Matt Elliott/CNET The Will Ferrell-backed Funny Or Die comedy site has launched an iOS weather app, and the only joke about the app are the jokes it tells. The free app features real weather information from Weather Underground and a pleasingly simple and attractive design. Funny Or Die Weather features background animations based on current …
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Matt Elliott/CNET To celebrate its two recent Golden Globe wins, Amazon tomorrow (Saturday, January 24) is making its original series “Transparent” free for everyone and offering Prime memberships to new users for $72. Amazon’s “Transparent” picked up two Golden Globe awards earlier this month. The show itself won for Best Musical or Comedy Series, and Jeffrey Tambor won for Best …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you’d like to cull your flock of Twitter followers by removing any fake accounts, bots or inactive accounts, have a look at this Digital Inspiration post from Amit Agarwal. He has written a Google Script that scans your Twitter followers and finds those who use the default egg profile picture. The thinking being that any real user …
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Matt Elliott/CNET You know you have a tabs problem when it would be easier to just search for one of your open tabs than to try to navigate to it by clicking your open tabs until you find it. If you have reached this point and use Chrome, then you need help in the form of Chrome extension Tablight. Tablight …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you are not vigilant about keeping your iPhone photo library in check, it can quickly spiral out of control. It can be painfully slow to go through the Photos app, tapping on photo after photo to select a group to delete. With Purrge, you can delete photos faster, with less tedious tapping and more swiping. The app …
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Matt Elliott/CNET After I upgraded to OS X Yosemite last year, my Dropbox folder in Finder insists on displaying green check mark icons next to each and every item inside it, letting me know without any shadow of a doubt that each and every file has been synced. I’d rather just know if a file has failed to sync or …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Google Maps for iOS was updated this week, bringing the usual bug fixes and a handful of new features. When you are using the app to get directions, you can now select your starting point and destination by tapping on the map instead of needing to know the exact address. When choosing either a starting point or a …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The menu bar at the top of your Mac’s display acts as a convenient tray on which Apple serves you menus of your current app to the left along with more static status icons to the right. In addition, many third-party apps — Dropbox and Skip Tunes to name but two — install icons in the menu bar …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If my six (admittedly basic) tips for organizing your Mac’s menu bar didn’t scratch your itch for menu bar order, then I suggest you give Bartender a try. Available direct from the developer’s Bartender site and not the Mac App Store, the app costs $15 but you can try it for free for four weeks. Basically, Bartender adds …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Sony Pictures has reversed course and released “The Interview.” It’ll show in select theaters starting Christmas day and is now available online to stream in the U.S. No matter the outlet you choose to stream the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy, it’ll cost $5.99 to rent or $14.99 to purchase, and the price is the same for …
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