How to Use the iPhone Camera Zoom, Focus, etc.

To focus on a specific element, just tap the screen where you want the iPhone to focus. A blue rectangle will surround the area, give it a moment to focus (you'll see it happening), then snap your photo.

To zoom, just pinch and drag the screen as you do with other apps. You can also simply slide your finger along the slider bar that appears once you begin pinching the screen.

To use the flash, tap the lightning bolt in the upper left corner. You can select On, Off, or Automatic.

Cool feature - to quickly take a picture while the phone is locked, simply press the home button twice. The camera appears (and the music player does too). Note, if the passcode screen pops up, you can not quickly access the camera from here. You must go back to the home screen which you can do by tapping 'cancel' on the pass code screen. (Until you unlock your phone, assuming it's locked, no one can access your pictures.) You can also use the volume up/down buttons to take the picture.

HDR - This supposedly allows for a better picture but requires more space. Per Apple's web site: "iPhone 4S captures three photos from that one shot, each with a different exposure level. Then it layers the shots together to create a single photo that combines the best parts of each shot. The wide range of light is more accurate in an HDR photo. And iPhone saves both the original and the HDR photo in your Camera Roll."

You can edit red-eye right in the picture. Tap the photo, then edit in the upper right corner. The red circle with the slash through it at the bottom of the screen will guide you through red-eye removal.

If you lose the "transition" swipe option between photos, you can turn that on/off by going into your "camera roll" and tapping the fat right facing arrow at the bottom of the screen. Here is where you can also turn on/off auto-enhance,as well as crop and rotate.

Enable Right-click for Images in Chrome

UPDATE 9/15/2012:

Chrome has changed since when I posted the below. Go here first to turn off JavaScript (required to make right-click work when it's not enabled), and then come back and continue reading below.

1/21/2012:

If a web page has the right click disabled, you can enable it by turning off JavaScript (you'll enable it again later in these instructions):

by Tomoya Kawasaki (Google Employee):

"to turn javascript off and on
go to the tool tab at the top

Click on "Options"

Go to "Under The Hood"

Click on "Content Settings"

Click on the "JavaScript" tab"

That's all I had to do, and then re-enabled it afterwards, but here's more if needed:

"As for clearing the cache instead of clicking on "Content Settings"

Click on "Clear Browsing Data" on that same screen

You may find that JavaScript is already on so you may have to download the newer version"

Thanks and source:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5e291648113cc731&hl=en

Alternatively with the mouse, I've been able to hover to the right of the image, right click and hold, drag the mouse over the image (the image will turn slightly transparent blue), then let go, and hold cursor on the blue (without clicking!) and right click, and then copy. You've now captured it and can paste it elsewhere. If the right click didn't work, just let go of the mouse while the image is still blued and CTRL+C (for copy). 

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QuickOffice Pro: The Best Office Suite for iPhone

Per LifeHacker: http://lifehacker.com/5868066/the-best-office-suite-for-iphone

"OnLive" Free iPad App Windows 7 Office

1/13--
Some pics to check out: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/13/onlive-desktop-hits-the-itunes-app-store/


1/12--
More on LifeHacker: http://lifehacker.com/5874348/onlive-desktop-streams-desktop-apps-to-your-ipad


1/11--

OnLive, a startup, has developed a free app for the iPad that will let users run a Windows 7 desktop on their iPads, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Users will be able to create and edit documents in those applications on their iPads and store them online, using the two gigabytes of free storage OnLive will provide people. Source: Technology - Bits - The New York Times

Not much storage so will need to selectively manage docs.

How to Zoom on Google Docs

If you get this message, "Your browser's current zoom setting is not fully supported. Please reset to the default zoom by pressing Ctrl+0"... note that is a ZERO not an "O" in Ctrl+0. Yep, I clicked "O" too.

On the MAC it is cmd+0

Source: http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2492762

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Automatic Stock Quotes in Google Docs

Here is a list of Common Attributes for automatic stock quotes in Google Docs. This is the starter syntax (put this in any cell): =GoogleFinance(+A2, "Price") where A2 is your Stock Symbol (e.g. AAPL)

Note:

• You can enter a max of 1,000 GoogleFinance functions in a single spreadsheet; two functions in the same cell count as two.
• If you would like to try using Google Finance in Google spreadsheets, you can use this template to get started. [NOTE: This is not my template but appears to be OK. Source is at the end below.]

