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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff looks dot com. Hi there, everybody,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Polette,

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Speaker 1: and I'm the tech editor here at how stuff works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Sitting across from me, as usual, is senior

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Speaker 1: writer Jonathan Strickland's Hey there everyone, Mellow times, mellow tis times.

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Speaker 1: Can you picture that? That's a rainy day outside? Is

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a nasty day in Atlanta. It's a

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Speaker 1: good day for a podcast. Yeah, yeah, why don't we

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Speaker 1: do one of those? Let's let's start it off with

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Speaker 1: a little listener mail. This listener mail comes from Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Andrew says, Hey, tech crew, I was just wondering what

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Speaker 1: the difference is between the different image file types such

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Speaker 1: as gift, jpeg, tiff, bitmap sixteen color, two fifty six color,

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Speaker 1: much appreciated. Well, Andrew, that's what this podcast is all about.

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Speaker 1: Different image file types. Yea, yeah, there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of Actually you talked talked about a lot of different things. Um,

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Speaker 1: there are several different file types and for good reason.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of them are used for print

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Speaker 1: and those are your TIFFs and EPs files, and there

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Speaker 1: a lot of proprietary ones, but those two are the

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Speaker 1: your gifts. I found out that's the way the creator

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Speaker 1: things like that bitmap images or pings right, um, And

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Speaker 1: really most of this comes down to lossy versus lossless compression.

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Speaker 1: So those of you who have listened to our podcasts

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Speaker 1: the same sort of thing holds true for image files.

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