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After releasing BlackBerry clients for Google Talk and Gmail, Google has developed a mobile photo uploader for BlackBerry.

Once you shoot pictures from the BlackBerry, this application lets you easily tag photos and upload them to your Picasa Web Albums account in few clicks.

And if your BlackBerry has GPS capabilities, the Picasa client will also geotag images with the current location so your friend will know where the pictures were taken.

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Some creative and productive uses of camera mobile phones (and digital cameras):

Computer Screen Capture - You can use the Mobile Phone cameras for capturing screenshots of error messages that popup while you are reinstalling a copy of Windows or modifying some BIOS settings. In situations like the dreaded Blue Screen, Print-Screen key is useless but any phone-cam will get the job done.

Remember Dates - Some time back, I had gone to a nursery school for submitting the admission form of my son. I don’t remember the exact date now but luckily, I had snapped a picture of the school and so that date is automatically stored with the image.

Cable Connections - Before removing the cables from your home theatre system, gaming console or the computer, it is a good idea to capture the connections with your phone camera. Then you won’t have problems plugging the cables again in the right ports as the pictures will show you “what goes where”.

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How to unlock an Apple iPhone ? Watch this unlocking tutorial that shows all the steps needed to unlock iPhones and use the GSM SIM card of any mobile phone - the iPhone hack voids the warranty.

When shopping online for a mobile phone (or a digital camera or an MP3 player), we usually read the first-hand reviews on gadget websites and then we do a comparison shopping to shortlist merchants who offer the best deals.

Perfect but while all these websites publish close images and the exact dimensions, it is still tough for an average consumer to visualize how big that model is without looking at it physically.

No worries, here are two excellent resources to help you visualize products better:

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Walt of WSJ and David Pogue of The New York Times have fallen in love with the Apple iPhone but a CNN writer warns users against buying the iPhone - reason being it’s expensive and not perfect.

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Inspired by the Mac vs PC ads, this one is for smart phones - iPhone vs Windows Mobile

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Download Opera Mini for BlackBerry Mobile Phone - it’s the best web browser for mobile phones.

I want a cheap phone that has advanced features such as location-aware search, instantaneous access to the Internet, and social-networking options that don’t cost much and are easy to use.