IPhone Short cut

IPhone Short cut
The  hidden  Web  address  suffix  keys 
On  the  iPhone , if  you  want  to  type  a Web  address  or  email  address,  instead  of  typing  the  entire . Com  or . Org, you  can  try  this  short  cut  :
If you hold  down  your  finger on  the  period  key (.), you  will  get  a  pop  up  menu  for  common  endings  of  Web  addresses  e:g .com , . gov, .edu.

Travel tip: Organising chargers / headphones to avoid entanglement.

Nothing is more annoying than having your phone, laptop, and/or iPad chargers tangled all over your suitcase. Organize the charger and headphone in a spare glasses case.

Fish eye lens for Cell phones

Cell phone camera with fish eye lens

San Diego Harbor
The fish eye lens attaches to the camera.
Picture taken of San Diego harbor with the fish eye lens

Oscar Selfie picture was pre planned

Oscar Selfie picture was pre planned

Ms. DeGeneres took the selfie picture with Samsung phone camera which was re-tweeted about 3 million times. She had been carrying the camera conspicuously during the broadcast of the Oscars.

While it felt as though the picture was unplanned and she took a decision impulsively, but it was not so, here are the reasons why:

1) While Ms. DeGeneres was also tweeting at the Oscar, she was using her Iphone.

2) Samsung and its advertising company Starcom MediaVest had negotiated to have its Galaxy smartphone integrated into the show.

    So Samsung gave ABC (TV channel that broadcast the show) smartphones to use during the broadcast and ABC promised that its phones will get airtime (called product placement).

3) A few days before the broadcast, Ms. DeGeneres came up with the idea of a selfie and ABC said that she should do it with samsung phone. So during the rehearsals, Samsung executives trained Ms. DeGeneres on how to use the Samsung galaxy (remember she is used to an iphone).

TV networks reserve such product placement for big spending advertisers.

Advertisers were paying about US$ 1.8 million for a 30 seconds worth of Oscar ad time.

So approximately Samsung must have spent about $18 million