More Software Opinion

  • 04 April 2013

  • Opinion: Cloud-based backup: Is it right for long-term storage?

    Eugene Bartley wanted to know if his files would eventually disappear from a cloud-based backup service.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Keep your i on the OS

    Apple nerds spitball about future product releases and updates while a piece of the company's history sees the light of day and a former Apple executive runs into a roadblock. The remainders for Wednesday, April 3, 2013 have grounded out to second.

  • 03 April 2013

  • Opinion: Los Angeles synchronizes all its traffic lights, lets a computer control the roads

    Los Angeles, a city infamously known for rush hour congestion, is the first city in history to roll out a fully synchronized traffic light system. Right now, all road traffic is officially being controlled by a supercomputer grandmaster through 4500 synchronized traffic lights.

  • Opinion: How to fast-charge your iPhone or iPad using a standard USB port

    Back in January I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" of trying to charge your iPad from a USB port: there's not enough juice.

  • 02 April 2013

  • Opinion: The Macalope: It's dumb work if you can get it

    All too often, delving into an egregious act of silly punditry is like peeling an onion of dumb. So many stupid, stinky layers.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Fool on the hill

    Yes, yes, it's April Fool's Day. But here at the Remains of the Day, it's business as usual. So you can read about non-resellable MP3s, rumors about the next two iPhones, and Tim Cook's handsome, handsome yearbook photos without any fear that we're out to fool you. That's because the remainders for Monday, April 1, 2013, respect everything about you.

  • Opinion: YouMail Business Edition: Smarter voicemail for business

    YouMail has long been a champion of smartphone users, offering visual voicemail on phones that lack it and better visual voicemail on phones that include it.

  • 01 April 2013

  • Opinion: Preparing audiobooks for the road

    Reader Oliver MacKenzie is tripping out over audiobooks. He writes:

  • 29 March 2013

  • Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: OS X Recent Items glitch

    When you click and hold on an application's dock icon, its dock menu pops up. It typically includes a list of the application's recently opened documents (assuming it supports opening documents). I find these lists to be the most convenient way to quickly locate and open such files--preferring it to the Open Recent command in applications' File menus. Except for one thing: the dock menu lists periodically get messed up. Most especially the lists often don't update as you open new documents, leaving you with an out-of-date list. In contrast, file lists accessed via the Open Recent command are always correct.

  • Opinion: Automator workflow of the month: April Fools' Day pranks

    As I've outlined over the many years we've produced these Automator tips, this fine utility can be used in powerful ways to make your work easier. However, in the hands of the office prankster it can also be used as a useful tool on the first day of April.

  • 28 March 2013

  • Opinion: How to use an external keyboard with your iPad

    You may be able to ditch your heavy laptop and take along your iPad instead, if you use an external keyboard for long typing sessions. In this video, I show you how to use a keyboard with your iPad and we take a look at some keyboards made especially for that purpose.

  • Opinion: How to add permanent captions to your photos

    Arcticsid asked the Photo Editing forum for a way to add captions to his photos. "In the old days we could write a description on the back."

  • Opinion: How we produce our podcasts

    Shortly after the first 50 episodes of the Macworld Podcast, I was tasked with producing (though hosting just every other week) these weekly spoken-audio efforts. While I have made adjustments to some of the tools I use, my workflow has changed very little.

  • 27 March 2013

  • Opinion: Ending Reply All annoyances

    A reader who doesn't wish to provide his name (for reasons that soon will become apparent) has a problem with office etiquette. He writes:

  • Opinion: Linux group hits Microsoft with complaint over 'Secure Boot'

    It's long been clear that Linux users are more than a little unhappy with the "Secure Boot" technology implemented by default in Windows 8 hardware, but in Spain, one group has decided to do more than simply try to work around it.

  • 26 March 2013

  • Opinion: Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

    Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it--and he doesn't feel fine about it.

  • 25 March 2013

  • Opinion: Skype and the crashing camcorder

    Reader Dave Eng can't seem to broadcast his mug over the Internet. He writes:

  • Opinion: Reduce tab clutter in Chrome with OneTab

    I don't know about you, but I keep a lot of tabs open in my Web browser (Google Chrome). For me it's work thing: I'm constantly opening new tabs while I research various topics I plan to write about during the day (or even the days to come).

  • 22 March 2013

  • Opinion: Tech Trek: Long Beach, California

    I have a confession to make at the outset: I used to live in Long Beach. Many readers expect travel columns to reflect the writer's experience as a visitor to a new place every time. Because I've lived in a lot of places--nearly two dozen different cities--the chances of my returning to a place where I used to live is a little higher than for most people. Anyway, I lived in the LBC for less than a year, so I'm hardly a native of the place.

  • Opinion: Meet Zoe, a virtual talking head that can express emotions

    Even with all our emojis and emoticons, a typed message will never carry the same sort of emotion as a face-to-face conversation. Sure video calls have gotten a lot easier these days between FaceTime and Skype calls, but who makes calls anymore?

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