Matt Elliott/CNET Unlike Windows, OS X does not provide an easily accessed calendar on the desktop. With Windows, you can take a quick peek at a calendar by clicking on the time/date in the system tray. The closest thing you get from OS X is a calendar widget you can add to the Dashboard, but …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you are constantly up against your monthly data limit, the DataMan iPhone app can help you keep closer tabs on your data usage. And its new Stopwatch widget lets you track your data usage over a specific time period. So, if you are wondering how much data you might use to stream an hour’s worth of songs …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Buying a house is one of the more anxiety-producing processes you’ll undertake. Finding the right house can take time as can the process of agreeing on a contract. And then there’s the small detail of figuring out how much you can afford to spend on what is likely the largest purchase you’ll ever make. When we bought our …
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Matt Elliott/CNET When listening to music in iTunes on your iPhone, you can swipe up to access playback controls from the Control Center panel to skip to the next song, for example. To choose a new album or playlist, however, you must wade into the iTunes app. With the 99-cent WidgeTunes app, you can bypass iTunes and access your iTunes …
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Matt Elliott/CNET NameChk has been around for years as a Web app to check the availability of usernames, and you can also use the NameChk iOS app to check to see if your desired username is available across 157 websites. By default, the NameChk Web app displays results for 82 of what it deems the most popular social networks and …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Apple has long offered the Remote app that lets you use your iPhone to control Apple TV or iTunes on your Mac. With the TodayRemote app, you can control iTunes on your Mac with the added benefit of not needing to open an app on your iPhone to do so. TodayRemote lets you add a widget to Notification …
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Matt Elliott/CNET I use a MacBook Pro from early 2011 as I eagerly await Intel’s Broadwell processors to arrive later this year for the next MacBook Pro refresh. My aging MacBook Pro has lost some of its giddyup, and its brand of Bluetooth precludes me from using new features such as Handoff. With the new Pushbullet Mac app, however, I …
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Matt Elliott/CNET I never feel confident when I purchase airlines tickets. I don’t fly very often but when I do, I always feel I could have found a better airfare if I had not waited so long to book my trip or had the patience to wait another week or two in the hopes that prices dip. Hopper, Flight Research …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Amazon’s Cloud Drive is a particularly good deal for Prime subscribers, with its offer of unlimited photo storage. And with Amazon’s Chrome extension, Save to Cloud Drive, you can quickly and easily save images you encounter online to your Cloud Drive. The Save to Cloud Drive extension is simple in operation and does not require a Chrome restart. …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you have moved away from iTunes and toward streaming services for your digital media consumption needs, it may be time to double back to iTunes, or at least stop by once in a while. After removing the free Single of the Week from iTunes at the beginning of this year, Apple today added a new section titled …
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