How-To Geek

Once again Friday has rolled around and now it is time for you to take a break and have some fun. This week we have a set of toys and playsets for your desktop that come wrapped up in a nice easy to install package.

VLC media player is terrific for playing all kinds of media files on your system but you may not care for the native look. We have a great collection of skins to help get you started on removing the “blah factor” and make VLC a lot more fun to look at.

If you are online chances are that you keep an instant messenger running while working or browsing. This week we want to know which instant messenger client you use.

If you enjoyed watching J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved Lord of the Rings series brought to life in the movies, then you will definitely want to look through our collection of wallpapers, icon packs, and fonts for your desktop.

This week we learned how to maximize the Android phone’s battery life, use Dropbox with an Android phone, share a folder from OS X to Windows, export Evernote notes in html or mht Format, create a Windows 7 theme pack from scratch, and more. So sit back and relax while enjoying this week’s batch of geeky goodness.

The Harry Potter movies are truly enchanting and have made many people wish that they could attend Hogwarts and be a part of the Wizardry World. While this may not be as nice as a scholarship to Hogwarts we hope that you will enjoy our Harry Potter wallpaper collection.

Your weekend is almost here but until quitting time arrives we have another fun game for you to play at work. This time we have a bridge building puzzle game that will get you thinking.

Nearly ten months have gone by since Windows 7 became available to the public and it has done very well in that short time. This week we would like to know if you have made the leap and upgraded to Windows 7.

If you have been wanting something that sets a mood with a good dose of attitude for your desktop, then look through our collection of Batman wallpapers, icon packs, and fonts.

This week we learned how to record screen activity in Ubuntu, sync any folder to Dropbox with SyncToy, jailbreak an iPhone or iPod Touch with iOS 4, find the 3G or Wi-Fi speeds on Android phones, get rid of the annoying YouTube bottom bar, and more. Now you can get comfortable and relax while looking through our latest batch of geeky goodness.

The Matrix saga presented a unique view of humanity’s fate in the future, and like Neo you have a choice to make. Will you take the blue pill and continue with the same boring desktop or take the red pill and see our Matrix wallpaper collection?

If you have had a long week then you are ready to relax for a bit while finishing out your Friday. Today we have the perfect way for you to take a bite out of that stress with Tiny Piranha.

Search engines are something that all of use to find information, images, and more while online. This week we want to know which search engine you use.

If you love playing Halo then we have a great collection of wallpapers, icon packs, and fonts that you can use to customize your desktop.

This week we learned how to watch Netflix instant streaming content through Zinc TV, test drive webOS without buying a phone, make iTunes for Windows run faster, import OneNote 2010 notebooks into Evernote, get started with GeekTool for OS X, and more. Time to pull up your favorite comfy chair and enjoy this week’s batch of geeky goodness.

The colorful open spaces of meadows make you want to relax and feel free from the stress of everyday life. Now you can add a touch of that peace and beauty to your desktop with the first in our series of Meadows Wallpaper collections.

It has been a busy month here at How-To Geek and now it is time to take a look back at the ten hottest articles for July.

After a long week it is time to relax for a bit while waiting for quitting time to arrive. Today we have a great way to relieve some of this week’s stress by engaging in some planetary destruction.

Having good anti-malware software as a supplement to your anti-virus software is important for your PC security strategy. This week we would like to know which anti-malware software that you use.

If you love video games and the stylish text shown in them, then we have a great collection of game fonts that you can add to your system.

This week we learned how to how to play retro video games on a Windows PC, remove Ubuntu One from Ubuntu 10.04, run Android on a Netbook or Desktop, install, manage, and delete fonts on a PC, import e-mail from Outlook to Apple Mail.app using Thunderbird, and more. Now you can relax while enjoying our latest batch of geeky goodness.

Sometimes an image from a favorite movie or the outdoors is perfect for our desktops, but what if you prefer something with a pattern or texture? Then enjoy browsing through the first in our series of Abstract Textures Wallpaper collections.

As your week is winding down we have yet another fun game to help pass the remaining time. Today’s game lets you conduct a sneak attack using a bicycle.

If you love to customize your system as much as possible, then we have a fun way for you to change the color scheme for the Task Manager Window. Those Performance and Networking tabs will have a fresh new look in only a few minutes.

The debate on who is or what makes one starship captain better than the other is pure classic geekness at its best. This week we want to know who you think is the better starship captain…Kirk or Picard.