Depending on how long you've been a Windows PC user, you may remember when videos distributed online came in various formats. Nowadays, with most of those formats having been made obsolete, this isn't ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

The main advantage of this format is that it offers high-quality images at nearly half the file size of JPEGs. However, the downside is that not all platforms and devices support this format, which is ...

Windows: This week’s featured Windows app isn’t really an app per se, but it’s an incredibly useful extension you’ll want to grab from the Windows Store if you have any kind of device—cough Apple ...

Apple switched to High-Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) files as the default format for storing photos across its mobile devices in 2017. Compared to the JPEG format, HEIC takes about half the ...

If you have an iPhone running iOS 11 (or later) or a Mac running macOS High Sierra (or later), chances are that, at some point in time, you might have come across the HEIF (or HEIC) and HEVC formats ...

iMazing, the folks behind the iMazing iPhone management app for the Mac, has come up with a new tool to convert HEIC images to JPGs. Most people will not need this, but in case you do, iMazing HEIC ...

A photo format called HEIC means images take half the storage space as with JPEG. But you'll need a smartphone processor that can handle it. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

In this day and age, many people take photos with their smartphones, but when you want to keep your photos for the future, you may be wondering what format to choose for storing them in. So, an ...