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When it comes to instant entertainment, you won't need more than a computer. Whatever your preference, you will always have a multitude of options for your computer.Find fun on your computer by playing new video games, chatting online with friends, learning new knowledge, exploring the computer, watching funny videos, or even is creating and sharing your own content. As long as the computer is active, you will never get bored.

Steps

Method 1 of 7: Play the game

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   Find interesting games online. When you're bored, one of the best pastimes is to play online games. No matter what genre of game you like, you can find great games for free.
   • Try searching in the list of free online games below:
     • Addicting Games
     • Newgrounds
     • Miniclip
     • PC Gamer
     • ROBLOX
     • FreewareGames
   • If you like RPGs, try:
     • Minecraft
     • Clash of Clans
     • World of Warcraft
     • Games produced by Blizzard

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   Find flash versions of classic arcade games. Have you ever played Asteroids or Centipede? If not, you haven't really lived yet! To find games that run smoothly, look on Andkon here or 8Bit.com here. All of the classic arcade games below are available in free and online flash versions:
   • Super Mario Bros.
   • Missile Command
   • Contra
   • Donkey Kong
   • Carnage
   • Galaga
   • Pac-Man
   • Tetris
   • Ms. Pac-Man
   • Sonic The Hedgehog

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   Use Steam to install games on your computer. If you want to install more free games, use Steam, the free software at the site. Here are a few popular games you can install:
   • Team Fortress 2
   • League of Legends (Separate client software available - Not via Steam)
   • War Thunder
   • DOTA 2

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   Design your own game. If you are ambitious, you can design a simple game yourself on the MIT Scratch site here. Scratch lets you create your own game that you and others can play. You can chat with people, play each other's games, and manage game rooms. This activity is very interesting, especially when you are a gamer. advertisement

Method 2 of 7: Watch videos and listen to music

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   Watch the video on YouTube. Whatever you want to watch, Youtube has: from funny cat videos with weird sounds to the Apollo Program footage. Search for videos on a topic that interests you, or try to watch and hit the follow button on a popular channel. The most popular Youtube channels today include:
   • Pewdiepie - video games and game commentary
   • HolaSoyGerman - popular Spanish comedy
   • Smosh - video game and nerd comedy
   • EpicMealTime - sumptuous meals
   • CollegeHumor - humorous videos and short comedy
   • JennaMarbles - popular comedy and commentary
   • Nigahiga - popular comedy and commentary
   • Machinima - video game commentary and movies
   • Markiplier - gaming / game commentary, occasionally interlacing comedy / musical videos

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   Make your own YouTube videos. Want your product to go viral? One great way to have fun with the computer is to create videos and post them online. You can start with the following ideas:
   • Try doing vlog.
   • Review your favorite food or drink.
   • Shoot a comedy with your friends.
   • Flip open your wallet or bag and describe what's inside.
   • Make a "haul video" (also known as a shopping video), share items you buy from a store, library or department store.
   • Guide tips in life.

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   Watch movies online. The best websites usually offer high quality movies for a fee, but you can also watch movies without spending a penny.
   • Paid websites for watching movies include:
     • Netflix
     • Hulu Plus
     • Amazon Prime
     • Vudu
     • iTunes
   • Free movie sites that are free of spam (bullshit, annoying messages) and ads include:
     • Hulu
     • YouTube
     • Folkstreams
     • UbuWeb
     • MetaCafe
     • Veoh
     • Vimeo

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   Listen to music online. Computers have changed the music forever. From the way we record to listen to music, music technology and digital technology today have become an important part of the music industry, with a position on par with the guitar. Free or inexpensive ways to listen to music online include:
   • Pandora Radio
   • Spotify
   • Soundcloud
   • Bandcamp
   • DatPiff

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   Listen to podcasts. Podcasts are similar to free radio shows with content covering a wide variety of topics. Try PodcastOne or PodBay, because there are so many free and varied podcasts to choose from. From professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin to novelist Bret Easton Ellis, it seems everyone has their own podcast these days. Some of the popular podcasts include:
   • RadioLab
   • This American Life
   • The Moth
   • The Nerdist
   • Hardcore History
   • Stuff You Should Know
   • Adventure Zone
   • Joe Rogan Experience
   • Savage Lovecast
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Method 3 of 7: Search for random fun

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   Window shop online. Need to kill time but have no money? Try shopping online, but don't buy anything. You can buy almost anything online, and you can also have fun looking and comparing prices for everything from clothing and shoes to land and luxury apartments. Make a list of the items you want to buy, but don't let your credit card exceed the limit.

