More Internet Opinion

  • 26 July 2012

  • Opinion: My Twitter Account Has Been Hacked!

    GoGators complained to the Answer Line forum about his hacked Twitter account.

  • Opinion: Internet Titans Team Up to Form Lobbying Group

    Several major Internet companies, including Google, eBay, Amazon and Facebook, are joining forces to create a lobbying group that educates lawmakers about how the Internet affects their districts. According to Reuters, the group will be called the Internet Association, and it will officially launch in September 2012.

  • 23 July 2012

  • Opinion: Audio Essentials can improve your Mac's sound, but needs some work

    I’m not an audio purist. My desire is that whatever I’m listening to should sound good, where “good” is defined somewhat subjectively as “pleasing to my ears.”

  • Opinion: Access Your Gmail Contacts Offline

    Robert Conner keeps his friends' phone numbers and snailmail addresses in Gmail. He asked me how he can access this information offline.

  • 20 July 2012

  • Opinion: Amazon Prime Instant Video Grows Again, Still No Match for Netflix

    Amazon today announced a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution that will bring more TV shows, including episodes of Fringe and The West Wing, to its Prime Instant Video catalog.

  • Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: Two iTunes Match problems

    Today's article looks at two symptoms that continue to harass iTunes Match users. It is a follow-up to my column, from last November, on "three essential" iTunes Match troubleshooting tips.

  • 18 July 2012

  • Opinion: Google Fiber Network Coming July 26

    Google today had a terse--yet hopeful--message for the residents of Kansas City, particularly those who hate their current broadband provider: "Google Fiber is almost here."

  • Opinion: Google Maps Adds More Street View Images from Antarctica

    Google Maps recently added a new round of panoramic Street View images from Antarctica including such points of interest as explorer Ernest Shackleton’s hut from the Nimrod expedition and the ceremonial South Pole.

  • 17 July 2012

  • Opinion: Free TrashMail Browser Add-On Protects Your Email and Information

    Quite often, you will come across freebies on the Internet such as free music or free eBooks, but as the saying goes, "you don't get something for nothing." In return for that free MP3 or eBook, the site owner will want your email address, which they will then use to flood your email inbox with never-ending spam about Viagra . TrashMail is a Firefox add-on and Chrome extension which aims to instantly stop all this nonsense with a simple right-click of the mouse.

  • Opinion: Check Out the USGS's Online Time Portal to Historical US Maps

    If you wanted to make a map of your town before Google Maps, satellite imaging, planes, or even cars existed, you had to walk there and chart the landscape by hand.

  • 16 July 2012

  • Opinion: Select and Delete Multiple Messages in Gmail

    Reader Bill wrote in with this question:

  • 13 July 2012

  • Opinion: Ask the iTunes Guy: iTunes Store questions

    [Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If there’s something you’d like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.]

  • Opinion: Betaworks Digs Under Sofa Cushions, Finds Change, Buys Digg

    The social news pioneering site--once rumored to be worth $200 million to Google--Thursday was practically given away.

  • Opinion: Maru Would Be Proud: Minneapolis to Host Cat Video Film Festival

    As much as I love cats, there is something I've always had trouble understanding: cat videos. Why do people love them so much? Why are they everywhere? More importantly, is there some sort of underground feline-stalking paparazzi that I do not know about? How do they even get all those videos?

  • 12 July 2012

  • Opinion: Viacom Pulls Online Videos Over DirecTV Dispute

    Viacom has stopped streaming recent full episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report on Viacom-owned sites as part of the company's widening dispute with satellite cable provider DirecTV. The popular comedy shows are still available on sites such as Hulu.com, but Viacom pulled recent full episodes from its own sites in an attempt to put pressure on the satellite TV provider. Viacom still has about 4,500 older full episodes online for streaming, and show clips are still available. Both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are currently on summer hiatus.

  • Opinion: View Only Your (Important) Unread Messages in Gmail

    A couple months back I wrote about how to filter your Gmail inbox so it shows only unread messages.

  • 11 July 2012

  • Opinion: Forget Dropbox Pro--Businesses Should Use Dropbox for Teams

    Dropbox announced that it is doubling the storage allocation for its paid Dropbox Pro accounts, and expanding the Dropbox Pro options to include up to 500GB of storage. That’s great news for families or individuals looking to sync and share data in the cloud, but businesses should be using Dropbox for Teams.

  • Opinion: New iPod Nano: Shapeshifting One More Time?

    Apple products often retain a consistent design over several generations, but the iPod nano is an exception. The images below, provided by our friends at Macworld, clearly illustrate this point. The 3rd-generation iPod nano was short and wide; the 4th- and 5th-gen models were relatively tall and thin; and the current 6th-gen nano is nearly square with wristwatch-like dimensions.

  • 10 July 2012

  • Opinion: Google, FTC Near $22.5M Settlement Over Safari Privacy Breach

    Google might have to pay a record $22.5 million fine -- the largest ever from the FTC -- for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Apple users, the Wall Street Journal reports. This won’t be a blow for Google, which rakes in this sort of cash in around five hours, but it does cast a shadow over the company, given its involvement in several legal arguments over its practices.

  • Opinion: Three blocks SIM-only Pay Monthly account from use with iPad

    When my Three Pay Monthly SIM stopped working with my iPad, I decided to investigate. It transpires that although the Terms & Conditions hadn't changed, the way I could use my SIM had.

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