More Apple Opinion

  • 11 February 2013

  • Opinion: How to synchronize email signatures

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

  • 08 February 2013

  • 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.

  • 05 February 2013

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Small change

    More "information"--if it can be called such--about the iPad mini's rumored Retina display, Mac OS X 10.9 may soon roar onto the scene, and Apple's shrinking yet another of its products (sort of). The remainders for Monday, February 4, 2013 are too small to be seen with the naked eye.

  • 01 February 2013

  • Opinion: App Spotlight: FineReader Touch brings multi-lingual OCR scanning to iOS

    There are plenty of apps that can turn your phone into the equivalent of a mobile scanner, using the camera to take snapshots of various documents, then letting you file and/or share those documents.

  • 24 January 2013

  • Opinion: The printing primer

    Last week I showed you how to configure your printer. This week, we'll explore the ins and outs of Mountain Lion's print sheet.

  • Opinion: Automator workflow of the month: Easy email replies

    Do you routinely receive correspondence that contains a load of email addresses within the body of the message? Say, you're in charge of pulling together a meeting for the company's worldwide accounting department or you receive behind-the-scenes "Get out now while the getting's good!" missives from recently laid off co-workers. You'd dearly love to compose a message to the people associated with these addresses but it's a bother to copy and paste them into a new message's To field. If only there was a way to automate the process.

  • 17 January 2013

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Ever smaller

    The next iPhone may scan your fingerprints, and the future iPad will--almost shockingly--not be bigger and heavier. The remainders for Wednesday, January 16, 2013 are lighter than air.

  • 09 January 2013

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: True or false?

    T-Mobile's still racking up the iPhone activations, despite not, you know, selling the iPhone. Elsewhere, a low-cost iPhone might be in the offing, and the patent suits just keep coming. There will be a quiz on the remainders for Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

  • 08 January 2013

  • Opinion: App Spotlight: Speek brings hassle-free conference calls to iOS

    The days of rushing back to your desk just so you can set up or join a conference call are over.

  • 26 December 2012

  • Opinion: The best of Mac 911

    To celebrate Boxing Day I'd like to offer one final gift for 2012. And that gift is a roundup of what I believe were the best Mac 911 entries from the past year. My hope is that it will help you solve those annoying issues that have plagued you over past months and help you start 2013 with a healthier and happier Mac.

  • 19 December 2012

  • Opinion: UberConference: Best conference-call manager yet?

    Lately it seems like software developers are falling all over themselves to take the hassles out of conference calls.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Square deal

    Apple dispatches Eddy Cue to check in with Foursquare, Brazil offers the only iPhone you'll ever see running Android, and we think one CEO's a little obsessed with the Apple TV--and it's not Tim Cook. The remainders for yesterday, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 are changing the channel.

  • 14 December 2012

  • Opinion: Print to Dropbox, Evernote, or an actual printer from your iPhone or iPad

    As iPhones and iPads increasingly take the place of laptops, there's one area that continues to be a challenge for business users: how to turn digital documents into printed ones.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Irony deficiency

    Samsung's strategy revealed! Elsewhere, NORAD goes bing and Apple's happy to tell you all about things that aren't working. The remainders for Thursday, December 13, 2012 are here to help.

  • 13 December 2012

  • Opinion: System Preferences: General and Desktop & Screen Saver

    We've covered the basic functions of the Finder from stem to stern. It's now time to delve into the Mac OS's system preferences. Like the control panels on Windows PCs, system preferences govern much of the behavior of the Mac OS and the Mac's peripherals.

  • 07 December 2012

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: There are those who call him 'Tim'

    Tim Cook speaks out on, well, pretty much everything. Meanwhile, Samsung gets permission to peek at Apple and HTC's new BFF deal, and AT&T phones in Pennsylvania are going to the Dans. You'll find the remainders for Thursday, December 6, 2012 in the Castle of Aaargh.

  • 06 December 2012

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Rumor, rumor on the wall

    Begun, these iPhone rumors have. Elsewhere, Apple's radio service isn't getting play time from record labels, Eric Schmidt's got a head-scratcher, and Apple's getting greener (and not with envy). The remainders for Wednesday, December 5, 2012 are the fairest of them all.

  • 30 November 2012

  • Opinion: App Spotlight: Airport Guide helps you find your way

    Smart business travelers keep an arsenal of apps at their fingertips to help with any situation. Hence, HipMunk for booking flights, Hotel Tonight for booking hotels, TripIt for keeping tabs on all your travel reservations, and so on.

  • 28 November 2012

  • Opinion: The Macalope Daily: Unrequited disdain

    Forbes is truly the gift that keeps on giving to the Macalope.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Road to nowhere

    Apple's map manager gets shown the door (accurately, we hope), Siri will soon do everything but drive your car (thankfully), and one user dreams of the Apple TV (that will never be). The remainders for Tuesday, November 27, 2012 know where they're going, but they don't know where they been.

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