Month: April 2026

EV manufacturers publish power in both HP and kW — Tesla in HP, Mercedes EQ in kW, BMW i in both. This guide explains the conversion, why electric horsepower differs from mechanical, and what kW means for your charging speed.

European car spec sheets list engine power in kW; US spec sheets use HP. This guide gives you the formula, a model-by-model conversion table for popular cars, and the difference between mechanical, electric, and metric horsepower.

Renting a car in Europe and confused by the 130 sign? This guide gives you the formula, a reference table for common speed limits, mental conversion shortcuts, and the country list of who uses MPH versus KM/H.

Phone screen recordings (iOS .mov / Android .mp4) need conversion to GIF for Twitter/X tweets that auto-loop. This guide covers the conversion path, file-size targets for the 5 MB mobile / 15 MB desktop caps, and quality tips for vertical versus landscape recordings.

Reddit’s i.redd.it accepts GIFs up to 20 MB, but many subreddits enforce stricter rules through AutoMod. This guide covers the platform limit, common subreddit caps, and exact xconvert settings to make a GIF that passes mod review.

Convert a screen-recording MP4 to a clean, embed-ready GIF for Slack messages, Notion docs, GitHub READMEs, and engineering wikis. Covers exact xconvert settings and the file-size budgets each destination expects.

Slack custom emoji are capped at 128 KB and 128×128 px. Animated GIFs hit those limits fast. This guide shows the exact xconvert settings to ship a watchable animated emoji at that tiny size.

Twitter/X has different GIF upload limits on desktop (15 MB) and mobile (5 MB). This guide covers exact xconvert settings to fit either limit, plus the 1280×1080 dimension cap and what happens when GIFs go over.

Compress a GIF for Discord’s 10 MB free upload limit (or 50 MB Nitro Basic) using xconvert. Covers width-halving, frame-rate reduction, and color-palette tricks that shrink GIFs by 60–80% with minimal visible quality loss.

Each podcast platform has different file size, bitrate, and format requirements. This guide gives you the exact xconvert settings to satisfy Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music — without re-encoding the same episode three different ways.