Using Picasa to Move Photos from Your Camera to PC

We have reviewed many tools for managing digital photos. Picasa is one photo edting tool that is on the top of our 'best' list. It is free, it is relatively simple and has many editing features most will not use.. Click this link to understand how you can download photos from your camera to your PC using Picasa. For Step by Step instructions see our Member's Guide.

Increase Chances to Recover Phone, Tablet, etc.

Improve your chance to recover a lost or misplaced phone, tablet or mobile device. How? Create an ICE (in case of emergency) and 'If Found' Home Screen for those devices. Check the image on this post: go to the built-in Notes app on the mobile device, put in "If found" and "In case of emergency" contact information (consider putting a few blank lines at the top). Then simultaneously press the Home button and the on-off button (on the iPhone this takes a screenshot of that information). Next, go over to the "Photos" app, find the screenshot, tapped it, set it as your wallpaper. Done!

5-Step 5-Minute Weekly Review

Get your week in order nd planned through this 5-Minute Weekly Review:

1. Todo List - Review your todo list. Prioritize must do's, Delete obsolete tasks. 

2. Calendar - What are your upcoming appointments - tomorrow and next week and next month, too.

3. Notes - Review any weekly notes and tke action or archive in your 'system'.

4. Goals - Where do you stand on your goals? Plan your short term progress or actionable next steps for this week. 

5. Someday List - Is the emphasis of your Someday list on the word never. Review your long term list and pick one item each week that you put off and get it done -or- remove. Soon, that Someday list won't look as daunting.

Your weekly review doesn't have to take a large amount of time.

Spending 5 minutes each week reviewing these 5 items will put you in the know for the coming week.

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Find and Delete Duplicate Photos

Searching for how best to remove the mass of extra (duplicate) photos I have on my PC, I came across several 'duplicate image removal' programs. I decided to see what was available besides manually sorting photos by Date Taken and viewing each photo. Two programs worth noting are VisiPics and Auslogics. After seeing the algorythms and control VisiPics offers I decided to use VisiPics. Note: walk though the VisiPics Tutorial a couple times.