Importance of Photo Editing and Photo Sharing Apps to OFWs and bloggers

As a blogger, it is important to manipulate, use and post pictures.  It attracts readers to the blog site and it also generates comments and insights about the topic.  But, speaking as an Overseas Filipino Worker, it helps me share my own moments to my family and friends.  It allows me to ensure them that I am all fine.  I use several applications concerning the topic but I commonly used the following: Photo Editor, Photo Wonder, Instant collages and Instagram.

Photo Editor permits me to adjust color, add effects, rotate, crop, resize, frame, and draw on my photos.  Moreover, Photo Editor offers a large variety of effects for the photos including gamma correction, auto contrast, auto tone, blur, sharpen, oil paint, sketch, polaroid, black & white high contrast, sepia, and lots more.  After editing, I can eventually share the photos using e-mail, Picasa, Facebook, Twitter or any sharing method.  Photo Wonder functions just like how Photo Editor does.

Instant collage is a simple application wherein I combine and clip photos to create awesome photo collages to share with family, friends or colleague.  This also helps me organize the photos I have and grouped it by date or location.  Meanwhile, I use Instagram as a snap-and-share application.

It is really fun to manipulate photos. But, unknown to other people, it can be used to generate positive response in jobs like mine.  But, this is all in owe to Samsung Galaxy Note.  There’s no other device that can give such satisfaction.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

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The Galaxy Nexus is an impressing phone measuring 5.33 inches tall by 2.67 inches wide.  The internal frame of the phone is metaland the front of the device is called Contour Display because of a slight curve.  There's also a LED notification light located on the front of the device.  The light is RGBwhich can create different hues depending on the type of notification.  Inside the device you'll find a dual-core TI OMAP 4460 CPU clocked to 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM, 32GB or 16GB of storage , and the usual assortment of radios (Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, GPS).  The device is also equipped with an NFC chip, as well as a compass, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, and barometer.

The camera on the rear of the device is a 5-megapixel shooter with a companion single LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front camera.  For external audio, there's a small speaker on the rear of the phone.  Earpiece sound quality is excellent.  The display on the Galaxy Nexus is one of the first devices to sport a full 720p screen.  The 1280 x 720, 4.65-inch display is a great attribute, utilizing Super AMOLED technology, which produces rich colors while keeping battery consumption to a minimum.  The Galaxy Nexus is truly a fully equipped and capable modern smartphone released on 2011 by Samsung.

Watch a thorough review about Samsung Galaxy Nexus below:

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Record Important Calls and Send Voice Messages through Samsung Galaxy Note

As an Overseas Filipino Worker and as a blogger too, there are important calls I have to make and receive and instructions and messages I have to send.  There are conversations that are so important and I should not forget.  Also, there are instructions and messages I have to say and yet I can’t because I am too busy to do so.  Good thing there are applications for my Samsung Galaxy Note that I can use to make the former tasks possible.  I use two applications of the said function.  First is Call Recorder and the second is Voice Recorder.

Call recorder obviously enables me to record phone calls. This helps me review the conversations I have with important people I deal with.  As a blogger, it enables me to review recent tasks and assignments that I should do, particularly those from the client.  And, as an Overseas Filipino Worker, it enables me to hear sweet nothings from my family and friends again.

Voice recorder allows me to send instructions and messages to whomever I want.  I use this application to particularly send instructions to other bloggers I work with in a certain project.  It lessens the time I consume because I no longer need to type the instructions and I can record the messages or instructions while doing something like my work at the same time.  Voice recorder is a really great recording application for Samsung Galaxy Note because it permits sending a data as attached file via Gmail.  It also has timer recording to keep track of the used time.  It’s easy to locate recorder audio because you can just search by title and date.  You can also set the recordings as ring tones.

These applications are really a great help to OFWs and bloggers too.

Review of the S Note as a Great Help to Bloggers

As I was browsing my Samsung Galaxy Note, I have come through S Note.  S Note is a recommended note-taking application for Samsung Galaxy Note.  It makes it easier for me as a blogger to create interesting articles.  It supports the free flow of my thoughts that usually happens through writing.  This is possible because of the handwriting recognition attributes of S Note that turns everything I scribble into regular text.  It works really well with me and it can adapt my own style of taking down notes and writing.

