My Scientific American column this month concerned a sneaky problem that not many people are paying attention to: file-format rot. That’s when our digital files become unopenable not because their ...

Office applications like Word periodically, and sometimes, without the consent of a user convert a file to ‘Read-only’ mode while it is being used. The change in default status can be annoying since ...

From time-to-time users of Microsoft Word will come face-to-face with a file extension called ASD. In many cases, folks are confused about what to do with such a file and how to open it. Well, we are ...