How to Take Better Pictures with Your Phone’s Camera

Did You Know? The Snackwell Effect, named after the well known American diet brand SnackWell’s, is a phenomenon wherein people will overeat when a food is labeled low calorie. The term has also been used for similar effects in other settings, such as energy consumption (i.e. energy efficient washing machines and lights). Geek Trivia The Decibel Originated From Methods Used To Measure What? Bird Song → Telegraph Signals → Gunfire Volume → Volcanic Explosion Distance → Advertisement Download Guerrilla Time: More Time in Your Life, More Life in Your Time (a $9.99 value!) Learn how to have "more time in your life, more life in your time" with easy and profound methods and tools which will enhance not only your time management but also the quality of your life. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Make Microsoft Office’s Spell Check Ignore URLs How to Dial Phone Extensions Automatically with Your iPhone How to Connect an External Monitor to a Chromebook How to Take Better Pictures with Your Phone's Camera Why Does My Windows 10 Home Edition Have Remote Desktop and BitLocker? How to Receive Ecobee3 Alerts If Your Furnace or A/C Breaks Down How to Use Your iPhone’s Personal Hotspot to Tether a PC or Mac How to Use Siri to Search Your Photos by Date or Location How to Export Your OneNote 2016 Notes to Different File Formats Get Early Access to New Features on the Galaxy S7 with “Galaxy Labs” How to Set Up RetroArch, The Ultimate All-In-One Retro Games Emulator How to Use a USB Key to Unlock a BitLocker-Encrypted PC Geek Comic Today's Tech Term RHSBL An RHSBL (short for Right-Hand Side Blacklist) is a special list that contains the domain names of spammers (instead of IP addresses) that mail servers can be set up to reject/block. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Martian Colonists Could Be Genetically Engineered for Democracy It sounds like science fiction: A citizenry genetically engineered to be democratic. It's not implausible. [Nautilus] The 'broken umbrella' leading us into space We meet the Nasa engineer who plans to use a giant broken umbrella to take us to the stars.  [BBC] Cable blackouts of "free" TV channels won't be stopped by FCC FCC won't expand oversight of contract disputes that cause TV blackouts. [ArsTechnica] How to Make Microsoft Office’s Spell Check Ignore URLs If you write documents containing a lot of URLs, it can get annoying when the spell check in Word questions almost every one. You can save yourself a bit of time and frustration by telling Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to ignore URLs in your documents when performing a spell check. Read This Article → How to Dial Phone Extensions Automatically with Your iPhone If you have to dial an extension to reach some of your contacts–or a code to join a conference–you know it’s a hassle remembering that information or looking it up before placing a call. Instead, why not have your iPhone automatically dial those extra digits for you? Read This Article → How to Connect an External Monitor to a Chromebook Chromebooks include ports that allow you to connect them to a computer monitor, television, or other display. You can mirror your desktop across multiple displays, or use the additional displays as separate desktops to gain additional screen space. Read This Article → How to Take Better Pictures with Your Phone's Camera They say the best camera is the one you have with you, and most smartphone cameras can now easily replace a point-and-shoot. For users who have experience taking pictures, the move from a "real" camera to a smartphone can be an easy one, but for users with no photography experience, it can be a real challenge to get a decent looking shot from your phone. Fortunately, smartphone cameras are often more intuitive than more traditional cameras, and landing the best possible shot just take a few considerations. Read This Article → Why Does My Windows 10 Home Edition Have Remote Desktop and BitLocker? It is no secret that the Home Editions of Windows systems have had certain features trimmed out or made inaccessible without an upgrade, so why would a person see features that are supposedly not included? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a confused reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Receive Ecobee3 Alerts If Your Furnace or A/C Breaks Down If you’re away from home and your HVAC system breaks down suddenly, you probably want to get it fixed as soon as possible. Here’s how to receive instant alerts from your Ecobee3 thermostat whenever there’s a possible problem with your heating and cooling. Read This Article → How to Use Your iPhone’s Personal Hotspot to Tether a PC or Mac If you’re out and about and there’s no free Wi-Fi available, you can use your iPhone’s internet connection on another device, like a laptop or tablet. This feature is called “Personal Hotspot” on the iPhone (also known as "tethering"), and you can use it over Wi-Fi or USB. Read This Article → How to Use Siri to Search Your Photos by Date or Location Apple’s Photos app is a pretty solid offering, but if you take a lot of photos with your iPhone, you know it can be a hassle scrolling through them all to find photos you took at a certain location or on a certain date. Among all the other useful things Siri can help you with, she can also help make finding photos a whole lot easier. Read This Article → How to Export Your OneNote 2016 Notes to Different File Formats OneNote 2016 is a great program for taking, storing, and syncing notes, but if you want to archive your notes or share them with someone who doesn't have a Microsoft account, you can export them to other file formats. Here is a quick look at how it's done. Read This Article → Get Early Access to New Features on the Galaxy S7 with “Galaxy Labs” Trying new things is always fun, especially when it comes to tech. Getting hands and eyes on new features before they become mainstays is even more exciting. Not only that, but it also helps software builders gauge interest for new features before they make them permanent. Samsung gets this, so on the international versions of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, it included a new feature called "Galaxy Labs." Read This Article → How to Set Up RetroArch, The Ultimate All-In-One Retro Games Emulator Do you wish you could browse a massive collection of retro games from your couch, without having to connect a bunch of systems or cobble together various emulators? RetroArch makes it possible. This all-in-one emulation station can run almost any retro game imaginable, and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Read This Article → How to Use a USB Key to Unlock a BitLocker-Encrypted PC Enable BitLocker encryption, and Windows will automatically unlock your drive each time you start your computer using the TPM built into most modern computers. But you can set up any USB flash drive as a “startup key” that must be present at boot before your computer can decrypt its drive and start Windows. 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