Even though camera phones are limited in scope and performance, people still want to get the most out of them. Here are some tips that Peter Aitken, author of Camera Phone Obsession, has gathered from long experience taking many successful, and many more unsuccessful, camera phone photos.

We’ve recently discovered an amazing piece of software that seems to violate the space/time continuum. It allows you to add a real, honest to goodness second monitor, without adding a second monitor. You’ve just got to read this article to understand.

Want a free picture album program? Look no further than Picasa, now owned by Google. It’s a nice little program that’s just like pretty much every other nice little album program, except this one’s free. Read this review by Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz and learn how you can download your copy.

When you think about technological innovations, you might think about computers, cellular phones, or even rockets. Yet none of these innovations have changed the world like the simple concept we’ve grown to know as voting. No matter who you support or what your cause, that single, simple action of voting connects you to free people throughout the world, back through history, and forward into an unknown, but hopeful future. This article announces a special program that should encourage you to get out, register, and vote.

Once you try to hang your frames on the wall, there’s always this dance where you put in the nail, set the frame on it, and step back three steps to see if it’s level. Then you step forward, tweak it a bit, and do the dance again. Turns out there’s an incredibly better way. Read this article to find out how to make your life easier.

With the inclusion of digital cameras in more and more handhelds of late, a full-function portable image application is practically mandatory. Resco has answered the call with their Photo Viewer for Palm, Pocket PC, MS Smartphone, and Symbian. What did Senior Technical Editor James Booth think of this application. Well, you’re just gonna have to read the review to find out.

Looking for an inexpensive alternative to Photoshop, but don’t want to sacrifice the power? You might want to consider Paint Shop Pro. For the inside scoop on all this program can do, and to learn if it’s right for you, read this helpful article by Jon Canfield.

Photomix is a photo layout and composition program that includes backgrounds, masks, and templates for layering and collaging your digital photos. You can also create your own templates, backgrounds, and masks, and then add them to the library for later use. To learn what Senior Technical Editor James Booth thinks of this program, you’ll have to read this interesting article.

Nero’s greatest strengths involve burning music and data to CD or DVD, but Nero also includes several features that may be of particular interest to both still and video photographers interested in storing and presenting their work on CD or DVD. This interesting article by the author of The Book of Nero explores those interesting features.

It’s rare that we celebrate bad photos, but somehow Technical Editor Theo Durst managed to make it fun. In this highly entertaining article, Theo talks about why he takes bad pictures (and they are so very, very bad) and how you, too, can take low quality, out-of-focus pictures as often as you’d like.