How-To Geek

Whether the week has flown by or it went at a snail's pace, you can now relax knowing it's the weekend. To help keep you entertained over the next couple of days, I've rounded up some amazing Netflix shows that are worthy of binging.

I’m a sucker for tech that forgoes frills in favor of refinement. The Cherry XTRFY M68 Wireless exemplifies this, except unlike the high-end gaming mice it’s comparable to, it makes smart cuts to maintain a midrange price point. The result is close to perfect, so long as you don’t need Bluetooth.

Whether you're applying for a role that requires Excel expertise, want to add more strings to your data analysis bow, or simply want to do more with your data in Microsoft's spreadsheet program, add these five Excel skills to your toolkit to unlock the next level.

Apple's most recent iPad Air, launched earlier this year, packs some insane hardware, but its $600 price point might be too steep for some. Thankfully, $450 might be much more palatable.

Visual Studio Code, the popular development text editor and IDE, has rolled out its big July 2025 release. The v1.103 update adds new Git and terminal integrations, better language support, and more.

Seasoned social media users will remember when Snapchat launched a controversial feature that showed where your friends were at all times. Well, Instagram has something similar, and you may want to adjust some settings.

Despite dabbling with Minecraft back when it was still just a Java applet, I’ve never really seen the appeal of survival crafting games. Managing a hunger meter and gathering resources always felt like work, which I was always adamant was not the reason I played video games.

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 are good, but they have a big flaw. They use Bixby out of the box as their assistant (some people like it, even), and while you can change it to Google Assistant, it's not that huge of an upgrade—and Google Assistant is getting phased out anyway. Now, it just got an upgrade to bring it to current times.

Do you want to try Arch Linux, but feel scared because of the recent malware incident? Are you a current Arch user wondering how to keep your system safe and secure? Well, I have been using the Linux distro for five years now, and here’s my complete guide on staying safe on Arch Linux.

To break down the reasons why the Toyota Camry has been so popular, with more than 21 million units sold, may seem like a high-level Rubik's Cube of motoring that has left many car enthusiasts scratching their heads, wondering why. What's the appeal? What is the magic reason?

Once upon a time, the Western was the most popular movie genre in all of Hollywood. These movies held generational appeal because families watched them together, and grandparents loved introducing their grandkids to actors like John Wayne and directors like John Ford. While the genre has experienced a resurgence in recent years, most of the newer films are the kind of grim and gritty stuff most parents would never dream of sharing with their children.

MagSafe charging stands tend to have a super-sterile modernist design. If you go on Amazon, you'll see that they're all just big plastic obelisks or skinny metal rods—no color, no flavor, no fun. Thankfully, there are at least a handful of people on this planet who have a real sense of personality. EBengineering, an engineer who created a 3D-printable cassette tape charging stand for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is one of those people.

Dreame just released its new L40s robot vacuums, a series of three models designed to give a professional-grade clean. If you're looking for a way to automate your home cleaning, the L40s Ultra, the L40s Ultra AE, and the L40s Ultra CE might be worth a look.

The new Notepad lets you write Markdown without installing anything. It works with plain text, keeps your syntax visible, and formats when you want it to. One of the main advantages of Markdown is how widely supported it is across devices, operating systems, and different apps. Here's how to get started with it in Notepad.

With a new Naked Gun movie hitting theaters, having movie spoofs back in fashion is refreshing. Keeping up with the times, this latest iteration of the franchise seems as though it’ll mock modern action movie conventions. Since actor Liam Neeson has swum in that soup for years, he’s the perfect man for this wacky job.

Three-button navigation is still a thing, but it's really only used widely by Samsung these days, which still ships it as the default option over gestures. If you're more of a three-button nav person and you want to move to a Pixel, your muscle memory could soon kick right in after your next upgrade.

The NFL Sunday Ticket is expensive, costing fans upwards of $480 a year to watch endless football. To take some of the sting out of that price tag, Google and YouTube just launched an NFL Sunday Ticket Member Benefit program full of hardware discounts, free trials, and other perks.

Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Copilot to the Windows Game Bar, so you can get help with your games without ever having to leave the screen. This is a huge deal for anyone who gets stuck in a game and doesn't want to break their focus by searching for a walkthrough on Google.

You might open it by accident. But the moment it starts to unzip, your computer's file system crashes. Except there's no malware in the zip archive, only math.

A lot of people like loud keyboards—I'm in that club. But many like the exact opposite, and that's understandable too. MSI's latest keyboard is all about being as silent as possible, and for what it's worth, it delivers.