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• 14 March 2013

• Opinion: For a fully free desktop OS, try Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0

  Linux is widely referred to as a free and open source operating system, but most Linux distributions, or flavors, aren't actually entirely free.

• Opinion: Backing up your entire drive: Cloning vs. imaging

  Felix Luke needs to back up his entire hard drive. He asked me to explain the differences between cloning and imaging.

• Opinion: Create gorgeous animated business presentations with Prezi

  How can I put this delicately? Your presentations? Bo-ring.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Now means now

  Apple Maps is flying high (in some locations), Tim Cook gets duty in front of the jury, and Google Now may be available for iOS ... well, not now. But soon? The remainders for Wednesday, March 13, 2013 are in a hurry.

• 13 March 2013

• Opinion: When Safe Boot won't boot

  Reader Simon Hansen finds his Mac slow to do his bidding. He writes:

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Plane and simple

  An iPad might join you on your next flight to Hawaii, iPhone users consume online video at a prodigious rate, and Steve Jobs is the illustrated man. The remainders for Tuesday, March 12, 2013 are free with every purchase.

• 12 March 2013

• Opinion: Use Twitter to get real-time customer service updates and info

  Yesterday, digital-comic-book reseller Comixology held a promotion offering a whopping 700 free comics--first issues of old and new series ranging from The Avengers to The Fantastic Four to Spider-Man.

• Opinion: No end in sight to telework, survey finds

  When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting at her company was followed soon afterwards by a similar move at Best Buy, it was tempting to think a new trend had been started, and that more firms would soon follow suit.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Chips and dip

  A new species of malware wants you to “like” it, the earliest iPhone is positively prehistoric, and the latest Apple TV packs a tiny surprise. The remainders for Monday, March 11, 2013 are served.

• 11 March 2013

• Opinion: Microsoft gives away three months of Office 365 to college students

  Just in time for term papers, Microsoft is offering three-month trials of Office 365 University.

• Opinion: Xi3 takes orders for Piston Steam box at sub-$1000 prices

  If Xi3's Piston is any indication, PC-based game consoles that run Steam and other services won't come cheap.

• Opinion: Pausing the Parental Controls timer

  Macworld forum visitor lobsta43 has a question that follows up on my recent Mac 101 column regarding Parental Controls. The crustacean writes:

• Opinion: Replace your laptop screen without spending a fortune

  When Carlene Primus' laptop fell and cracked its screen, someone wanted to charge her $1,200 for the repair. She asked about cheaper alternatives.

• 09 March 2013

• Opinion: What are all these iOS apps doing in my Recycle Bin?

  Reader Anthony just sent me this urgent-sounding email:

• 08 March 2013

• Opinion: Deal Nerd Today: $699 Dell Inspiron 15R SE Laptop, $90 Android Tablet, $499 Quad-Core Desktop, and more

  Welcome back to the lab of the Deal Nerd!

• Opinion: How I ditched the security risks and lived without Java, Reader, and Flash

  Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and Oracle's Java. All three are virtually ubiquitous on modern-day PCs, and all three provide handy-dandy functionality--functionality that, in the case of Flash and Java, can't be directly reproduced by a third-party solution. If we lived in a vacuum, it would be hard to argue that the trio doesn't deserve its spot on computers around the globe.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: The letter two

  Apple and Sony are going head-to-head--or ear-to-ear?--over music licensing, Phil Schiller posts a tweet and the Internet goes wild, and a former Apple rival joins Cupertino in taking on a new threat. The remainders for Thursday, March 7, 2013 can't read or write.

• Opinion: Product snapshot: LIFX Wi-Fi home LED light-bulb

  LED light-bulbs are the Next Big Thing. Compared to all current lighting technologies, they’re superior in nearly every way. They’re far more energy efficient than incandescent, halogen, and fluorescent globes, while being able to output light that’s nearly as pleasant as a good ol’ fashioned Edison bulb. Remember when you didn’t have to wait for your lights to warm up and stop flickering?

• 07 March 2013

• Opinion: The secret to buying a good HDMI cable: They're all good

  Sean asked me what he should know before buying HDMI cables.

• Opinion: Configuring Parental Controls

  Last week we explored the Users & Groups system preference. In that lesson I didn't throughly explain the Parental Controls preference. Now's the time.

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