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Week in Geek: TinyHacker is an Awesome Random Geek Links Site (by How-To Geek)
If you’re looking for a new source for links to awesome random geek stuff, you’ve come to the right place. Or rather, you’ve found the right page that will lead you to the right place. Or… never mind. You should just click through and check it out for yourself.
During our time browsing the web, we find just buckets of interesting geek stuff, and not everything is totally applicable for an article here at How-To Geek… but we still want to share them with our friends. TinyHacker is how we’ll share those links.
Wait, Aren’t There 10,000 Link Sites Already?
Yep, that’s exactly right. There are zillions of sites out there, but TinyHacker is different:
- TinyHacker gets right down to business: a simple preview screenshot, a tiny blurb, and a link. Nothing more.
- TinyHacker is devoted to finding great, random geek links (and tips), without the BS everybody else has.
- TinyHacker is run by the team at How-To Geek.
So… Head over to TinyHacker and make sure to subscribe.
TinyHacker Highlights
Since TinyHacker is an official part of the How-To Geek network, we’ll continue to show you the highlights during our Week in Geek roundups. Here’s just some of the fun things we found this week, and a good idea of the type of topics we’ll be covering:
Zelda Classic Does Retro NES With New Quests
Figure Out Unknown Devices in Device Manager
Who Needs Win7 Eye Candy? Use the Windows 3.1 Theme Instead!
And even more…
- Test the Speed of Your USB Drive
- Autoruns for Microsoft Provides the Best Startup Control. Period.
- Club Bing ! Play Inane Games, Win Nice Prizes
- Microsoft Web Platform Installs Open Source Software? Really?
- Generate Automatic FavIcons for Sites that Don’t Have One
- 70+ Outlook Icons
- TweetMyPC – Remote Control Your PC Using Tweets
- Tune to Channelsurfing.net for all your hard to find sporting events
- AVG Internet Security 8.5 – How Good is the Paid Version?
- Tiny Imagicon turns multiple image files into another format
- TrackMeNot for Firefox keeps search engines from ‘data profiling’ you
- FastStone Capture v 5.3, last freeware version
- Use EventID to help identify Windows events and errors
- LocateTV – easily find when your favorite actors and movies are on
Loads of good stuff over there at TinyHacker.
Super User Continues to Rock
Seems like every time I head over to Super User, I find a really interesting thread on some random geeky topic.
- Best free tool to find largest files and folders on a drive
- Where do deleted Gmail messages go?
- How do anti-viruses work?
- What is the origin of the UNIX $ (dollar) prompt?
- New Computer Build Questions
- 32-bit vs 64-bit systems
- I’ve got virtualbox, now what?
- MacBook vs MacBook Pro (October 2009)
- Portable Wikipedia without having to buy a smart phone
- Recommended boot partition size for Windows 7
Even better, a good majority of them have answers.
Last Year in Geek
One year ago, we were covering some awesome stuff—like this awesome game:
Waste Time With the Geekiest Flash Game Ever
- Stupid Geek Tricks: Hide Data in a Secret Text File Compartment
- Analyze and Manage Hard Drive Space with WinDirStat
- Quick Tip: Easily Compact Outlook Data Files
- Quick Tip: Hide Outlook 2007 When Minimized
This Week in How-To Geek
The last 7 days have been pretty crazy, what with the giant Windows 7 launch.
175 Windows 7 Tweaks, Tips, and How-To Articles
- The 20 Best Windows Tweaks that Still Work in Windows 7
- How to Create a Virtual Hard Drive in Windows 7
- Run Apps in Sandboxie to Keep Your System Clean and Secure
- How to Lock Down Your Facebook Account
- Stupid Geek Tricks: Duplicate a Tab with a Shortcut Key in Chrome or Firefox
The Geek Note
Unfortunately, at some point recently one of our advertisers enabled a completely obnoxious, ridiculously useless and horrible survey that slides across the page, asking you to enter something or another about some subject you don’t care about. Most likely you didn’t even see it, but for those of you that did, we’re sorry.
We can assure you that we are extremely angry about this, and we’re working with the advertisers to make sure this gets pulled.
If you ever see a survey that floats across the page, you should immediately close it. Don’t reward those idiots by filling it out! If it shows up on How-To Geek at any point in the future, you should take a screenshot (use the print screen key, paste into Word or Paint), and then email it directly to me at geek@howtogeek.com.
And again, sorry. I don’t know why people insist on being idiots.
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Comments (6)
Programmer by day, geek by night, The Geek, also known as Lowell Heddings, spends all his free time bringing you fresh geekery on a daily basis. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like.
- Published 10/24/09
I think I would like the Tiny Hacker website. I wish it was available as an iGoogle item. I seem to take the time to check all of my favorite little things on iGoogle, but never seem to get around to going to the websites unless I already see an article linking to it. Yes, I’m lazy. But at least I’m honest.
Link to hiding data in a secret text file compartment is broken…..”content encoding error”
Getting angry with advertisers about the type of advertisements grants you a disabled ABP in my Firefox.
I’ve been buying music (from mp3va) for over a year. Recently, though the tunes I pick are no longer downloading to my Windows Media Player library, but to somewhere on my D:drive. Wondering if any forum contributors have a solution. Am I missing some simple command to download to Music Match? Would appreciate any ideas.
@Dianne
If you add the following feed link into the add feed or link section of the add stuff bit it will add tinyhacker into your igoogle frontpage
http://feeds.howtogeek.com/Tinyhacker?format=xml
As Alainn, AdBlock is disabled for your website now on.