I like taking photos, and I like editing them. But every time I'm done editing a batch of photos, getting the metadata right is a dreadful task. It's seriously the kind of repetitive work that makes ...

Put it back to sleep. Reason: drive is needed less than 1 hour every day; no point in incurring the wear, tear and power expenditure by having it spin all the time. Related question: Assuming the ...

Elevate your Linux game with these APT power moves.

I want to design a web frontend to a commmand line utility I have. The command line utility detects whether a custom microcontroller I have is "Active" or "Inactive". I would like to have a web page ...

To learn more about these steps, continue reading. 1] Open Command Prompt in the correct directory It is the first thing you need to check when you are getting the ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Awhile back, you answered a DOSBox question for me (Geek Note: IGTM #723, May 30, 2021 and IGTM #779, Jun 26, ...

To use MSG.exe to send a message to a network computer, you need the name or IP address of the target computer. Also, the destination computers should be connected to the same local network. Add ...

Windows Package Manager is a free and open source utility from Microsoft that allows you to download, install and manage apps from the command line in Windows 10 or Windows 11. First introduced in ...

Windows Package Manager is a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt, much the way you can with most Linux distributions. Up until recently though, you could only ...

These are the basic macOS Terminal commands to know for updating a Mac, forcing an unresponsive Mac to shut down, finding the differences between files easily and much more. Under the hood, macOS X ...

I have written a couple of different articles about ChromeOS Flex and FydeOS, both of which are based on ChromiumOS and allow you to run ChromeOS on x64 systems. I have found both to be helpful ways ...