Matt Elliott/CNET Just as you need wind to fly a kite, you need users to make a social network fly. For social news app Kite to take off, it needs users because it relies on humans, not computers, to deliver the news. “There are two types of curation that work: social is one and the …
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Matt Elliott/CNET I can tell you that a cardinal couple frequents a tree in my front yard. I also know a blue jay when I see one. Robins, too. Beyond that, my bird knowledge quickly wanes. I am often curious about birds I see when I’m hiking in the woods or just walking around town, but can’t see myself as …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you upgraded your cable box to the Xfinity X1 box, there are some settings to investigate and tweak to make sure your cable service plays nice with your TV. To access settings, press the Xfinity button on your remote and arrow over to the gear icon. In Device Settings, there are a few items to consider. In …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Unlike the previous cable box from Comcast, the Xfinity X1 box doesn’t leave your current program running in a small window while you browse the guide. With the X1 box, the full-screen guide takes over your TV, whether you are scrolling through the channel list of the Guide or viewing the Saved, On Demand, Search, Apps or Settings …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Over at Ghacks, Martin Brinkmann discovered by way of a tweet from Google Photos that the unlimited storage option of Google Photos is not applied retroactively to any photos and videos you may have previously uploaded to Google Drive. And I can add from my own experience that this policy also applies to any photos you …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET The built-in Dictionary app for Macs is a powerful and useful tool, offering definitions, of course, along with thesaurus and Wikipedia entries. You can make it more powerful and more useful with the Terminology for OS X add-on from Agile Tortoise. Terminology is free and installs into the Dictionary app. Terminology is based on the WordNet …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Tired of staring at Half Dome? If you’ve been using the default wallpaper for OS X Yosemite (or any wallpaper, for that matter), you can trade your current view of Half Dome for a stunning vista of El Capitan. Apple won’t release OS X 10.11 El Capitan until the fall (after a public beta in July), but the …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET We have shown you how to hide or disable the Windows 10 upgrade icon if you have grown tired of seeing it in the system tray. But what if the reverse is true — the icon is missing and you want to see the icon to reserve your free upgrade to Windows 10 and have the …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET If you experience immediate regret after hitting Send on a text message on your iPhone, OS X Daily found a clever trick to stop the message from being delivered. Whether you suddenly discovered that you were texting the wrong person or just sending an embarrassing text to the right person, you can stop the message from …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET If you have been getting started with Google Photos, then you have probably checked out Google Photos on the Web and the mobile device of your choice. That’s what I did last week. I am an old Picasa user and struggled through the awkward Photos-as-part-of-Google+ years before blossoming with Google Photos. I love its navigation, cross-platform …
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