Jason Cipriani

Spring cleaning: Tidy up your music collection

Jason Cipriani/CNET I’ll be the first to admit my music collection is less than organized. To be honest, I hate dealing with it. I despise going file by file, renaming, adding the album title, track number and so on. It’s a hassle. With that said, organizing your music collection is something that needs to be …

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Spring cleaning: Make your iOS device feel new again

Jason Cipriani/CNET Spring is finally here! In addition to nice weather, warm nights, and baseball parks filling up, it’s also time start checking off items on the honey-do list around the house. In addition to cleaning up some cobwebs, sit down with your iOS device and show it a bit of love as well. A few simple tweaks can go …

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Five camera tips for the HTC One M9

Andrew Hoyle/CNET HTC spent a lot of time with the previous iterations of the One lineup, touting its UltraPixel camera as superior to those in competing devices. With the M9, however, HTC has finally conceded to critics and added a 20-megapixel camera to the device. On top of hardware changes, there are also some software features you should be aware …

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Get started with Themes on the HTC One M9

Jason Cipriani/CNET During the HTC Mobile World Congress event where the HTC One M9 was announced, one of the key features demonstrated on stage was the ability to personalize the device with a new Themes app. This app allows you to skip out on deciding which Android launcher, and its accompanying icon packs, you like the most (though you can …

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​How to change accent colors on the HTC One M9

Pick a color, any color! Jason Cipriani/CNET Customizing a smartphone is a easy way to personalize the device we constantly have nearby. And with the new new HTC One M9, and Sense 7, the Taiwanese company wants you to personalize the device until your heart’s content. A new Themes app lets you quickly and easily change everything from wallpapers, to …

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How to customize the navigation buttons on the HTC One M9

An extra button on in the navigation drawer of the HTC One M9. Jason Cipriani/CNET The new HTC One M9 isn’t all that different on the outside from its predecessor, but it does offer some new software tricks. One of them is the capability to customize the order, and even add or subtract from, your device’s navigation buttons. The navigation …

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Pistats.io details your Uber, Lyft spending habits

Pistats.io Jason Cipriani/CNET As posted on Product Hunt, Pistats.io is a free service that scans your Gmail account for Uber and Lyft receipts, then plots your rides on a map for you. In addition to creating a map of your rides, the service also calculates how many miles you’ve traveled in ride-shares, how much money you’ve spent and the amount …

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How to embed a Facebook video on your website

Jason Cipriani/CNET Facebook on Wednesday announcedwebsite owners can now embed videos posted to Facebook. The need for embedding videos allows readers and viewers to stay on a website, without having to direct someone to Facebook in order to watch the video. It goes without saying there’s value in embedding videos from Facebook and keeping users on a site longer. Not …

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Getting started with the live

Jason Cipriani/CNET Twitter on Thursday launched its newly released live-streaming app, Periscope. The app offers a straight-forward means of streaming live video to anyone who tunes in, or only to those you invite. As with any new app, there’s a bit of a learning curve when using Periscope for the first time. Only with this particular app, any mishaps could …

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Six tips to get the most out of Fantastical 2 for Mac

Fantastical 2 Mac year view. Jason Cipriani/CNET Fantastical is a calendar app from Flexibits for iOS and OS X. The iOS version was updated for iOS 7’s design language a while ago, with the Mac version having been left behind. Today, that changes. Flexibits is releasing Fantastical 2 for Mac. The upgrade is designed specifically for OS X Yosemite from …

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