Matt Elliott/CNET The first time you go to retrieve a photo you previously deleted in the Photos app for OS X, you might rightly wonder where the Trash folder went. In iPhoto, deleted photos were kept in the Trash folder, which you could access from the sidebar. In Photos, no such animal exists. Even if …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The Apple Watch provides quick access to your 12 favorite people — or the dozen people with whom you are most frequently forced to interact. Whatever your reason for including them in the Friends screen, you can choose who gets listed and in what order. Pressing the side button on your Apple Watch calls up the Friends screen, …
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Matt Elliott/CNET There are certainly limitations to what an Apple Watch can do with its small display and lack of an onscreen keyboard. It’s more a companion to your iPhone than standalone device. When you are using an app on the Apple Watch, you can use Handoff to quickly open that app on your iPhone and continue on your merry …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The ping feature, thus far, is my favorite feature of the Apple Watch. Sure, I’m still getting to know its various charms, but right from the start I’ve come to rely upon and love the ability to ping my iPhone from the Apple Watch, saving me from needing to ask a friend or my wife to call my …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Mail Drop is an incredibly useful tool when emailing large attachments with the Mail app in OS X. It kicks in when you attempt to send an attachment larger than 20MB (and up to 5GB) and uploads the file to iCloud, where it’ll sit for up to 30 days for your recipient to download at his …
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Matt Elliott/CNET When it was released in February, the Dropbox for Gmail extension for Chrome let you easily send files via Dropbox without leaving the compose window in Gmail. The extension just received an update that added a few useful features that makes it even easier to send large files from Gmail. For starters, you can now select multiple files …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Dropbox last week added commenting ability to its Web interface to bring it up to speed with Google Drive, and now the Dropbox iOS app received an update that delivers file commenting to your iPhone and iPad. When viewing a Dropbox file with the iOS app, tap the speech-bubble button to add a comment to the file. You …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET When an app is accessing a cellular or Wi-Fi network on your iPhone, a small spinning starburst icon is displayed at the top of the screen. With the Loading app, you can get the same treatment in the menu bar of your Mac. After installing Loading from developer Bonzai Apps, you’ll see the familiar starburst icon …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET If you have come to enjoy the satisfying chime your iPhone emits when you plug it in to charge it, then you might want, for the sake of consistency or convenience, to hear the same chime when you plug in your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. (The new 12-inch MacBook features such a sound effect out …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Like iPhoto before it, Photos for Mac groups all of your photos in a large library file. In order to break photos out of their database prison to open in another application or upload to the Internet, you will first need to export them or use one of the built-in sharing options. And to add new photos to …
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