Jason Cipriani/CNET Ever encountered a time when you needed to rename a file or folder stored in Dropbox, but only had your iOS device nearby? As you likely found out, renaming just wasn’t something the app would allow you to do. On Monday that changed however, when Dropbox released an update for its iOS app …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET There’s no shortage of reasons one would need to take a screenshot on an iOS device. As such, the amount of unnecessary screenshots often found cluttering our Camera Roll is an annoyance. And going through one-by-one, tapping and selecting screenshots to delete is annoying (not to mention time consuming). Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET Enter Screeny, a simple iOS …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Google introduced a handy feature called Smart Lock in Android 5.0 Lollipop. When enabled, Smart Lock will prevent your device from requiring a pin or pattern to unlock your device so long as it’s connected to an approved Bluetooth device or near-field communications (NFC) tag. While convenient, there are still times when you might want to temporarily lock …
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Fluid apps for Gmail, Feedbin and Facebook in an OS X dock. Jason Cipriani/CNET On a computer, the benefit of running an app over launching a full-fledged is two-fold. First, every time open your browser you run the risk of getting distracted and winding up on some random website reading stories evaluating if The Wizard of Oz myths are real. …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Editors’ Note: This article was originally published April 24, 2012, and has been updated to reflect current offerings. If 2014 isn’t known as the year of wearables, it could be known as the year of cloud storage. Between updates to Google Drive and Dropbox, and revamped offerings from Apple’s iCloud Drive, Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive, access …
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A Nexus 5 going through the encryption process. Jason Cipriani/CNET When Google finally unveiled Android 5.0 Lollipop, one of the headlining features outside of the complete redesign was the increased security surrounding your data. Namely, all Lollipop devices will come from the factory with device encryption enabled by default. But therein lies the problem: device encryption in Lollipop is only …
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Snapcash in action. Jason Cipriani/CNET On Monday, seemingly out of nowhere, Snapchat launched Snapcash. The new feature that makes it too easy for its users to send money to one another through the chat portion of the app. Currently the feature is only available on Android, with the update having just hit the Play Store. The iOS update is said …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Apple added a lot of new features to Spotlight in OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The list of new capabilities includes searching the App Store, Wikipedia pages and quick calculations. For some, however, Spotlight would benefit from additional features and capabilities. For example, wouldn’t it be nice to search Google or Amazon directly from Spotlight? What about getting current …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET When Apple first launched the iCloud Photo Library beta alongside iOS 8.1, the ability to upload photos to your library from a computer was missing. With a new Photos app supposed to launch in early 2015, Apple had limited the upload process to only iOS devices running the latest version of iOS. But recently an update was made …
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Apple After spending the summer getting a sneak peek of OS X 10.10 Yosemite through the public beta, you may want to leave the beta program. Understandable, as continuing to install beta versions of an operating system where bugs are bound to happen can lessen the user experience. To withdraw from Apple’s beta program, you’ll need access to the Mac …
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