Managing the file systems, partitions, and volumes are key in the setup of Windows Vista. Without an understanding of these concepts, you can’t even install an operating system from scratch. Disk Management Terms File System. A system for storing and organizing folders and files on a storage medium making it easy to find and access them—for example, FAT32, NTFS, and so on. Format. Prepares
Are you fed up with seeing new gadgets that only use incompatible and restrictive audio and video formats? Did you know that it’s not a lack of technological know-how that causes this, but software patents and other legal restrictions?What’s the solution? Play Ogg!..
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Many a times u like to download and edit video from youtube,metacafe,aol video,veoh,yahoo video etc .Gosh...many video editing software use Window Media Movie(wmv),MPEG formats including famous window movie and cant be directly used after video downloaded(FLV format) from Youtube.Without going for paid,crapy software's our own famous VLC player comes to our rescue.VLC player has options to transco
The Microsoft Office file formats documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary file formats.
The documentation includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of file format relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.
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One of the issues that crops up at the shop on an almost weekly basis is the subject of logo file formats and the various color palettes required for effective brand management. Seems that this is a portion of the logo design process remains a little foggy for some, and completely misunderstood by others.
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Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity suite.The 2007 Microsoft Office system already provides support for 20 different document formats within Microsoft Office Word, Office Ex
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By Mark Robertson of ReelSEO.comAs we all have been reading, online video consumption growth rates have soared over the past year especially due to broadband growth and penetration. As a result, video sharing and video search website have realize a much stronger traffic scenario whereby advertisers and marketers are spending and are poised to spend just short of $1billion in online video advertis
By Mark Robertson of ReelSEO.comWith the incredible rapid growth that online video sharing and video search sites are realizing, more and more advertisers are pumping money into video advertising. According to the latest research, online video advertising revenues in the US are expected to reach $7.1 billion by 2012 which is a 72 percent compound annual growth rate for the next five years. In 20
By Mark Robertson of ReelSEO.comAs we all have been reading, online video consumption growth rates have soared over the past year especially due to broadband growth and penetration. As a result, video sharing and video search website have realize a much stronger traffic scenario whereby advertisers and marketers are spending and are poised to spend just short of $1billion in online video advertis
By Mark Robertson of ReelSEO.comWith the incredible rapid growth that online video sharing and video search sites are realizing, more and more advertisers are pumping money into video advertising. According to the latest research, online video advertising revenues in the US are expected to reach $7.1 billion by 2012 which is a 72 percent compound annual growth rate for the next five years. In 20
In case you hadn’t figured it out by now, surround sound is named as it is because the sound literally surrounds the listener.
While there have recently been significant leaps and bounds in this technology there was a huge gap in time between the introduction of this technology and the significant improvements we [...]
In research paper style, many students are very much concerned in developing and using them for their nursing dissertation projects. Apparently, the format is as important as the researching papers for this address the overall need of the project to be presentable. Also, the styles of the researching papers give the physical appeal of the project that will at least translate to better understandin
ISO puts standard for Microsoft's OOXML document formats on hold
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We all know Microsoft sucks when it comes to making things difficult, but I found a site that helps ease that suck. If you don’t know already, you can’t open a 2007 word document with an older version of word. Well here is a site that allows you to take any version of a word [...]
Yes its true as by the title their is some whose name is Xnview which can manipulate more than 400 formates of camera ,pocket pc,mobile device etc.
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Microsoft is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity suite. The 2007 Microsoft Office system already provides support for 20 different document formats within Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel
Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity suite.
The 2007 Microsoft Office system already provides support for 20 different document formats within Microsoft Office Word, Office E
Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format (ODF) touted by OpenOffice, Sun’s StarOffice, and other third-party tools as well as similarly [...]
It seems Google adsense is again testing there ads format.Hongkiat just saw something odd with his large rectangular adsense unit.There’s total of 4 ads in grid of 2×2 format. It looks weird at first, but if Google were to confirm this format, I think there’s a lot of potential of blending this style. Notice that the ‘Ads by Google’ on only appears on the bottom right; that makes the 1 co
What do you do when you urgently require a graph paper or any music paper? If you don’t have one, you probably rush to the nearest store to buy it. If there isn’t a store, or if they are out of stock, Hard Luck! Well! The web is a great place and the Printable Paper [...]
