These days digital is increasingly king, including in the sphere of photography. More and more people see the virtues of the digital camera, most obviously the ability to take 2000 pictures of your pet cat sleeping and display them repeatedly to friends and family with zero development cost to yourself.

On the subject of 2000 photos, one such frequent annoyance is that when you download them from the camera to the computer, they get rather conspicuously geeky and semantically useless filenames as DSC00001.jpg, DSC00002.jpg all the way up to DSC02000.jpg. Hitting rename 2000 times to make them a little more sensible will take up unnecessary amounts of your life up and potentially give you repetitive strain injury.

Thank you cnet for an extremely handy tip to rename them all in one go if you're running Windows XP.

1. Copy your pictures into a folder, and switch to thumbnails view (go to the View menu in My Computer, Explorer etc. and select Thumbnails).
2. Select all the pictures you wish to rename (for instance by clicking and dragging over them all).
3. Right-click the first one, choose rename, and enter the basic name you want for your photo - for example "holiday.jpg". Hit enter to confirm.
4. Stand back in amazement as lovely Windows XP reads your mind and renames all the rest of the pictures Holiday (1).jpg, Holiday (2).jpg and so on.