Jason Cipriani

How to watch tonight’s Democratic debate

Democratic presidential candidates are in Charleston South Carolina right now for the latest debate. The fourth debate between candidates is co-hosted by NBC and YouTube, with coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT). The debate is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT). Unlike previous debates which featured multiple rounds …

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How to get an Amazon Prime membership for $73 this weekend

Amazon is celebrating its recent success at the Golden Globes with a discount on its Prime service the company announced on Thursday. Amazon Prime provides members with free two-day shipping on most items, along with access to the company’s Prime video and music catalog, discounts on video games and other miscellaneous services. Starting Friday, January 15 at 9 p.m. PST …

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How to use iOS 9’s picture

When Apple announced iOS 9 for the iPad, the company revealed a a new picture-in-picture mode. Thanks to the new feature, users are able to minimize supported videos and continue watching them while multitasking on the iPad. When minimized, the video will resemble a FaceTime window that you can move around and resize with a familiar pinch-to-zoom gesture. That said, …

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Enable ‘Auto Rotate’ for your Android home screen in latest Google app update

Google updated its Google app, which includes the Google Now Launcher, with some small tweaks on Wednesday. If you’re using a Nexus device and haven’t installed a third-party launcher app, such as Action Launcher 3 (or similar), you’re already using the Google Now Launcher. On other devices, such as Samsung’s Galaxy line you have to explicitly enable Google’s launcher in …

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How to customize TestFlight alerts on iOS

If you’ve ever beta-tested an iOS app through Apple’s TestFlight app, you’ve undoubtedly received an email and a push alert on your iOS device(s) with each new release. The alerts are a convenient way to know when it’s time to update to the latest build, not to mention the email version includes a change log letting you know what to …

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How to hide app icons on iOS 9.2

Apple has said it’s looking at ways to give users the option of removing preinstalled apps from iOS devices. Although, the company has given no timetable or clear indication if such capabilities will ever manifest in a future version of iOS. In the meantime, there are ways to get around the limitation. Instead of creating a folder for all of …

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How to force sync Safari history across all your Apple devices

When you’re logged into the same iCloud account from multiple Apple devices, iCloud will sync your Safari browsing history across the devices. Sometimes, however, your devices can get out of sync and waiting around for iCloud to catch up can be frustrating. With little effort you can manually force iCloud to sync your Safari history using your Mac, OS X …

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Moonlight makes it easy to edit video on your iPhone

Every time I edit a video of my kids and share it with family members, it never fails one that someone makes a comment about the talent it takes to edit a video. To be honest, I have no talent. In fact, I use iMovie themes, slap a couple text fields on it and call it good. Try as I …

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Snowy is a Siri

Pebble’s Time line of smartwatches now has a capable personal assistant application, though it’s not the work of the company itself. The app, called Snowy, is a third-party application that was built to replicate Siri and Google Now’s functionality. Granted, it’s not going to be nearly as robust, it does have a healthy list of commands and features at launch. …

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App Santa is back! Popular iOS, Mac apps on sale for limited time

For the past few years, a group of independent developers have put their apps on sale leading up to Christmas Day. For 2015 installment of App Santa, there’s 26 popular apps for iOS and OS X discounted up to 80 percent off the normal price. All participating apps should reflect the price change by 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET …

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