More Software Opinion

• 18 December 2012

• Opinion: Coming soon: A new, open laptop from the creator of Chumby

  Open source software has become an increasingly widespread part of the computing world thanks to the ever-growing popularity of Linux, Firefox, LibreOffice, and other prominent examples. Fully open hardware, however, is still much less common.

• Opinion: App Spotlight: Automatically track your mileage with TripLog

  When it comes to managing business expenses, half the battle is keeping tabs on your mileage. Obviously there are plenty of apps that let you manually enter your miles or odometer readings--but that's still a pretty low-tech approach.

• 15 December 2012

• Opinion: 3 reasons Windows Phone 8 will succeed

  PC Advisor readers offer three reasons that they believe Windows Phone 8 is set to be a big success.

• 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: Is Internet Explorer leaking sensitive information?

  Do you use Internet Explorer? If you do, hopefully you've already applied the updates from Patch Tuesday earlier this week. But, even if you did it seems your browser might still be vulnerable to a potentially serious issue.

• 13 December 2012

• Opinion: Answer Line: TrueCrypt vs. encrypted .zip files

  Trinu, who keeps sensitive data inside AES-encrypted .zip archives, asked the Answer Line forum about the advantages and disadvantages of switching to TrueCrypt.

• 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.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Measure once, cut and paste twice

  Microsoft and Apple are at each other's throats over money, so it must be a day that ends in 'y.' Elsewhere, Apple may be inching closer to a TV as one of its partners looks to lay down some acreage in the U.S. and Cupertino's latest product is at least a thirty footer. The remainders for Wednesday, December 12, 2012 are redundant and repetitive.

• Opinion: How to automatically insert commonly used text--and sync those snippets to the cloud

  You haven't got all day. And yet you're typing the same text over and over again: email addresses, street addresses, signatures, boilerplate, and so on.

• 12 December 2012

• Opinion: Coming in Ubuntu Linux 13.04: instant purchases from the desktop

  Canonical may not have published an official alpha release for its core Ubuntu Linux 13.04 OS last week--or a corresponding list of new features--but on Friday the company did reveal some specifics about what's coming in this next version of its popular Linux distribution.

• 11 December 2012

• Opinion: New ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch: a focus on gestures

  Lenovo wants to make sure business laptop users are not left out of the Windows 8 touchscreen fray. The company Monday announced the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch Ultrabook, which builds on durability of the original carbon fiber-clad X1 Carbon with the addition of a 10-finger, 14-inch HD+ touch display.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Mister Television

  Jean-Louis Gassée puts Apple TV rumors into context while a forthcoming software update to the current set-top raises eyebrows. Elsewhere, Microsoft leaks Office for iOS's existence again, and Apple and Google tag team a big holiday purchase. The remainders for Monday, December 10, 2012 are switching on.

• Opinion: How to take a screenshot in Windows 8

  Windows 8 has a tool built-in that gives you a whole lot more control over your screenshots, allowing you to get more polished results.

• 10 December 2012

• Opinion: How to go back to iTunes 10, part 2

  Last week ago I told you how to go back to using iTunes 10, a solution for people who upgraded to iTunes 11 and decided they didn't like what they saw.

• 07 December 2012

• Opinion: ZevenOS 5.0: a lightweight Linux with a multimedia twist

  There are Linux distributions out there for pretty much every taste and purpose, but every once in a while I'll come across one that seems especially intriguing.

• 06 December 2012

• Opinion: Find duplicate photos

  C. Corder asked me to recommend a program to help him find duplicate photos.

• Opinion: Get a free 25GB Box account when you sign up for Hojoki

  Do you spend a lot of time hopping around between various Web-based productivity apps, like Basecamp, Dropbox, Google Calendar, and Twitter?

• 05 December 2012

• Opinion: How to dedupe your song library now that iTunes won't

  iTunes 11, which arrived last week, brought some big changes with it. And for the last few days I've been helping you work around some of those changes, like restoring the iTunes sidebar and even returning to iTunes 10.

• Opinion: Playing podcasts in iOS 6's Music app

  Reader Arthur Cantu prefers to access all his iPhone’s audio files from a single app. He writes:

• Opinion: Use Content Advisor to protect your browser

  In Windows 8 you can use the Content Advisor to help you manage what is and isn’t available through your browser

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