Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A file’s format—the way that it’s saved and encoded ...

A file extension is a suffix that is added to the end of a file name after a dot. It is usually two to four letters long. File extensions help Windows and other operating systems to know the standard ...

Every day, we come across different types of file extensions while working on a computer. The file extensions tell an operating system about the type of file so that the OS could select the right app ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

Google has released ' Google Scholar PDF Reader,' a Chrome extension that makes it easier to read PDF files of scientific papers. I thought it would be very useful for reading the content of the paper ...

You can save any email as a PDF by printing it as such, but if you need to save emails to your hard drive quite often, this Chrome extension lets you PDF an email ...

If you have a PDF that you want to share with the world via Facebook, you might hit a snag. You simply can't upload that file type to Facebook as a photo. Thankfully, there are a few ways around that ...

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Microsoft hides file extensions in Windows by default even though it's a security risk that is commonly abused by phishing emails and malware distributors to trick people into opening malicious files.