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 ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

In a world with finite storage and an infinite need for more storage space, data compression becomes a very necessary problem. Several algorithms for data compression may be more familiar – Huffman ...

Large files are difficult to share via email or through any other media without first compressing them. Windows makes it easy to compress large files through a zip process. Alternative services also ...

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Video files are typically large and consume a significant amount of disk space. More importantly, if the video file is raw and has been taken unprocessed from a camera then it might have an even ...

When it comes to sharing a file (audio, video, image, or PDF), there is always a size limitation. For example, Gmail only lets you upload files of a maximum of 20MB. If there is anything more, you ...

A high-resolution video appeals to everyone for the details it contains. However, as smartphones continue to gain support for high-resolution video recording, storing and sharing large video files is ...