Every day, more people are getting online and the world is a whole lot smaller than it used to be. That’s really great, but a problem that’s been an ongoing issue in the world of electronic messaging is the date format. Problems with date formats predate the internet and go back to the BBS messaging days. In America (en-US), the standard format is...

This guide is for anybody that has a whole bunch of files, be they photos, MP3s, documents or any other type of file you have that needs quick-sorting by date at a glance. There is only one right way to put the date in a file name. When I say "date in a file name" I mean that the actual title of the file has the date in it. The format you must use for...

Well, that didn’t take long. Currently it’s being plastered all over the internet that the official Windows 7 launch date is October 22, 2009. For those of you that suck at math, that’s roughly four months from now. Microsoft says yes (much to the gritting of teeth by many), there will be five editions. Starter, Home Premium, Professional,...

(Note before starting: This should also for work Windows Vista the exact same way.) The way in which Windows 7 shows the date and time in the taskbar is like this:However you can make it look like this:Or this:Or any number of other ways by modifying the short date format in Calendar settings. To access this setting, you can get to it in several different...