Photo / Video Sharing
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How to Use Your Phone as a Webcam
Setting up your iPhone or Android phone as a webcam takes a few steps, but it's easy, and the quality is as good as, if not better than, a built-in webcam.
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Artificial Intelligence Can't Replace Headshot Photographers Yet
Artificial Intelligence apps claim their software can create picture-perfect headshots, but while these apps are fun, they deliver subpar results.
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How to Hide Photos on Your Android Phone
If you have photos and videos on your phone that you don't want friends and family to stumble upon, you can secure them in a locked folder. Here's how.
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How to Hide Photos on iPhone
Here's how to easily move pictures and videos in a passcode-protected hidden album within the iPhone Photos app and how to hide the hidden album.
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How to Turn Any Picture into a 3D Cinematic Photo
Google's Cinematic Photos tool identifies the subject of photos you save to Google Photos and brings the scenes to life with realistic 3D animations.
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Instagram 101: Understanding the Basics
Master the basics of the photo and video sharing social network Instagram with our guide that covers everything you need to know to get started.
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What Every Snapchat Symbol Means
There's no need to be confused by Snapchat's emoji indicators — we'll tell you the difference between a golden heart and a pink heart, plus the rest of Snapchat's symbols.
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How to Delete Your Twitter Account Permanently
It's easy to delete your Twitter account using your computer or the Twitter app on your phone. And you can save old tweets if you don't want to lose them.
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The Fastest Way to Take Videos on Your iPhone
Apple has built shortcuts into iOS that make launching video recording from your iPhone's lock screen or while using your iPhone nearly instantaneous.
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5 Easy Ways to View Photos on Your TV
Whether you use a camera or a smartphone to take pictures, we tell you how to easily view your photos on your TV.
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How to Cast Photos to Your TV
Want to see your gorgeous photos on the biggest screen in your house? No prob. It’s easy to share photos wirelessly from your iPhone or Android phone to your TV.
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The Best Ways to Print Photos from Your Smartphone
Here are our favorite apps, services and products to get your photos off your phone and into your hands as physical prints.
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How to Connect Your Phone to Your TV
After testing the solutions, we found the best ways to connect for the most popular models of TVs and phones.
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How to Delete Your Snapchat Account Permanently
If you’re ready to give up Snapchat, it’s very easy to delete your account (but you can't use the Snapchat app to do it). Here’s how.
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How to Delete Your Instagram Account
Tired of Instagram? Here are the simple steps to permanently delete your Instagram account and all of your data or temporarily deactivate your account.
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How to Download a Video from Facebook
While Facebook doesn’t offer its own tool to download videos, we found an application that lets you easily download Facebook videos to share elsewhere.
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Turn Old Family Photos into Lifelike Animations
MyHeritage's new Deep Nostalgia photo-enhancement tool can animate faces in your oldest family photos, bringing the past to life.
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How to Download Android Phone Photos to Your Computer
You can easily download all of your photos or choose a select few to transfer from your Android phone to your computer. Here's how.
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How to Download iPhone Photos to a Computer
Here’s how to create a full back-up of all your iPhone photos or download just a select few to a PC or Mac. We take you through your cabled and wireless options.
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Tips for Taking Great Halloween Photos
Follow these photo-taking tips with your phone or camera to make the most of those after-dark shots, write with light, and even scare up a few ghosts.
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MyHeritage Turns Old Black & White Photos into Stunning Color Images
MyHeritage's automatic photo enhancing and colorization tools turn your fuzzy old black-and-white photos into crisp color images with just a couple of clicks.
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How to Spot a Deepfake Video
Digitally manipulated video can depict celebrities, politicians and other people saying and doing things they never did. Here’s how to spot the signs of a deepfake.
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Adobe Uses AI to Deliver Professionally Edited Photos & Video with a Click
Don't be intimidated by editing your photos and videos: Adobe's AI-powered editing tools let you get professional results with a single click.
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Order 4x6 Prints with Same-Day Pickup for Just 25 Cents
When you want 4x6 prints in a hurry, Google Photos can deliver as little as 2-hour service at CVS and Walmart. Compare print quality from these two stores.
