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Ikea’s Smart Donut Lamp is a Sweet Treat

Ikea’s popular Varmblixt lamp just got a smart home glow-up. The delightfully bulbous light now features color-changing, dimming, and smart home control. I tested the new smart lamp in my daughter’s room and found it made a great bedside lamp and added a fun touch of ambiance to her space. While she’s rarely a fan […]

Enhance Your Samsung Camera: Modify These 4 Settings for Better Images

Samsung’s smartphone cameras and accompanying functionalities are among the finest, particularly if you’re keen on tweaking your images post-capture. However, it is often much more effective, and simpler, to snap a high-quality picture right from the start. No deliberation, no subsequent edits, just a fantastic shot, superb brightness, and stunning visuals. It appears that hidden within the camera settings, there are several adjustments you can make to accomplish exactly that. Whether you’re aiming for a broad shot, seeking to capture at higher megapixels and superior quality, or modifying the exposure on the go, many of these adjustments can be made prior to even hitting the shutter button.

If you’ve already experimented with some camera settings, you may have already come across these features. But if you’re merely opening your device and snapping quick pictures — or double-tapping the power button for the camera shortcut — without making any changes, you might not be utilizing your camera’s full capabilities, especially on the Galaxy S25 or S26 models. If that’s the situation, you’ll certainly want to modify these four camera settings to enhance your phone’s picture quality, even if just to elevate the visual fidelity of your personal collection.

Boost resolution for remarkable imagery

Google Trials New Android Functionality to Tackle Storage Problems

storage being at capacity and cloud storage options being constrained can be quite frustrating, particularly on older devices that are still in use. While the latest iPhone and Android models come with ample storage, beginning at 128 GB or 256 GB of flash memory, older versions may lack that advantage. These users are likely to encounter storage issues, especially those who are less tech-savvy and may not understand how to back up their information to the cloud. Although the iPhone has the capability for local backups, Android lacks a comparable feature that assists users in transferring some of their data to a computer to create more space on their devices. Nevertheless, Android Authority has uncovered that Google is currently piloting a feature that might be accessible to users soon via Quick Share. 

Quick Share already enables users to move data between Android devices and computers. The option to back up certain Android data to a computer with available storage would enable users to periodically relocate some of the most critical data, such as photos and videos, to a PC. Media files consume a significant amount of storage on Android devices, particularly longer video clips. Transferring them to a computer would help the user clear up storage on the Android device without depending on a cloud service, like Google Photos, for backups. However, the newly identified local backup feature could be more restricted than what the iPhone provides.

How Google’s PC backup tool may operate