The Camera app isn’t just for taking photos any more. Flash, HDR, timer, selfies, bursts, and more are all just a tap away!

With the Camera app app for iPhone and iPad, you can take photos. You can also take flash photos, high dynamic range photos, timer photos, and selfies. You can even use the volume buttons or a headset remote to trigger the shutter. All that, and more, with just a few taps.

How to take a photo
How to use the volume button to take a photo
How to use a headset to take a photo
How to take and select ’burst mode’ photos
How to set the flash
How to enable HDR
How to set the timer
How to take a selfie
How to take a square photo
How to take a panorama
How to use live photo filters

How to take a photo

Launch the Camera app from your iPhone or iPad’s Home screen.
Tap the Shutter button.
Tap the Thumbnail button at the bottom left to preview and edit your photo.

Your photo will now be taken and saved to the Camera Roll/All Photos album. You can access it at any tim…

There’s Netflix, there’s Hulu, there’s CraveTV, there’s Crackle, there’s Shomi – there’s too many! If you subscribe to only one streaming service, then you’re probably missing out on reliving many of your favorite shows and you may not be discovering all the new favorites that you don’t even know you have! Sure, you could subscribe to all of them, but then you might as well pay for cable!

You need a streaming service that has it all: every TV show you could ever want, every movie you never even knew you wanted to see, and even some live channels and pay per view options. How about radio stations too? You need a one-stop shop so that you’re not having to create a bunch of accounts and having to keep track of passwords and login information. And wouldn’t it be great if that service worked with just about every browser you can think of?

SelectTV has it all. Formerly Rabbit TV, SelectTV features over 10,000 movies, 250,000 TV episodes, 50,000 radio stations, and much more, from over …

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Stop annoying video callers dead in their tracks by blocking them in FaceTime.

You can block a contact from trying to FaceTime you — and phone you and iMessage you — at any time. Whether it’s a former significant other, friend, relative, or associate you’ve fallen out with, or a spammer or prank caller harshening your mellow, block them once and they’re silenced forever. (Or at least until you decide to unblock them.)

How to block contacts in the FaceTime app
How to block contacts in the Phone app
How to block contacts in the Settings app
How to unblock contacts in the Settings app

How to block contacts in the FaceTime app

You can block a number or address from FaceTiming you at any time, right from the FaceTime app.

Launch the FaceTime app from the Home screen of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Tap on the Info button next the name of the contact you want to block.
Tap on Block this Caller at the very bottom.
Tap on Block Contact to confirm.

How to block contacts…

The European Union says Ireland needs to recover $14.5 billion in taxes from Apple.

Following a two-year investigation, the European Commission has concluded that the tax breaks Ireland has been giving Apple are illegal under EU state aid rules.

From the press release:

The European Commission has concluded that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13 billion to Apple. This is illegal under EU state aid rules, because it allowed Apple to pay substantially less tax than other businesses. Ireland must now recover the illegal aid.

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: ”Member States cannot give tax benefits to selected companies – this is illegal under EU state aid rules. The Commission’s investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years. In fact, this selective treatment allowed Apple to pay an effective corporate tax rat…

Tired of your Lightning cables always breaking on you? If so, KODIAK’s Lightning cable with aluminum housing should be your next purchase. The housing will make the cable even more durable to withstand your abuse, and right now you can pick one up for $13.95.
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Amazon is selling the SanDisk Extreme family of microSDXC cards, in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB variants. This promotion is part of Amazon’s Lightening Deals and will be ending at 2p.m. BST. The 64GB option is usually £30.99, but for the limited time it’s only £17.49.

The cards support up to 90MB/s and 40MB/s for read and write speeds, ideal for media storage and speedy transfers. So if you wish to save up to 44% on storage for your phone, tablet, PC and other devices, be sure to check out the deal before the promotion ends.

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