More Opinion

  • 31 May 2013

  • Opinion: The Buccaneer is an inexpensive, attractive 3D printer designed for anybody

    If you want to get into 3D printing, there are tons of options out there for you to choose from. Unfortunately, most of the inexpensive 3D printers require you to assemble them yourself, a tedious and often frustrating task. Fully assembled printers are becoming more and more prevalent, but often cost a few hundred dollars more. Pirate3D wants to change this trend with its upcoming low-cost and fully assembled printer known as The Buccaneer.

  • Opinion: Bring Terminator back to life with 15,000 Lego bricks

    If you needed a project to use up all those gray Lego bricks, Martin Latta found one: a life-sized Lego replica of the Terminator T-800.

  • Opinion: Hands on with the new Razer Blade, a gaming Ultrabook thinner than a Macbook Air

    Razer's latest Ultrabook is a wake-up call. It's a warning shot across the bows of Apple, Samsung and other manufacturers of premium thin-and-light laptops. And its message is clear: "Look at me."

  • 30 May 2013

  • Opinion: Grumpy Cat to star in her first Hollywood movie, give Garfield a run for his money

    Grumpy Cat--whose real name is Tardar Sauce--is about to become an official movie star. According to Deadline, our most-cranky-faced feline is about to star in a new Garfield-esque feature film produced by Broken Road Productions. No word yet if she'll hate Mondays.

  • Opinion: This guy proposed to his girlfriend, filmed it with Google Glass

    Whether you love the idea or hate it, there's no denying that wearable tech like Google Glass could change the way you document your daily life. Just ask Breon Nagy

  • Opinion: Bad social media strategy for any business

    Until last month, few had heard of Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro restaurant in the US city of Scottsdale, Arizona. It's a family-owned eatery offering slightly upmarket burgers, pizzas, and cakes.

  • Opinion: Replace Calendar with Fantastical on your iPhone

    Apple's built-in Calendar app for iPhone is fine, but I prefer Fantastical, a $5 alternative from Flexibits. Because the app can access your iPhone's calendars, it essentially offers complete integration with any calendaring system your iPhone can use or sync with--including iCloud, Google, Yahoo, and Exchange calendars. I reviewed the app in November of last year, awarding it four mice.

  • Opinion: Windows 8 app review - Video app of the month

    VLC Media Player is an incredible little application that can play just about any video or audio file you throw at it

  • Opinion: Paws whatever you're doing and check out this Whack-A-Mole for cats

    Whack-a-Mouse is most likely exactly what you think it is: It's like Whack-A-Mole, except for cats (though there's certainly nothing wrong with turning it into a family affair).

  • 29 May 2013

  • Opinion: Raspberry Pi goes to space, brings back photos of Earth

    When we first caught word that the Raspberry Pi Foundation was coming out with a new camera, we were excited to see the camera-based projects that would come out of this $25 peripheral. We're finally starting to see some projects, including the big one: sending it to space.

  • Opinion: Automator workflow of the month: Automatically copy Photo Stream images

    I recently read Jeff Carlson's "Four things Apple could do to improve iPhoto right now," and one point he made struck me in particular--that I couldn't make Photo Stream images appear in a folder of my choosing. Thinking how convenient this could be--for copying images into my Dropbox folder, for example--I set about finding a way.

  • 28 May 2013

  • Opinion: Biosensor cradle turns your iPhone into a medical tricorder

    Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a shiny new accessory for you iPhone that turns it into a mobile biosensor--or what's better known to sci-fi geeks and trekkies as a medical tricorder.

  • Opinion: The Macalope: The fast with the facts and the furious

    Several thoughful pieces have been published recently on smartphone market share.

  • Opinion: How to use a Bluetooth keyboard with the Apple TV

    Apple refers to the Apple TV as a "hobby"--and though the home-entertainment device has received regular updates, especially over the past couple of years, for most of its life that description has fit. Still, the updates have helped make today's Apple TV a much more capable device than the one that debuted back in 2007. It has improved enough that we regularly use it in our home.

  • 24 May 2013

  • Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: iTunes 11.0.3 update improves app updating

    Along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, the recently updated iTunes 11.0.3 introduces several interface tweaks. For my money, the most welcome addition is one that Apple doesn't even mention on its "About iTunes 11.0.3" page: a redesigned interface for checking on and downloading updated apps.

  • Opinion: How fast is USB 3.0 really?

    As a Mac user, I've never been a big fan of USB for storage. Keyboards, mice, sure. But a hard drive connected via USB has always been slow compared to those using Apple's FireWire, FireWire 800, and (most recently) Thunderbolt interfaces. And booting from a USB drive on the Mac was a no-no for a long time.

  • Opinion: With an SSD, backups are more important than ever

    Welcome to the dawn of the SSD age. Solid-state drives now offer great performance at affordable prices, which is why more and more users are choosing them in new PCs and adding them to older ones.

  • 23 May 2013

  • Opinion: How to photograph the moon

    It's hard to believe today--especially since you can just look up at the sky and see our crater-covered moon with your naked eyes--but there was a time when people weren't intimately familiar with what the surface of our nearby neighbor looked like. Before the Renaissance-era invention of the telescope, the moon was generally thought to be a perfect, unblemished sphere. These days, with even a moderate telephoto lens, you can photograph the moon and see the surface details for yourself.

  • Opinion: Forget getting a new tablet, build a DIY Etch A Sketch for your (inner) kid

    Recognized as one of the 100 most memorable and creative toys of the 20th century, the Etch A Sketch has served as both a children's toy and a platform for those looking to prove they can make art on even the most ridiculous things.

  • Opinion: For security's sake, upgrade to a newer version of Office

    Russell Caplan still uses Office 2003, which Microsoft will stop supporting next year. He asked if he will need to upgrade to a more current version.

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