Jason Cipriani

Square Cash wants to help you stash cash

Square updated its Cash app on Monday, adding the ability to store money within a Cash Drawer. The digital savings account, of sorts, will keep money from being directly deposited in your checking account. Why would you want to do that? Well, you can use the funds in your Square Cash Drawer as means to …

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How to export a PDF using 3D Touch

Apple has long provided a means to print webpages or documents from an iOS device to an AirPrint-equipped printer. However, the ability to save an item as a PDF isn’t as straightforward. Third-party apps have typically provided the ability to turn a document into a PDF, and now it turns out, Apple is providing a native solution to quickly and …

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Put weather info on the lock screen of Nextbit Robin

In an effort to make the lock screen of the Nextbit Robin more useful, the company designed a clock that’s big and easy to read. Just below the current time is the date, and, if you enable it, just below that you can view weather conditions for your current location. However, you’ll need to activate the weather feature before weather …

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What you need to know about Nextbit Robin’s Smart Storage feature

The Nextbit Robin is a new breed of Android smartphone — one that manages its own internal storage as you load more apps or content onto the device. Over time, the Robin’s Smart Storage feature learns your usage patterns and knows what apps, photos and videos you’re most likely to use or need. When the 32GB of internal storage starts …

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How to check if your family, friends are sharing your Netflix account

Signing into your Netflix account and seeing a bunch of random shows in your viewing history is always a puzzling experience. Did you binge watch in your sleep? Did your significant other watch a show, then act like he or she had no idea what you’re talking about? Or worse yet, did a friend or family member share your log-in? …

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This tool will uncover anyone’s email on LinkedIn

A while back we told you about Charlie, a free app that monitors your calendar and researches contacts you’re meeting with. An hour before the scheduled time, it sends you notable information about the person you’re meeting and the company he or she works for. Now, Charlie has released a Chrome extension designed to make it easier to connect with …

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Here’s a list of emoticons and their meaning

If you unlocked the emoticon keyboard on your iOS device, then bookmark this page. As noted in the guide that detailed how to activate the hidden keyboard on your iOS device, it’s not easy to figure out just what each of the emoticons actually mean. Thankfully, the website linked to above lists various Asian emoticons and their respective meanings. For …

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There’s another emoticon keyboard hiding in your iPhone

At some point, you’ve probably seen the infamous shrug emoticon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Emoticons (not to be confused with emoji) are a series of characters put together to make a face, animal or some other funny character. Think of emoticons as the traditional smiley face — with a lot more personality. Crafting an emoticon like the shrug-face takes a lot more work …

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Keep friends from knowing when you’ve read their iMessage

When you allow iMessage to mark messages as read, the person you are talking with is able to see when you viewed a message. This can be a handy feature, sure, but it also can make you look like you’re avoiding someone, even if you’re just busy and can’t answer right away. For that reason, I’ve disabled read receipts in …

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How to AirPlay only audio from your Mac

AirPlay Mirroring was first introduced to the Mac with the release of OS X Mountain Lion in 2012. The feature makes it possible to take whatever is on your Mac’s screen and display it on a nearby television that’s connected to an Apple TV. But what if you want to share audio without someone else seeing your screen, or you …

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