Matt Elliott/CNET My honey-do list just just got easier. Well, it’s not any shorter, but it is easier to read, thanks to Alter, a 99-cent iPhone app. Alter converts blocks of text intro tidy, actionable to-do lists. After launching Alter for the first time, the app steps you through a brief tutorial, showing you how …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The Ice Bucket Challenge has been wildly successful in raising money for ALS research, but the resulting videos that undoubtedly have been showing up in your Facebook news feed may be raising your data charges. By default, videos are set to autoplay in Facebook. When we looked at the disabling this feature last year, you could disable when …
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Matt Elliott/CNET It’s a widely known fact that Tom Hanks is an accomplished actor, director, producer, and writer, but did you know that he is also a champion of the manual typewriter (and can easily be bribed with one)? And as a side note, Tom Hanks is amusing on Twitter, punctuating nearly each of his tweets with #hanx. Today, Tom …
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Matt Elliott/CNET I built up a large iTunes music collection over the years and dutifully organized it and added to it, but I hardly touch it anymore thanks to streaming services Spotify and Beats Music . I happily pay their monthly fees for access to collections of music that puts my music in iTunes to shame. Sony hopes to keep …
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Matt Elliott/CNET One of the many wonderful aspects of college is learning how to live and get along with other people, and then realizing the world is filled with people who think, act, and view the world differently to you. If you share an apartment with a group of people, it doesn’t take long before an argument springs up over …
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Matt Elliott/CNET There are a number of ways to calibrate your TV. You could offer David Katzmaier a handsome sum to make a house call. You could buy or burn for free a calibration disc to run test patterns via a Blu-ray player on your TV to fine-tune the image. Or you could set up your TV by eye. Because …
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And here I thought it was just me. I have noticed recently that new contacts I create in the Phone app of my iPhone are not showing up in my contacts list. Turns out, iOS 7.1.2 changed a setting in a way that can prevent new contacts from showing up in your contacts list or syncing across your devices. To …
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Now, you can run your business from your phone. That might be overstating it a tad, but you can create and manage online ads from your phone with Google’s new AdWords Express app for iOS or for Android. The process of creating an ad requires nothing more of you than following a simple, six-step process. Follow me as I almost …
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Marco Arment has gone from developing Tumblr to creating Instapaper to yesterday launching a podcast app for the iPhone. Overcast is free — and ad-free — but a group of features can be unlocked via a $4.99 (£2.99/AU$6.99) in-app purchase. The app is iPhone-only, but Arment states that an iPad version is planned. Android is not …
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Because I’m not the most organized person, I use Spotlight all of the time. I am not the person whose iPhone features screen after screen of neatly organized and labeled folders. Nope, my apps land where they may and I simply swipe down to use Spotlight to find what I’m looking for. Spotlight is certainly a handy tool for searching …
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