Jason Cipriani/CNET When Google first launched Android 4.2 Jelly Bean one of the features included in the update was lock screen widgets. With the launch of Android 4.4 KitKat last week, there’s a change to lock screen widgets you need to know about. Users of Android 4.2 and 4.3 know that lock screen widgets were …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET With Android 4.4 KitKat having launched with the Nexus 5 we are still digging through the new features for developers and users alike. One of the features included in the latest Android OS is the ability to record the screen of your device. This feature is intended for developers who want to spruce up Play Store listings with …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET When commenting on a Google+ thread earlier today about the timing of the impending release of Google Hangouts for Android, I clicked in the direction of this post on Reddit. According to the post, though the actual updates and change logs are missing, 16 Google apps have updated since Monday. I was able to download a Google Earth …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET One of the advantages that iMessage has over text messaging is that an indicator is displayed when the other person in the conversation is typing a message. This simple animation gives you a heads-up of an incoming message; I often find myself staring at the dancing dots until the message eventually comes through. That same feature can also …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET With the redesign of iOS 7, the color mode to differentiate when a switch is set to on or off has changed. The color of a switch that’s off is white, and the color for a switch that’s on is green. Previous versions of iOS also had an On or Off indicator in view when a switch was …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET One of the most common questions I’ve received about iOS 7 beyond that of where Spotlight went, or how to force-close apps, is how to delete for forward messages. The method to carry out either task has changed a bit from previous versions of iOS, but it’s still just as easy. When in a conversation in the Messages …
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The M7 coprocessor in the iPhone 5S is a fancy name for a chip that counts your steps and motion all day, every day. In order to see how many steps you’ve been taking, you’ll need to use an app specifically built for the iPhone 5S and the M7 chip. While we wait for more developers to integrate the M7 …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, one of the main feature sets shown off during the presentation was the camera improvements. Two of the new features stood out more than others, were slo-mo videos and a new Burst Mode. Burst Mode will take photos at up to 10 frames per second on the 5S, so you don’t miss …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET iOS 7 adds a new interactive layer throughout the operating system. It can best be seen when looking at a wallpaper on your home or lock screens. When you change the viewing angle of your device by tilting it in any direction, any graphics present on the screen will appear to move. This adds a realistic layer of …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Hiding preloaded apps on an iOS device has always consisted of creating a “junk” folder, placing all unused apps in it, and hiding it on the last home screen. Up until iOS 7, placing apps such as Newsstand in a folder wasn’t even possible. For the time being, there’s a bug in iOS 7 that allows you to …
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