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Joel Fernandes (G+) is a tech enthusiast and a social media blogger. During his leisure time, he enjoys taking photographs, and photography is one of his most loved hobbies. You can find some of his photos on Flickr. He does a little of web coding, and maintains a tech blog of his own - Techo Latte. Joel is currently pursuing his Masters in Computer Application from Bangalore, India. You can get in touch with him on Twitter - @joelfernandes, or visit his Facebook Profile for more information.

Joel Fernandes has written and can be contacted at joel@techie-buzz.com.

Six months back, Apple 3G topped the best camera device on Flickr and iPhone 4 slowly picked up it’s pace. Now, a year after iPhone 4 was released and Apple CEO Steve Jobs (at WDDC 2011), pointing out at that iPhone 4 was the second most popular camera on Flickr, has now topped Flickr’s camera popularity charts and is rated as the most popular camera in the Flickr Community.

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Camera That Lets You Take Photos First and Then Focus With Just One Click

Imagine a camera that lets you take your shots first and focus your subject later with just one click. That’s what a Mountain View start-up company, Lytro is ‘focusing’ on. They have come up with a new technology that allows a picture’s focus to be adjusted after it has been captured.

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New Group “LulzSec Brazil” Takes Down Brazilian Government Portal

A new branch of LulzSec group called “LulzSec Brazil” has targeted and attacked the Brazilian Government portal and the homepage of the President of Brazil. The two websites, Brasil.gov.br and Presidencia.gov.br are currently down and unreachable.

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Apple comes under the CCI scanner in India when a customer filed a complaint against Apple under The Competition Act 2002 (amended in 2007) stating that Apple is restricting customers from buying apple products (iPhone) by making its availability for only a selected few carriers

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Apple iPad 2 Commercial Released, Entitled “Now” [Video]

Apple has released a new iPad 2 commercial titled “Now” that highlights more on user experience rather than hardware specs. This 30 second video clip showcases how users can use iPad to watch movies, read magazines, newspapers and video call using FaceTime.

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In my previous article, I explained about long exposure photography, the technique involved and the important features and materials you require while shooting photos in slow shutter. In this article, I’ll show how you can take long exposed photos. In this simple tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the following effect – Writing your own name

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Happy Father’s Day to all you dads. Father’s Day is celebrated in honoring fatherhood and is as special as celebrating Mother’s Day. Good Father’s are hard to find. If you think you have the best dad in the world, then you’re the lucky one. Today is an opportunity to tell him how much you love and appreciate him for all the things he has done for you. Thank him for that. Most importantly, giving him a well-deserved hug and wish him a Happy Father’s Day.

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Understand the technique involved in long exposure photography and how you can take some stunning and remarkable shots giving foggy/ghostly effects to your photos. You might have come across some stunning shots of fireworks or water flow or the traffic (light) trails. These involve the technique of long exposure photography. Lets see what long exposure photography means.

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It’s just another trademark dispute Apple faces. This time it is publisher John T. Colby who filed a case against Apple for the use of the name “iBooks”. The suit indicates that Colby purchased assets of various entities in 2006 and 2007 from Byron Preiss, a New York Publisher.

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Best iPhone Photography Apps

There are over hundreds of photography-related iPhone apps available in the iTunes app store and it’s quite hard to decide which app is the best. Here’s a list of carefully selected iPhone apps that will easily capture/edit your photos and share them with your friends.

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Yesterday Keith had written an article on common passcodes used by iPhone users to lock their iPhone. These stats were released by an iOS developer Daniel Amitay, who developed the app Big Brother which anonymously collected passcode from users of its app.

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According to a report from Reuters, Apple has scheduled to launch iPad 3 in Q4 of this year. iPad 3 is expected to have a surprisingly impressive 6x the resolution of the current iPad 2.

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Ak-47 Turned into a Electric Guitar

Who said guns are only used to kill people? They can play music too! That’s what designer César López did with an old decommissioned AK-47. He turned it into a electric guitar and plays them on the streets of Bogota.

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Using a weedkiller, students at Fairfield College in New Zealand drew a 40-foot penis into the grass inside the college campus which was then captured by Google Earth.

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The Canadian company i4i has won its patent battle against software giant, Microsoft. On Thursday, the US Supreme Court upheld the lower courts’ decisions stating that Microsoft Word is an infringing product and has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m in damages to i4i.

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