Free-to-play games often look appealing, but it’s difficult to know at a glance whether the business model is insidious and fun ruining, or reasonable and worth pumping a few bucks into. With Freemium Field Test, we’ll take a recent free-to-play iOS game, put it through its paces, and let you know if it’s really worth …
Can’t see your data in the Health app? This update provides a fix. If you rely on Apple’s Health app, you’ll be happy to know that on Monday, Apple released iOS 10.1.1, an update that Health app users should download. iOS 10.1.1 fixes a bug that prevents your data from appearing in the Health app. …
Squeezing out enough storage space is one of the ever-present struggles of smartphone life. Android 7.1 brings some integrated tools to handle this all in one spot. To check out what’s here, go to Settings > Storage. As with previous versions of Android, you’ll see a breakdown of storage used by category. Android lays out your …
PC makers have fully embraced touchscreen laptops and desktops, but don’t expect Apple to head down that road. Last week, the company introduced two MacBook Pros that feature slim OLED displays to replace the keyboard’s function keys. Apple launched its latest products just one day after Microsoft unveiled its massive Surface Studio desktop designed for …
Enlarge / iOS 10 is here. Andrew Cunningham The iOS 10.1 update fixed a lot of stuff, but it caused a major problem for some users of the Health app: data disappeared in some cases, and even resetting phones and restoring them from fresh backups wouldn’t bring it back. That’s the problem that today’s iOS …
Strike another program down for Windows XP (and Vista) fans. Google recently announced that the Google Drive desktop utility would cease support for Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003 beginning January 1, 2017. This is the second major desktop-cloud sync program to dump older versions of Windows after Dropbox did so in April. With Google …
Your new MacBook Pro will automatically start up when you open its lid, no sound needed. Apple’s MacBook Pro kills the password, function key, Escape key, dedicated charging port, USB-A port and SD card. Credit: Apple Apple did away with plenty of popular features in its new MacBook Pro lineup, including SD card support …
Enlarge / Android’s home screen over the years, from all sorts of different form factors. It’s been more than two years since we originally ran Ron’s epic 40,000-word history of the Android operating system, and in that time Android has continued to evolve and add version numbers. Ron has updated the piece with almost 11,000 …
Reader Darryl Rehr sent in a tip about a new keyboard shortcut in macOS that baffled not just him by its previously unseen behavior, but also a ton of Apple phone support staff. “Near the end, they nearly had me erase my hard drive and restore from Time Machine. Thankfully, I was skeptical,” he writes. …
Video shot/edited by Jennifer Hahn. There’s no shortage of Android Wear watches to choose from. Companies including Huawei, LG, Casio, and Fossil all have smartwatches that run on Google’s wearable operating system, and all of them can use Google Fit’s activity tracking. Now, the fitness company Polar is getting into the mix with the M600 Android …