Topic: tech

When you look at your progress in your current league on Duolingo, you'll notice that some people have a little status icon (kind of like an emoji) shown next to their profile picture, as you can see in the image above. But how do you change this icon or remove it completely? It's easy to do, but it's not at all intuitive. Here is an illustrated tutorial for how to change your status mini-icon in Duolingo. This method works for both Android and iPhone at the time of writing.

When you're looking at purchasing a domain name, you might be wondering which registrar to use. Namecheap and NameSilo are two well-known, affordable, reputable domain name registrars. You can't really go wrong with either one in terms of reliability, but they have a different set of pros and cons that you should be aware of.

I've had personal experience buying domain names with both registrars. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each.

If you're part of a fantasy league on CBS sports, the default when you sign up is that everyone else in your league can see your email address. You might not want that, especially if you don't already know everyone in your league well. Here is how to hide your email address in your CBS sports fantasy league.

If you're a fan of Tropico, good news: there are other games out there which are similar to the style of gameplay of Tropico 6 or its predecessors. Here are the best games like Tropico. Most of these (but not all!) are strategy based city building games, although the word "city" is used loosely here to mean anything from a city to a country.

If you've come across a file with the .bz2 extension or a .tar.bz2, you may be wondering what it is and whether it's safe to open. The bz2 format is a less usual type of compression, so it's understandable that you might not have anticipated getting a file in this format.

Microsoft Excel is a pretty good spreadsheet and graphing program, but its subscription can be costly. If that's a concern for you, there's a solution: there are several free, legal Excel alternatives which can read and write files in Excel format. This means that if you have existing Excel files, there's no worries - these free spreadsheet programs still work with your existing Excel files.