The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics, and is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content [...]
URL: In an interesting development that I can only assume means that Silverlight is having an impact on Adobe, they've decided to open and standardize their FLV and SWF formats so that anyone can build them. Not only are they opening the formats but also removing licensing fees for mobile platforms. Nice! This is good news for Flash/Flex/AiR developers out there. In my opinion this also bodes well for Silverlight as it means that Adobe is taking the Microsoft platform as a serious competitor. What do you think?
"Freeware application AutoGK rips DVDs to hard drive-friendly DivX and Xvid formats for quick, easy, and high-quality backups. It does so by acting as an automating front-end to several other free ripping and encoding tools, which it automatically installs on your system. We've never featured AutoGK, but a lot of readers swear by it. If you happen to be one of them, let's hear more about your experience with AutoGK in the comments. If you're looking for more DVD-ripping tools, like the previously mentioned HandBrake, check out the five best DVD-ripping tools. AutoGK is freeware, Windows only."[via lifehacker]
AutoGK Rips DVDs to DivX and Xvid Formats [Dvd Ripping] Windows only: Freeware application AutoGK rips DVDs to hard drive-friendly DivX and Xvid formats for quick, easy, and high-quality backups. It does so by acting as an automating front-end to several other free ripping and encoding tools, which it automatically installs on your system. We've never featured AutoGK, but a lot of readers swear by it. If you happen to be one of them, let's hear more about your experience with AutoGK in the comments. If you're looking for more DVD-ripping tools, like the previously mentioned HandBrake, check out the five best DVD-ripping tools. AutoGK is freeware, Windows only. AutoGK Link - Adam Pash - Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:00:00 GMT - Feed (45 subs) Downloads dvd ri
Although there are hundreds of file formats available for images, most cameras produce either JPG (jpg or jpeg) TIFF (tiff or tif) or RAW. There are advantages & disadvantages to each file type - the choice depends on how you plan to use & store your images.
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MicroRevie.ws - Twitter Reviews in Micro FormatsWhat it doesTwitter cuts down communication to 140 characters. This haiku economy is welcomed by many whose attentions are already stretched to the max being continuously online and multitasking. MicroReviews is now taking Twitter's rubric of compactness and is bringing it to the review. They gather together reviews from Twitter and mash them up, for everyone to enjoy. These Twitter reviews are also microformatted, with hReview and hCard specifically. To contribute to MicroReviews simply sign in to your Twitter account, start following @hreview and send a review. Besides that, you do have to remember to use semicolons to separate your opinion from the thing being reviewed.In their own words"We make your reviews more powerful. We co
I just wanted to make you aware that we put the Office Binary Formats on the web. We did this for interoperability reasons but often this can be very useful for forensics as well: Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats
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By: Bogdan Botezatu, Hardware Editor Those of you claiming that the HD-DVD high-definition standard dead should think again, because the HD-DVD units sold better than ever. The formal announcement of its discontinued led to a fall in pricesfor the device, and made it available to the main market.Shuttle has released a new home theater PCs in a series of XPS, which can be read as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media formats in one combo drive. In addition to high-definition discs, the XPC G5 3101M can also read and write conventional DVD and CD media.Miniature home-theater PC comes in a fairly solid configurations, including a TV tuner that handles DVB-T digital signals, an ATI HD 3450 256MB graphics card, as well as high-definition, on-board 7.1-channel audio output. The machine is built around the
YouTube is my best-loved video site for there are thousands of interesting videos from every place in the world. And like many people, I also love to download some great videos for saving them to my computer, and then play these funny vide on my iPod sharing with my friends usually. Whatever playing videos any device, such as Apple iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, a nice YouTube video converter is useful to convert YouTube video to AVI, MPEG-4, MP4, 3GP and other formats that supports by these portable devices. Firstly, I'll easily save all my favorite videos from YouTube using a free downloader eg: VDownloader, TubeSucker, TubeDownload. ImTOO YouTube Video Converter is my first choice for YouTube FLV video conversions, which offers full features to convert FLV files to AVI, MP4, 3GP, MP
Every kind of written paper should have an appropriate appearance - it should be formatted. Within academic institutions a lot of research paper formats exist. Since the size of the article does not allow considering all of them, we will dwell upon the most widely used research paper formats: APA, MLA and Harvard.
Research paper formats: [...]
