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Can You Really Stalk Somebody Through Their Eyeball Reflections?

Recently, a stalker found and attacked a Japanese pop star, in part by using an eye reflection to figure out what train station she uses. (He then waited for her at the train station and followed her...

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Take A Picture Of Your Dough Before Resting

When it comes to baking, a good recipe can only do so much. There is an unavoidable learning curve, with visual and tactile cues you have to see and feel for yourself. This makes some would-be bakers...

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Check All The ‘Burst Mode’ Photos Your Phone Takes For The Best Shot

If your iPhone’s burst mode automatically selects a blurry or overexposed image, don’t assume the rest of the photos in the burst must be worse. Instead, check the burst to see if you can find...

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How To Make Your Online Dating Profile More Swipe-able

Online dating is, for lack of a better phrase, freaking exhausting. I’d be lying if I said I enjoyed using Tinder, Bumble and the like, but dating in this modern age without them is almost unheard of....

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Facebook Is Making It Easier To Transfer All Your Photos

If you’ve been dreaming about moving your Facebook photos and videos to another service, you may want to wait a bit longer. Facebook is about to make this process a lot easier than today’s technique:...

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Become A Better Photographer With This 52-Week Photo Challenge

“Become a better photographer” has been on my New Year’s resolution list every year for probably a decade. I guess it’s more of a goal than a resolution. I have made strides toward that dream, but have...

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Learning The Backup Lesson – The Hard Way

Today is a big day for me. It’s my last official day at Lifehacker. Over the last couple of years I’ve done my best to inform you all and help you solve various problems and challenges. So, I figured...

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How To Find And Ditch The Instagram Accounts You Interact With Least

Maybe once a month when I’m scrolling through Instagram and come across a post from someone I didn’t realise I followed in the first place. There was a period of time, back in the early days on...

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How To Find Your Doppelganger In A Museum

A few years back, everyone’s Facebook feed was suddenly littered with pictures of people comparing themselves to portraits in museums. The meme started with people who actually found art on their own...

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Find Where Your Photos Are Illegally Being Used Online

A few years ago I was scrolling through the home page of a large magazine and saw a photo I had taken featured in the middle of its homepage. The pic was a distinctive one of a surprised Mark...

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You Can Attend Nikon’s Photography School For Free This Month

If you’ve been trying to learn how to be a better photographer, April might be your month. Nikon USA is making all of its photography school classes free to stream for the month of April. Courses...

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Olympus And Leica Are Offering Free Photography Courses Right Now

If you’ve been using your time social distancing to work on your photography skills, then now you have a few more ways to do it. Last weekend we told you about some free online photography classes...

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40 Windows Apps Everyone Should Own

There are so many Windows apps out there, that picking a list of the very best, most must-install software for your desktop or laptop feels daunting. We’ve pored over pages of recommendations,...

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I Removed Photos From An iOS Album And Now They’re Gone Forever?

I love a good scavenger hunt”just not when the object of the search is “photos I wanted to keep on my device forever, but that I now can’t find.” While your phone should be pretty smart about what...

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Why Can’t I Find My iPhone Photos After I Backed Them Up?

Few things are worse than finding out you’re missing years’ worth of phone photos after you thought you backed them up correctly. I get some version of the “missing photo” question a lot for...

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What Are Your Best Travel Photography Hacks?

Many of us have experienced these amazing moments when we travel, moments we want to capture forever — and then we take a bunch of terrible photos and ruin the opportunity to share or even just keep...

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How to Get Around Google’s New Photo Sync Limits on Android

For months we’ve all been stuck at home taking pictures of our cats, dinners and other noteworthy objects, and we’ve apparently been using a lot of bandwidth when backing them all up to Google Photos....

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Parents, Take More Pictures of Yourself

There are lots of reasons that parents — and yes, particularly mums — dodge the camera. We haven’t had a proper night’s sleep in multiple years, as the dark circles under our eyes can attest. Or we...

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Take ‘Mugshots’ of Your Pets in Case They Get Lost

It sounds ridiculous to suggest, in the age of the camera phone, that you aren’t taking enough pictures of your pets. Because, ok, that probably isn’t true — our cat died last summer and I’d estimate...

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55 Android Apps Everyone Should Own

Which Android app is worth a spot on your new smartphone or tablet? Trying to find the very best of the best is a challenging process, because there are millions of apps to pick from on the Google Play...

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