Do you take videos with your smart phone? You might be doing it wrong. And by wrong, I mean you are holding your phone wrong.
The single best tip for taking better videos is to always take your videos in landscape mode.
Put down that selfie stick. You might have to use two hands to take a video.
But it will be worth it.
Taking videos in portrait mode (vertical) will leave black bars on each side of the image when the video is played on a PC monitor of a high def TV screen.
Landscape (or horizontal) videos will fill your monitors and TV screens correctly.
So always, always, always, take videos in landscape mode.
Enjoy!
#video #iPhone #Android #horizontal #landscape #portrait
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
ICYMI: Cloud Storage, Mobile Photo Editor, NASA Images, Blocking Calls, "Unsend" from Gmail, Group Chat
Did you catch all of the cool tips this week?
In Case You Missed It:
We covered a wide range of cool topics including the best cloud storage, the best photo editor for your smart phone, a new NASA image gallery, how to block annoying calls to your mobile phone, Gmail's new "Undo" feature and finally the best group chat app that works across difference devices and platforms.
In Case You Missed It:
Learn how you can store documents so you can access them from multiple devices with Dropbox and cloud storage.
Learn how Google's Snapseed app is the best mobile photo editor.
Visit and search the new NASA image gallery with over 138,000 photos from 70 collections.
Learn how you can block annoying calls to your mobile phone.
Learn how you can enable Gmail's new "Unsend" option to unsend an email.
Discover which group chat app is the best service to use to connect your friends and family.
Finally, One Cool Tip is now on Facebook. Check it out at https://www.facebook.com/onecooltip
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#callblocking #cloud #dropbox #facebook #gmail #ICYMI #messenger #NASA #Snapseed #unsend
#callblocking #cloud #dropbox #facebook #gmail #ICYMI #messenger #NASA #Snapseed #unsend
Saturday, June 27, 2015
One Chat App to Rule Them All
Are all of your family and friends on the same group chat application?
Enjoy!
The answer is probably no.
Even before AOL's Instant Messenger service, chat applications have been fragmented with various services and device reluctant to communicate with one another gather a large enough userbase to be useful.
Perhaps today's worse offender is Apple's iOS iMessage app which works with other Apple devices and thus all other mobile devices only via cellular text messaging. That leaves Android phones and tablets out of the conversation.
So what's the answer?
There are a number of apps trying to solve this problem. Snapchat, WhatsApp, GroupMe, Skype, and Google Hangouts are just a few of the apps trying to be "the next big thing" in group chat.
But Facebook Messenger is the clear winner. At least for now.
It has a large built-in user base, great features and can be accessed from multiple platforms:
- Mobile - Available for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
- PC - Available from within the Facebook website
- PC - Available from the www.messenger.com stand alone website
Some of the key features include:
- Make audio and video calls to other Messenger users
- Know when people see your text
- Make High Def phone calls to other users worldwide
- Snap photos and shoot video
- Record voice messages
- Chat with your favorite groups of other users
Facebook announced this week that Messenger will no longer require a Facebook account to use.
That helps adoption by users who may not want to have a Facebook account.
Group chat is a rapidly growing market for the mobile world. Facebook has with a winning chat strategy for both mobile and desktop users.
Enjoy!
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#chat #facebook #messenger #Android #iPhone #Windowsphone
Friday, June 26, 2015
You Can Now "Unsend" an Email from Gmail
Did you just send an email in anger?
Did you just send the wrong message to your boss?
Did you get your girlfriend and your wife's email mixed up? Only kidding.
Google can help you solve these modern first-world problems with a new feature available to all users in Google's Gmail service.
Google announced this week that an "Undo Send" option has become part of the official product. It had been in testing as part of Gmail's Lab options.
When enabled, you have between 5-30 seconds to "unsend" the message.
Here's how to enable this feature and use it in Gmail:
That's it! Save yourself some grief by turn this new feature on.
Enjoy!
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#email #gmail #google #unsend
Did you just send the wrong message to your boss?
Did you get your girlfriend and your wife's email mixed up? Only kidding.
Google can help you solve these modern first-world problems with a new feature available to all users in Google's Gmail service.
Google announced this week that an "Undo Send" option has become part of the official product. It had been in testing as part of Gmail's Lab options.
When enabled, you have between 5-30 seconds to "unsend" the message.
Here's how to enable this feature and use it in Gmail:
- Log into your Gmail account.
- Click the "gear" Setting icon in the upper right-hand corner.
- Select "Settings".
- Select "general" tab if not already.
- About half-way down, look for the "Undo Send" option.