You may have noticed that the format of the BidVertiser Ads has been slightly changed. There are 3 main changes applied to the ads:
Title and URL, both have an underline on/off affect while moving the mouse over.
Title, Description and URL can now be opened in a new window or tab when
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The Ground has been set. Battlelines drawn. The Open Document Format (ODF) proponents are opposing OOXML on the grounds that 'multiple standards' are not advisable. While Microsoft has been accused of influencing NGOs and Govt officials on their stand; its opponents, including IBM, havent really been lagging in this respect. Which way will the die be cast ? Which way should the die be cast?
There are many different image file formats in use on Web pages today. Each file format has its advantages and disadvantages, and can be used for specific images. For those that use digital cameras you may be familiar with one format, while you may have heard of others. In this post I will provide an overview of the different formats including their advantages and disadvantages. GIF Format I will begin with one of the oldest formats in use on the Internet today. The GIF name is a acronym for Graphics Interchange Format, and was first introduced by Compuserve in 1987. This is a popular format next to the JPEG format and is still used on Web pages today. Digital cameras, however, don’t use this format because it only supports 256 colours. There are currently two versions of GIF in
Citing your paper in Modern Language Association (MLA) or American Psychological Association (APA) formats depend mostly on the subject you are writing on. Mainly, APA style citations are used to cite writings that have a social science focus…
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eZine publishers today use any one or more of the 3 most commonly used eZine formats which I am about to describe to you in this article.Ultimately, you can decide which format is the best choice for you, though each winning format has its pros and cons.The text eZine is the most commonly published. The advantage of this format is that other than writing, you do not require any special skill to use a Word or Notepad program.While the HTML eZine format requires a certain degree of HTML skills on your part, you can add more sophisticated features to your eZine issues, making them more appealing to your subscriber thus increases your readership value, something that text eZines do not have.You can decorate your eZine format, change your fonts, include pictures, and more. However, the drawback
Last Friday we announced the availability of the Office Binary Format Specification (doc, xls, ppt) under the Open Specification Promise (OSP). From my point of view this is an additional step in our promise to support interoperability.
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There are a variety of different formats available for optical digital media storage today. There is the CD-ROM, HD-DVD, DVD-R's and HD-DVD-RW formats that are available. It can be a bit confusing, so you will want to know what the differences are between the different formats. The specifications for digital optical media formats are set by working groups. These working groups are made up of various engineers that represent manufacturers that are planning to build and sell their hardware. Usually every manufacturer has their own technology developed as well that they want to include. When they make sure that the technology that is preferred is in their specification, every device that is sold earns them a royalty payment. Since these devices sell millions each year, the royalties paid can
WidgetBucks has released a new ad formats. The new formats are marked as B and C series. Here is the quote from the email they sent to their publishers:
WidgetBucks has rolled out a new ad widget style, giving publishers two display options for each of the eight sizes offered. The new ads are noted with a “B” (for B Series) in the pull-down menu of the “Customize Your Widget” page, where publishers can also see a preview before selecting with option to choose. One “C Series” widget, offered in the 300×250 medium rectangle size and 660×330 larger size, includes a search box.
One modification not previously highlighted on this blog is the ability to adjust the product rotation interval, giving publishers the ability to modify the pace by which products are displayed in their widgets. The default rotation is 3 seconds, but can be set anywhere from 1 to 10 seconds per item.
When it comes to popular categories of WidgetBucks widgets, the top f
'An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.'--Mahatma GandhiThe block quotation above was formatted using the <blockquote> tags. If you cannot view the styles that I have applied in the quotation above, switch to Mozilla Firefox browser. This browser is far much better than other browsers in terms of displaying CSS formats and in terms of being user-friendly. The Blogger/Blogspot default settings simply format blockquotes as indented. If you want to add decorative quotation marks and background color, you have to do some tweaking with the CSS codes. You can easily create blockquotes by higlighting the selected texts and clicking the "quote icon" found on the upper frame of the text editor as shown in the illustration below.The format of the quotation above should look something like the one shown in the illustration below -- without the red oval, of course!I have used the CSS codes shown below to achieve the effects that you see. Simply copy-paste these codes ont
Every person is notable for his/her personal style of writing. Whether it would be a research project or just a simple article or the term paper, everyone writes in his/her own way. As the result every written paper has its own character, it is individual and unique in its nature because the style it is written in is unique and individual itself. That is why there is an approach of using this or that writing technique appropriately.
