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Manage your time with your cell phone

Reminders and alarms are some of the most useful tools on a cell phone, but they are also the least appreciated.

Most cell phones come with a scheduler to allow you to set an alarm at a certain time of day or on a certain date. You can set alarms to remind you of an established daily homework time to keep you from chatting right through your work time.

You could also use calendar reminders to notify you when projects and assignments are due. These reminders can be set up weeks and months ahead of time.

How to access Gmail more securely

To encrypt all traffic between your browser and Gmail, access Gmail using https://mail.google.com/. (Note the ‘s’ at the end of “https”)

To make Gmail use an encrypted https connection always and automatically, go to the following:
Settings link in Gmail > General category > Make sure ‘Always use https’ is selected under Browser connection > Click 'Save Changes'.

(https is “Hyper Text Transfer Protocol” with an added dash of “s” or Secure Sockets Layer, another protocol primarily developed with secure, safe Internet transactions in mind).

6 great photo do’s and dont’s

Naming photo files:When you use numbers you can automatically sort the files in order, whereas dates won’t sort.

Photographing moving people:Follow them with the camera and take the shot as you move. That way you should get the person nicely sharp and the background nicely blurred.

Be wary of deleting images in the camera.Something that looks like a terrible shot in the camera, when opened on a PC may have artistic merit. View on a computer screen where you can more accurately assess what sort of shot you have.

View pictures, don’t save:Every time you save a file as a JPEG format image, you permanently lose some quality. Just opening and viewing it doesn’t do that, but saving will compromise quality.

Best size for e-mailing photos:For e-mailing, 800 x 600 is the best maximum size. Your photo software will have a tool for resizing images.

Photo backups:When you downsize a photo you’re going to permanently lose that data so consider using CDs or DVDs to back up your photos. Make a couple of copies to CD or DVD just in case a disk fails.