I wanted a smaller file, not a postgraduate course in HandBrake settings.

There’s always the need to download and convert YouTube videos to MP3, MP4 or other video formats. These days, developers want us to use apps, but for those who want to do things a little differently, ...

File Explorer is fine, but you can make it better.

Spread the loveAh, Windows Media Player. For many of us, it’s a digital relic, a ghost from the early days of personal ...

When we talk about playing Blu-rays, a TV is often the first choice. But now that many of us have access to computers more ...

Spread the loveFor decades, if you used a Windows PC, your default media player was, well, Windows Media Player. It was just ...

Independent lab testing just showed that Microsoft Word opens a lot slower on Windows laptops than it does on MacBooks. Two separate tests, run with robot-controlled precision, found the same result ...

When I decided to save a DVD to my computer's HDD, I initially thought it would be much simpler. Insert the disc, copy the visible files, and that's it. However, once I actually started looking into ...

What is yt-dlp-tauri? yt-dlp-tauri is a small desktop app for downloading videos with yt-dlp without writing command-line options by hand. Paste a video URL from a site supported by yt-dlp, preview ...

Windows 11 preview update KB5101684 speeds up the Start menu and taskbar, improves File Explorer, and rolls out more Secure ...

Have you ever been troubled by large MP4 video files taking up too much storage space on your smartphone or computer? If you can reduce the size of a video while maintaining its quality, you will ...

If you need to convert a video so it plays on another device, takes up less space, or works in your editing software, these are the two free tools I recommend most: HandBrake is the one I go to when ...