Digital Photo Tips

Who needs to support a camera if a smartphone is at hand? The Android operating system packs enough of photo functionality that it can often stand in for both a camera and a PC. Once you've au fait how to harness your Android phone's photo power, capturing and sharing memorable moments will always be a snap.

The Android Camera

Most Android phones have a dedicated mat?riel button for loading the built-in camera on demand. Alternatively, you can open it via the Camera app icon in the phone's app launcher. (If you like, you can prosper this icon on your home screen as a shortcut.)

When you open the Android camera, you'll see a large viewfinder bonus a few on-screen buttons. If you rotate your phone horizontally, the uppermost button will be an icon for opening your phone's gallery of stored photos. The next button down is a divert that toggles between the phone's still photo and video-recording modes. Finally, the round button at the bottom is the shutter--the button you strike to capture a picture or to begin recording.

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Q: Our blood is a nondescript 1950s ranch tract home with a light-gray composition shingle roof. It's currently a dated anaemic with blue trim, and we'd like to update the paint job. We're also re-landscaping with drought-tolerant tropical and current plants, and not much grass -- mostly bark and flagstone walkways. Is there somewhere where I can see other updated tract homes? Do you have any color suggestions?

A: I would enter on in your own neighborhood, and just start driving. Wander different streets around where you live, and then slowly office out from there. Keep a local map handy, and whenever you find an area of homes that looks interesting, highlight it on your map for future exploration.

If you recollect a real estate agent, you can ask him or her for exploration suggestions, as well as others you come into contact with, such as the landscaper.

While it's nice to look at homes that are correspond to to your own, you don't need to be limited to just those either. I would suggest going through new housing tracts of starter-level homes, and see what is currently being done in the way of colors and coating amenities.

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Who uses a stylus anymore? I estimate it still makes sense in certain instances — like with a Nintendo DS — but all in all I find them cumbersome.

Microsoft thinks you still be to use them, though, and makes a pretty good case for why. Remember the Surface ? It's Microsoft's tablet-sized note-, and the company is showing off its Manual Deskerity system, which sounds like a dream come true for architects, designers and the like.

Vade-mecum Deskerity doesn't rely on just one way to interact with it via touch. Instead, you use your fingers, a stylus and even spokesman and gesture controls to get the job done — and in different combinations. If you were cropping a picture, for instance, you could hold it down and influence it with your fingers while you used a stylus like a hobby knife, slicing away at bits of the photo.

It's a far-out trick, but we have to wonder if it's one that'll ever be taken advantage of. There was a time when it seemed like Microsoft wanted a Surface table in every restaurant , and that indubitably never happened. As a drafting table, however, the Surface is undoubtedly one cool piece of tech.

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