How-To Geek

In the mood for a weekend binge that actually feels like a binge—the kind that grips you early, and before you know it, you're five episodes in? Impressively, Paramount+ is still yielding new and old shows to watch.

Whether you're choosing an employee of the month, picking giveaway winners, or assigning tasks, Excel is the perfect tool for a bias-free draw. These simple formulas allow you to generate a single result or a full list of unique selections in just a few steps.

Forget your "one episode, then bed," declaration—you're not fooling anyone. Netflix has had a good run lately with all kinds of bingable shows that you keep just clicking "Next Episode" on.

I’m an avid self-hoster. There are very few services that I use that I don’t self-host. However, there’s one service that I will happily continue to pay for and never even try to self-host, and what it is might surprise you.

Honda retired the Prelude back in 2001, leaving a hole in the sporty two-door lineup that combined style, reliability, and everyday usability. Seeing it back at the 2026 Detroit Auto Show makes the revival feel real in a way photos never could.

Are you ready to dive into some fun Raspberry Pi projects? From creating your own off-grid long-range mesh texting system to building a microscope, here are three Raspberry Pi projects sure to keep you busy this weekend.

If you're looking for a weekend watch session that covers all the feels—excitement, bittersweetness, and some creepy shivers, I dug up a few documentaries on Prime Video I think you'll like.

Sports coupes often force buyers to choose between exhilarating performance and everyday usability, but one model in 2025 strikes a rare balance between the two. It delivers high-octane fun with sharp handling and strong acceleration, yet retains the practicality that many drivers need from a daily driver. With its four-door design and usable rear seats, it bridges the gap between performance car and sensible sedan in a way few rivals manage.

Microsoft Excel is getting two new functions for importing data from other files, without the need to use Power Query or other more complex tools. They're now being tested in Excel for Windows, and they should come to other platforms in the future.

I've been on a little bit of a self-hosting kick since last year. It started with a simple self-hosted replacement for Trello, but ever since, I've been trying to replace my everyday apps with self-hosted alternatives. It recently hit me that I'm paying for Spotify Premium, but I rarely ever open the app because I don't like the recommendations Spotify serves me. Most of the time, I just listen to the music I have saved on my phone. So I spent the last few days looking for an app to stream my small music collection. It took some trial and error, but I found one that I'm pleased with. Here's how I self-hosted a Spotify-like app for my music library.

It’s that time again—time for you to work on more homelab projects! Today, I’m focusing on security in the homelab, plus moving some of your resources away from virtual machines to containers uniquely. Here are three projects you can try in the homelab this weekend.

Verizon is now issuing a $20 account credit to customers who were affected by the massive, nearly day-long cellular service outage that crippled voice and data services earlier this week. It is working to provide financial relief for the disruption, but it won't be automatic.

Excel's UNIQUE function is a game-changer for cleaning data, but it has a frustrating limitation: it only works with adjacent columns. But by nesting additional functions inside it, you can create a dynamic, custom list that ignores the columns you don't want to include.

Love doesn’t always arrive with fireworks. Sometimes it shows up quietly, when you catch a familiar shape in traffic and realize you’re smiling for no real reason.

Flash drives are a convenient way to temporarily store files, or a fast way to move things between two PCs. Unless you've got very fast internet, or have invested heavily in your home network, a flash drive is almost always faster.

Raspberry Pi has sold the AI HAT+ board for over a year now, giving Pi boards the ability to run lightweight machine learning models for object detection, file tagging, and other tasks. Now, there's a Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2, and it's powerful enough to run large language models (LLMs).

Spotify is hitting its Premium subscribers with yet another cost increase. This marks the third time in four years that the music streaming giant has raised its subscription prices. The company announced the expected hike early Thursday, affecting users in the US, Estonia, and Latvia.

Amazon might be the most popular online storefront, but it's far from perfect. Knock-off products are frustratingly common, especially when ordering one particular product: SD cards.

Do you waste the first 10 minutes of every work session figuring out what you need to do? Does Alt+Tabbing between apps leave you feeling mentally scattered? These were common problems in my workflow until I started using widgets and transformed my desktop into a productivity dashboard.

Are you wanting to play retro games on a tiny computer? The bad news is that the classic choice, Raspberry Pi devices, have been going up in price lately (again). The good news is there's a cheaper alternative: RISC-V.