Now playing: Watch this: Clean your laptop, monitor, or HDTV 2:21 Even if you don’t have snot-nosed kids or wet-nosed pets, your computer monitor or HDTV panel will eventually accumulate a collection of annoying smudges and stains. My household happens to contain both of the aforementioned creatures and, thus, I’ve developed a method for wiping …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Facebook separated messages from the rest of its mobile app last summer, and Wednesday it did the same for laptop and desktop computers with the release of Messenger.com. Now you can access your Facebook messages on the Web without getting getting distracted by your News Feed and the rest of Facebook. It should prove a productivity …
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Matt Elliott/CNET A few months back, I wrote about Better Window Manager, a Mac app that helps you juggle your open windows by letting you save their size and positions. I liked the app, but I like Divvy better. Divvy is currently featured as part of $2 Tuesday, which represents a significant discount of its regular $13.99 price for Mac …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The Google Drive app for iOS received a photo-centric update earlier this week. A new Photos folder lets you view photos you may have stashed on Google+, and a new auto-backup feature lets you back up the photos and videos on your iOS device. If you don’t see the new Photos folder and auto backup setting, hang on …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Carousel is an app from Dropbox that acts as a more attractive front-end to make browsing and sharing photos a more enjoyable experience than you would get from sifting through your files on the Dropbox app itself. You can also use Carousel to auto-backup the photos you take with your phone to Dropbox, but even if …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you share photos of your kids on Facebook, then you might like Facebook’s new Scrapbook feature that collects the photos you share of your kids and keeps them in one place. Scrapbooks also make it easier to share photos of your kids with your partner’s Facebook friends. A Facebook Scrapbook lets you create a photo tag for …
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Matt Elliott/CNET After launching last fall and subsequently getting pulled, the Launcher app from Cromulent Labs recently returned to the App Store. The app, the full name of which is Launcher with Notification Center Widget, is free and universal and lets you launch apps and actions from the the iOS Notification Center. A $3.99 | £2.99 | AU$4.99 in-app purchase …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Google has offered a way to reduce data usage with Chrome for iOS and Android for more than a year, and now it is delivering the same proxy compression technology to Chrome on the desktop with Data Saver. It routes your Web traffic through Google’s servers, where pages are compressed before being sent along to you. As a …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The spacebar is a keyboard shortcut in modern browsers including Chrome and Firefox that can be used to jump incrementally down a page. Unless you hate your trackpad or mouse, it’s unlikely you use this maneuver very often. With the Chrome extension YouTube Pause, you can turn your spacebar into a play/pause button for YouTube. Simply install the …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Instagram added five new filters at the end of last year, bringing its total to 24. If you find yourself using the same handful of Instagram’s filters, however, then take a look at Priime, a new iPhone photo app that serves up 74 photo filters inspired by professional photographers. Priime — with two i’s — is free, though …
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