More Software Opinion
- 03 December 2012
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Opinion: How to go back to iTunes 10
Reader Wes sent me this simple plea:
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Opinion: How to exclude holiday tracks from genius playlists
A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has some difficulty maintaing a holiday spirit throughout the year. He writes:
- 30 November 2012
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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.
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Opinion: Google Chrome leads the browser pack at preventing phishing, study finds
Phishing attacks are an all-too-common threat on the Internet today, but among the top browsers Google's Chrome does the best job of preventing them.
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Opinion: How to restore the sidebar in iTunes 11
Are you an iTunes user? If so, by now you may be looking at iTunes 11, which Apple started rolling out yesterday. (Still running iTunes 10? You can get the update by clicking Help, Check for Updates.)
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Opinion: Humble THQ Bundle is ready to shut up and take your money
The people over at Humble Bundle are the good Samaritans of the gaming world, providing amazing pay-what-you-want deals for amazing games to support amazing causes. But they may have gone too far with the Humble THQ Bundle.
- 29 November 2012
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Opinion: Amazon Goes All In With Data Warehousing at AWS Conference
The first day of the first Amazon Web Services user conference, known as re: Invent, focused on the way customers are using services such as S3 and CloudFront. Meanwhile, the company unveiled RedShift, which CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden thinks will disrupt the data warehousing market and challenge IBM, Oracle and Teradata.
- 28 November 2012
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Opinion: RingCentral's new SMS feature keeps your number private
What do you do when you call a co-worker but they're not at their desk to answer the phone? You might send a text message to their mobile phone to try and reach them, but people using their own mobile devices may be reluctant to share their personal mobile number for business purposes. RingCentral may have a solution for that.
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Opinion: The Macalope Daily: Unrequited disdain
Forbes is truly the gift that keeps on giving to the Macalope.
- 27 November 2012
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Opinion: The Macalope Daily: Anecdatal evidence
Turns out taking dubious survey results as gospel isn't just for Apple haters.
- 26 November 2012
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Opinion: The Macalope Daily: All kinds of winning
It's traditional to use the appellation "number cruncher" for someone like Horace Dediu, but that seems inadequate. Dediu does not so much crunch numbers as he vaporizes them.
- 21 November 2012
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Opinion: How to bypass the Windows 8 password screen
At the risk of sounding like a cranky old man who doesn't like change, I'm feeling a bit cranky about Windows 8 and some of the changes it imposes. (Get off my lawn, Microsoft!)
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Opinion: With shopping scams on the rise, watch for these threats
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which means only one thing--the glorious chaos we call the Holiday Shopping Season will soon be upon us. Holiday shopping also means a spike in online scams, fraud, and malware, so you need to be aware of the risks and threats, and exercise some common sense to avoid a cyber-Grinch incident.
- 19 November 2012
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Opinion: Ask the Script Doctor: Working with text
Ask the Script Doctor is a regular column in which we solve real-world Mac problems using AppleScript and Automator. If you have a problem you’d like us to solve, send an email to the Script Doctor for consideration.
- 17 November 2012
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Opinion: How to adjust the page zoom in Word 2010
Recently my wife came to me, laptop in hand, wanting to know why some Word documents looked different than others.
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Opinion: Flush with cash, Mozilla pushes its mobile plans
Mozilla may have lost out on some 9 million Firefox downloads as a result of Microsoft's failure to show users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 a court-mandated browser choice screen, but that doesn't appear to have done the organization any lasting harm.
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Opinion: Take Microsoft Office 2013 for a 60-day test drive
Microsoft Office 2013 shipped to manufacturers late last month, but you won't be able to get your small-business hands on it until sometime in the first half of 2013.
- 15 November 2012
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Opinion: App Spotlight: CallFlakes automates phone-call follow-ups
If your smartphone was truly smart, it would give you a lot more post-call options.
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Opinion: The Macalope Daily: Bereft of basic logic
[Due to technical issues The Macalope is currently available to all Macworld readers, not just members of Macworld Insider.]
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Opinion: Remains of the Day: Rack 'em
Samsung says it's not jacking up Apple's prices, a German board game company is whacking iOS apps for trademark violations, and Apple is packing stores into two new countries. The remainders for Wednesday, November 14, 2012 aren't lacking.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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