There are 3 major kinds of research paper formats:
Harvard writing style;
Modern Language Association;
American Psychological Association.
The majority of the Higher educational institutions apply to these research paper formats because they (more…)
ABBA's famous movie, depicting their 1977 tour of Australia, will soon be available in the digital formats of the future.Back in 2005, when ABBA - The Movie was first prepared for a DVD release, the movie was scanned in the superior format of HD-DVD. The actual DVD released that year was in "ordinary" DVD quality, but it was thought that there should be an HD-DVD master prepared for a future release. That time has now arrived. On November 26, an HD-DVD version of ABBA - The Movie will be issued (catalogue number: Polar 06025 174 712-4). This release is followed by a Blu-ray version on December 12 (catalogue number: Polar 06025 174 712-3).Contents:Full length movie fully restored with remastered and uncompressed surround sound, and fantastic extras including:• Interview with Lasse Hallstrom (the director) and ABBA's Björn and Benny, filmed in 2005.• Tour souvenir programme gallery• Memorabilia gallery• ABBA –The Movie , Original trailer• ABBA – The Album, TV ad, two ver
Date Published: 21-11-2007K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even some rare formats.Software Developer HomepageDownloadFile Size : 13 MB
There has been a very positive response to my Part Template video, and with that response has been many requests for a video on Drawing Templates and how they relate to Sheet Formats. SolidWorker.com is primarily user request driven. You have spoken and I have heard. Please enjoy this video and continue to send in [...]
REPORT ZSOURCE0801.* Simple output containing the current dateWRITE: 'This is the current date:', SY-DATUM.* Displaying fields according to their typeDATA: STRING(20), INT TYPE I, PACKED_NUMBER TYPE P DECIMALS 2, DATE LIKE SY-DATUM.STRING = 'Customer list'.INT = 17.PACKED_NUMBER = 5 / 4.DATE = SY-DATUM + 30.WRITE: / STRING, INT, PACKED_NUMBER, DATE.~~~~~ End of post ~~~~~---------------------ABAPer, mail: abap.community@gmail.com http://abaplearner.blogspot.com
Feedreader is a FREE RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust,state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment. Feedreader has highly-functional personal aggregation solution on the market today. It dynamically reads, collects, and organizes syndicated Web content, and seamlessly delivers it directly to user desktops. With Feedreader, you have instant, convenient access to the up-to-the-minute news you need, without information overload. Feedreader automatically downloads updates from your favorite Web sites. So, it eliminates the need for you to constantly monitor multiple Web pages, while allowing you to immediately identify and retrieve new articles – no matter how long you’ve been away from your desk. Software Developer HomepageDownloadFile Size : 4.4 MB
Experiment with multiple ad formats and locationsIn general, wider ad formats tend to be more reader-friendly. Placing an ad unit after the first post will likely catch your readers' attention. Take a look at our sample implementations to get some ideas. Also, consider placing a Skyscraper (120x600) or vertical link unit on the right side of your blog. If you're using Blogger, you can find instructions on placing AdSense code in your blog's sidebar. Offer readers more options with search and referrals To make sure you're earning the most revenue possible with AdSense, go beyond just ads to use AdSense for search and referrals. You can increase your earnings, provide readers with valuable information, and take advantage of flexible formats.Improve ad targeting With section targeting, you
Ezine publishers today use any one or more of the 3 most commonly used ezine formats which I am about to describe to you here.
Ultimately, you can decide which format is the best choice for you, though each winning format has its pros and cons.
The text ezine is the most commonly published. The advantage of this format is that other than writing, you do not require any special skill to use a Word or Notepad program.
While the HTML ezine format requires a certain degree of HTML skills on your part, you can add more sophisticated features to your ezine issues, making them more appealing to your subscriber thus increases your readership value, something that text ezines do not have.
You can decorate your ezine format, change your fonts, include pictures, and more. However, the drawback often faced by HTML ezines is that they often get trapped into spam filters before they reach their subscribers’ inboxes.
The third and least used among the 3 formats is the PDF ezine. Publishing your ezi
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Anticipation surrounding the new Arch Enemy album, “Rise of The Tyrant” is at an all-time high as the band kicked off their Black Tyranny co-headlining North American tour with Machine Head past week.
