For some, the sign it’s time to get a new phone is when Tim Cook takes to the stage in September and announces a new iPhone is upon us. Or when Samsung unveils its latest Galaxy phone for Android. If you aren’t on anything resembling a regular upgrade cycle, then your aging phone may be …

If you use the Notes app on your iPhone only to type quick notes to yourself, then you aren’t using all the features that the app offers. Here are seven tips to help you get more out of iOS Notes. Sync your Notes With iCloud, you can sync your notes between iOS devices and your Mac. On iOS, head to …

Two decades ago, the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls finished the NBA regular season with 72 wins against only 10 losses. It’s the best regular season record in NBA history. In fact, no other team has won 70 games in a regular season, until this year’s Golden State Warriors who, in their final game of the regular season tonight, have a …

If your laptop takes its sweet time booting up, then here are some things you can do to put a little pep back in its startup step. Get an SSD You can breathe new life and faster boot times into old laptops by replacing spinning hard drives (HDD) with a new solid-state drive (SSD). Without needing to physically spin a …

Hyperlapse is great if you want to post sped-up timelapse videos to Instagram, but what about slow-motion videos? That’s easy if you captured a video using the slo-mo effect with the iPhone’s default camera app — all you have to do is post it like you would any other video. But if you have a regular-speed video you want to …

My daughter, who is deaf in one ear, likes to watch movies and listen to music on her iPad. On long road trips or while she’s in the same room with her little brother, she uses headphones. But she uses them a bit differently than most. Instead of playing audio to both sides of her headphones, we set it up …

Baseball season is back. And this year, you’ll be able to watch even more games online. Enlarge Image Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET As as out-of-market Cincinnati Reds fan, I struggled with renewing my MLB.TV subscription. The Reds are almost certainly going to be at or near the bottom of the National League this year, but it wouldn’t feel like summer …

I finally realized that Google Docs isn’t the best note-taking app. It’s too clunky for quickly jotting down notes about a project or interesting things I come across throughout the day. So, I went to the Chrome Web Store and searched for a solution that was simple, easy to access, and had only the features I needed (syncing and sign-in …

Google is shutting down its Wallet Cards, the physical debit cards for Google Wallet accounts. The debit cards let Wallet users spend money from their Wallet account when shopping at a retailer that doesn’t support contactless NFC payments. Google Wallet’s physical payment card is being retired. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET When does support for Wallet Cards end? Wallet Cards will …

With the calendar soon turning to April, it’s time for all procrastinators to start thinking about filing their taxes. This year, you have until Monday, April 18 to submit your tax return, thanks to Emancipation Day, a Washington DC holiday that falls on Friday, April 15 this year. And residents of Maine and Massachusetts have until Tuesday, April 19 to …