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.

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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?

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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

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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

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