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If you have a category you want to be at the top of the category list, put a space as the first letter of the category name.

You can now submit it to the news media. If your picture is chosen for a story you will be paid. Prices are still being worked out last I looked.

Yahoo News:
news.yahoo.com/you-witness-news

CNN
www.cnn.com/exhange/

KCCI #8
Submit Breaking News Photos, Video

KNDO
Submit Videos or Pictures

Phone friendly internet Radio/Video sites to visit while you are stuck in line somewhere. Just visit them from Blazer and Kimona will pop up to handle the streaming sound or video.

MTube
Mobile You Tube
Google Videos for mobile devices
Tiny Tube
Zoo Vision
Live 365 Internet Radio
ShoutCast
CNN Live Radio
Stream Finder

Digital Photography School has ‘13 Tips for Improving Camera Phone Photos. Following are the ones I find most useful and some adjustments to her tips.

Use good lighting. Camera phones don’t do well in dark scenes, you have no flash. They take their best pictures in a medium light rather than a bright light.

Get close If you try to take a big picture you’ll end up with tiny unrecognizable objects.

Keep it still Cut the blur, the camera phone needs all the help it can get.

Use Gimp to clean up your images, not the camera software.

Don’t use the zoom it is a software zoom not a physical zoom and will decrease the detail in your photo.

Take lots of pictures practice makes perfect.

Go where no one has gone before

Shoot lights at dusk not at night. If you want good shots of holiday lights, store signs etc. Take the shots at dusk not full dark.

Keep your lens clean

Use the highest resolution the camera will allow

Blog your photos Go to Blogger Mobile and set up a free blog. You can then text message your pictures to go@blogger.com and have them appear on your blog. That’s how the pictures get to this blog.

If the phone lines are jammed text:

During last years hurricane and other times the network is swamped text messages get through when phone calls won’t. It is also getting to be the only way to communicate with our 20 something offspring.

Wiki list of sms abbreviations

TechDictionary, SMS abbreviations

aisi it s/b np 4 us
{As I see it it should be no problem for us }

Although this has worked in prior emergencies the fact the cell phone systems were overloaded New Years and several texts did not go through is a bad sign.  It may just be because every sent the messages at 12 sharp rather than a problem with the system.  Either way texting is still more likely to get through than a call in an emergency.

In Blazer ‘n’ goes forward a page ‘<-’ goes back one page.

You will find Blazer is better behaved if you clear your cache on exit. This will slow down leaving Blazer a bit but it is far worth the delay.

Options->Preferences->Advanced->
check the box for ‘Clear cache on exit’

If you are having trouble viewing a map or other image go to:
Options->Wide Page Mode
This will increase the size of the image.

To return to the page you are viewing in Blazer when the Treo goes to sleep set:
Options->Preferences->Page
choose Start With: ‘Last Page Viewed

Then just hit the red power key to wake from sleep and return to the page you were looking last in Blazer.

This is really handy when you have a map or directions on your screen in Blazer and it goes to sleep while you are driving.

Are you having lots of eternal loops and crashes? It is probably a corrupted database. Do a total reset ( Reset instructions ) and then use an old back up or re-enter your calendar, contacts etc by hand or it’ll just keep trying to load the corrupted files.

Set unknown caller sound to ‘no sound’. No more calls from sales people or anyone else you don’t like. After all everyone you like is in your contact list.

If your phone won’t let you do that. Create or download a ringtone that is silence. Set that ringtone to be your default. Then assign a ringtone you like to all your contacts.