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   Plan a dream vacation. Use Google Maps to explore unfamiliar cities and explore local landmarks on Wikipedia. You can then turn to Expedia to review airline fares, AirBnB discounts, or advertise on CouchSurfer. Once you determine where you want to go, you can start saving to make your dream come true.

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   See random web pages. A "random website" service is a type of website that takes you to random, somewhat silly, and interesting places online. It can take hours for you to view the different links. Here are some random collections of websites:
   • The Useless Web -
   • Pointless Sites -
   • StumbleUpon -
   • Reddit FIR (Funny / Interesting / Random) -

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   Learn a magic trick. Want to impress your friends in your upcoming meeting? Learn a coin-or-nibble magic trick. There are many online websites that cover each step so you can learn magic tricks at the speed you want. One of the most popular is GoodTricks (), but you can also find tutorials on YouTube.

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   Draw on the net. Feel like having a little creative inspiration? There are many online drawing services available online, from drawing to professional drawing. These services are quite convenient because you will not have to install anything yourself. Some popular sites include:
   • DoodleToo -
   • iScribble -
   • Queeky -
   • Sketchpad -
   • DrawIsland -
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Method 4 of 7: Learn and explore

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   Explore Google Earth. Google Earth gives you an up-close look at almost anywhere you want to see. Using Street View, you can explore the streets of Tokyo, or search for the whereabouts of the actor Al Pacino. You can look up your house yourself and check if there are any windows open.
   • If you want to challenge your geography knowledge, you should give GeoGuessr a try. This page will give you a random photo of a street from Google Earth, and you will have to guess where that place is. The closer you guess, the more points you get.

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   Read articles in the form of listicles. Want to see our list of 25 of the best sandwiches in the world in animation? 20 toys that kids loved in the 90s? Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Slate, The Awl, and others all have a fun and interesting collection of random things that you didn't even know you cared about. This information is a great way to pass the time without thinking too much.

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   Read local news online. If you want to see news that really matters to you, you can check out your local news site online. Increasingly, people read less and less local news, which means that a typical Internet user knows more about the lives of the "stars" than the local government situation. Use the Internet to learn about where you live.

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   Take a free online course. Develop your skills and improve yourself while you are entertained. Massive online courses (MOOCs) are free and easy to find. You'll feel like you're sitting in Harvard's prestigious lecture halls in the comfort of your home. You can search for MOOCs through the same databases here.

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   Read cultural or professional blogs. No matter what you like, there is definitely an online community that shares your interests. Do you like the game? Visit the PC Gamer or IGN site to learn about the latest games. Do you love music? Visit the Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, or Brooklyn Vegan site. Look for a community of interests that you can interact with or at least explore.

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   Travel back in time on the Internet. If you are curious about what the Internet was like 10-15 years ago, you can travel back in time quite conveniently.The internet hosting site has built a tool to help you access old versions of websites.

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   Read articles and contribute to wiki pages. If you are already here, what are you waiting for without contributing! Wiki sites such as wikiHow and Wikipedia can only survive on user-generated content, and by users voluntarily performing all the essential tasks necessary to run the site. From reviewing the latest changes to writing articles, contributing to wiki pages is a rewarding and enjoyable job. advertisement

Method 5 of 7: Use social networks

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   Chat (chat) with friends online. Of course you've thought about this, but maybe there's another new way to chat that you haven't tried yet. Visit the UberFacts page to see who can come up with the most random facts. Share links, photos and videos that make your friends laugh.
   • Facebook, Skype, Kik Messenger and Google Mail are probably the most popular chat services, but you can also use Yahoo, AOL and other email chat tools if you want to experience instant messaging (Instant Messenger) in style. "ancient" way.
   • If you feel lonely, try video chat with your friends. Video chat makes you feel like you're actually hanging out with your friends. But don't video chat with people you don't know well. Reach out to an old friend and chat via video chat by Facebook or Skype.

