Today, Spotify launched a new Gaming category where you can easily find gaming music, playlists and soundtracks. Last year, I spent hours searching for all the individual classics from the Fallout franchise to make my own playlist on Rdio (RIP). Today, doing that is a lot easier on Spotify. To get to the new category, …

Apple’s Spotlight for Mac is a wonderful tool, but even with Siri and a third-party add-ons coming this fall, Spotlight doesn’t compare to one of my all-time favorite applications, Alfred. Alfred looks and acts much like Spotlight. But with the add-on Powerpack, it gets a lot smarter. The $22.04 (£17.00 or AU$28.61) app adds “workflows,” which make your Mac do …

Now playing: Watch this: How to use Google Maps hands-free 1:06 If you use Google Maps on your phone, a lot has changed recently — especially so over the last few weeks. There are lots of new features that are easy to miss and make navigating a lot more efficient, like these keyboard shortcuts. Here are 14 tips and tricks …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung highlights iris-scanning tech in new Galaxy Note… 2:19 The Galaxy Note 7 was made official Tuesday morning, introducing an iris scanner, curved edges (a la Galaxy S7 Edge) and Corning’s new Gorilla Glass 5. It also comes with water and dust resistance, a bigger battery and a brand-new color called coral blue. One of the …

If any one company knows how people consume video online, it’s Google, which claims people watch over 1 billion hours of video in Chrome every week, much of which is done via mobile. Video is easily one of the biggest reasons you blow past your monthly data allotment each month and, likewise, the cause of those awful overage charges on …

Cloud storage veteran Dropbox officially entered the online document collaboration space with its new service, Paper, which was announced last October. Today, Dropbox opened the beta up to the public, sans waitlist, and released beta versions of Paper for Android and iOS. Paper is pitted against some very well-known and widely adopted services, such as Google Docs, Microsoft Office and …

Over the course of an hour or so, I’m likely to get dozens of notifications — several messages from different Slack groups, a few Hangouts messages, maybe some messages or notifications on Facebook, Twitter mentions, an SMS or two and some emails. That’s a lot to keep up with, and it forces you to constantly juggle several applications just to …

With the Republican National Convention behind us and the Democratic National Convention this week, each party’s nominees will be officially official and campaigning will soon ramp up. No matter your personal views or opinions on this election’s selection of candidates, US citizens have a civic duty to head to the polls on election day, November 8, and place your vote …

With dozens of queries every day, you probably feel like you have a pretty good grasp of Google by now. You type in a few words, hit enter, scour for a second, reword your search phrase, hit enter again and repeat until you find what you’re looking for. What you may not know is exactly how precise you can be …

The Raspberry Pi is the ultimate, affordable computer for anyone who likes to tinker and doesn’t mind doing some legwork to get it up and running. If you order a Raspberry Pi without an SD card preloaded with New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS), you will need to provide your own SD card and manually install an operating system. There …