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Hey another Friday!  Time to play a relaxing flash game on the boss’s time.  Today we look at Bubble Quod a fun physics game which should waste time until the whistle blows.

Hey another Friday! Time to play a relaxing flash game on the boss’s time. Today we look at Bubble Quod a fun physics game which should waste time until the whistle blows.

You want to watch a movie or television and are not sure what title to get?  Take a look at Jinni, a new site in private beta that finds programs based on your mood… and we’ve got invites for How-To Geek readers!

You want to watch a movie or television and are not sure what title to get? Take a look at Jinni, a new site in private beta that finds programs based on your mood… and we’ve got free invites for How-To Geek readers!

Microsoft Access is a great place to store and organize data into tables, and creating queries to generate specific reports.  Excel simplifies the process of presenting the  data into single worksheets.  Here we will show the steps to import an Access table into Excel.

Microsoft Access is a great place to store and organize data into tables, and creating queries to generate specific reports. Excel simplifies the process of presenting the data into single worksheets. Here we will show the steps to import an Access table into Excel.

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve probably noticed loads of changes around the site lately, so today we’re going to give you all the details and clear up some confusion.

Sometimes you have a document with private information that needs to stay confidential but the rest of the document needs to be seen.  Today we will take a look at ScrambleOnClick which encrypts selected parts of a document.

Sometimes you have a document with private information that needs to stay confidential but the rest of the document needs to be seen. Today we will take a look at ScrambleOnClick which encrypts selected parts of a document.

If you cannot get enough of Guitar Hero while playing on your home console then Frets On Fire is a great way to get a similar experience on your computer.  Frets on Fire is a cross-platform Open Source project.

If you cannot get enough of Guitar Hero while playing on your home console then Frets On Fire is a great way to get a similar experience on your computer. Frets on Fire is a cross-platform Open Source project.

If you subscribe to daily email news letters they can quickly fill up an inbox.  You might want to save them to read or reference at a later time.  Keeping these emails in specific folders is a good way to keep organized.  Today we will take a look at how to create a rule in Outlook to automatically place regularly received email messages in specifically assigned folders.

If you subscribe to daily email news letters they can quickly fill up an inbox. You might want to save them to read or reference at a later time. Keeping these emails in specific folders is a good way to keep organized. Today we will take a look at how to create a rule in Outlook to automatically place regularly received email messages in specifically assigned folders.

So you’ve looked in task manager, and there’s a dozen iexplore.exe processes listed! Clicking the End Process button for each will take far too long… so how can we kill them all in one step?

Next you can go into the shortcut properties and assign a shortcut key, and then click Change Icon to pick a better one than the default.

Have you ever ran into the problem of having music files that are not compatible with your portable or software music player?  If so, today we will take a look at XRECODE, a powerful free utility for converting almost any format to another.

Have you ever ran into the problem of having music files that are not compatible with your portable or software music player? If so, today we will take a look at XRECODE, a powerful free utility for converting almost any format to another.

Imagine being a statue constantly being bombarded by bird droppings… now the statue gets revenge with a gun to shoot those damn birds.

Imagine being a statue constantly being bombarded by bird droppings… now the statue gets revenge with a gun to shoot those damn birds.

Windows Vista and XP have built in disc burning functionality but they are lacking in features. Today we will take a look at BurnAware Free Edition which – as the name implies – is free and feature rich.

These are just a few tips that I’ve learned over my last 25 minutes as a farmer.

Most of us spend a painful amount of time in Microsoft Outlook, reading emails from the pointy-haired bosses and sending TPS reports around. Since you’re already in Outlook, why not browse the web a little?

Most of us spend a painful amount of time in Microsoft Outlook, reading emails from the pointy-haired bosses and sending TPS reports around. Since you’re already in Outlook, why not browse the web a little?

Windows Vista and XP have built in disc burning functionality but they are lacking in features.  Today we will take a look at BurnAware Free Edition which – as the name implies – is free and feature rich.

Every so often, we hear about a new and horrible virus spreading across the internet, infecting millions of Windows computers. Today we’ll show you the steps to remove those threats and (hopefully) prevent them from happening in the future.