Mac OS X is a true multi-user system that operates using individual user accounts, helping users maintain both separate settings as well as some level of privacy in multi-user environments. This ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

I plan on buying an external drive tomorrow, nuking my install of Windows and starting fresh, installing all my apps and bringing in my backed up files, then imaging the fresh setup to the external ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, from verifying file format to finding out where and when photos were taken and maybe even getting an unusual view of what they look like.

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...

ISO/Disc image can potentially be used to deliver malware payload on the Windows 11/10 operating system. That said, Windows Defender the inbuilt antivirus solution and a component of the Windows ...

The convert command (part of ImageMagick) can change the resolution of image files faster than you can count to F in hex. The convert command from the ImageMagick suite of tools provides ways to make ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...