Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

Sometimes in my experiments I don't just need to stream OptiTrack data using the NatNet SDK, but also I need access to the entire trial, which I recorded as take files. Unfortunately these files ...

Image formats like JPEG and PNG typically work just fine for casual use. However, when scalability matters, there's one particular file type that's better suited for such projects: AI files. An AI ...

Sometimes, the image file you have isn’t the image format you need. For example, you can’t upload an AI format to Instagram and you can’t put a TIFF on your website. In either case, you need to ...

Your iPhone uses the HEIC file format by default, but it isn't universally supported, making it a hassle to convert these images to JPG. That's where Apple's Shortcuts app comes in. I've written for ...

For years, tech companies (well, certain tech companies) tooted their horns about a future in which files didn’t matter. You don’t even need a file manager of any sort, they told us—and, in fact, we ...

Choosing between an online file converter and a desktop file converter app isn’t an easy choice. Both have their pros and cons, and you are almost always missing out on something no matter the choice.

Turn any video or audio file into an MP3, or any video into an MP4, by copying and pasting. Want to turn a video file into an MP3? Or any video into an MP4? If you have PowerToys installed on Windows, ...