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How to Resize Images from Your Camera or Smartphone

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Most cameras and smartphones take pictures at a resolution that is far too high for everyday use, and storing these images uses far too much disk space.  Keep reading to find out how to compress pictures to reduce storage yet keep the same picture quality.

iPhone and iPad: How Do I Enable Desktop View on Safari?

iOS 8 has made many improvements to Apple’s built-in browser. Safari supports the mobile version of websites quite well. However, no matter now well a site’s mobile version fits into a handheld device’s smaller screen, there are instances when you want to view the desktop version instead. Searching through Safari may lead you nowhere unless you know how to find the option to enable desktop browsing. Hidden somewhere in Apple’s browsing app is a link where you can request the desktop version of a site. To find out how to locate that link, read on.

How Do I Add Folders to My iTunes Library?

By default, iTunes only offers an option to add music files to the library. This limitation forces you to repeat the action over and over to add files from different folders, which could take forever to complete. Fortunately, there is a hidden option that allows you to add all your folders to the library at once. Here is how to find it in the program.

How Do I Disable Automatic App Updates on My Android Phone

To keep up with the latest fixes for bugs and improvements on Android applications, the Google Play Store is set to update apps automatically as soon as changes are available. Though there are advantages to the auto-update feature, some users may prefer to update their applications manually due to a slow connection or low memory. Others may simply want full control over their phones. This tutorial explains how to disable the app auto-update feature on your Android phone.

OS X: Block Adult Websites from Children

If you often allow your children to use your MacBook to surf the web, make sure that adult websites are blocked so that they can search the internet safely. Here is how to do it on OS X Yosemite.

Android: How Do I Filter Content That Can Be Downloaded on the Google Play Store

The Google Play Store, the default Android market, contains applications, games, movies and books that can be downloaded with a few taps on your phone’s screen. Unfortunately, Google Play may not be child-friendly since it has some content that is for adults only. If you are a concerned parent and want to moderate what your child can access on the Google Play Store, here is some good news for you. You can filter apps and other content on your child’s device according to specified levels of maturity. It may sound complicated, but it is really a piece of cake.

WatchKit: Using Handoff in an Apple Watch App

The Glance feature of an Apple Watch app lets users quickly view timely read-only information from your app without even having to open the app. By default, tapping on a Glance screen takes the user straight to the initial view of the app, which is not very helpful in most cases. For example, when a user taps a glance screen displaying a delicious recipe, the app should display that recipe with more information, not a list of all recipes. As a developer, it is your job to implement this feature on your app. The Handoff feature provided in the SDK lets you do just that. Continue reading to find out how.

SQL Server: Error Logging and Reporting within a Stored Procedure

As the number of stored procedures increases in a database, the burden of managing those stored procedures increases, too. On a production database, thousands of procedures are executed daily, so you are required to know why a stored procedure failed at a certain time. This can be done by implementing error logging and reporting within each stored procedure.

Samsung Phones: Take Photos Without Touching the Screen

Today, smartphones are so big that they are hard to use with one hand, especially for people with small hands. I constantly struggle with one of the most common tasks: taking pictures. I find it very hard to reach the capture button since it is placed at the bottom of the screen. Luckily, there are other methods for taking pictures that do not require touching the screen at all. I will show you how to use them in this tutorial.

How Do I Add Facebook Stickers to My Photos?

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Not only does Facebook let you send lovely stickers to your friends through chat, it also lets you add those stickers to your photos. Here is how to do it on your iPhone or Android phone.

How to Edit PDF Files with Microsoft Word 2013

What do you do when someone sends you a PDF file?  In the past, you typically read it or printed it. You could only edit PDF files if you bought an expensive copy of Adobe Pro.  If you wanted to edit it without Adobe Pro, you had to ask the sender to resend it as a Word document. Now, starting with version 2013, Microsoft Word lets you edit PDF files directly, just like a normal document. This tutorial describes how this is done.

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