Most files you find on the internet or from work are pretty easy to open. Most text, audio, and image readers are able to open standard file formats like JPEGs and PDFs. However, there are times when ...

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 ...

An executable file (EXE file) is a computer file that contains an encoded sequence of instructions the system executes when the user clicks the file icon. Executable files commonly have an EXE file ...

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: 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 ...

How many times have you deployed a .NET web application to a server and found that the server was missing MIME type mappings for file types you’ve used? Answer: every time. MIME is an internet ...