Latest Opinion

• 15 February 2013

• Opinion: Infographic: The top 10 productivity-killers (and how to beat them)

  Time is on your side, at least according to Mick Jagger. (Think: song lyric.) But it rarely seems that way when you get to the end of the day and realize you didn't have nearly enough of it. Where on earth does the time go?

• 14 February 2013

• Opinion: Will you buy a phablet this year?

  Smartphones are getting bigger by the minute. These days it's the norm to have a screen between four and five inches. However, 2013 could be the year of the 'phablet' with screens bulging to six inches or maybe bigger. Would you buy one of these tablet-smartphone hybrids? Our survey says yes.

• 13 February 2013

• Opinion: How to access your old 3.5-inch floppy disks

  Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler:

• Opinion: How to access your old 3.5-inch floppy disks

  Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler:

• Opinion: Making Dropbox your default folder

  Reader Gil Cranston would like to save a step or two when saving files. He writes:

• Opinion: Making Dropbox your default folder

  Reader Gil Cranston would like to save a step or two when saving files. He writes:

• Opinion: Mac troubleshooting: How to handle freezes and crashes

  Crashes and freezes in OS X are mercifully rare, but they do occur. Fortunately, most of them can be resolved readily; and even though a crash or freeze may have any of numerous causes or symptoms, the same procedure works for troubleshooting most of them.

• 12 February 2013

• Opinion: 'Chromebook Pixel': the Google PC we've been waiting for?

  There's been virtually no end in sight to the Chromebook phenomenon over the past few months, with new entries popping up practically every time you turn around.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: A wristed development

  Apple is likely watching the wearable devices market, Tim Cook may have been soft on Samsung, and Bill Gates is all about the Apple products. The remainders for Monday, February 11, 2013, will watch and learn.

• 11 February 2013

• Opinion: ATMs: convenient, but a security risk

  It's hard to remember life without ATMs. In Hong Kong, we can transfer funds, pay our utility bills and even settle tax demand-notes using an ATM. And they even dispense cash.

• Opinion: Change your Wi-Fi password on various devices

  1gynRat258 asked the Windows forum how to change the password for a home Wi-Fi network.

• Opinion: How to synchronize email signatures

  Reader Ned Chessman is curious about a Mail feature. He writes:

• 09 February 2013

• Opinion: Would Microsoft really bring Office to Linux?

  There's been a rumor floating around over the past few days that Microsoft is considering making a Linux version of its Office productivity software.

• 08 February 2013

• Opinion: Discuss and organize team projects with Dispatch

  If there's one thing the Web probably doesn't need, it's another project-management tool aimed at teams. I mean, hello? Basecamp? Bitrix24? Yammer? How the heck does start-up Dispatch hope to compete?

• Opinion: Smart playlists, buggy play counts, and iTunes Match

  This week's column looks at some common problems with iTunes, some quirks with iTunes Match, and explains how to update smart playlists, among other subjects.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Funny money

  Apple's taking stock of its stock situation, issuing updates for AirPort, and thinking about making it easier to exchange cash via your iPhone. The remainders for Thursday, February 7, 2013 are in the money.

• 07 February 2013

• Opinion: Setting up email on your Mac

  If you're new to the Mac but something of an iOS veteran, this lesson will be a snap. And it should be, because Apple modeled Mountain Lion's Mail, Contacts & Calendars system preference on the setting of the same name found on today's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

• Opinion: Configure Windows Explorer's (or File Explorer's) Navigation pane

  Windows Explorer's Navigation pane provides easy movement between the folders on your hard drive. Bevaau asked the Windows forum about configuring this handy tool.

• Opinion: How Cloud Computing Is Driven by Mobile, Media and Marketing

  Defenders of enterprise computing are in for a rude awakening. Mobile, media and marketing applications are poised to flock to the cloud, which is far better suited to handle load variability, latency and change management. As end users and executives demand more flexibly business applications, they will soon follow suit.

• Opinion: KDE 4.10 delivers key updates across the board

  Hard on the heels of news earlier this week that KDE has been named the best desktop environment in a recent Linux user survey, the team behind the popular project on Wednesday launched a fresh new version of the software.

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