Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

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Microsoft Outlook uses two file types for holding message, calendar, task and notes data: PST and OST files. PST files are created in the user's computer for non-Microsoft Exchange accounts, which ...

Windows is the most popular operating system and is the first preference for people because of its user-friendly nature. It also supports a large ecosystem of freeware. One such we will see today is ...

It’s time for another grab bag, selected from the many questions I get from readers. In this week’s column, I look at some questions about font size in iTunes (spoiler: your options are limited), ...

Windows/Linux: If you've downloaded or received a file with an extension you don't recognize (or with no extension at all), TrID can analyze it and tell you what programs can open it. We've talked ...

Windows: It's not super hard to instruct Windows to use a certain app to open a type of file, but there's not really a place to manage all those associations at once. Unless you have Types. This app ...

File extensions are the characters that precede the last period of a file name. It helps us find the type of file we are trying to open i.e. whether it is an audio file, video file, or simply a ...

When you double-click a file on your computer, Windows may launch an application to run or display the file. Windows knows how to do this because it maintains a list of known file types and the names ...