Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is portable handheld gaming smartphone running the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It supports Qualcomm 1 GHz Scorpion (Snapdragon) CPU and Adreno 205 GPU. In addition supports a large 4 inch screen and a 5.1 MP rear facing camera. So, in summary device is quite suitable for the playing latest mobile games. However, if you want to make a more fluent use of the camera on the Xperia Play you might be interested in nice little hack available on Android Market that mods the phone ...

Photo Rescue is a useful little application for the users that lost their iPhone/iPod Touch (or any other iDevice) or somehow the device got damaged. In that case this app can help restore all the photos from an iTunes backup that you performed earlier. Note that this will only work for the non-encrypted iTunes backups which is the default. One drawback of the application for now is that it only works on the Mac. Let’s hope they develop a Windows version too, as most of the users are on the Windows ...

HRD (High Dynamic Range) is a highly touted feature that Apple introduced first in iOS 4.1. Basically people who are not aware of it involves capturing 3 different snapshots of the same subject (scene) with different exposure levels and then these photos are layered by the software and best visual features from all these photos are combined to create a single photo that has the most detail (extracted from all the earlier captured images with different exposure levels) -  all of this is done ...

As we have seen a rapid increase in the use of iPhone camera by it’s users to take photos and even capture some quick video clips, on some special occasion, or just when going outside for a fun party etc. In that sense, iPhone camera has replaced the traditional point & shoot cameras that people used to carry around. There are mainly two reasons for this trend. First iPhone is lightweight and easier carry around than most other dedicated point&shoot cameras (and of course it is a smartphone ...

These days it is not uncommon for many people to download/collect a large amount of images from Internet. Particularly after the immense popularity of online photo sharing services such as Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug and Zooomr this trend has increased drastically. And then there is a large number of photos that we take ourselves on regular basis thanks to the continuous trend of falling prices on higher resolution multi-megapixel digital cameras. Under most circumstances these pictures/photos tend ...

Flickr is photo hosting and sharing site that also happens to be one of the best examples to demonstrate that how a good Web 2.0 based online service should be built. It is extremely popular among people that want to privately share private,family photos or want to share their photographic creations with the general public. It is estimated that Flickr now holds over 2 billion photos. Key reason for its popularity is the wealth of useful tools that it provides to its users to upload, manipulate, ...