your options are limited), ...