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's ascending and descending sort options are powerful tools, but they won't always sort values in a familiar and meaningful way. When this is the case, you might need a custom sort. Sorting is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems that the sorting order of file in the Windows XP Explorer has changed from previous versions. As far as I can tell, they've changed the way that numbers are sorted. For example, the following ...

Navigating the world of Excel can often feel like trying to solve a complex puzzle, especially when it comes to sorting slicer buttons in a custom order. If you’ve ever found yourself tangled in the ...

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 ...

iTunes lets you apply and edit information about your content; this metadata is called “tags.” Tags include the name of an item, its creator (or artist), an album name, a track number, and more. But ...