Prior to leaving for North America, the band has shot two video clips for new songs “Revolution Begins”, the new album’s first single available in stores now, and “I Will Live Again”, both with acclaimed director Patric Ullaeus (In Flames, Lacuna Coil, etc.).
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There are many different image file formats in use on Web pages today. Each file format has its advantages and disadvantages, and can be used for specific images. For those that use digital cameras you may be familiar with one format, while you may have heard of others.In this post I will provide an overview of the different formats including their advantages and disadvantages.GIF FormatI will begin with one of the oldest formats in use on the Internet today. The GIF name is a acronym for Graphics Interchange Format, and was first introduced by Compuserve in 1987. This is a popular format next to the JPEG format and is still used on Web pages today. Digital cameras, however, don’t use this format because it only supports 256 colours.There are currently two versions of GIF in use: GIF87a (the original version) and GIF89a. The GIF89a version supports multiple images in stream which allows you to create animated GIF images.Advantages - One advantage to a GIF is that it uses lossless
Its been really long since I introduced any useful web 2.0 service to my readers. Usually I introduce only those web 2.0 services that bring new ideas and concepts but this time I have a web 2.0 site for you that redefines an original concept and brings a service for your benefit and ease.
Convert YouTube Videos Online To any Format
Vconvert brings an amazing web 2.0 service for everyone of us who is a big YouTube fan and likes downloading and watching stuff on YouTube. This service makes our YouTube lives more healthy and easy to manage. Obviously by now you would have got your hands on at least one of those softwares or online services that help you download YouTube videos. This new service works much similar to all those online services except that it also lets you convert YouTube videos online to any possible format.
Download YouTube Videos in .wmv .mov .mp4 etc Formats
This service is brilliant and very easy to use. It lets you convert your YouTube videos to 6 different formats
The computer-based test (CBT), divided into four sections, measures language proficiency in listening, structure (grammar), reading and writing. 1. Listening Comprehension * Objective: To test the candidate's listening capabilities * Type of Questions: Conversations between two or more people in academic environments. Short conversations between students, and lectures may be possible conversations. Questions are basically of the who said what type. * Duration: 45-70 minutes 2. Structure * Objective: To check the candidate's knowledge of English grammar. * Type of Questions: Identify the erroneous words in the sentence. Fill in the blanks using the appropriate word. * Duration: 15-20 minutes 3. Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary * Objective: To test the candidate's reading and vocabulary skills. * Type of Question: Three or four long passages, typically 300 words long are given, and questions based on the
I have had a high definition television for some time now and the news that 300 the movie is coming to both HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats on the 31st of July is news that makes my want to buy a Sony Playstation 3 (for the blue-ray of course).
Amazon.com will start selling the movie 300 in the two hi-def formats and it will also come with a standard DVD version as well (that could be given away as a gift).
One thing is for sure and that is all the blood in the film is going to look more real than ever.
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Few days back, Google Introduced its new formats for Google Adsense ads. As you can see our site has also been updated with the new format ads on the right with rounded corner and yes it is the new feature introduced by Google.
This new feature introduced by Google is part of their effort to improve [...]
Google Adsense has come up with a new feature for ad borders, that is "Corner style". This features improves the look and feel making an advantage for site developers. Now publishers can choose between 'slightly rounded' or 'highly rounded' corner (two sample are shown here). If your site has a rounded template this will help a lot.To apply this change for existing Adsense ads, you only have to add another line to set another value inside the script. Set the value of "google_ui_features" as follows.google_ui_features = "rc:6";google_ui_features = "rc:10";"rc:6" is for 'slightly rounded' while "rc:10" for 'highly rounded'.
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By Minic Rivera | June 14, 2007iStockphoto, one of the worlds busiest image and video market, announced a significant site update, adding more sellable video formats to the product mix, and increasing the reach and usability of the website. iStock has implemented some exciting new search capabilities, and the ability to download videos in .wmv and .mp4 formats. As part of its international expansion efforts, the company has added localized sites in Japanese, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Russian, making it the only microstock site fully searchable in 12 languages and viewable in 10.