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The Best Free Photoshop Alternatives
These three free programs offer just as good – if not better – features than Photoshop and will help you become a better photo editor.
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7 Fantastic Father's Day Gift Ideas
Whether he's into fitness gadgets or streaming media devices or smart home tech, these are the gifts that Dad wants this Father's Day.
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The Best Photo Sharing Sites
Organize large photo collections, create shared albums and ensure your pictures stay with you no matter what device they come from.
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How to Scan Your Old Photos
Turn your old photos into digital images that can be safely preserved and easily shared with family and friends.
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Review of the Epson FastFoto FF-680W
The Epson FastFoto FF-680W makes the process of scanning old photos so quick and easy, you'll finally get your digital archiving done.
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Download Your Flickr Photos Before They're Deleted
If you have more than 1,000 photos on Flickr, you're running out of time to download them before they're deleted. Here's how to rescue your photos.
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9 Tech Resolutions for 2019
From a privacy overhaul to ethical tech usage, here are 9 ways you can revamp and improve your relationship with technology in 2019.
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Lenovo's Mirage Camera & Headset Make VR Easy to Watch & Create
Lenovo delivers a completely stand-alone virtual reality (VR) headset and easy-to-use VR camera, making VR easily accessible for everyone.
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The Best Sites for Backing Up Your Photos
Our top picks for online photo storing services will free up your smartphone storage, keep your mobile photos safe and much more.
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Make a Personalized Photo Book in Five Simple Steps
Online photo design service Mixbook makes creating custom photo books as easy as taking a snapshot.
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The Best Apps for Organizing Photos
Automate the process of organizing, removing duplicates and curating your photos so your best shots are easily accessible.
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7 Photo Editing Apps Photographers Love
These photo editing apps provide all of the functions you need for quick editing on the go.
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10 Tech Resolutions for 2018
These 10 resolutions will help you find balance — between work and life, and in how you use your technology.
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How to Take Better Holiday Photos
Holiday lights, glowing jack-o-lanterns, Thanksgiving gatherings: there are a lot of upcoming photo opps. Here's how to make the most of them.
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Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 2018 Make Image Editing Easier Than Ever
The latest Adobe Elements apps are all about making your life easier, with smart editing features that let you zip through editing projects.
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The Best 360 Cameras and How to Use Them
Here's how to get started with VR videos from the best 360 cameras to shooting and viewing tips.
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9 Fantastic Father's Day Gift Ideas
Whether he's into fitness gadgets or streaming media devices or smart home tech, these are the gifts that Dad wants this Father's Day.
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Google Photos: Photo Books & Sharing Made Simple
Google Photos reminds you to share your best photos with friends and makes creating photo books easier than ever.
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Amazon's Echo Look Camera Offers Fashion Advice
Amazon’s latest addition to its Alexa family of devices, the Echo Look, is a voice-activated camera that dispenses fashion advice.
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How to Take Better Photos with Your iPhone
The iPhone's camera has limitations. We share techniques, settings and apps that will help you take the best photos possible.
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Twitter Chat: Tech & Travel for the Holidays
Join us Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT as we chat about holiday gift ideas and how to upgrade your travel experience.
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Tips to Keep Your Digital Photos Organized
With just a little input from you, keeping your digital photos organized will become a breeze to manage.
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Faceless Facial Recognition Is Here
Blurring or obscuring your face in a photo may not be enough to avoid recognition. Researcher will soon recognize you without seeing your face.
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Eye-Fi Ends Support for Wi-Fi SD Cards Still Available on Amazon
Eye-Fi announced that it would end support for older Eye-Fi X1 and X2 cards on September 16, 2016. Here's what you need to know.
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Twitter Chat: Tech & Travel for Summer
Join us Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT as we chat about how tech enhances your summer travel experiences.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Snapchat
Calling all parents: this is your definitive guide that details exactly how you (and your kids) can use Snapchat.
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The Best Free Photo Editing Software
You can get more Instagram likes with fancier editing tools; here are our top software picks (that also happen to be free!).