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   Use Facebook or open a Facebook account. Facebook is a great way to pass the time. You can post your content, check other people's updates and chat instantly with your friends. Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with people and is a great pastime on the computer.
   • If you are bored with your news (feed), look at the feed of someone you do not know. Your best friend's second cousin's girlfriend Facebook page is probably full of content that you haven't seen before. Try looking at vacation photos from 10 years ago.
   • You can also add your own content. Research shows that people who spend a lot of time looking at other people's content and less time creating their own are more likely to get bored than others. So please update your status, post photos and write on other people's Facebook "wall".

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   Compose a tweet on Twitter. If you're not on Twitter yet, create an account and follow your celebrities, friends, and other Twitter users to get started with the hashtag community. If you are a humorous person with a concise and charismatic style, you can attract a large number of followers and entertain them with ridiculous tweets daily. You can also use Twitter with Steve Inskeep from NPR or Nicki Minaj. Just kidding. Don't do that.

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   Write a review on Yelp. Have you ever gone to a restaurant and wanted to give your opinion about it? Of course it is. So what are you waiting for without posting your opinion online? Seriously, giving criticism from a customer perspective is a great way to pass the time and have fun. Let the other person listen to your opinion.

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   Find great pins on Pinterest. Pinterest is a great way to discover recipes, cool facts, costumes, tips in life, and to share your search results with others. You can glance at Pinterest very easily, so this is a great source of entertainment when you are "stuck" not knowing what to do online. Let's create a separate page and start pinning!

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   Find a message board about a specific niche. Without the message board, we would never have had the concept of "meme" (which can mean the idea of ​​spreading on the Internet), of "lulz" (laughs) and of suitable animations. It is often difficult to get on the message board, but you will always find communities that correspond to each group culture, from punk rock to skateboarding, from anime animation to video games. Find a message board related to your interests, open an account and chat securely. advertisement

Method 6 of 7: Entertainment does not use the Internet

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   Change the screensaver and computer screenshots. Are you bored? Refurbish your computer with what people who are computer savvy call a desktop theme. Click My Computer, then Control Panel if it's a PC, or System Preferences if it's a Mac. To refurbish your computer, you can also do a lot of the following:
   • Computer look and color
   • Sound on computer
   • Mouse icon
   • Screen setting

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   Change your background photo. Search Google Images or background image sites to choose great wallpapers for your computer. Shark wearing a birthday hat? Great. Be creative - get a beautiful picture of a celebrity you admire, a cool pattern or a picture that fits your favorite magazine or brand.

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   Change your screensaver. Search for new screensavers in your pictures, or download them online. It is completely free to choose a screensaver as a slideshow of your photo (although that is quite trivial though) or a picture that makes your computer look like the movie Matrix (great!).

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   Turn the screen upside down. Press CTRL-ALT-DOWN on both PC and Mac.

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   Listening to music. Have fun on your computer by listening to music and rummaging through your playlists. Create a new playlist or synthesize songs suitable for dance, meditation or exercise, and take time to rearrange them. Turn on iTunes shuffle mode to shuffle your songs and try to guess the title of the song being played. Turn on the visualizer of iTunes or Windows Media Player so that your eyes are active while you are playing music. Or simply, listen to really good songs.

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   Take a photo. If you have a webcam installed, try playing around and taking selfies, setting up and taking pictures of strange still life scenes in front of your computer, or playing around with filters. Fix your photo so you look like a curled alien with a weird nose, or color it until you look like a seasick person.

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   Photo editing using Photoshop software. If you have Photoshop installed, crop your photos to create weird and fresh meme. Your grandmother's face with Stallone's body? Good start.

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   Write an electronic journal. When it was in the dark days (like the '70s), people often kept their diaries with them, where they wrote about their lives with clarity and detail. Isn't that shocking? It's really a great way to spend a few hours on the computer, especially when you can't go online. Open up a text input file and start writing about your date. Try to keep your notes. Who knows, maybe you'll like it to the point of opening an entire blog in the future.

