Jason Cipriani

How to use Facebook’s new News Feed controls

Jason Cipriani/CNET Prior to today, the process for removing Facebook posts from a friend or page was a chore. You had to tap or click around the often confusing settings found on Facebook, until you wound up at the right spot. And that only covered a single account. Today Facebook announced it was making the …

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How to hide Android Wear notifications

Jason Cipriani/CNET A smartwatch is a watch, first and foremost, right? As such, covering up custom watch faces with alerts is something that can drive any tech user insane. Sure, having bits of information available at a glance is nice, but users should at least have a choice when deciding how much info should be displayed. With the recent update …

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How to ‘Pin’ apps in Android 5.0 Lollipop

Google Music with the Screen Pinning icon available. Jason Cipriani/CNET The latest version of Android offers a new feature Google calls “Screen Pinning.” When enabled, you can lock down your device so the person using it only has access to one app. Undoubtedly a convenient feature for those who often offer a device to a child for a Netflix session …

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Getting started with ‘User Accounts’ on Android 5.0 Lollipop

A Nexus 9 with multiple user accounts available on the lock screen. Jason Cipriani/CNET With Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google is adding true multi-user support for tablets and smartphones alike. When Google released Android 4.2 it included multiple user accounts for tablets; however, smartphone users were left in the cold. (In Google’s defense, sharing a smartphone is far less likely than …

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How to access Quick Settings on Android 5.0 Lollipop

Jason Cipriani/CNET Google’s Android 5.0 Lollipop is upon us. The update implements a completely new look called Material Design. With the new design language, some features we’ve grown accustomed to have either been moved, or the method to access them has changed a bit. One such feature is Quick Settings. For those unfamiliar, Quick Settings allows you to enable or …

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Set up ‘Priority’ mode on Android 5.0 Lollipop

Jason Cipriani/CNET After updating to Android 5.0 Lollipop, the first time you change the alert volume on your device you’re likely to notice a few new options just below the volume slider. The options are part of a new feature called Priority mode. Similar to Do Not Disturb found on various platforms and devices, Priority mode will silence alerts based …

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How to add music to your Android Wear watch

Jason Cipriani/CNET In September we exclusively reported Google’s plans to release an update to Android Wear, making it possible to store music on your smart watch. Last week, that report became a reality as Android Wear received an update adding music capabilities, along with bug fixes and GPS-tracking capabilities (a hardware-dependent feature, I might add). The process for adding music …

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How to pair a Bluetooth accessory with Android Wear

Jason Cipriani/CNET Transferring music from your Android device to your Android Wear watch is a simple process, as we pointed out earlier. But once you get music on the watch, you’ll need to have a Bluetooth headset, speaker or headphones paired to the watch. Pairing another Bluetooth device with your watch is easy, taking just a few minutes of your …

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Three tips for a smoother Apple Pay experience

Jason Cipriani/CNET Apple Pay is arguably the most straight-forward mobile payment solution we’ve seen thus far. Tim Cook announced it has seen over 1 million users activate a card on the service in the first 72 hours — more than the number of users who signed up for all similar services combined. Yet with its ease of use, and simplistic …

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How to fix Text Message Forwarding issues on iOS 8.1

Jason Cipriani/CNET We already covered how to set up Text Message Forwarding from your iPhone to another iOS device or Mac, but there was a key troubleshooting element we unknowingly left out of the guide. As mentioned in the original story, you need to have iMessage enabled on your iPhone in order to enable text message forwarding. More importantly, however, …

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