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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 241

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 241. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Energy unit and a pin for your washing is still most common for images.

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JPEG

Energy unit (J, for Joule) and a pin for your washing (a peg) is still most common for images (it remains the widest-used).

2: Petty quarrel was the standard format for scanners from 1986.

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TIFF

Petty quarrel (a tiff) was the standard format for scanners from 1986 (introduced by Aldus in 1986 as the standard for use with scanners).

3: Early Scot mixed vector and bitmap graphics from QuickDraw.

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PICT

Early Scot (a Pict) mixed vector and bitmap graphics from QuickDraw (it was the native graphics file format for classic Mac OS, replaced by PDF in Mac OS X).

The common factor

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They’re graphics file formats that have been supported by and widely used on Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.