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 The best day of the week is finally here again, so something fun to make those torturous last few hours pass by quickly is always a good thing. This week your mission is to safely escort Tazuna to his home while battling an army of ninjas and the assassin Zabuza. Are your ninja skills up to the challenge? |
 ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859… You may have seen these strange monikers floating around, but what do they actually mean? Read on as we explain what character encoding is and how these acronyms relate to the plain text we see on screen. |
 Progress bars are pretty much ubiquitous these days; we've even seen them on some water coolers. A progress bar provides instant feedback on a given process, so why not bring some of that graphical pizzazz into your spreadsheet, using Excel's Conditional Formatting feature? |
 Every week we look at fascinating facts and trivia from the history of Geekdom. This week we're taking a look at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Compact Discs, and Whirlwind, the first computer to foreshadow modern operating systems. |
If you're convinced your ink cartridge has more ink to share than it is willing to give up, you're right. Read on to see how How-To Geek reader Max squeezes extra life out of his cartridges with plain old water. |
We all know Grub2 is the default bootloader for Ubuntu, but it isn’t the prettiest bootloader ever. Since we also know that Ubuntu is highly customizable, this week we’re going to show you how to beautify your bootloader. |
In-ear monitors are great, until the rubber sleeves stop being comfortable. Here's a quick and cheap way to make disposable ones using foam ear plugs so you can stay comfortable while listening. |
Google Chrome's default search engine is Google. This makes perfect sense; the only problem is that it uses localized Google – for example, Google France or Google Israel. This impacts the interface language, and sometimes even the text orientation. Here's how you can fix this and get "international" Google results with an English interface. |
The internet has made scoring awesome deals a cinch—but only if you have the right tools and know where to look. This week we want to hear about your favorite tools for scoring the deepest discounts during your online shopping adventures. |
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