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, ...

If you’ve encountered Apple HEIC files and are unsure how to open them on your Microsoft Windows computer or convert them to JPEG format, this guide is for you. HEIC files are a type of image file ...

An increasing number of websites are adopting 'WebP' and 'AVIF' as the format for images inserted into pages. However, many image viewers and image editing software do not support WebP or AVIF, ...

ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.

MP4 files are all about versatility, and they’re usually compatible with computers, smart TVs, and even some older devices like iPods. If you have some FLV files that you want to project onto a big ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...

If you have a PDF that you want to share with the world via Facebook, you might hit a snag. You simply can't upload that file type to Facebook as a photo. Thankfully, there are a few ways around that ...

Mac OS X application icons are stored within the application bundle in something called the Apple icon format. (If you download icons, you might find that some are stored in the .icns format as well.) ...

XPS documents in Windows 7 have the file extension .xps. Although Windows 10/8 can view and create both XPS files and OXPS files, it is the .oxps format which is the default XPS document format in ...