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Have you ever wished your Hypervisor could be installed at the push of a button, without the tedious searching for the install CD and answering the same boring installation questions? HTG explains how to PXE an automated installation of Citrix-Xen.

While playing games with serious story lines, goals, and a need to save your progress can be fun, sometimes you just want something a bit simpler. That is where ‘Dots: A Game About Connecting’ comes in. This easy to master game is elegant in its simplicity, perfect when you only have a short amount of time for gaming, and can definitely be addicting to play!

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Thanks to NASA’s Landsat satellites and Google’s new Earth Engine we are now able to view the long term impact humans are having on our planet. Whether it is the expansion and development of current cities, deforestation in the Amazon, or other human activities, you may be surprised or downright shocked at the difference 25+ years has made.

Last week we showed you how to convert your color photos to black and white photos. While the tips and tricks we shared with you yield awesome results, we’re back this week to highlight some powerful techniques to take your image to the next level.

In this guide, we will show you how to backup your movie collection on to blank DVD and Blu-Ray discs, along with ripping the movie on to your computer if you prefer to keep a digital copy instead.

Whatever happened to the digital wallet? We’ve been hearing that smartphones are on the verge of replacing our credit cards and eliminating our physical wallets for years, but it never seems to happen.

You may have noticed a new command-line environment in Windows since Windows 7 — PowerShell. PowerShell is a much more powerful command-line shell and scripting language than the Command Prompt is, giving Windows system administrators a useful command-line environment.

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We recently showed you how to enable two-factor authentication on your Windows Live account. But that might have broken a few apps that don’t support it yet — my phone’s email client comes to mind. Here’s how to fix them.

The “paperless office” we were promised never seems to arrive for many people. The reality, however, is that a paperless office is here today if you want to take advantage of it.

Our latest edition of WIG is filled with news link coverage on topics such as Google Earth for Android gets Street View, Canonical plans to have dogfood-capable phones by the end of May, UEFI will make its way into mobile and non-PC markets, and more.

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By default the Metro Bing App keeps a history of the things you search, here is how to clear and disable the history feature.

Microsoft recently rolled out two-factor authentication for Windows Live accounts, and here’s how to enable it.

You don’t need a task killer because Android can normally manage processes better on its own. However, this all falls apart if there’s a buggy app hogging your resources and running when it shouldn’t be. But how do you identify these misbehaving apps?

Rainy days are great for taking a nap or settling in for some reading and gaming fun with your favorite tablet. Set the weather forecast for rain on your Nexus 7 with the first in our series of Rain Wallpaper collections.

Are you ready for some wild and crazy fun? Then prepare to join Banana Kong on his journey through the jungle as he runs to avoid the great banana avalanche. Watch out because the pace is quick and danger is always looming just behind! Can you help Banana Kong escape or will it be game over for our hero?

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When you think of boiling water, it is just a matter of making the temperature reach 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit), right? While that may be true most of the time, there are circumstances where those standard temperatures may not exactly apply. Curious? Then watch as YouTube channel ‘Periodic Table of Videos’ conducts their own set of tests at Mt. Everest!

Did you know you can get any Windows computer’s MAC address without leaving your chair?

Converting color photos to black and white images that harken to the golden age of black and white photography is an art form. Read on as we show you how to capture the crisp contrast and mood of vintage photographs with today’s digital tools.

There may be times when you want to create a new Excel worksheet based on an existing worksheet. You can easily copy an entire worksheet in Excel to a new worksheet in the same file or even to a new, separate workbook file.

Leave the paper maps, outdated travel guides, and thick dictionaries at home when you go traveling — all you need is an Android smartphone. You can do everything offline with features built into Android and free apps.

Have you ever wished you could get the “Windows Recovery Console” running for that one maintenance procedure or program you want to use, without having to remember where you’ve forgotten the CD? HTG explains how to boot WinPE from PXE.