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Creating random data to fill an Excel workbook is as simple as adding a few little-known formulas. These formulas come in handy when honing your Microsoft Excel skills, as they give you fake data to practice with before you risk mistakes with the real thing. Use the Formula Bar To start, we’ll enter one of…

Google Pay is the company’s one-stop-shop for all things related to your finances. It’s a very powerful service if you use all of its features. One handy feature is the ability to add your bank or credit card to track spending. The financial feature is similar in concept to services such as Mint and Simplifi.…

Funware/OTOTO/Fox Run When the chef in your life has just about every unique kitchen gadget there is, you might have to look past the practical and get creative. Check out these fun food-related gifts you can wrap up this holiday season. Dinosaur Taco Holders Penko Yes, even home chefs indulge in Taco Tuesday, and these…

Cloudflare Workers have shown themselves to be a unique and powerful solution to serverless computing. With the new addition of CRON jobs, you can now run Cloudflare Workers on a schedule without relying on an external trigger. In this article, we explore how to set up a new script, deploy that script to Cloudflare, and…

By default, Windows 10 automatically switches to tablet mode when you reconfigure your convertible PC into tablet form. If you’d rather turn on or turn off Tablet mode manually, there are several ways to do it. Here’s how. How Automatic Tablet Mode Works on Windows 10 If you use a 2-in-1 convertible laptop that can…

Khamosh Pathak Often find yourself on websites with text in a foreign language? If you use Safari, there’s no need to go to Google Translate. You can translate web pages between seven languages right in Safari on a Mac. Starting with Safari 14.0, Apple included a translation feature directly in the browser. As of this…

Rating: 9/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…

The spreadsheet you are probably most familiar with is Microsoft Excel. But have you ever wondered why Excel looks and acts the way that it does? Why does Excel arrange data in a grid of cells? Why are columns identified by letters, and rows by numbers? The answer, like most things in IT, is because…

Starting with Nintendo Switch System Update Version 11.0.0, you can now transfer all of your game and software screenshots and videos over a USB-C cable to a compatible Windows computer. Here’s how to do it. Requirements First, make sure that your Nintendo Switch is updated to System 11.0.0. To do so, open System Settings, navigate…

On Windows 10, Windows Update may sometimes offer you an “Optional Quality Update.” Unlike other updates, Windows won’t automatically install these—so what exactly are they? Should you install them? Windows Update Won’t Automatically Install These An “optional quality update” is a Windows update that you don’t have to install immediately. These never include security fixes—if…

2020 has been a year for the books, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from streaming and listening to countless hours of music on Spotify. With the launch of Spotify Wrapped 2020, you can see which songs, artists, and podcasts you listened to most over the past year. What is Spotify Wrapped 2020? Spotify celebrates the…

iFixit Here at Review Geek, we can’t go a week without recommending iFixit’s small tool kits in some article or another. We heart them. We heart them bad. They make great small gifts, too, and to that end, iFixit is releasing them in two smaller, cheaper packages: the Minnow and Moray Driver Kit. They’re priced…

Arcade1Up Arcade1Up is ready to roll out more retro gaming options for your home entertainment needs. This time the company opened pre-orders for Big Buck World, a variant of its existing Big Buck Hunter Pro machine. It’s also taking pre-orders for the portable Atari Mini PONG Jr. And if you missed out on OutRun, good news, it’s back in stock…

European Space Agency Ever wanted to have your very own Mars rover? Well, if you have a 3D printer and $600, that is now a possibility. European Space Agency’s new ExoMy rover is a robot you can build right from the comfort of your own home. The machine is 42cm (16-inches) tall and is a…

Zens Zens just launched a new modular charging station for recharging multiple Apple devices simultaneously, like the iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, and more. There are five distinct pieces up for grabs, which attach to each other via magnets, allowing you to buy the individual pieces that best suit your charging needs. You will need one…

Qualcomm Did this year’s flagship phones feel a little lackluster to you? Well, next year is already looking brighter. Qualcomm just unveiled the Snapdragon 888, a next-gen flagship processor with an integrated 5G modem, an enhanced GPU, and improved support for AI applications like computational photography. The next wave of premium Android smartphones will utilize…

Michael Crider The Switch is fantastic, but it’s very much a mobile game machine, not just a mobile machine. That means that transferring, say, screenshots of your games is a headache involving either swapping out MicroSD cards or connecting a Twitter account. Not anymore: with the latest update, you can transfer images directly to a…

Notifications can be a blessing and a curse. They’re super handy at times, but they can be distracting too. If you have an Android smartphone or tablet, there’s a good chance you can give yourself a break and snooze them. It’s possible to completely turn off notifications for specific apps, but sometimes, that’s too aggressive.…