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- 16 October 2012
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Opinion: Four Web-based scheduling tools for small businesses
If your business involves meeting with clients, you know what a hassle scheduling can be. Doesn't matter if you're a real-estate agent, a financial advisor, or a contractor--appointment management can be a full-time job.
- 15 October 2012
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Opinion: Apple cedes US dominance to Japan and China
"Apple Maps is the worst-received new product to come out of Cupertino since the 1993 launch of the Newton...the child of a nasty divorce between two of the world's most powerful companies." "
- 11 October 2012
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Opinion: Group chat showdown: Which instant messaging service is best for your business?
What happens when your team needs to have a conversation, yet coworkers are scattered across town or even around the world? Conference calls can be pricey and inefficient: Talkers often overlap, no one can hear each other well, and there's no record of who said what. Oh, and you can't exactly share a file over the phone.
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Opinion: Cloud Computing Pushes Vendors to Seek New Roles in IT Value Chain
Cloud adoption means that companies are increasingly signing pay-as-you-go SLAs and renting servers. This means traditional software and hardware vendors must dramatically reconsider their business models, columnist Bernard Golden says.
- 10 October 2012
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Opinion: Firefox 16 arrives with a raft of critical fixes
Shortly after Firefox regained its No. 2 position in the browser arena, Mozilla on Tuesday unleashed the next version of its popular open source browser complete with fixes for numerous critical vulnerabilities.
- 09 October 2012
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Opinion: FailBetter Games' Alexis Kennedy is trying to make browser games that don't suck
A smoggy cityscape. A single lampost cocooned by shadowy tentacles. An introduction that promises the ability to cavort with devils, converse with cats, wrestle tigers and navigate resolutions. A sly greeting, "Welcome, Delicious Friend."
- 04 October 2012
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Opinion: Toyota going all in with Microsoft's Office 365
Microsoft has been fairly open in its push to the cloud. The pricing model for Office 2013 compared with Office 365 is clearly an effort to make Office 365 the more cost effective, no-brainer option. The plan seems to be working, too, as Microsoft announced this week that Toyota is making Office 365 available to it's 200,000 plus employees around the world.
- 03 October 2012
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Opinion: Exploring iCloud Backup
Now that we've settled into Mountain Lion, the iPhone 5, and iOS 6, it's time we devoted several minutes to a feature that's common to all of them--iCloud syncing and backup. I'm joined in that devotion by staff writer Lex Friedman who recently penned How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space, available right here on Macworld.com.
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Opinion: 28 pieces of computing advice that stand the test of time
Technology never stops moving foward. Hardware gets faster, and operating systems gain new features and (we hope) finesse. This is natural computing law.
- 02 October 2012
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Opinion: Facebook: For ads, clicks aren't all that counts
Traditional wisdom—and online ad budgets—measure success in clicks. While that may work for ads on Google, Facebook says that focusing on the per-click return isn't the best method for businesses seeking to spread brand awareness. Per-click metrics don't show the "outcomes that happen in the grocery store, in the car dealership, or in the local coffee shop," said Brad Smallwood, Facebook’s director of pricing and measurement, as TechCrunch reported Monday.
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Opinion: igHome gives displaced iGoogle users a familiar home
A couple months back I suggested three alternatives to iGoogle, the popular personalized Google home page that's scheduled to be switched off about a year from now.
- 01 October 2012
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Opinion: Gmail adds support for search inside message attachments
If you use Google's webmail service, Gmail, you can now search attachments in your e-mail messages that are in formats from popular programs, such as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, and others.
- 28 September 2012
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Opinion: The Week in iOS Apps: Albert Einstein's brain
This week’s roundup of iOS apps is all about the multimedia entertainment: We’ve got video, we’ve got music, we’ve got games, and we’ve got the brain of Albert Einstein.
- 27 September 2012
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Opinion: How to move from Hotmail to Outlook.com
Late in July, Microsoft unveiled Outlook.com, a new Webmail service designed to take the place of the aging Hotmail.
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Opinion: You can now share Dropbox files with Facebook Groups
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that lets Facebook users share their Dropbox files with Facebook Groups.
- 26 September 2012
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Opinion: Need to tune up your browser? Firefox Health Report can help
It's no secret that browser performance can vary dramatically across installations thanks to differences in configuration and customization, among numerous other factors.
- 25 September 2012
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Opinion: Need to tune up your browser? Firefox Health Report can help
It's no secret that browser performance can vary dramatically across installations thanks to differences in configuration and customization, among numerous other factors.
- 24 September 2012
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Opinion: Get a free domain name and Web hosting for one year
It's the rare new business that wouldn't benefit from a home on the Web. Quite the opposite: If someone goes looking for a business like yours and doesn't find at least a simple Web site for it, well, that's a customer who's probably going to a competitor.
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Opinion: Simplify your cashback searches with the Ebates Toolbar
It was just last week that I explained how to keep unwanted toolbars out of your browser. Today let's talk about one you might want to put there on purpose.
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Opinion: What's in your Facebook Activity Log?
Do you use Facebook? Hundreds of millions of people use the social network to connect with friends and family, share pictures and videos, play games, and more. What you might not realize is that everything you do on Facebook is tracked and logged.
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