There are loads of file types swimming around our computers at any given time — most of which exist to supplement the programs we use or play (or allow them to function in the first place). The most ...

Spotlight: Choking on Finder.DAT files? We've received scattered reports from readers indicating that Mac OS X 10.4.x's Spotlight may have problems indexing and searching for Finder.DAT files -- data ...

Windows ecosystem was one of the earliest platforms to have embraced touch support. With the release of the Modern interface, an increasing number of Windows devices, including Microsoft Surface ...

We’ve all seen mysterious .dat file attachments in our inboxes from time to time. In most cases the .dat attachment originates in Microsoft Outlook, which produces outgoing messages using a slightly ...

Julia is a writer in New York and started covering tech and business during the pandemic. She also covers books and the publishing industry. Cassie is a former deputy editor who collaborated with ...

Letter Opener converts winmail.dat attachments on the fly, so you can actually see and use the attachments the sender intended you to have. [Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s ...