Topic: tech

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.

The Firefox browser is able to fill out forms for you automatically, including your passwords. This illustrated tutorial shows you how to set up autofill for Firefox. We also explain the risks of autofill and when you should and shouldn't use it.

Yes, there are free, legal alternatives to MS Word available. Best of all, they can read from MS Word format and write to that format also. So you still have the ability to read, edit and save your existing Word documents when you use these free word processing programs.

This is ideal if you've recently gotten a new computer but understandably don't want to pay a monthly subscription fee to install and use MS Office. That's right, you can get the same word processing functionality for free.