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06 April 2013
Opinion: EyeFly film adds glasses-free 3D to your iPhone 5

Phone manufacturers have turned their attention from 3D technology to HD screen development. But if you still want to watch Avatar on the go in all its 3D glory, there are ways to make your smartphone screen display 3D content without wearing a pair of silly glasses.
05 April 2013
Opinion: Trax is a wearable GPS for your pets and little ones

When your smaller mammalian responsibilities wander, it may be wise to keep tabs on them. Wonder Technology Solutions (aka WTS) has come with a suitably diminutive, well, solution. The Trax (funding through April 12) should allow you to keep an intelligent digital leash on your children or pets.
Opinion: Kindle and Raspberry Pi join forces in this wireless terminal hack

It's pretty obvious that we love hardware hacks, whether it be Kindles that gets jailbroken into makeshift displays or some amazing uses of the Raspberry Pi. Now one hacker named Max Ogden has combined these two great hack flavors into one ultimate combo he calls the Kindleberry Wireless.
Opinion: Ask the Script Doctor: Deduping Contacts and more

Ask the Scripting Guy is a semi-regular column in which we solve user problems using AppleScript. If you have a problem you think we might be able to help with, send me an email and I'll consider it for publication.
Opinion: Master the Camera app on iOS

Both the iPhone and the iPod touch make for stellar pocket cameras, and the iPad and iPad mini aren't too bad in a pinch either. An iOS device isn't perfect for every photographic need. But it can serve awfully well in many situations where you might once have needed a digital camera.
Opinion: Find missing podcast playlists, replace converted songs in playlists, and more

Sometimes the iTunes Guy gets questions where the only answer is, "sorry, you can't". This week's column covers a couple of questions with no solutions, along with some that do have answers. Learn about finding missing podcast playlists, replacing converted songs in their playlists, and more.
Opinion: Mac Gems: Disk Doctor 2.1 frees up storage space on your Mac

There has never been a great way to clear out the cruft on your Mac's hard drive. Superfluous files, application caches, unused language files that have been languishing on your drive for years--they all take up storage space that you could dearly use, especially if your computer has a speedy (but limited-capacity) solid-state drive (SSD).
Opinion: Free Game Friday: Play as Tim Schafer

This week's collection of free games lets you play your city as a video game, pilot a swarm of bees and even lets you live a day in the life of Double Fine founder Tim Schafer. Truly, games make whatever you can imagine possible. Sorry, did that sound sarcastic enough?
Opinion: A week with Feedly: A Google Reader junkie's journey

Like many RSS junkies, I reacted with shock, anger, and anxiety to the news that Google will kill Google Reader on July 1 of this year.
Opinion: Remains of the Day: Back in a flash

One analyst contends that Apple's real business model is storage, which at least explains why it's building such a huge new headquarters. Plus, your iMessages are really way more secure than they probably need to be. The remainders for Thursday, April 4, 2013 will be right back.
Opinion: Meet Charlotte, the only spider that's good at math

You might run at the sight of a spider creeping up your wall, but if you stop to study its movement, each leg corresponds with another. This makes a spider's movement quite fluid, despite the eight legs it has to control. In leggy robots, there are lots of ways to replicate the movement, but here's a great example using Raspberry Pi.
Opinion: What I'm Playing: On magic, mechanics, and musical hotel management

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04 April 2013
Opinion: This DOS emulator brings your favorite classic games to the Raspberry Pi

The magnificent Raspberry Pi mini-computer has inspired a lot of geeks to come up with practical and interesting uses, many of which take us back to yesteryear to relive nerd fantasies of the past.
Opinion: Cloud-based backup: Is it right for long-term storage?

Eugene Bartley wanted to know if his files would eventually disappear from a cloud-based backup service.
Opinion: Remains of the Day: Keep your i on the OS

Apple nerds spitball about future product releases and updates while a piece of the company's history sees the light of day and a former Apple executive runs into a roadblock. The remainders for Wednesday, April 3, 2013 have grounded out to second.
Opinion: Let Google+ try and guess your mood (and other stuff you missed)

Believe it or not, t's been 40 years since the first ever cell phone call, so go and call a loved one then be sure to come back to read your mid-week GeekBytes update. Today's installment features a mechanical Etch-A-Sketch, emoticons and a lot of sticky notes.
03 April 2013
Opinion: Google's Gmail Blue April Fools' spoof becomes a reality

Google "announced" a new all-blue version of Gmail as part of its extensive April Fools' Day efforts. But the fake April 1st gag is now a reality thanks to a swiftly developed Chrome add-on.
Opinion: Los Angeles synchronizes all its traffic lights, lets a computer control the roads

Los Angeles, a city infamously known for rush hour congestion, is the first city in history to roll out a fully synchronized traffic light system. Right now, all road traffic is officially being controlled by a supercomputer grandmaster through 4500 synchronized traffic lights.
Opinion: How to fast-charge your iPhone or iPad using a standard USB port

Back in January I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" of trying to charge your iPad from a USB port: there's not enough juice.
Opinion: Six ways to cope with flaky hotel Wi-Fi

During a recent trip I stayed at a hotel offering free Wi-Fi--always a nice perk. Just one problem: the network was terrible. The connection speed reminded me of my old dial-up modem, but without the consistency.

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