Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Jumping out of bed to the shrill sound of the default Radar ringtone of an iPhone alarm is no way to start the day. As far back as iOS 6, you have been able to set your iPhone alarm to play a song from your music library. And with iOS 8, …

Apple Music has Beats 1 radio, and now Rdio has hundreds of live terrestrial radio stations. Earlier this week, Rdio announced it has added 500 radio stations from its partner, Cumulus Media, which is the second-largest operator of radio stations in the US. You can listen to these radio stations via the Rdio iOS app, Android app, or on the …

I put Apple Music through its first party last weekend. With our guests’ ages ranging from late 20s to early 50s, a spirited debate eventually emerged regarding music selection. Thankfully, with Up Next, we were able to keep the peace and the dance floor crowded. If you don’t know about this useful feature of Apple Music, allow me to show …

Do you live in a place where you have more than one terrible way to drive to work? Stop nodding and keep reading, commuters in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles and other metropolises with bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic. If a check of traffic conditions on Google Maps or Waze precedes your morning and evening commutes, then you can streamline operations with …

If you have been spending portions of your day listening to Beats 1 radio, then you may occasionally want to go back and replay a particularly good hour of radio, or listen to a show that you missed. Apple Music has offered playlists of the songs from previously aired Beats 1 shows, and now it has full replays that let …

Airbnb can be a bit of a roll of the dice. While the Explore nearby places for Airbnb Chrome extension can’t guarantee the condition of the apartment or the room you are booking matches that of the photos on its listing, it can let you see what types of attractions are nearby. From the makers of the YapQ city guides, …

Vault 101 is a convenient little Mac app that lets you create and share encrypted files and is currently and steeply discounted by way of $2 Tuesday from its usual $9.99 price to $1.99. The app lets you select files and folders to be password-protected behind AES-256 encryption (256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard). To use Vault 101, file out its form …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET We could all use a little help, I would imagine, with keeping up with our email inbox. If you use Gmail and frequently or even occasionally find yourself with the need to forward a bunch of emails, you don’t need to forward them one by one. Grab the Multi Forward for Gmail Chrome extension and you …

Matt Elliott/CNET If you’ve been using the public beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan, then you have likely experienced the occasional odd behavior of an app freezing or crashing or otherwise misbehaving. A bug has a greater chance of being fixed if you report it to Apple. And with the El Capitan beta comes an app — Feedback Assistant …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Wish you hadn’t just hit send on a email? Gmail’s Undo Send feature gives you 30 seconds to put a stop to a regrettable email. Really, all it does delay the sending of any email — up to 30 seconds. Chrome extension Dmail provides an alternate way to pull back an email, though it doesn’t cover …