One thing I am loving about this Windows 8X Phone from HTC is the home screen, which is super easy to customize. The tiles, called Live tiles can be made in three different sizes and you can move them easy to create your flow. I have a lot of apps on my screen that I play with so I couldn’t fit it all in one shot but this is my phone 2 days ago, I was feeling cold so I chose blue as my accent color. I also love that I really only have to do a couple things to [...]
Content and/or other value provided by our partner, HTC. I never talk about fashion on my blog because I have the mommiest of mommy baggy clothes collection, LOL. But my son, the awesome 15 year old sure has a good sense of fashion. One of the very very first photos I took with my new HTC Windows 8X phone was this shot of him and his little brother. Refusing to wear a big puffy jacket that is suitable for Michigan winters, he decided to wear a snappy leather motorcycle jacket with red trim. He looks so much more mature [...]
This picture was taken almost exactly three years ago (What is up with the stringy hair?). I was entering my second semester at college and just upgraded my camera to a Nikon D90. I was looking forward to the photography class I signed up for and so happy to have a more professional model camera to expand with. I bought my Nikon right at the Best Buy store. I have had to take this camera in twice before, once for cleaning, and another time because I accidentally broke the door that opens to the SD card slot. They cleaned it [...]
Content and/or other value provided by our partner, HTC. This past Thursday I got the coolest piece of tech in my hands, the Windows 8X Phone from HTC. Having been a smart phone user for a little over a year, I get ecstatic when an opportunity comes along to try a new phone. I was not prepared in the slightest for how amazingly awesome this phone was. I was a good girl and fully charged it prior to turning it on. I am a Verizon user, and my previous phone had a sim card that was larger than the micro [...]
Unless you are a new visitor, or you have been living under a rock, you know that this blog is super heavy and bursting with beautiful photography. While this is not a brag, I can tell you that my photographs have led me to paying jobs. And though I am not professional yet, I do have my favorites for my craft and they are my Nikon D90 and my Adobe products. I have Lightroom 2 (need to upgrade!) and most recently was delighted to review the newest Photoshop Elements 11. There are a few photographers in life that can shoot [...]
Okay, so you know how people make silly calls and and ask silly questions to tech people? Yeah, that was me. I have a Dell laptop that I don’t use much now that my baby got fixed. Sometimes I let my kids play games from the google free games store on Chrome. For some reason it never occurred to me to put security on it. I blocked popups and had some security but not virus protection. One day I used my laptop and every time I would log into ANY browser, something was hijacking the search page and even the [...]
I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Cook’n Recipe Organizer software as part of my swag from Brandcation, Pensacola. This software is perfect for the chef in the house that studies and saves hordes of online recipes, because it has a nifty feature that lets you plug in the URL and it will pull the recipe into the software for you. You can add your own recipes by hand too. I LOVE this software for use at home. As you can imagine, 2 years in culinary classes and business classes I have a nice collection of recipes started [...]
My son is 15. Last year I bought him a used iPhone 3G super super cheap from a friend. It didn’t have service, so it was basically a glorified iPhone touch, no warranties. For the most part he took pretty good care of it. That is until he let a friend hold in school. That friend let the phone slip and hit the hard floor, SHATTERING the screen. Of course my son wouldn’t tell me the whole truth of how it happened so it was just too late to make the kids pay for it. So I did what I [...]
Since I don’t currently own an apple product and haven’t for close to a year, I thought I would take a minute and list some of my favorite apps for my android phone and tablet. I heard from so many before I got my devices that Android doesn’t offer anything near as good as Apple but I beg to differ! Some of these apps may be available on apple but I don’t care because I don’t have one so I don’t know how they work. 10. Facebook Camera – Love this because I snap and it just uploads to Facebook [...]
Since this is a blog and not all about advertising, I’d like to take the time here to introduce myself a little and help you understand how important this kind of stuff is to me. I’m sure there are many people who feel strongly about the pictures they take, and get excited about using Photoshop, and surely blogging itself is very rewarding and personal. I not only think creating video is fun and interesting, but I have been touched and influenced by creating and watching video for many years. My parents took lots of video of my family and I, [...]
I am so excited to announce that on behalf of the awesomely wonderful folks at Mom Central, I have been chosen to be a Skype Ambassador! What does that mean exactly? Well for the next few months I will be a brand new user to Skype, the technology that keeps you connected with video and phone calls to anyone in the world, even without a phone! I have used it a couple times on wifi but never really called anyone and never ever called someone with a video! I am a busy mom and student so staying in touch with [...]
I have been blogging for 3 years this New Years Eve. Never in my wildest dreams did I believe that my blog would be read by big companies and more than that, I could never have predicted that I would be hand chosen by one to be a blogger for 6 months. I never thought I would get the chance to be invited to fly to Chicago in the summer to get training on how to use the Motorola Xoom and Verizon Wireless service. I had never been on a trip related to my blog and walked into a meeting [...]
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