Files, you think you know but what are they really?
On 2010/08/16
Pictures, music, video, spreadsheets, documents and applications are files on your computer. Do you ever wonder what they are and how they differ from each other? What makes a document open in Microsoft Word and a song open in iTunes? Why do files designed to run on Windows PCs like Word documents or Excel spreadsheets [...]
Free disk drive activity icons for Windows PCs and Macs
On 2010/08/07
It is often useful to know when your computer’s hard drive(s) are accessed. Typical reasons are:
when your computer is not responding and you wonder if it crashed you want to know if that file you are saving is actually being written to the drive
Hard drive activity is usually a sign that your [...]
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