STOCKS - The following types of real-time market data are currently available:

• price: market price of the stock - delayed by up to 20 minutes.
• priceopen: the opening price of the stock for the current day.
• high: the highest price the stock traded for the current day.
• low: the lowest price the stock traded for the current day.
• volume: number of shares traded of this stock for the current day.
• marketcap: the market cap of the stock.
• tradetime: the last time the stock traded.
• datadelay: the delay in the data presented for this stock using the googleFinance() function.
• volumeavg: the average volume for this stock.
• pe: the Price-to-Earnings ratio for this stock.
• eps: the earnings-per-share for this stock.
• high52: the 52-week high for this stock.
• low52: the 52-week low for this stock.
• change: the change in the price of this stock since yesterday's market close.
• beta: the beta value of this stock.
• changepct: the percentage change in the price of this stock since yesterday's close.
• closeyest: yesterday's closing price of this stock.
• shares: the number of shares outstanding of this stock.
• currency: the currency in which this stock is traded.

MUTUAL FUND ATTRIBUTES:

• closeYest: the NAV of a mutual fund.
• date: date at which NAV (net asset value) was reported.
• returnytd: year-to-date return total.
• netassets: The day-end net assets of the mutual fund. Net-asset figures are useful in gauging a fund's size, agility, and popularity. They help determine whether a small company fund, for example, can remain in its investment-objective category if its asset base reaches an ungainly size.
• change: change in NAV value between the most recent reported NAV, and the NAV prior to that.
• changepct: the % change in the NAV.
• yieldpct: Also known as the distribution yield, Morningstar computes this End Yield figure by summing the trailing 12-month's income distributions and dividing the sum by the last month's ending NAV, plus capital gains distributed over the same time period. Income refers only to interest payments from fixed-income securities and dividend payments from common stocks.
• returnday: one-day total return.
• return1: one-week total return.
• return4: four-week total return.
• return13: thirteen-week total return.
• return52: 52 week total return.
• return156: 156 week total return.
• return 260: 260 week total return.
• incomedividend: the amount of the most recent cash distribution for the fund.
• incomedividenddate: the date the above occurred.
• capitalgain: the amount of the most recent capital gain distribution from the fund.
• capitalgaindate: the date of the above.
• morningstarrating: the Morningstar "star" rating.
• expenseratio: The percentage of fund assets used to pay for operating expenses and management fees, including 12b-1 fees, administrative fees, and all other asset-based costs incurred by the fund, except brokerage costs. Fund expenses are reflected in the fund's NAV. Sales charges are not included in the expense ratio.

HISTORICAL STOCK QUOTES:

Use this function:

Syntax: =GoogleFinance("symbol", "attribute", "start_date", "num_days|end_date", "interval") where:

• "symbol" - stock symbol
• "attribute" - high, low, open, close, vol, or all (quote also works, and defaults to close).
• "start_date" - the date for the historical data. When only the start_date is specified, the historical data is just for that day.

Note: The remaining parameters are optional.

• "num_days" | "end_date" - can be either the end date for the time period over which you want to see historical data, or the number of days from the start date. Any number less than 50 is considered to be num_days. Otherwise it is considered an end_date.
• "interval" - this specifies the interval "DAILY" or "WEEKLY," or 1 and 7 can also be used. This is the granularity at which the stock data is shown at daily or weekly intervals. Please note that queries for recent dates may not have information, as historical data may not be available for a day or two.

• open: the opening price of the stock for the indicated day.
• close: the closing price of the stock for the indicated day.
• high: the highest price the stock traded to date.
• low: the lowest price the stock traded to date.
• volume: number of shares traded of this stock to date.
• all: the concatenation of date/open/close/high/low/volume returned as a table for historical quotes.

Source: https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=155178

Email Large Files

Saving this app for when I need to email a big file: http://www.sendspace.com/

Who has Access to My Google Account?

Click the link below to find out who you've given access to your Google Account. You can add or remove access from this page.

https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hl=en

Click Revoke Access to remove access.

Change the Size of a Picture

I use "Microsoft Office Picture Manager" File/Export and choose new settings (e.g. make picture 50% of original size).

"Many common picture editing programs allow you to change the quality level of a JPEG picture when it is saved. When using the program, look in the program's Save As dialog box for an option to change the compression or quality level. The lower the quality (or higher the compression), the smaller the file will be when it is saved. "

Source: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-size-or-resolution-of-a-picture

Where is my Startup Folder - Windows 7

C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

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