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Can You Name That Plant?
What's that spiky thing growing along the side of the house by the back door? The PlantNet app uses image recognition to help you identify plants.
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VidMob: Your Videos, Professionally Edited Easily & Affordably
VidMob offers an easy and inexpensive way to transform your raw video clips and photos into shareable memories, adventures, stories, and more.
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Twitter Chat: Tech & Travel for the Holidays
Join us Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT as we chat about holiday gift ideas and how to upgrade your travel experience.
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Snapchat Adds Fun New Video Effects
The Snapchat app makes videos more interesting with new filters for playing videos in slow-mo, fast-forward or rewind, among other new features.
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New Panama Video App Shares Location-based Videos Anonymously
The Panama app (iOS, Android) from Mass Lab allows you to anonymously upload and share videos for people in your area to view.
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How to Disable Autoplay Videos on Twitter and Facebook
Most social networks now autoplay videos in your feed by default, but you can disable this setting on Facebook and Twitter with a few simple steps.
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'Facebook Moments' Automatically Creates Music Videos from Your Pictures
Facebook Moments now automatically creates personalized, customizable music videos from any shared Moment with 6 or more photos.
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Epson EcoTank Printers Keep You in Ink for 2 Years
Epson's new line of EcoTank printers have refillable ink reservoirs and come with a 2-year supply of ink, saving you time and money.
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Google Apologizes After Mistakenly Tagging Black People as 'Gorillas'
Google Photo's algorithm is yet unable, experts say, to understand nuanced differences in human skin tones.
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Facebook Gets New Photo Editing Interface, Tools
Taking a page from Snapchat, an update to the Facebook photo editor interface allows the easy addition and manipulation of stickers, text and filters.
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9 Father's Day Gift Ideas for the Tech-Loving Dad
From fitness gadgets to top-tier speakers to the hottest smartwatch, these are the gifts that dad wants this Fathers Day.
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ISIS Target Found & Bombed Thanks to Terrorist Selfie
A terrorist betrayed the location of an ISIS headquarters building by posting a selfie on social media, leading to its successful bombing.
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10 Tips for Taking Better Videos with Your Smartphone
Follow these 10 tips when shooting videos with your smartphone to get polished, professional results.
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15 Tips for Taking Better Smartphone Photos
Whether you've got a brand new phone or you're holding on to an older model, these helpful tips will make your photos look polished and professional.
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Twitter Chat: Upgrade Your Tech & Travel
Join us Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT as we chat about ways you can upgrade your ride and your travel experience.
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Twitter Chat: Tips for Taking & Sharing Photos
Join us Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT as we chat about how to take better photos and share our tips for editing, organizing and sharing them.
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Facebook Adding Warnings to Graphic Videos
The new warnings, being applied to graphic video of Charlie Hebdo terrorists, also prevent those under the age of 18 from viewing the content.
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Facebook, Google+ Sharing Personalized 'Year in Review' Content
Both Facebook and Google+ are sharing automatically generated albums and videos with your most popular photos of the year.
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Facebook Now Automatically Enhances Uploaded Pictures
The Facebook for Apple iOS app now automatically enhances your uploaded photos and gives you more control over editing brightness and clarity.
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Amazon Prime Adds Free Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage
Amazon Prime subscribers now get unlimited cloud storage for their photos along with the other perks of membership.
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Instagram Now Running Video Ads
Picture- and video-sharing social network Instagram has begun embedding 15-second auto-playing video ads in targeted users' feeds.
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Skype Revives Qik as a Video Chatting App
Skype Qik is a video chat platform that lets you share and control access to short clips as way of conversing with friends and family.
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BitTorrent Sync 1.4: A Free Alternative to Cloud Sharing
BitTorrent Sync 1.4 is an easy way to share files with family without the file size restrictions and fees of cloud storage sites.
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Celebrity Nude Photos Stolen from iCloud
Hackers stole a number of celebrity nude photos from Apple's iCloud service, reminding us we're all at risk. Here's what you can do.
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Hyperlapse: A Time-Lapse Video Recording App from Instagram
Hyperlapse is an iOS app that allows you to easily record 12x time-lapse videos for personal use or to share on Instagram.
