Sometimes, you discover the coolest Mac OS X tricks by accident. That happened recently to Hints reader philostein. And philostein’s accident is our gain. First, copy a file path to your Mac’s ...

There have always been multiple reasons to avoid Java for writing scripts. It was not surprising that Java was not the most appropriate language for scripting because it was never intended to be a ...

You know those times when you want to upload a new photo to, say, Facebook or Pinterest? The typical browser-based upload tool forces you to click through countless ...

When we open a document in Word or a spreadsheet in Excel, its name is displayed on the Title Bar of Word and Excel respectively. When we create a new document or spreadsheet, its default name is ...

When I learned to program, programs had line numbers. You’d type GOTO 10 or GOSUB 5000 and that would control the flow of your program. When I first saw a programming language that didn’t have line ...

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Do you know that you can only have 260 characters in a path on Windows 11/10? If you are having issues with this limitation and searching for a way to enable Win32 Long Paths, this is the guide for ...