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DLL File

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:33:28 +0000

The DLL file type is primarily associated with ‘Dynamic Link Library’. A .DLL file is a support file and is used by one or more programs. As an example, if several parts of a program need to perform the same action that action may be placed into a .DLL file (library) that the various program parts can all use. This saves space and makes it easier when that particular routine needs to be updated. You should never have a need to “open” a .DLL file on its own; indeed, there really is no way to do so. Note: This file type can become infected and should be carefully scanned if someone sends you a file with this extension. If you want to look at the resources in a DLL library you can use a program like XN Resource Editor but be careful as messing with a DLL file can seriously damage Windows or programs if you do the wrong thing.

FLV File

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:32:12 +0000

The FLV file type is primarily associated with ‘Flash’ by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Adobe Flash, initially known as Shockwave Flash and popularly called simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program.

The Flash Player, developed and distributed by Adobe Systems (which acquired Macromedia in a merger that was finalized in December 2005), is a client application available in most common Web browsers.

MP4 File

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:31:29 +0000

The MP4 file type is primarily associated with ‘MPEG-4′. You often see BIFS associated with MPEG-4. BIFS stands for “Binary Format for Scenes”. BIFS provides a complete framework for the presentation engine of MPEG-4 terminals. Play MP4 files with various players; just download the correct CODEC from the player’s Website.

RAR File

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:27:17 +0000

The RAR file type is primarily associated with ‘WinRAR’ by RarLab. Spanned archives can come in two forms: the original .R00 to .R99 or the new PART#.RAR form. Some programs use the RAR format for their data files as well. As a bit of trivia: RAR was created by Eugene Roshal (RAR= Roshal ARchive).

ZIP File

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:06:27 +0000

The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size, or stored as-is. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, but as of 2009, the Deflate method continues to be dominant.

Torrent File

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:27:52 +0000

A torrent file stores metadata used for BitTorrent. It is defined in the BitTorrent specification.

A torrent file contains the URLs of multiple trackers and integrity metadata about all the pieces. It can also contain additional metadata defined in extensions to the BitTorrent specification. These are known as “BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals”. Examples of such proposals include metadata for stating who created the torrent, and when.

WMV File

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:18:19 +0000

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a compressed video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. The other formats, such as WMV Screen and WMV Image, cater for specialized content. Through standardization from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), WMV 9 has gained adoption for physical-delivery formats such as HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

XLS File

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:18:09 +0000

Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). It has been the most widely used spreadsheet application available for these platforms since version 5 in 1993[citation needed]. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office.

FLV File

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:18:07 +0000

Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6â10. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats defined by Adobe Systems and supported in Adobe Flash Player: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same way as they are within SWF files. The latter F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format and is supported starting with Flash Player 9 update 3.

PDF File

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:18:06 +0000

application/x-pdf application/x-bzpdf

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents. Lately, 3D drawings can be embedded to PDF documents with Acrobat 3D using U3D or PRC and various other data formats.