On the Mac, you probably know all the tricks for sorting things in the Finder. You can choose icon, list and column views. And you can sort the files and folders in those windows by various dates ...

In the world of Linux, the sort command is a powerful tool that enables you to efficiently sort and organize data in various ways. Whether you're dealing with simple text files or complex datasets, ...

An anonymous Hints reader was flummoxed: He (or she) used iTunes to sync pictures from iPhoto to his (or her) iPhone. But when he looked at the pictures on his phone, iPhoto Events didn’t appear in ...

Have you ever grouped data in Excel only to find your months sorted alphabetically instead of chronologically? It’s a frustrating quirk of the GROUPBY function, one that can turn a clean dataset into ...

Users expect a certain level of functionality from their web applications. While sorting and paging through data tables doesn’t top the list of developer favorites for feature programming, they are ...