Now playing: Watch this: Fix an unresponsive iPhone home button 3:38 No matter how anal you are about keeping your iPhone safe and intact, there is still a chance your home button will eventually suffer the effects of normal wear and tear. The iPhone 5, which features a change to the anatomy of the home …

CBS Interactive Shoving all your home theater equipment into a single, closed cabinet makes sense when you want to keep your living room tidy. There’s just one problem: overheating. When you have things like a router, gaming console, cable box, and DVD player all mingling in one cabinet, things can get steamy. So much so, in fact, that a lack …

You’re leaving a voice mail, when suddenly, an awkward utterance slips, leaving you stumbling through the rest of your dialogue. You clumsily say goodbye. Hang up. Facepalm. Considering the modern-day text-to-phone call ratio, this situation isn’t uncommon. We’re so accustomed to crafting perfectly composed text messages and e-mails, that our phone skills are diminishing. But despite the upsetting trend, voice …

How many times have you downloaded a picture from the Web, only to re-upload it to Facebook? With the number of meme images showing up in the News Feed lately, this time-consuming task is probably happening more than ever. George Takei, this tip is for you. Reddit user Markesh revealed recently that pictures you find on the Web can quickly …

It’s never too late to discover that those boring, all-white headphones Apple threw in with your iPhone can do a lot more than adjust the volume. In fact, any headphones that include a remote (or have a remote adapter attached) can be used to control your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch in up to 10 ways. Thanks to this post …

SIM cards were long forgotten until a few years ago when Apple introduced the micro-SIM in its iPhone 4. Hardly measuring the size of a fingernail, the micro-SIM was created to accommodate the shrinking width of smartphones and tablets. Since then, more phone and tablet manufacturers, like Samsung, have adopted this format. The only problem is, however, that not all …

Every day, we repeat the same routine tasks: turning on Wi-Fi at work, decreasing the brightness in the evening, enabling silent mode at night, and so on. By now, you probably perform these actions subconsciously, but what if you could “train” your phone to automatically complete these tasks, so you don’t have to? Tasker, a $6.49 app for Android, lets …

Screenshot by Sharon Vaknin/CNET Although the mobile Outlook.com Web site is gorgeous, it’s hardly efficient to access the browser each time you want to check your mail, especially if you have other accounts already synced with your iOS device. But more than that, getting your Outlook.com e-mail in the official Mail app gives you access to a very coveted feature: …

New e-reading converts might be surprised to find out that despite the fact that e-books can be read on computers, there’s no real way to print out a page for reference. In the olden days, you could just put a paperback facedown on a copier, but with e-books, it’s a little trickier. Just in time for school bells and syllabi, …

Sara Tew/CNET “If you can draw it, you can make it.” In the realm of 3D printing, those are the words hobbyists and advocates share with prospectives poking around this young technology. Easier said than done, but with a little practice, you really can fabricate almost anything on a 3D printer. Accessories, miniature figures, components for a project, smartphone accessories, …