I like to give Windows a lot of grief when it deserves it, but when it comes to File Explorer, even with some questionable changes to it, it's still a powerful application. Even though I'm mainly a ...

The Windows user interface is very mouse-oriented, but if you're willing to learn a few shortcuts, the keyboard can save you time and effort. These are some of the shortcuts I use daily. The most ...

Icons for opening apps and folders are lined up on the Windows desktop.Even if you double-click them casually every day, you may rarely have the opportunity to consider whether they are the actual ...

Shortcuts isn’t just about asking Siri to help out when a cop pulls you over, or shutting your home down for the night. Shortcuts can also be little utilities that you use on your files, adding ...

Richard loves technology, namely Android flagships, as well as depreciated German cars that can be picked up for next to nothing on Craigslist. In other words, he enjoys throwing money away. Send him ...

The iPhone got access to Shortcuts way back in iOS 12, giving you ways of combining different apps and tasks together to get stuff done—from calculating journey times and texting someone the details ...

First, my shortcut makes use of an app called Actions. It’s able to grab the file path of content because this isn’t something that Shortcuts natively supports. Actions is free and open source, and ...

Last August, Google announced that it’s testing a new organization concept in Drive to cut down on the need for creating file copies. Drive shortcuts are now generally available for both personal ...

With the new Drive Priority page, Google introduced Workspaces that can be used to provide quick access to files without changing the underlying location. Google Drive is now testing the ability to ...

My latest Shortcuts experiments began in earnest on my way back from Rome. I stopped in Ireland for a few days to deal with COVID testing and start ramping back up to my normal work routine. I wasn’t ...