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  • 08 May 2013

  • Opinion: How to automate FTP uploads

    Forum member DeathRobot (who is probably nicer than his or her name implies) is interested in FTP and Automator. It writes:

  • Opinion: Mind is what matters when you arm-wrestle with WrestleBrainia

    Due to my intolerable addiction to the Internet, I'm pretty terrible at arm wrestling. Luckily, the cutting edge of neurogaming technology proves that science supports my decision to never work out.

  • Opinion: Protect your camera with rain covers

    Portable electronics have the same Achilles' heel as the invading aliens in M. Night Shyamalan's movie s--Signs: water. It's not a good idea to get your digital SLR wet. Taking photos in a rainstorm can end the life of your camera. So how do you protect your camera while taking pictures in a spring shower or a summer deluge? Dress your camera in a rain cover--usually, waterproof fabric that keeps water away from the lens and body, while leaving both the business and control ends open for business.

  • 07 May 2013

  • Opinion: Eidos isolates sights and sounds, lets you tune out that annoying coworker

    What if you could focus on one person's voice in a crowded shopping mall? Or focus on just the drummer at a concert? Students from the Royal College of Art developed a pair of head-mounted devices can do just that.

  • Opinion: Five things to like About Debian 7.0 'Wheezy'

    After more than two years of development, the Debian project on Saturday released the long-awaited version 7.0 of its venerable Linux distribution.

  • 02 May 2013

  • Opinion: BotObjects announces the world's first full-color 3D printer

    It's finally here. A new 3D printing outfit in New York called BotObjects say that it's come up with the first full-color desktop 3D printer. Unlike other consumer-grade 3D printers, the ProDesk3D does not print in just one or two different colored plastic mediums; instead, it prints using the whole gamut of the rainbow by mixing five base colors together.

  • Opinion: Introducing Contacts

    In weeks past we've talked about configuring the Mail and Calendar applications. Without the third leg of this personal information trio--Contacts--using the first two could be a lonely proposition. In this lesson we'll look at the cans and can'ts of Contacts.

  • Opinion: Keep your laptop battery healthy: Use it sparingly

    Sibi Marcos asked about removing a laptop's battery to increase it's life.

  • Opinion: Leave early on Friday: time-saving PC tips and tricks

    What's the best way to tell an expert PC user apart from a bumbling amateur? The expert doesn't waste time. Time is money, after all, and there are tons of ways to speed up even the most basic computing tasks.

  • 01 May 2013

  • Opinion: Amazon Web Services Will Continue to Disrupt Enterprises, IT Vendors

    Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market--and if current trends hold, the competition may not even be close.

  • 30 April 2013

  • Opinion: How to shoot macros of flowers and bugs

    This time of year tends to slow down my progress whenever I'm outdoors; my wife, it seems, can't pass a flower without taking a picture of it on her phone. Indeed, no matter what kind of camera you own--SLR, compact, or smartphone--spring is a great time to take photos of flowers, insects, and other small details of the natural world.

  • Opinion: CRT magnet art looks eerie; don't try it on your home TV

    Where you one of those kids who liked to wave a magnet against your old CRT display to watch the rainbow of colors bending to your will? You certainly weren't the only one, and a German artist wants to help you relive those memories, albeit on a grander scale.

  • Opinion: How to avoid the best malware scams

    Malware can make life miserable by infecting your PC, laptop or smartphone and even stealing your money. Here are four of the top scams and how to avoid getting caught out.

  • 29 April 2013

  • Opinion: Cure for the uncommon vertical signature

    Reader Michael Burke dutifully accepted my counsel but came up with unexpected results. He writes:

  • Opinion: Ten improvements we'd like to see in iOS

    Like clockwork, Apple has released a new major version of its iOS mobile operating system every summer since 2008, and we expect 2013 to be no different. iOS 7 seems likely to take its bow at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which will be held June 10 through 14 in San Francisco.

  • 26 April 2013

  • Opinion: Younity 1.5 could render cloud storage obsolete

    As we’ve become a more mobile society—working from virtually anywhere on our smartphones and tablets—we’ve also embraced various cloud storage and file sharing tools, so we can access and collaborate on our data. Younity has an entirely different approach, and it could make cloud storage obsolete.

  • Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: Fixing Apple TV lost network connections

    Occasionally, my 1080p Apple TV (ATV) loses interest in connecting to my local network. More specifically, if I go to the Network setting I find no IP address listed. That's right. The IP address listing is empty. There isn't even an invalid self-assigned (169.x.x.x) address. Not surprisingly, when this vanishing act occurs, the ATV can no longer access my iTunes Library or any of the ATV's Internet-based services.

  • 25 April 2013

  • Opinion: Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail' debuts, to be followed by 'Saucy Salamander'

    Canonical on Thursday announced the final release of Ubuntu Linux 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" for both desktop PCs and servers.

  • Opinion: How to grab a freeze-frame from a video

    How to grab a freeze-frame from a video

  • Opinion: Researchers use Tetris to treat lazy eye, give patients an excuse to play a game

    As it turns out, the falling blocks of Tetris can double as a treatment for adult amblyopia, otherwise known as "lazy eye." Researchers at the McGill University of Montreal are testing the 80s puzzler as an alternative to using more conventional treatments for the disorder.

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