Ever Wonder What’s in Your Files?
Even formats that superficially appear to be straightforward can contain many separate pieces of information. Let's take a look at the contents of some interesting formats. Here's a Canon CR2 file courtesy [...]
You Said JPEG. Did you mean JFIF?
You can’t always tell what's inside a file from its extension. In this post we’ll delve into the contents of JFIF/JPEG files. JPEG is often used as a catchall term for both [...]
To Convert or Not to Convert? We Examine This Question
Formats age. A question is how and, perhaps even more importantly, when to migrate to newer formats. My Adobe PDF reader updated the other day, and I suddenly received this notice when [...]
JPEG: Popular Yet Sometimes Challenging
The mighty JPEG: born in 1992, it is still one of the most commonly used formats for creating photos and images. It’s also a go-to format for document generation and archiving, photo [...]