As a blogger, I used to add photos and videos to my articles to emphasize more of what I wanted to impart.  When I am away from the laptop and I am just using my Samsung Galaxy Note, it is still possible to do so.  It is all in owe to S Note.  It supports photo and video inserts.  I used to complain how it use to meddle with my work because Samsung Galaxy Note’s screen is very sensitive to touches.  That’s until I discovered that it is possible to change the setting wherein S Note can only be sensitive to S Pen and just disregard contacts with my fingers.  S Note has truly made my blogging experience easier and worthwhile.

Social Network Applications for Samsung Galaxy Note

Being away from my family and friends in the Philippines and as blogger too, I have to make sure that I keep in touch with the important people I have to deal with.  And when we say keeping in touch, social networking sites always ring a bell.  Since my job requires me to be out sometimes, I have to make sure that I can still communicate.  It is really great that there’s a version for Samsung Galaxy Note of the three social networking sites I commonly use: Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.  It really functions well and is on-the-go.

Through Facebook, I can easily see what my family and friends are up to; share updates, photos and videos; get notified when friends like and comment on your posts; and text, chat and have group conversations.  This feature of Facebook allows me to communicate with whom I want anytime.  Meanwhile, through Twitter, I can see an organized stream of tweets that delivers the best content to me.  It also makes all the media, news, events, and information I need available.  And personally, I can express myself through tweets and photos.  It also gives me idea for the topics I’m going to write through watching rising trends and following significant people.  Pinterest, on the other hand, serves as a tool I use to find an inspiration and share it with others.  I also use it to collect things I love, organize and plan important projects, and more.

Social network applications for Samsung Galaxy Note is, indeed, of great help to people like me.  It helps me communicate with my family and other bloggers like me.  People think that it’s just for fun. But, honestly, it gives different kind of help more than anyone can imagine.

Samsung Omnia i900

Samsung Omnia i900

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Samsung Omnia is based on Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 designed with an interface that aims to provide an iPhone-style touch screen experience.  It is complete with slim, candybar form factor, a large screen dominating the front panel and minimalist controls.  Samsung Omnia has a dimension of 12.5 x 112 x 56.9mm.  Just like any other modern Windows smartphones, there's a pile of features available for Omnia.  It has a five-megapixel camera on the back with a LED flash and a VGA video call camera on the front.  It also has HSDPA of up to 7.2Mb/sec, a 624MHz processor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a GPS receiver and an FM radio.  And you can use either 8GB or 16GB with microSD expansion.

The camera is the primary highlight of Samsung Omnia.  Its resolution is the main headline: five megapixels is the highest resolution I've seen in a Windows Mobile device and it also has image stabilization.  This made it possible not to rely on the LED flash in difficult lighting.  The results are amazing.  You can use the Omnia for proper snaps - not just contact profile pictures.  Samsung Omnia is truly a remarkable Samsung mobile phone release on 2011.

Watch more of the features and software of Samsung Omnia below: 

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Samsung Galaxy Note Benefits to OFW

Samsung Galaxy Note is, indeed, a true catalyst for new developments in communications between us, Overseas Filipino Workers, and the families and loved ones we have left behind in the Philippines.  Note made it even more possible for communication become more regular for both parties.  Being able to call our family or our loved ones through Samsung Galaxy Note helped us to fulfill parenting or supervising responsibilities towards our family.  It does not limit our way of communicating with our loved ones in the Philippines on contacting them through the usual mobile function but through allowing us to download different applications that aids us to communicate with them effectively.  It allows us not just to hear our loved ones but also to see them.  Thanks to online chat applications available for Samsung Galaxy Note.  This device is, indeed, a really big help for us, Overseas Filipino Workers, not to miss but instead share any special moments with out families and relatives.  I would not know how I can make it up to my family with my absence without the presence of Samsung Galaxy Note.  It really helps to bridge us, Overseas Filipino workers, to the people who are so important to us.