ideas on how to take advantage of your camera phone if you have one. Of
course we all know that it’s main focus is to capture events but it can
also be a useful tool and I thought that perhaps I could piggy-back off of
the article to suggest some new ways to use your camera phone which I have
personally found helpful.
1. Wine Bottles – I’ve done this a couple of times, especially when out to
dinner. I take a picture of the wine lable on a bottle of wine to
reference it later. If you’re into wine or find a particluar bottle you
want to remember this is a great way to quickly capture the details. Plus,
having a picture captures the label’s color and logo which makes it easier
to identify it the next time you’re at the wine store.
2. Mobile Blogging – Those of you that have a blog site can easily set it
up to automatically post multimedia messages from your phone. I don’t do
this much, as I have set up the ability to post the picture in the right
navigational bar instead, but either option is a good way to capture an
event in real time.
3. Shopping Specs – I did this while I was shopping for a laptop. Instead
of trying to remember a bunch of specs about a particluar model, in
addition to the price, I just snapped a photo of the spec sheet and I was
done. This would work for most gadgets where specs are important and
usually the reason to buy one product over another.
4. Capture website URL’s – How many items have websites associated with
them these days? It’s countless, and when you’re out and about, its very
easy to come across a site address you’d like to check out when you get
back home. My problem is that remembering a URL is probably ranked just
above remembering to water my plants (Crap! Be right back…) Taking a
quick snap shot of the URL is a great way to remember what you wanted to
check out later on.
Any other suggestion?