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Shortcuts isn’t just about asking Siri to help out when a cop pulls you over, or shutting your home down for the night. Shortcuts can also be little utilities that you use on your files, adding ...

Q. I know that applications such as Word and Excel give you the option of quickly identifying and then opening up to nine recently used files. But frankly that’s not enough. For example, why can’t I ...

A new strain of malware is spreading in the wild via USB storage devices, exploiting a vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles shortcut files, security reporter Brian Krebs writes.

Last August, Google announced that it’s testing a new organization concept in Drive to cut down on the need for creating file copies. Drive shortcuts are now generally available for both personal ...

If you own a Samsung Galaxy phone, you can use the preinstalled My Files app to add a PDF shortcut to your home screen. Open your file manager or Files app and locate the PDF file. Tap on the ...

The Shortcuts Corner is a regular section of our MacStories Weekly newsletter, exclusive to Club MacStories members, where I share advanced shortcuts and respond to readers’ requests for automation.

The Files app is iOS 11’s Finder. You can use it to browse the files in your iCloud Drive, along with files and folders in your Dropbox, and inside other apps that open up their file systems to iOS.