TUAW reader David wrote us to ask how he could view .erb files (Rails development) in Quick Look. The fact is, there are a lot of plain-text files with extensions that Quick Look doesn't recognize. It ...

I'm writing an app where I'd like to have a .ini file in the same directory as the executable for the app to use. I'm trying to figure out how to (properly) do this inside the VS.NET IDE.<BR>If I add ...

Sometimes you might receive an error while trying to change and save the contents of a Read-only text file and you never realize it until the text editor itself ...

File Explorer is one of the oldest parts of Windows, and you can tell. Microsoft has added tabs and refreshed the icons, but the core experience still needs work. For example, the layout looks rigid, ...

We all use archive file formats like .zip, .rar in order to employ lossless data compression. In a single archive file, we can add several files and folders and considerably reduce the combined size ...

To add a Google Drive link to Windows' File Explorer, you'll need to install the Google Drive app. Once you install Google Drive, it'll appear in File Explorer like a separate hard drive. You can also ...

Despite the file extensions you see in the Add Existing Item dialog box, Visual Studio isn't limited to working with specific kinds of files. If you have some file that you want to include in your ...

It's easy to add a few lines of text to files on Linux, but there are tools that make it easier to add many lines. There are a number of ways to add text to files on Linux systems without having to ...

You certainly wouldn't walk a high wire without a safety net, so why do you store important files on a flash drive, which is one accidental deletion from oblivion ...

To demonstrate the use of the above, I will use a simple Java class called TimeZoneIDs.java, whose code listing is shown next. package dustin.examples; import java.util.Arrays; import ...