Gene Rubel the Digital Device Doctor, cures digital anxiety for seniors and home/ home-office users. A graduate of Harvard Business School, “Doctor Gene” spent more than 30 years in international ...

Windows only: Dir Utils, a free right-click extension for Windows systems, is a great utility for anyone who regularly finds themselves organizing downloads and media files. The utility adds five new ...

Also, if the contents of files can be searched, why make a user name a file? Shouldn’t I just be able to type (or even better, speak) “Last year’s tax returns” and have the operating system find and ...

Q: I am an accountant, and organization of my paper and digital information is very important to me. I need to be able to retrieve stuff even years after it was created. Most of my work and personal ...

Windows 8 has a number of native functions that help you organize the files and programs on your hard drive. This is part of the basic functionality of an operating system. The File Explorer and ...

I got a wonderful suggestion via Twitter (from @PurpleArti) asking for an article on how I organize my music. It's actually a craft, and many people don't have the patience for it. It takes time and ...

The Macintosh operating system has a quick and convenient way to organize files by type. Business users that are used to using Windows systems simply need to learn the terminology used on a Macintosh ...

We analyze certain self-organizing filing techniques when accesses are assumed to be dependent on each other. The stream of requests for accessing records in a file is modelled as a Markov chain. A ...

Mac OS X only: Freeware utility File Actions monitors user-defined locations and automatically moves files around your Mac using a set of user-defined rules to keep your Mac organized. File Actions is ...

I’ve done my fair share of Vista-bashing over the years, but the reality is the OS has a lot of hidden talents that go unheralded. One of them is stacking, a handy way to organize the files contained ...