Our community continues to grow at a remarkable pace " our challenge is to stay on top of what clients from all over the world need, said Bruce Livingstone, CEO of iStockphoto. On the video side, we are finding more customers want a simple way to drop video clips into their PowerPoint presentations " these additional formats will help the collection
This week's installment covers using various audio file formats and file conversion with iTunes and other audio applications,
MMwOSX's addition to the excellent Home Recording Network and my recent
experiences with upgrading the RAM in my home studio's G5.
Here's a nifty little utility that you can use to take any picture that is in BMP, JPG, or PNG format and convert it into BMP, JPG, PNG or ICO format. Using this program, you can take your favorite picture of your girlfriend, let's say, and convert it into a Windows Icon. Then you can replace out your My Computer icon with her face rather than a boring computer! Hmmm or maybe you don't want to see her that much...!!Anyway, the program is called ImagIcon and it's not only a tiny program, but it does it's job very well. You can take an image and save it as an icon in all of the different sizes: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and 64x64. The 16x16 size can be used to give your web site a logo in the IE address bar. For example, in Blogger while writing a post, you can see the orange icon in the address bar:The program also lets your transform the images if you like. You can scale the image to make it smaller or flip it horizontally or vertically. You can even save the icon with alpha transparen
I’ve seen the topic of photo file formats pop up a number of times, from JPEG to HD Photo to TIFF to DNG… the list goes on and on. The Photoprenuer has an interesting article titled “How Long Will Your Photos Last?“. This one really got me thinking about standard formats and the future of the digital photo.
When I think of photo prints, I think of them fading after so many years. This is probably not the best way to keep your photos around for a long time. Film and slides, I’m assuming the same thing, but I’m no film expert. Now digital photos, on the other hand, should keep forever as long as you don’t lose them or corrupt the files… right?
While the data integrity may be preservable, the ability to view that data may not be. The battle between JPEG and HD Photo has already begun. Almost every camera outputs (or has the ability to) a JPEG, and it’s a format that’s viewable on any piece of viewing or editing software I&rsquo
We’ve all had the experience of downloading some goodie over the Internet, only to discover that it’s packed up in some file archiving and compression format. There are dozens of formats kicking around out there, and it seems like no sooner are you equipped to handle five formats than some joker hands you a sixth. Why do we need so many? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a standard? Yeah, right, dream on…
.zip The closest we have to a standard. The most common archive/compression format is easily accessible both to pack and unpack across every major platform. Opens with PKZIP & WinZIP on Windows, a built-in handler on Mac OS X v10.3+, and with the ‘unzip’ command on Unix-likes.
.7z The next-best to ZIP. The 7-zip program handles a broad variety of formats, including .cab, .rar, .Z, .gz, .bz2, and others. It is ported to the Windows platform as 7z.exe, the Mac OS X platform as 7zX, or the Unix-alike platforms as 7z.
.gz The GNU zip program, native
We’ve all had the experience of downloading some goodie over the Internet, only to discover that it’s packed up in some file archiving and compression format. There are dozens of formats kicking around out there, and it seems like no sooner are you equipped to handle five formats than some joker hands you a sixth. Why do we need so many? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a standard? Yeah, right, dream on…
.zip The closest we have to a standard. The most common archive/compression format is easily accessible both to pack and unpack across every major platform. Opens with PKZIP & WinZIP on Windows, a built-in handler on Mac OS X v10.3+, and with the ‘unzip’ command on Unix-likes.
.7z The next-best to ZIP. The 7-zip program handles a broad variety of formats, including .cab, .rar, .Z, .gz, .bz2, and others. It is ported to the Windows platform as 7z.exe, the Mac OS X platform as 7zX, or the Unix-alike platforms as 7z.
.gz The GNU zip program, native
You might have wondered why we can’t just settle on one file format to store images in and be done with it. The problem with that is that we all want two things in an image format: we want perfect image preservation, and we want them to load instantly. It turns out, computers being the beasts that they are, that these two goals are incompatible with each other! Add to this the jungle of corporations patenting their image technology, and you have the soupy mess we have today.
Image formats get their speed by compression, where a code to make the image data take up less space in memory is used. The higher the compression, the faster it loads, and the worse the image quality gets. So, from (roughly) fastest to best quality:
JPEG - The most common format used on the Internet today. It is the fastest loading, and it uses “lossy” compression. It takes up the least file space, up to 1/20th of the uncompressed file size! But images saved in JPEG format tend to get blurry an
