Computer Awareness: Important Computer file extensions list and their meanings for competitive exams.

 

COMPUTER AWARENESS:-COMPUTER FILE EXTENSIONS AND ITS USE 

 Computer file Extensions are the Formats which Always essential to The Operating system ,that what type of Storing Format .                  

                                                                     file formats images

1.   PICTURE FILE 

.BMP (bitmap image file) – photoshop 

.TIF- Tagged Image File Format-Use for storing graphics images  on Social media, websites, blogs.

.GIF  (Graphic interchange format file )-whatsaap –animations –cartoon

.JPG ( Joint photography group) jpg opened by editing software ,from microsoft paint  – compress

.JPEG( Joint photographic expert group)- digital cameras –compress – quality – standard.

.PNG (Portable network graphic) –Web applications ,digital graphics– transperent background .

.SVG-(Scale vector graphic ) -2D ANIMATIONS 

2. MUSIC AND SOUND                          

.MP3 (Audio file) compressed audio and music file, mp3 songs.                                        

.WAV  (wave   audio file ) 

3. VIDEO FILE FORMAT                                                               

.3GP- Multimedia File

 .FLV-Flash Video file  

 .MP4- video file  

.AVI-Audio video interleave-use for storage both audio video data in media players like VLC,Mplayer.

.MPEG-Moving picture extension group-It uses for compress Digital movie.

4 .WEBPAGE FILE

.HTML (Hyper text mark up language )-web pages                                

.HTM( hyper text markup use for Disk operating system (old).

5. Compressed File

.ZIP-  COMPRESSED FILE 

*.GZIP-COMPRESS AND DECOMPRESS THE DATA.

.RAR – COMPRESSED FILE (WinRAR Compressed Archive)    

  

6. WINDOWS FILE EXENSION

.DOC – Ms Word  -2003 (Document type file format)

DOCX-  Microsoft Word Open Xml Document -2007

.XLS –  Ms Excel

.PPT- Ms Power Point

.TXT-  Text File

.PDF- Portable Document Format         

              

.TMP-  Temporary files

.EXE- Executable file

.dat- data file

.xml-  Extensible markup language.

.apk- ANDROID APP

.APP- Mac OS Application.(app store)

.bak- Backup file.

*EPUB- PUB file extension represents Microsoft Publisher document file format.

*MOBI-Mobi file extension is used for storing eBooks.

Computer file extensions are essential for the operating system of the computer, with these file extension Computer can interacts with the user application. The exe file extensions are use to install any software packages and its file module in a system. for more information keep join with us.  

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