I remember how big a deal it once was to be able to search a hard drive for files. Now it's not only taken as a given, but it's a task so easy, we do it from our phones. Windows Vista has a pretty bad ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There are plenty of tricks and tools to use in your searches. There are plenty of tricks and tools to use in your ...

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the user to ...

File Explorer is a tool in Windows OS that lets users manage files on their system. There is also a search feature in File Explorer using which users can search for specific files in a particular ...

Microsoft finally nailed search—just not where you expected ...

I recently borrowed a Windows laptop from a friend. When I booted up the system, there was a system update. That’s fine because it’s Windows; the update took two hours and 45 minutes to complete. Once ...

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Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

My favorite use of Groovy continues to be for scripting in a Java development environment. In this blog post, I demonstrate a simple Groovy script for searching JARs recursively under a provided ...

There are quite a few ways to search through compressed text files on Linux systems without having to uncompress them first. Depending on the format of the files, you can choose to view entire files, ...

The command line is a powerful tool for Linux users, offering a range of capabilities beyond traditional graphical interfaces. In this article, we will explore two essential command line ...