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   Record a song. Most new computer models come with built-in microphones and software that lets you record a song (or at least record sound), while also allowing you to edit music in minutes. You don't have to be talented, or even have an instrument in hand to record. Just record your hum, increase the "distortion" in the settings and enjoy the wild sounds you can create. Place a random audio clip from the Bible on top of a file of your dog's snoring. A masterpiece.
   • Record a podcast as if you were a classic DJ, sharing your favorite song among the aired songs. Select songs by theme and create a playlist (playlist), then record and insert voice files between songs. Please record with friends for more fun.
   • Edit multiple tracks together, change Bob Dylan's song settings to death metal style, or play around with death metal music to become ambient drone music. Slowing music down by 700% has become memes recently, from dial-up sounds to Nickelback songs.
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Method 7 of 7: Explore the computer as a hobby

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   Learn programming. If you are tired of playing with the "regular" computer, why not take your passion to the next level? Learning to code allows you to design and write your own computer programs from scratch. Learning to code is similar to learning a new language, difficult at first, but it can be incredibly rewarding (in addition, programming skills will beautify your CV).
   • Have so many, so much different programming languages. Although there isn't a single "right" way to learn to code, beginners should start with the following five types of programming languages:
     • Python
     • C / C ++
     • Java
     • Javascript
     • Ruby
   • Visit CodeAcademy.com for interactive programming tutorials in a number of programming languages.

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   Learn website design (web design). Do you find yourself spending a lot of time online? If so, consider taking a basic web design course to create your own website and contribute to the online community! Some of the basic web design skills will make use of the basic programming languages ​​mentioned above (for example, many websites use Javascript). On the contrary, skills like HTML programming allow you to learn about programming specifically for the web.
   • Here is a list of websites that offer free web design training courses:
     • GeekChamp.com
     • WebPlatform.org
     • Berkeley.edu
     • Learn.ShayHowe.com

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   Explore new operating systems. Did you know that you don't have to use your computer's default operating system? That's right - Macs can run Windows, PCs can run Macs, and both can run free, user-created operating systems! Installing these operating systems can be tricky, so read the support page of the program you want to use (or look for the help articles on wikiHow) if you have problems.
   • To run Windows on a Mac, use:
     • Boot Camp (pre-installed or available for free download from the Internet)
     • A virtual machine program (Parallels program), such as the Mac's Parallels Desktop 10 program.
   • To run Mac OS on a PC, use:
     • A bootable USB drive (computer boot)
     • A virtual machine program like Virtualbox
   • Also, try other options like Linux, Ubuntu and Haiku - these are free operating systems that can run on both Mac and Windows!

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   Customize your desktop. If the current performance of your computer doesn't satisfy you, try disassembling it and changing its hardware. Depending on your goals, that can be especially easy. However, since fragile computer components are also susceptible to damage during this process, you can only try it out when you are sure what you will do.
   • Here are some parts you can edit or change to increase your computer's performance:
     • Graphics card
     • Sound Card (Helps increase sound quality without increasing machine performance)
     • Fan / cooling system
     • RAM
     • Processor / CPU
     • In addition, cleaning the dust from your computer can also speed up your computer, but be careful not to let the computer touch the ground while cleaning, as static electricity can damage it!
   • If you are ambitious, you can make computer maintenance a hobby. Some people like to take apart their computers and reassemble them just for fun - just like others like to play around with cars. Most especially, this practical knowledge will help you gain an understanding of the internal components of a computer - knowledge that most people can only dream of.
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Advice

• If you are a creative and love clothes, go to Polyvore. You can click on "Create" and coordinate clothes of interest. If you like animation, apply for animation mode. This website is completely free and quite interesting.
• If everything is not entertaining, search for interesting software on Google and see if you find something cool.
• If you are bored of a given item in this article, try something different!
• If your child uses your computer, check their internet history. Sometimes your child's online history can make fun of it!
• Try out children's websites! Some websites can be very funny.
• You can create your own website and share your information.

Warning

• Be careful when searching for free games on unfamiliar websites. Some "free" games may contain viruses and / or malware (malware). If in doubt, research the site's authority (Wikipedia often has articles about dangerous websites and software), or you should limit your search to games with "source code. open".
• Remember: not all of the information you find on the Internet is trustworthy. Storybooks are still a little safer!