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8 tips for taking better pictures with your smart phone

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The cameras in smartphones just keep getting better and better, and some of the photos that come out of them are simply outstanding.

But as good as they are these days, phone cameras are far from perfect.

Here are a few tips for taking better photos with your camera phone:

Note: The native camera app on your camera phone might not support all the camera settings mentioned below. However, there are several excellent third-party camera apps you can install on your phone that will support them.

1 – Be aware of the lighting situation. Taking good photos under low-light conditions is difficult even when using a regular camera, and it’s even harder when shooting with a camera phone.

If possible, have your subject(s) face a lighting source while placing your own back to it. This will help prevent shadows and unwanted silhouettes.  [Read more…]

Give your smartphone or tablet a fully functional clipboard

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clipper-clipboard-app-logoJust like desktop and laptop computers, all smart phones and tablets have a very basic clipboard that allows you to “copy” and “paste” text from one app to another.

Unfortunately, that’s about all you can do with it. Even worse, the contents of the clipboard are overwritten every time you “copy” something else.

The good news is you can download a handy third-party clipboard app that will give your phone a fully functional clipboard.

Most of the available apps allow you to copy and store multiple snippets which you can then paste into any app, at any time.  [Read more…]

How to remotely log out any device that’s currently logged into your Facebook account

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It’s easy to forget to sign out of Facebook every time you move on to doing something else.

For example, perhaps you’re driving home after using a friend’s PC and you suddenly realize that you forgot to log out of your Facebook account before leaving.

Or maybe you used one of the machines in your school’s computer lab and forgot to log out of Facebook at the end of your session.

Whatever the circumstance, it’s extremely important that you always log out of your Facebook account if there’s a possibility that someone else could end up using that same computer or mobile device after you’re finished with it.

There’s also a chance that hackers have broken into your account as well. If so, you can log them out of the account remotely using your own device.

As luck would have it, it’s very easy to log out of any or all active Facebook sessions from whatever device you happen to have at your disposal by following the instructions below….  [Read more…]

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