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Leaked Images Possibly Give Our First Look At Retina iPad Mini

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Although these leaked images should be taken with a huge grain of salt, multiple photos purporting to be the rear aluminum shell of the second-generation iPad mini have leaked online, showing the next mini to be slightly thicker than the existing model… highly suggestive of the next iPad mini having a Retina display.

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A Tour Of Dropbox’s Amazing New Albums [Feature]

A Tour Of Dropbox’s Amazing New Albums [Feature]

All of these photos could be in different folders. Dropbox just doesn’t care.

Dropbox is about to add a great new feature to make photo-sharing a lot easier. It’s called Albums, and it lets you group together photos from anywhere in your Dropbox folder structure and share them as a single album. The service is currently in beta testing, but if you have an Android device the most recent update also contains a version.

Let’s take a look at how it works on your Mac.

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Snap A Photo Without Pausing Your Video Recording On Your iPhone [iOS Tips]

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Sometimes when you’re shooting a video with your iPhone, you might want to snap a quick still photo of whatever you’re recording, right? You might think you’d need to stop recording the video, tap on the toggle button to switch the iPhone back to still photo mode, and then snap, but you’d be wrong (I was, when I thought that.)

Turns out you don’t need to do anything so convoluted. Here’s how.

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The CameraMator Wirelessly Transfers Your DSLR Photos To Your iPad [Macworld 2013]

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The iPad’s large, beautiful screen has always been attractive for photography applications, and as the device becomes more and more powerful, developers and hardware vendors alike are taking advantage of all the iPad has to offer.

The latest device to do so, the CameraMator, lets you wirelessly transfer photos from your Canon or Nikon DSLR directly to your iPad or MacBook. It’s almost like magic.

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Dropbox Adds Photo Albums, Obviates Picasa, Challenges Photo Stream

Dropbox’s new Albums feature, rolling out over the next few weeks, lets you share your photos and videos way more easily that you could before. Think of it as kind of a Shared Photo Stream, only anyone can use it, not just iOS6 users.

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Quickly Rename Any Photo Album Right On Your iPhone or iPad [iOS Tips]

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Sorting your photos into albums is a great way to only show off the photos you want to to the people you want to show them off to (follow that?). It’s also the way some third party apps, like Instagram or Camera +, will sort the photos you edit within them. Renaming those albums, however, isn’t entirely intuitive. Here’s how to do it, simply and quickly, right from the comfort of your own iOS device.

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Gorgeous Photos Of Even Gorgeous-er Lego Model Of Original Mac

Gorgeous Photos Of Even Gorgeous-er Lego Model Of Original Mac

This is pretty much the best thing ever: a tiny Lego model of the original Mac, as put together by Flickr-er Chris McVeigh.

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500px’s iOS App Pulled By Apple Over Nude Photo Search. Is Flickr Next?

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Apple has pulled the apps of popular photo-sharing site 500px over concerns that it is too easy to search for nude photographs within the app. This, despite the fact that 500px’s method of dealing with searches for nude images is even more prohibitive than that of the official Flickr iPhone app. Could Flickr be next?

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Find Out How Much Space Your Photos Are Taking Up On Your iPhone Or iPad [iOS Tips]

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I’m guessing you take a lot of photos with your iPhone or iPad, right? I know I do. After taking them all, or saving them from web pages or text messages, they tend to add up. But how do you know how much space they’re taking up, specifically, on your iOS device?

Here’s the short and simple way to figure that out, plus an extra tip to boot.

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Flicpost Mails Real Archival-Quality Photos, From Your iPhone, For Pennies, to Almost Anywhere [CES 2013]

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CES 2013 bug LAS VEGAS, CES 2013 – Once, a few years ago, I begged my dad to let me set him up with an email address. “Don’t do it now, I’m moving,” he said with a baffled look on his face. For my dad, whose familiarity with technology went little further than his solar-powered calculator, Flicpost would have been awesome.

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