Essential Guide: File Compression Formats

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Welcome to our guide on file compression formats! In this blog post, we offer answers to the most important questions about file compression, explaining different formats, their history, and providing options for easily compressing your files. Whether you’re new to this topic or just want to know more, keep reading to discover the ins and outs of file compression and how it affects our digital lives!

A Bit of File Compression History

  • 1940s: Development of file compression methods begins, laying the groundwork for future advancements.
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How to Send Large Video Files (2023)

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Are you drowning in a sea of video footage, with gigabytes upon gigabytes, or even terabytes, of content that urgently need to find their way to a recipient’s screen? If you’ve ever found yourself nodding in agreement – you are in the right place. We will present five straightforward methods for transferring those hefty videos. Yes, you read that correctly, not just one, but five different ways to send large video files!… Read the rest

How To Compress Video On Android

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Today we can record 4K videos with our Android phones. However, the highest quality comes with a price. It is often necessary to reduce the size of a video so we can share it with someone or upload it online. The best option to achieve this is to compress it. The compression process will shrink the video while simultaneously trying to maintain the original quality. If you are wondering how to compress video on Android, keep on reading.… Read the rest

Is RAR Better Than ZIP?

When it comes to making file archives, one usually chooses between ZIP and RAR. These two file types have been the top choices for decades. Is there a major difference between these two so that we can say one format is better than the other is?

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RAR vs. ZIP

Let’s have a closer look at these two formats from the following perspectives: compression ratio and, speed, availability, and licensing.… Read the rest

Guide On How To Easily Email a PowerPoint Presentation

One of the most used ways for curriculum delivery by teachers of e-learning courses to students and other colleagues is via PowerPoint presentations. This step by step useful guide on how to easily email a PowerPoint presentation or an e-learning course can come in handy. Most e-learning courses and PowerPoint presentations usually contain numerous hyperlinks and loads of files. They are also very large  in size which makes it almost impossible to share because of size limit restrictions.Read the rest