Jason Cipriani/CNET Night mode is becoming a somewhat popular feature in apps and on devices as of late. When enabled, night mode basically inverts the colors on your screen, going from bright colors, to more subtle, or darker colors. The purpose is to make looking at a screen in a dark room easier on your …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Last month HTC launched its latest flagship device, the HTC One M8. The new device features a revamped display, faster processor, more RAM, a wide-angle selfie cam, and two cameras on the back of the device to make depth-of-field pictures a reality on a mobile device. With all of the new hardware, and of course new software, the …

Monitoring your heart rate is seemingly becoming a staple for upcoming activity monitors and smartwatches. The Pebble lineup of smartwatches currently lacks this capability, but that hasn’t stopped a developer from creating a companion app for the watch. The app is called Pebble Heart Rate and requires both an iPhone app ($1.99 in the App Store) and a free Pebble …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Beyond the native integration with RunKeeper, the Pebble lineup doesn’t offer much in the way of fitness or health apps. And with more manufacturers starting to emphasize those features, it only makes sense that Pebble owners will want to know how to turn the current smartwatch into a healthy smartwatch. As such, I’ve rounded up four apps currently …

It’s not clear why Pebble didn’t conclude some sort of basic pedometer functionality in its smartwatch lineup, including in the newly released Pebble Steel . But that’s neither here nor there. The launch of the Pebble app store has made it easy to discover apps from third-party developers that add a scattering of features and functionality to the watch. Related …

An obvious benefit to the Pebble app store are the ideas developers come up with for the smartwatch. As it stands now, the Pebble doesn’t include any native activity tracking features. Naturally, developers have taken advantage of this and are attempting to fill in the holes. One such app is called Morpheuz. The free app works independently of your smartphone, …

Jason Cipriani/CNET As you may recall, the iPhone 5S launched with the ability to track your activity thanks to its M7 coprocessor. The small chip is constantly counting your steps and movement, allowing developers to access and use that information. With the Pebble smartwatch lacking a native pedometer, and third-party apps unable to run in the background, a developer decided …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Earlier this week Google announced Android Wear, the platform that’s going to bring Android to more wearables in the very near future. Along with the announcement, it also released a developer preview of the operating system for developers to begin working magic with. Naturally the preview included an emulator for devs to preview their work on. It didn’t …

Jason Cipriani/CNET When Apple released iOS 7 late last year, the overhauled user interface included tweaks and changes throughout the entire operating system. One such change was the removal of the ability to view your daily agenda from the month view in the Calendar app. As it was in iOS 7’s month view, you simply saw a dot on each …

Jason Cipriani/CNET As Apple continues to add more content options to the Apple TV, the main screen is starting to feel a bit overwhelming. Not everyone takes advantage of all the different apps (or channels, or services, or icons) on the Apple TV, making it helpful to hide some icons. In the past, hiding an icon required a lengthy process …