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Facebook Launches 'Slingshot,' a Snapchat Competitor App
Facebook's new Slingshot app allows you to share ephemeral photos and videos with your friends with a "send back to receive" requirement.
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Instagram 6.0 Arrives with Editing Tools
Instagram 6.0 strengthens the app's photo editing abilities beyond just applying Instagram's well-known filters. Now you can perform simple editing tasks.
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Share Photos Easily with these Great WiFi Cameras
WiFi enabled cameras can make sharing your photos faster and easier than ever. Here are our top picks plus how to upgrade older cameras to WiFi.
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Google Stories Auto-Creates Travelogues from Your Photos
Social network Google+'s newest feature, Stories, automatically creates timeline albums from your vacation photos minus the blurry shots and duplicates.
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Your Android Photos Now Sync Directly with Gmail
Smartphone photos backed up using Google's Auto Backup feature now sync directly with the web version of Gmail for faster sharing.
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9 Tips for Looking Great on Your Webcam
Follow these tips to ensure you’re putting your best face forward for your next video chat.
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British Spy Agency Collected over 1.8M Yahoo Webcam Photos
The British GCHQ spy agency collected over 1.8M Yahoo webcam photos between 2008 and 2010, secret documents obtained by The Guardian reveal.
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Krome Photos: Affordable Photo Editing by Pros
Krome Photos offers photo retouching, color-balancing and other edits, performed by actual humans, at affordable prices.
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Snapchat Security Blunder: How to Stop the Spam
Snapchat is giving users tools to combat incoming waves of spam after 4.6 million Snapchat username and phone numbers were accidentally leaked last month.
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5 Unique Photo Books
We've taken a look at the numerous photo book providers to find the most interesting high-quality options out there.
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Kooboodle MeFinder Finds Pictures of You on Friends' Phones
The Kooboodle photo sharing service launched its MeFinder service at CES 2014, offering a way to find pictures of yourself on your friends' phones.
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Smartphone Survey Spills America's Sexy Selfie Secrets
A new smartphone privacy study reveals exactly how many Americans are hiding naked photos of themselves and others on their personal devices.
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Instagram Direct: A Way to Privately Share Photos and Videos
A recent update to Instagram has brought Instagram Direct, a new way to send private photos and videos directly to members' inboxes.
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Create Your Own Google Street View Maps
Google announced today that you can now upload your own photo spheres to Google Views, creating your own Google Street Views map.
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7 Unique Photo Gifts
There's more to photo gifts than pictures on mugs and T-shirts. Check out our seven unique gifts that use your photos to make the perfect present.
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Flickr Photo Books: A Professional-Quality Way to Print Pictures
Flickr Photo Books are a high-quality (but expensive) way to share your best, high-quality photographs with offline friends and family.
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Snapchat Surpasses Facebook in Photo Sharing
More pictures are uploaded to photo-sharing app Snapchat than to social network Facebook, the company revealed today.
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It's Official: Ads are Coming to Instagram
Instagram just announced that advertisements will be coming to the social network "in the next couple months."
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Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements Get Useful Upgrades
A new guided edit mode for video editing and plenty of new editing tools make this year’s Photoshop Elements and Elements Premiere worth the upgrade.
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University of Texas Research Makes Us Stars in Our Own Reality TV Show
Researchers can now edit an always-on video recording of a person's life down to a small, easy to watch summary of important life events.
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WSJ: Instagram to Get Advertisements Next Year
Instagram is meeting with major corporations with a presence on the social network to discuss ad possibilities, says a new WSJ report.
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Facebook Introduces New Shared Photo Albums
Social network Facebook now allows you to give your friends access to add photos to your own albums via its new Shared Albums feature.
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Police Use Instagram to Bust the Largest Gun Ring in NYC History
New York City police broke up the largest gun ring in city history, in part, thanks to pictures shared by aspiring rapper Neno Best on Instagram.
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Best Apps for Amazing Smartphone Videos
Move beyond posting boring smartphone videos with these two free apps.