En Focus: Impressive Photos from your Smartphone
All photos in the article were taken with smartphones The best camera is always the one that is with you. For most of us, that means the camera on our smartphones. It is small enough to fit in your pocket and lightweight enough to take…
How to join a Zoom meeting
How to join a Zoom meeting on Computer or mobile How to join a Zoom meeting on Computer by downloading the app: Download the Zoom desktop app on your Mac or PC. Open the Zoom app. Click join a meeting. Enter the meeting ID and your…
What to do with Leftover Vegetables? Focaccia Gardening
Have you ever opened the produce drawer in the fridge and found it had become a retirement home for aging vegetables—wrinkled tomatoes and peppers, onions curling and separating, rubbery carrots, a potato with growth, and wilted dill? Thanks to Teri Culletto, a home baker in…
Lemon Deodorant
Welcome to Austerity Tips. With the shattered and failing (read failed) economy, we have no alternative but to take the necessary measures in order to safeguard our wallets from further damage. In other words, we have to save what we can because the situation is…
How to Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer
PROPERLY SCRUBBING YOUR hands is one of the best ways to stop the spread of germs and viruses, and to ensure you don’t get sick yourself. But if you don’t have access to soap and clean water, or if you’re out and about and nowhere near…
Compose Like the Pros
“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.” Garry Winogrand Composition 101 With the first article in a series of articles for novice photographers, I would like to start one of the most important elements of a great…
Al Jazar: A Minimalist Approach
On Al Jazar Street in al Riyadh Khartoum, under a large white sign spelling out the word “Al Jazar” in big bold black-lined red letters, is a great little take out for a delicious kufta sandwich. As the namesake explicates, the enterprise is a byproduct…