- Click the check box to "Enable Undo Send".
- Click the dropdown box to choose 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
- Scroll tot he bottom of the page and click the "Save Changes" button.
That's it! Save yourself some grief by turn this new feature on.
Enjoy!
READ MORE
- Snapseed - Google's Best Photo App You Don't Know About
- Upload Your Photos from Your Desktop to Google
- Google Photos is Your New "Must Have" App
- Dropbox is Your Simple Cloud Storage Solution
- How to Extend Your Smart Phone Battery Life
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#email #gmail #google #unsend
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Blocking Calls on Your Smart Phone
A major annoyance to almost everyone is unwanted telemarketing calls. Sometimes they are for alarm systems, vacation property or home repairs. Other times they are from legitimate charities seeking donations. But they always seem to come at the wrong time. Is there ever really a good time?
There are a couple of options to minimizing unwanted calls:
- Register your phone number with the national Do Not Call Registry from the FCC - Federal Communications Commission (https://www.donotcall.gov/). Legitimate marketers will cease calling your number usually 31 days after registration.
- Check if your state also has a Do Not Call registry. For example, Missouri residents can register phone numbers with the state of Missouri at https://ago.mo.gov/divisions/consumer/no-call To find out if your state has a list too, Google your state name and Do Not Call registry.
- Create a Contact - For callers you know but may not want to answer, for example, a fundraising call from a local charity you support. Once you have received a call from their number, add a contact entry in your phone's contact list. That way, when the call comes in, you'll see the call listed by the name and can decide if you want to answer the call,
To block a specific number from ringing on your smart phone, use these following instructions.
iPhone
To block specific phone numbers, you can do it two ways:
- If you've a received a call from a telemarketer, select the Phone app and then select the Recent call list. To the right of the phone number you want to block, select the i within a circle icon that is to the right of the number. Scroll up if needed and there'll be an option to "Block this Caller". That number will now be blocked on this phone.
- If the number you want belongs to a contact on your phone, go to Settings > Phone > Blocked. Scroll to the bottom if needed and choose "Add New" to select the contact you wish to block.
Android
To block specific phone numbers, you can do it two ways:
- From the call log, select the number you want to block by selecting the 3-dot menu in the upper right-hand corner and select "Add to reject list". This will block future calls from this number.
- For a specific number, go to Phone app > Call Rejection > Auto Reject List. Enter the exact number to block.
Note: Android devices can be inconsistent on this feature and it may not be as simple as these instructions.
If you should inadvertently answer a telemarketing call, remember to be nice. It's someone's mother or brother trying to make a living. But be firm and request they remove you from their call list. And need be, you can block their number.
Enjoy!
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- How to Extend Your Smart Phone Battery Life
- Dropbox is Your Simple Cloud Storage Solution
- Upload Your Photos from Your Desktop to Google
- Google Photos is Your New "Must Have" App
- How to Restart Your iPhone or iPad
- How Do I Get Windows 10 for Free?
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#iphone #android #iOS #block #DoNotCall
#iphone #android #iOS #block #DoNotCall
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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NASA Launches New Image Gallery
NASA has launched a new searchable gallery of images available HERE. It's really out of this world!
The new site is a collection of over 138,000 images from 70 galleries and allows for improved searching capabilities. And all of this is, of course, free.
This treasure trove of photos spans years of NASA photos.
Collections include the Ames Image Gallery, Goddard Image gallery, NASA Human Space Flight Collection, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection, NASA Image of the Day Gallery and multiple Space Shuttle Flight Collections.
The new search capabilities bring iconic photos to users within seconds.
This new site is in addition to NASA's main image gallery available HERE
Enjoy!
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The new site is a collection of over 138,000 images from 70 galleries and allows for improved searching capabilities. And all of this is, of course, free.
This treasure trove of photos spans years of NASA photos.
Collections include the Ames Image Gallery, Goddard Image gallery, NASA Human Space Flight Collection, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection, NASA Image of the Day Gallery and multiple Space Shuttle Flight Collections.
The new search capabilities bring iconic photos to users within seconds.
This new site is in addition to NASA's main image gallery available HERE
NASA sound and ringtone files are also available. I've reviewed this popular resource here at OneCoolTip. Learn more HERE.
Enjoy!
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- NASA Ring Tones Just Launched
- Upload Your Photos from Your Desktop to Google
- Google Photos is Your New "Must Have" App
- How to Extend Your Smart Phone Battery Life
- How Do I Get Windows 10 for Free?
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#NASA #images #space
#NASA #images #space
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