Data Compression For All by Robert Hanania
Anyone who has seen the movie’ Honey I shrunk the kids' can imagine how useful compression can be. Compression, which has become anonymous with Zip files work off the same idea only with a (add your joke here)'slightly' different technology. You will find a lot of data compression programs in... The main benefit of this is that the user can: *Save valuable disk space *Can send and receive files on the internet quicker *Speeds up your processor *Depending on the file compression program can reduce files as much as 90% The user should also be aware that files can only be opened with...

Zip It Up by Robert Hanania
Anyone who has seen the movie’ Honey I shrunk the kids' can imagine how useful compression can be. Compression, which has become anonymous with Zip files work off the same idea only with a (add your joke here)'slightly' different technology. You will find a lot of data compression programs in... The main benefit of this is that the user can: * Save valuable disk space * Can send and receive files on the internet quicker * Speeds up your processor * Depending on the file compression program can reduce files as much as 90% The user should also be aware that files can only be opened with...

JPEG and GIF the Differences by Maricon Williams
JPEG and GIF image formats are both compression based formats. They are the most widely used and supported image formats for web. They take an uncompressed image such as bitmapped image and compress them to a smaller file size. A lot smaller image size is moreover the result of this conversion. ... JPEG is a lossless method of compression or in common parlance, when the program that creates a GIF squashes the original image down to ensure not to lose any data. ... The maximum compression of GIF depends on the amount of repetition there is in an image.

Real-World Applications of Image Compression by Scott Heath
The many benefits of image compression include less required storage space, quicker sending and receiving of images and less time lost on image viewing and loading. But where and how is image compression used today? Just as image compression has increased the efficiency of sharing and viewing... Image compression is also useful to any organization which requires the viewing and storing of images to be standardized, such as a chain of retail stores or a federal government agency. ... Image compression, therefore, can be very effectively applied in cases where accurate representations of...

Why Do I Need Photo Compression Software? by Scott Heath
Like time in a bottle, our photographs are memories of moments forever captured. In conventional cameras, chemical and mechanical processes captured images on film. To email a picture taken on film to a friend, the film needs to be developed into individual photos, and the photo then has to be... Instead of listing a whole piece of information over and over again, a file-compression program lists that information once, catalogues it and then refers back to it whenever it appears again in the original program.

Off The Record - Tips For Picking Recording Software by John Deprice
Need software to record your voice, streaming audio or musical instruments? There are dozens of great products on the market. Some cost up to five hundred dollars, but here are some of the low cost alternatives you might want to consider. n-Track Studio The program uses 24 bit (32 bit floats)... # Real-time audio compression - you can utilize any of the audio compression codecs installed on your system to save disk space. ... # Program Internet Recordings - you can automatically launch an Internet URL prior to recording.

Image Conversion In Computers by Anantha Krishnan
JPEG, GIFF/JIFF, BMP, and TIFF are the most commonly used formats for storing still image files such as photographs, graphics, and drawings. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is a standard for image compression. However, some amount of data/detail is lost in the process. ... JPEG can achieve 10:1 to 20:1 compression without apparent loss, 30:1 to 50:1 compression with small to moderate defects, and 100:1 for very low quality purposes like archiving. ... In Paint program the drawings are represented as bit-maps.

Backup Software by Eddie Tobey
Creating a backup for the data in a computer or any electronic storage device is very important. Most equipment, including personal computers, have a good chance of “crashing,” which is the failure of the hard disk on which the data is stored. When a hard disk crashes, all the data is inevitably... The main criteria to be considered while purchasing a backup software program are the ease of operation, ability to backup without continuous monitoring, ability to handle different backup formats like hard disks and CDs, ability to restore with minimum errors, easy accessibility to backup...

Monolith MC Bends the Rules of DVR's by Julia Hall
Digital Video Recorders, or DVR's for short, are one of the most loved types of technology available right now. They basically take all of the good features that we first enjoyed about VCR's and improved upon them by providing a graphic user interface and doing away with the actual video cassettes. ... For example, you can opt to record video in MPEG-4 video compression format in order to get the most out of your hard drive space. ... (Most DVR's record video in MPEG-2 video compression format which takes up about four times the disc space as MPEG-4.) As mentioned above, you can burn your...

DVD Copy Software by Jimmy Sturo
The burgeoning advancement in computer technology has meant progression in the field of DVD copying software as well. With the myriad of simple computer programs available in the market, the chasm between the computer neophyte and the geek is rapidly being bridged. ... When purchasing DVD copy software, look for a program that offers a broad gamut of features. ... When you think about it, the very purpose of DVD copy software is to produce duplicates in bulk. ... The best programs often carry out that task without a drop in the quality of the original DVD.