Even if you don’t pay for YouTube Red to remove ads and to gain the ability to play tunes in the background or when you are offline, the YouTube Music app (for iOS or for Android) is a great way to listen to the seemingly endless supply of music on YouTube. It queues up songs …

The iPad isn’t my favorite e-book reader. After all, if you stare at a computer screen at work all day, the last thing you want to do when you get home is read a book on a glossy iPad screen. But iBooks isn’t just for e-books. It can also be used to store PDF files, especially for reference documents like …

Tucked away in the back of a file cabinet, I have an overstuffed folder of owner’s manuals, many of which are for products I no longer own. I’m getting a jump on my spring cleaning this year and throwing out the entire folder. I no longer need any of these printed manuals in my house — even for the products …

Now playing: Watch this: Make your Facebook profile picture a video 1:05 If you feel your Facebook profile is too static, Facebook is giving you 7 seconds to work with. You now have the option of ditching your profile picture for a short, looping profile video. To make a profile video from Facebook’s iOS or Android app, go to your …

Apple knows that some of us, 4 inches is the perfect phone size. The new iPhone SE is has many of the iPhone 6S’s features (but not all) and is the cheapest phone in Apple’s lineup. It’s available in two storage capacities, four color choices and will launch with the usual carriers. You have your choice of silver, gold, space …

Apple on Monday announced the 4-inch iPhone SE. Despite its smaller size (and price), the iPhone SE boasts nearly all of the features of Apple’s flagship iPhone 6S. It features the same A9 and M9 processors as the iPhone 6S, for example, along with a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera, Live Photos, Touch ID, NFC and Hey Siri. Screenshot by Josh Miller/CNET …

One of my roles as a dad is iOS Game Scout. In an effort to get my daughter to take a break from one of the many Toca Hair salon games she plays and my son to step away momentarily from Minecraft, I bring games to their attention that have, in my estimation, some sort of artistic or educational value. …

Et tu, Siri? As a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan, I recall fondly the heady days of Bernie Kosar and a time when the Browns weren’t the laughing stock of the NFL. That’s what the Detroit Lions were for! Of course, it’s been a long time since Bernie was slinging side-armed passes and leading the Browns to, if not a Super …

Slow-motion videos are a fun option for iPhone and iPad videographers, letting you slow down the action for dramatic effect. If you have a iPhone 5S, you can shoot slo-mo videos at 120 frames per second, and if you have an iPhone 6 or later, you have two slo-mo options: 120fps and 240fps. If you shoot a slow-motion video, you …

Until we all have a Google self-driving car to get us home at the end of a long night, we must rely on friends, public transportation, a taxi or a ride-sharing service like Uber. Uber and its ilk are an increasingly popular option for getting around town, and yesterday Google Maps announced it will soon add a new tab to …