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 …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Google Maps is rolling out a new feature to Android and desktop users called Your Timeline. With it, you can see all the places you’ve been. Google is quick to point out that timeline information is private and visible only to you. And that you must opt in to the feature by enabling Location History on …
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Matt Elliott/CNET A Chrome for iOS update in April introduced pull-down gestures that made it easy to open a new tab or close the current tab when browsing on your iPhone. That was, however, the extent of Chrome’s gestures for the iPhone. Chrome still forced you to tap the forward- and back-arrow buttons to navigate pages while Safari let you …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Let us begin with a disclaimer: Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan is not fully cooked and therefore might do some funny things to your Mac. Proceed with caution with this prerelease software that could, in Apple’s words, cause “crashes, freezes, kernel panics.” I suggest you install El Capitan on a secondary Mac if you have one or, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Search bookmarks and history super quick in Google Chrome 1:35 Looking for a shortcut to your Chrome history or bookmarks? Chrome’s URL bar or Omnibox lets you perform Web searches, and it also shows results from your bookmarks and history. With a little up front work, you can use the Omnibox to search only your bookmarks …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you often get lost among the many open windows on your Mac, you can use Mission Control and App Expose to find your way. Swiping up with three or four fingers (depending how you have it set up in System Preferences) brings up Mission Control, which shows you all of your open windows. Swiping down with three …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET FilePane offers a helping hand when you are dragging and dropping files to and fro on your Mac, providing shortcuts to many common actions based on the type of file you are dragging. The app also works with blocks of text and online images. FilePane usually costs $6.99 but is currently discounted to $1.99 as part …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Slidebox brings a Tinder-like swiping mindset to photo management. The app is free for iOS and coming soon to Android. When you launch Slidebox and grant it access to your photos, you can begin to browse your photos as you would with the stock iOS Photos app, swiping left to see the next photo and right to see …
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Sarah Tew/CNET It’s a relatively small difference among the many contrasts between Macs and PCs, but two things Mac keyboards lack that have always been found on PC keyboards are Home and End keys. These two keys can be used to jump to the beginning or end of a page. With a Mac keyboard, there are two keyboard shortcuts that …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Twitter yesterday introduced what it calls “a more streamlined consumption experience” where videos, GIFs and Vines will autoplay as you encounter them on your timeline and across Twitter. This new autoplay feature is enabled by default. And in my case, the Twitter app for iOS was set to autoplay videos whether I was on Wi-Fi or …
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