On Monday Google pushed publish on its YouTube Kids app for iOS and Android devices. The free app eliminates the not-so-kid-friendly parts of the popular video-sharing site, and makes only educational shows, music and cartoons available for viewing. In other words, that tinge of dread or fear you used to experience as you’d hand over …
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Pebble Steel with text templates loaded. Jason Cipriani/CNET Pebble recently pushed an update for its Android users that brings full Android Wear compatibility to the smartwatch. While the wording may leave you with the impression of being able to run an Android Wear app on your wrist, it really boils down to being able to take action on notifications from …
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Getty Images Exif data is embedded into each photo you take. The information details what type of camera was used, what the settings of the camera were at the time the photo was taken and perhaps more importantly, where the photo was taken. Over the years, various iOS apps have existed to read Exif data stored in photos, but none …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET After reading the release notes of the recent updates to Word, PowerPoint and Excel for iOS, you’re left wondering where the supposed iCloud Drive support can be found. It’s not completely obvious at first, and actually, it’s still not all that obvious. Here’s how it works: Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET When you launch any of the Office apps, …
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Uploading a photo using the Dropbox share extension. Jason Cipriani/CNET The ability to upload nearly any file to Dropbox on your iOS device has been sorely absent. Outside of the dedicated app allowing you pick and upload a photo from within the app, uploading files was near impossible unless a third-party app supported Dropbox. A recent update to the Dropbox …
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Workflow on an iPad. Jason Cipriani/CNET Workflow is one of those apps when you first start using it on your iOS device, you have a moment of questioning how it’s possible for such an app to exist on iOS. After using the app for the last few months, I still don’t know how it was allowed through the App Store. …
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My Retroj.am playlist from freshman year in college. Jason Cipriani/CNET It’s funny how our minds connect a song to a specific location or time in our life. The instant you hear a song you’ve all but forgotten about, it’s as if you enter a time machine and are immediately transported back in time. In that sense, consider the name of …
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James Martin/CNET As we wait for the Apple Watch to launch in April, there’s not a lot we can do to get a better idea of how the watch works. Screenshots and mockups of how apps may or will look on the watch keep popping up, but other than that there’s not much else in the way of a full …
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I heart you. Jason Cipriani/CNET It’s almost a given most of us will get overwhelmed when planning the perfect Valentine’s Day date. Thankfully, we live in a time when technology can help us in our planning efforts or provide for an ice breaker should we need it. Here’s eight apps to help you with your V-Day planning. OpenTable Screenshot by …
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Will you be my Valentine? Jason Cipriani/CNET Procrastinators, listen closely. Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. If you’re ordering presents from a cross-country retailer, shipping deadlines play a big part in ensuring it’s delivered on time. UPS and FedEx are reliable, until you really need something to be delivered on time and then it seems like the shipping gods take the …
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