OS X has a few hidden features to help you sort your data in addition to the default sorting criteria. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since ...

When you are organizing data for your company in a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel, you do not have to manually edit the information, if you want to sort it alphabetically. Instead, you can use the ...

Linux commands can provide details on files and show options for customizing file listings, but can also reach as deeply into a file system as you care to look. There are many ways to list files and ...

IComparable and IComparer sound the same and work in similar ways, but there are important differences you need to know. A common and relatively simple coding task in C# is to sort an array or List ...

Excel has several advanced sorting options, but most of us never venture beyond the ordinary alphabetic and numeric sorts. If you need more than a simple sort, check out Excel’s advanced sorting ...

Defining a list in Python is easy—just use the bracket syntax to indicate items in a list, like this: list_of_ints = [1, 2, 3] Items in a list do not have to all be the same type; they can be any ...

I’ve been remiss in keeping up with my Bad Apple column, which exists to document aspects of the Apple experience that are incontrovertibly wrong and have an obvious solution. But it’s time for ...