Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Mail Drop is an incredibly useful tool when emailing large attachments with the Mail app in OS X. It kicks in when you attempt to send an attachment larger than 20MB (and up to 5GB) and uploads the file to iCloud, where it’ll sit for up to 30 days for your …

Fitbit’s Surge smartwatch was one of 10.9 million devices the startup sold in 2014. Sarah Tew/CNET Fitbit is on track to be the first wearable tech-focused company to go public. In a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 8-year-old startup — a leading maker of fitness- and health-tracking gadgets based in San Francisco — is seeking to …

The London Eye has been illuminated with a pie chart showing the results of opinion polls in the run-up to the election. London Eye It’s general election day in the UK, and how better to celebrate democracy in action than by telling everyone you’ve exercised your civic duty on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? Facebook has today added a button reading …

When you first set up your Apple Watch, Apple assigns a default name to it. For my watch it was “Jason’s Apple Watch.” Yours is likely something similar, only with your name, not mine. Some people, like me, prefer to give our devices a name of our own instead of a standard affair. To change the name assigned to your …

Will Apple’s new ads cook up more iPad buyers? screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET With Apple tablet sales dwindling, the company is hoping a new series of iPad ads will draw in more buyers. Dubbed “Everything changes with iPad,” the new ad campaign attempts to explore the many ways that people can use the tablet. Displayed on Apple’s website, a 90-second …

Showing just how serious it is about giving its Web browser a fresh start, Microsoft has detailed exactly how much of Internet Explorer’s technology the company has removed from its new Edge browser — and it’s a lot. Microsoft’s browser has accumulated hundreds of features and abilities over the years. Whatever their merits when introduced, they’ve become a burden to …

Now there’s a scene you don’t see every day: an iPad and a mouse! Citrix Can an iPad really take the place of a laptop? For many a business user, there’s one key element missing: a mouse. Sure, you can use a fingertip for things like selecting text and dragging and dropping spreadsheet cells, but that’s nowhere near as precise. …

Linqapp Linqapp, a social translation app that connects translators and native speakers with people in need of a quick translation, is making its debut this week for Apple’s iOS. The app aims to match users in need of translation with Linqapp users who speak the language to provide a variety of answers. The app sends a push notification to native …

Jason Cipriani/CNET With such a finite amount of storage available on the Apple Watch — a measly 8 gigabytes — Apple has opted to limit how much storage users can assign for the Music and Photos apps to take up. You have some, albeit limited, control over how much space is taken up on your watch. Here’s how to adjust …

CBS CEO Les Moonves said Showtime will launch its online offering in a few months. David McNew/Getty Images Cord-cutters desperate to watch “Masters of Sex” and past episodes of “Dexter” will get their chance soon. CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves said Thursday that the company’s premium cable network Showtime will launch a streaming video offering direct to consumers “in the …