MP3 has been the most popular lossy audio file format for decades, but AAC is now a popular alternative. Here's what you need ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

What is JPEG file format? The acronym stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and that’s the name of the subcommittee that helped create the JPEG standard, along with other standards such as ISO.

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 ...

A caption file is a completely separate file from a video file. Caption files can be made in a wide variety of formats, and you can upload a caption file to accompany a video in order to create closed ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

When you connect a new USB drive or external drive to a laptop, phone, or another storage-compatible device, it's mostly unusable until you format it. Formatting a drive helps prepare and set up the ...