What’s inside a PNG file? Graphics, sure. But how is that graphic encoded? [Evan Hahn] shows you what goes into a single black pixel inside a 67-byte file. Why so many bytes? Well, that is exactly ...

In a day and age when major game releases can clog up 65 gigabytes of hard drive space or more, it’s nice to know that classic game design doesn’t require nearly ...

I open a rar archive, can see the files there along with their file size, but when I extract the files I end up with a whole lot of 0Byte files. Not all of them but many of them, it is a 001 file and ...

One of the questions I’m frequently asked as a Mac writer—and a question we see quite often in the Macworld forums —is, “My hard drive is getting full; how can I see which files are taking up all that ...

The old logo uses a complicated serif font which can only be created using bezier curves. All together, it has 100 anchor points, resulting in a 6 KB (6,380 bytes) file. When compressed, the size ...