Macworld explains how to use your iPhone’s built-in Notes and Files apps to scan documents and save them as PDFs. These scanning tools matter for digitizing important papers, creating portable ...

The good news: Catalytic converter thefts have come down considerably since hitting a peak several years ago. Roughly 14,000 converters were stolen in 2024, according to the National Insurance Crime ...

Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme used to encode files and images by translating them into a radix-64 representation and presenting binary data in an ASCII string format. It is mainly used ...

Your iPhone uses the HEIC file format by default, but it isn't universally supported, making it a hassle to convert these images to JPG. That's where Apple's Shortcuts app comes in. I've written for ...

How do you get a Minecraft cape? You've heard rumors, whispers of a mythical piece of cloth that adorns the shoulders of the most elite Minecraft players. Word on the block (sigh) is that capes also ...

Using JODConverter in your own Java application is very straightforward. The following example shows the skeleton code required to perform a one off conversion from a Word document to PDF: Simple, isn ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

No apps to download, just run a shortcut and get on with it. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can convert a PDF to JPG on your iPhone instantly and for free ...

I cannot tell you how many times I've received a PDF document with the expectation that I'm going to either use the text to create something new or to edit the copy. That's all fine and good when I'm ...