Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

As a kid living in San Francisco I fondly remember combing through the Main Library card catalog in search of books on electronics and telephone systems. Of course, “analog cards” are not computer ...

Content indexing works well for finding files that contain text, but it's no help when searching for non-text data. Brien's workaround is to take advantage of Windows 10's file metadata feature. As ...

Sometimes it is useful to create small helper flows to get a small tasks done. Today I needed to check if a file exists or not and all I had was the URL of the site and the file path.

Whenever you capture an image from a camera or a mobile phone, image metadata is automatically generated and stored along with the image file. The image metadata can be read, and some fields can be ...

If your photo or video doesn’t have the proper metadata, you can add or edit them in Windows 11/10. Here is how to add Metadata to Photos & Video files in Windows 11/10. You can do that with and ...