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How To Make Images, Music, Video, and PDF Files Open On The Desktop in Windows 8
Windows 8 opens many types of files in the Windows 8 interface formerly known as Metro by default. If you’re at the desktop and double-click many types of media files, you’ll see a full-screen media viewer.
Living the Amazon Life [Video]
Amazon has an amazing selection of products available to satisfy your needs and desires, but what if their services were to expand even more? This humorous video looks at what it might be like if you could literally get anything you wanted through a unique assortment of Amazon sister-sites! Note: Video contains some language that may be considered inappropriate. AMAZON LIFE [via Geeks are Sexy ] What Is the Purpose of the “Do Not Cover This Hole” Hole on Hard Drives?
Get Our New Book: The How-To Geek Guide to Windows 8
Lets face it, Windows 8 is a major change to Windows, and for many, quite confusing. Today we’re releasing our very very first book: The How-To Geek Guide to Windows 8 , which is written to be easy enough for anybody to understand, but comprehensive enough for experts to enjoy. There’s over a thousand screenshots and pictures in the book to help you get the hang of navigating around Windows 8, and nearly a thousand pages of content so there’s nothing you won’t understand
What You Said: How You Set Up a Novice-Proof Computer
Earlier this week we asked you to share your tips and tricks for setting up a novice-proof computer; read on to see how your fellow readers ensure friends and relatives have a well protected computer. Image available as wallpaper here . If you only listen to a single bit of advice from your fellow readers, let that advice be the importance of separate and non-administrative user accounts
Bust Out these 13 Spooky Games for Halloween
Looking for a suitably spooky board game for Halloween? This roundup includes everything from the light-hearted to the dark and challenging
Weekend Project: Make Your Own Ferromagnetic Fluid
Experiments this simple and fun give you no reason to leave all science-based goofing off to the professionals: whip up a beaker of ferromagnetic fluid to capture magnetic waves in motion. The premise is simple: by combing a viscous liquid (in this case vegetable oil) with a magnetic powder (in this case MICR copy toner) and introducing a strong magnetic source (such as neodymium rare earth magnets), you can actually see the magnetic waves in physical space.
Friday Fun: Haunted House – Quest for the Magic Book
In this week’s game you embark on a quest into a haunted house to search for a magic book…a search that will have to be conducted room by room in order to successfully make your way through the house. Will your quest be successful or will you go home empty handed? What Is the Purpose of the “Do Not Cover This Hole” Hole on Hard Drives
What Is the Purpose of the “Do Not Cover This Hole” Hole on Hard Drives?
From tiny laptop hard drives to beefier desktop models, traditional disk-based hard drives have a very bold warning on them: DO NOT COVER THIS HOLE. What exactly is the hole and what terrible fate would befall you if you covered it? Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-drive grouping of Q&A web sites.
Office 2013 Style Theme for Windows 8 RTM
Windows 8 is finally releasing on October 26th and comes with lots of new features, at the same time a new version of Office suite is also being released early next year.
