Matt Elliott/CNET The wife and I finished “Breaking Bad” on Netflix a month back and after a period of mourning — not for Walt but for the greatest TV show of all time being over — we turned to Xfinity X1’s on demand offerings to find a suitable replacement. We have found that many on …
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Cinephiles, start your iPhones. ScenePast is an iOS app that helps you discover different locations from movie and TV history. From the oddly retro start screen, you can search for locations by year, ZIP code, or choose from five popular destinations: Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, or San Francisco. You can also just tap the Nearest button to find …
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Whyd is a Web app that lets you create playlists of tracks you discover on YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud and other online music repositories. The service also lets you follow other users with similar musical interests and builds you a feed of their tracks. It’s a handy way to keep tabs of the new music you come across during your Internet …
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Screenshot by Screenshotter If you are a tech blogger or mobile app developer or just someone who happens to take a lot of screenshots on your iPhone, then you undoubtedly have a Camera Roll littered with screenshots. Free iOS app Screenshotter aims to help. Install Screenshotter, give the app access to your photos, and it then immediately creates a folder …
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When you hand a friend or family member your iPhone so he or she can look at a photo or two, you don’t necessarily want that person to have unfettered access to your entire photo library. Perhaps your mom swipes from cute photos taken at Sunday brunch to the last photos you took at the conclusion of a wild Saturday …
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WeTransfer There are a number of ways — e-mail, text, iCloud, Photo Stream, Dropbox, and social networking to name a handful of popular options — to share iPhone photos. There are also a number of ways — email, text, iCloud, YouTube, Vimeo, and social networking to name a few — to share iPhone videos. There may not be an easier …
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The iPhone comes with a useful Reminders app that helps you keep track of your various daily responsibilities, but free app Later by developer Nick Walter might be of added help because it focuses on reminding you only about texts, tweets, and e-mails that you don’t want to forgot to send. The app feels half-baked at this point, but a …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET With its clean interface and accurate recording that requires nothing other than you carrying around your iPhone, Moves is a great activity tracker. It automatically tracks your activity, as long as you are walking, running, cycling, or engaged in some sort of transport like driving a car. While I walk my dog frequently, drive my kids …
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Sometimes a photo shows up in your Instagram feed with some sort of detail that requires closer inspection. Unfortunately, Instagram does not let you pinch to zoom. There are two ways, however, for you to take a closer look at an image on Instagram on your iPhone. Method 1: Accessibility setting If you find yourself regularly wishing you could zoom …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET I am a Comcast Xfinity subscriber, and yesterday I got upgraded to the company’s X1 cable box. I am enjoying the modern interface of the channel guide, the improved search functionality, and the potential to record four shows at the same time while watching a fifth. What I am not enjoying is the lack of a …
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