Nick Statt/CNET A large part of Hyperlapse’s charm is its simplicity that lets you create a time-lapse video with a few taps of your finger. Should you want more control of your output, the app has a hidden Labs feature where you can adjust a number of settings, including resolution, frame rate, and various sound …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Highlight text on your iPhone and iOS helpfully offers to copy or define the highlighted word, among other options. With OS X and iOS growing more and more alike with each passing year, it’s a wonder that such functionality has yet to show up on OS X. With PopClip, it does. PopClip is available in the Mac App …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The new Family Sharing feature in iOS 8 is a great way for family members to share purchases, but you may not want each and every family member to have access to each and every app you download. Thankfully, each member of your family can hide his or her own purchases from showing up on their My Purchases …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Do you miss scrolling through your Camera Roll? I do. With iOS 8, Apple removed the default Camera Roll album that housed all of the photos and videos on your iPhone and replaced it the Recently Added album that lets you view only photos and videos from the last 30 days. To browse through photos older than 30 …
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Matt Elliott/CNET I understand that Apple is only trying to be helpful with its new predictive text engine in iOS 8. It offers suggestions as you type, learning your writing habits and favorite phrases over time and tailoring its suggestions to your way of texting and emailing. I’ve tried using this new feature for two weeks now and find the …
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Matt Elliott/CNET With iOS 8, Apple has opened its famously closed ecosystem a bit, allowing developers to create app extensions that hook into Apple’s own apps. Yesterday, I covered how to set up photo-editing extensions that let you use the edit tools of third-party photo apps without leaving Apple’s own Photos app where all of your photos reside. Similarly, iOS …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Apple’s walled garden has driven many iPhone users to the waiting arms of Google’s more open platform where users and developers have greater freedom to customize the Android experience. With iOS 8, Apple has introduced extensions to let third-party developers access core features like the keyboard and camera. There are a number of different types of extensions for …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If your brainstorming sessions produce a wall scattered with Post-it notes, then the Post-it Plus app can help you scoop up those notes, make some sense of them, and share them with your meeting’s participants. A year ago, I wrote about a new Post-it Note feature added to Evernote’s iOS app that scanned your Post-it Notes and could …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Confession time: I am terrible at Twitter. I apologize to anyone who has attempted to contact me via a tweet. I’m slightly less terrible at Facebook, where I do check in regularly and post occasionally. With Twitter, however, I feel like I always arrive in the middle of a conversation and rarely summon the effort required to comb …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie today released a free communication app for the iPhone that aims to replace or at least supplement the Phone and Messages apps you use regularly. It’s a tool for one-on-one conversations or collaborating in groups. The Talko app for iPhone is out today; Android and Web apps …
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