Matt Elliott/CNET If you often get lost among the many open windows on your Mac, you can use Mission Control and App Expose to find your way. Swiping up with three or four fingers (depending how you have it set up in System Preferences) brings up Mission Control, which shows you all of your open …
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24 June
iPhone 6 resale value higher than previous models, analyst says
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are beating their predecessors in the resale market. CNET The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are outshining the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C in terms of resale value. Released last September in the US and other countries and last October in China, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have raked in huge sales …
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24 June
Two ways to share your Google Photos
Nicole Cozma/CNET Google decided to create a standalone Photos service that didn’t need to run inside of Google+. Unfortunately, some of the sharing issues present in Google+ Photos also made their way to the Web version of the new service. Read on to learn about both sharing methods, and which one is right for you. Official sharing feature Using the …
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24 June
Alienware Alpha updates its custom gaming PC with improved ‘HiveMind’ interface
Now playing: Watch this: Alienware Alpha updates its custom PC interface with… 0:50 Dell is hitting reset on the software bundled with its Alienware Alpha gaming desktop . The console-like desktop is ditching its Alpha UI user interface for a new version, called HiveMind, which adds extra multimedia functionality and many more customization options. Packing gaming components into a small …
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23 June
Taylor Swift’s rebukes are the best ads streaming music can’t buy
Taylor Swift’s reprimands of streaming services may have the opposite effect of her intentions: increasing their mainstream popularity. ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images Taylor Swift, subscription services will be singing your praises. Swift, arguably the planet’s biggest mainstream music artist today, warned Sunday she would keep her hit album “1989” off the Apple Music subscription service because of a royalty loophole: …
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23 June
Shia LeBeouf, imagined as all 13 Doctors from ‘Doctor Who’
The Fourth Shia LeBeouf is easily the most beloved Shia LeBeouf, at least form the old “Doctor Who” series. Brandon Bird Perhaps there’s a logical explanation for the string of antics that have landed actor Shia LeBeouf in the headlines for things like drunk and disorderly behavior. What if all of LeBeouf’s behavior of late is because his brain is …
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23 June
Google Play Music goes free, partly
Google Play Music, a $10-a-month music-streaming service, hasn’t offered a free tier previously besides free trials. James Martin/CNET Google is taking on Pandora, Apple Music and Spotify, adding a free radio element that opens a door for people to try a bit of Google Play Music without having to pay. Google Play Music launched a free, ad-supported radio product in …
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23 June
What is Amazon’s Treasure Truck?
One of a handful of tweets about the Treasure Truck. Via Twitter A few folks in Seattle on Monday started tweeting sightings of something called the Treasure Truck, a large boxy Amazon truck driving around the streets of their city. One picture on Twitter shows a rolling digital sign on the truck, saying “What’s on the truck today?” Enlarge Image“What’s …
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23 June
BlackBerry disappoints after ‘recognizing revenue’ on 1.1M phones
The BlackBerry Leap is its latest all-touchscreen smartphones. Josh Miller/CNET The road to recovery is a long one for BlackBerry. The provider of smartphones and business and security software posted a fiscal first-quarter loss, excluding one-time items, of $28 million, or 5 cents a share, on revenue of $658 million. Analysts, on average, had forecast a loss of 3 cents …
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23 June
How to ‘unsend’ a sent email from your Gmail account
Now playing: Watch this: Undo sending those embarrassing emails 1:36 You can stop that Gmail email from being sent. But you have to be quick. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Oops, you’ve just sent off an angry email to your boss from your Gmail account. Should you start looking for a new job? Not if you’ve enabled Gmail’s Undo Send feature. …
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