1. Learn a bit about photo composition. The “rule of thirds” dictates that the points of power lie on the intersection of lines of a three-by-three grid on the screen. Try putting the center of your subject in one of those intersections, instead of dead center.

2. Don’t take pictures in direct sunlight. A little shade can soften hard shadows. Shooting on cloudy days can actually make for better portraits than sunny ones.

3. Check that the lens is unobstructed and clean. Some iPhone cases block the camera, even if they’re designed with a hole or windows for it. Use a lens-cleaning tissue to clean the lens, not your finger.

4. Switch to landscape orientation occasionally. Actually, that’s how you’d take pictures most of the time with a dedicated camera, and it makes sense for anything other than formal portraits.
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The best tutorial I ever seen on the web for the moment showing a full “how to” jailbreak a 2.0 iPhone. Start your recorders!

Some of the features of the upcoming new version of the iPhone’s firmware.

The final version has finally been released, this new version has a great new feature, it gives you the ability to save flash animations like the ones you see in YouTube or Daily Motion.

This is a surprise, since it wasn’t enabled in the beta version of Real Player! Now I understand better why CosmoPod needs you to have Real Player installed!

Download Real Player 11 here.

You can easily install an application on a jailbroken iPhone, but a few number of apps is really worth mentionning.

MxTube is simply destined to directly download and watch YouTube videos on your iPhone.
It combies stability & ease of use.
Even its icon is gorgeous!

To try it, just search “MxTube” on Installer and you’ll get it!
        

This is the NEXT internet revolution!
Probably inspired by Konfabulator (Yahoo Widgets), Apple’s Dashboard and the iPhone web applications, this new technologies are impressive! Based on some runtime environments, Adobe Air and Google App Engine are like some “OS” inside your operating system, based on native web applications.

I personally have only tried Adobe Air, and I’m very impressed by the results, especially with AOL Videos (as you can see it in the screenshot):

As you can see, the application is beautiful, and runs flawlessly!

The applications are so easy to install (Adobe Air), here’s for example the eBay Adobe Air application’s page:

Better: once installed, the application goes in your Applications folder just like a regular one, and man.. how fast they launch!!!

Another screenshot of eBay Desktop:

More? The site of AOL Music – Top 100 Videos is about 900 kb (less than a Dashboard Widget)!
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[lang_en]A new version of messenger for Mac is available.

Good news: it finally supports video-conference.

Bad news: video is only accessible for Microsoft Office Communications Server users.

You can get it here

Mac Os X users can use Skype, iChat or aMsn to video-chat with buddies.

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This video covers the following tips:

• Clever uses for your iPhone camera
• Saving reference material as web pages
• Making “fake podcasts” of audio and video material
• Using “fake contacts” to sync notes with your Mac
• Using the iPhone’s backlight as a flashlight