Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Free Editor is advised only if you really need a free editor, or an editor for multiple different formats. In our everyday lives, we use a number of different programs to edit the various file types ...

Editing PDFs is something many people need to do, but unfortunately it’s not always the easiest thing to do. The format is not designed to be easily edited, and despite a plethora of Windows and web ...

Whether you are creating important documents for your business or you are simply editing your Curriculum vitae, you will want to use a very secure file format. This way, you will make sure that no one ...

Created by Adobe a full 26 years ago in 1993, the Portable Document Format, or PDF, still reigns supreme as the file format of choice for documents you need to look the same on every device or app. As ...

The Windows vs Mac debate isn’t a new one, but now more than ever people find themselves working between the two operating systems, be it for work or play. We can also assume that those working ...

Google Docs and Google's Cloud Connect toolbar for Microsoft Office combine to let you do simple editing of Word and Excel files on an iPad without having to pay for a separate app. Dennis O'Reilly ...

Occasionally, when you read tutorials about managing a website you will read that you need to connect to your website via a secure shell client, such as PuTTY, and edit a file. This gives you a ...

Property lists are essentially XML files with a .plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app. XML is an open data format which gained popularity in the ...

The Textor app opens files in place--so when you save the file, it saves immediately to the service / destination from which it was opened. How to create and edit plain text files in iOS with Textor ...

My problem involves moving 7-year-old word processing files from my old computer to my new HP Pavilion 6630. I was using Microsoft Works 2.0 and the HP has Microsoft Works 5.0. I am unable to open ...