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Save Your Memory With Your Cell Phone's Camera

by Thomas Houston on February 18, 2009 at 08:30 AM



These days we're somehow expected to keep passwords, phone numbers, bank accounts, PIN numbers, and countless other strings of numbers and letters in our memory, and it all needs to be ready for instant recall. Needless to say, we're always look for tips to make modern life easier, and geeksugar has gathered together seven memory-enhancing ways to take advantage of your cameraphone. Here are some of our favorites:
  • Parking lots at malls, airports, and stadiums continue to grow, so save yourself the trouble of trying to remember where your car is and take a picture of the row number.
  • Before traveling, take a picture of everything in your suitcase. It takes only a moment, and you'll be glad you've got the documentation in the event your luggage disappears during transit.
  • Drinking an excellent bottle of wine, but worried you won't remember it in the morning? Snap a shot of the label, and you'll be able to pick up another bottle the next time you're browsing the wine aisle.
  • Driving around in a city you've never been to? After parking, take a picture of the closest street signs, and you should be able to find your way back without a problem.
We'll admit we've been using the parking space trick for awhile now, and it's saved us countless times (especially in parking garages). A few words of warning though: You may not want to whip out your cameraphone in the airport security line, many museums don't allow picture-taking, and we've got a friend who was bounced from a strip club for surreptitiously snapping shots.

Check out the list for a few other tips, and let us know in the comments if you have any other inventive ways for using that tiny camera on your phone. [From: geeksugar]

Tags: cameraphone, memory, techtip, techtips, tips

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