Re Camera Jason Cipriani/CNET Time-lapse photography is a fun, creative way to capture activity over an extended amount of time. A camera takes a succession of photographs at a set interval, and when it’s finished it puts them all together in one video. The end result can be pretty impressive, especially if you find yourself …
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Re Camera with an Android device as a viewfinder. Jason Cipriani/CNET Last fall HTC released the Re Camera, a small periscope-looking device. Adorning the outside of the portable camera is a wide-angle lens and two buttons. It’s always ready for a spontaneous shot, without the fuss of framing and lining up the shot with a screen or viewfinder. It’s fun …
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Chat Heads on Mac. Jason Cipriani/CNET Remember Facebook’s Chat Head feature? When enabled, small circles containing the avatars of your contacts would show up on the screen of your Android device atop all other windows. (iOS users were able to use the feature for some time, but the Messages transition put an end to that.) The feature made it possible …
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A Fitbit Charge next to the companion iPhone app. Sarah Tew/CNET Walking into Best Buy and visiting the fitness band aisle is starting to feel a bit like staring at the giant wall of TVs across from it. There’s not only a section for upward of 10 different companies, each company has more than one product. How do you decide …
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An iPhone 6 Plus controlling a MacBook Air using Chrome Remote Desktop. Jason Cipriani/CNET Chrome Remote Desktop is hardly a new service from Google. It’s been around for years, allowing users to access a Windows or Mac computer from another computer or an Android device. When it came to this Google service, iOS had been left out. Then on Monday …
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Start of another billing cycle. Jason Cipriani/CNET Tiered data plans are horrible. Keeping track of how much data you’ve used has been streamlined with carriers offering warning texts and emails, yet they always make me feel like I’m being yelled at by a parent. Sorry, AT&T! I didn’t realize I was at 60 percent until you notified my entire family. …
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Burstio app icon Jason Cipriani/CNET My favorite kind of apps aren’t entire platforms or services. Instead, they’re much simpler apps that fill a hole in the feature set of an operating system. For example, Apple created a Burst Mode in its Camera app that takes photos in quick succession as long as you hold in the shutter button. Once your …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Fitbit recently launched the Flex, the company’s first wrist-worn activity monitor that syncs with your smartphone. The Flex uses Bluetooth 4.0 to sync with compatible smartphones (more on this in a minute), keeping your current activity stats updated. When you first get the Flex, you’ll need to do some work to get it set up, but don’t worry …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Taking advantage of the various sensors found within Android Wear watches, Google had built a feature to automatically light up the screen when you lifted your arm and turned the screen towards you. The feature is handy for a quick glance at the time or any pending notifications, but it can also be a battery drain. Once your …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET When Google’s Android Wear platform first launched, it allowed users to select which apps they’d prefer not send alerts to the smartwatch. The process required you to launch the Android Wear companion app on an Android device, tap a few buttons and then add an app (or 10) to the blocked list. It wasn’t a complicated process, but …
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