Ever remember playing charades with clouds? It’s when you lie on your back and look up in the sky and you see knights fending of dragons, bunnies holding chocolate boxes and other figments of your imagination made real with just puffs of clouds. Well, our fascination with clouds may have come from our childhoods but clouds aren’t just a kid’s thing, you know.

More often than not, they are the subject of extraordinary shots of photography that is a combination of colour, texture, perspective, and pure chance. Whether taken from the top of a tall building, from a plane or from the ground, these sinister, majestic, nostalgic, or simply breathtaking shots of clouds doing their thing are here to impress.

The next time you look up at the skies, you might see more than just clouds.

Recommended Reading: Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

Stairway to Heaven (Image source: Vernon Trent)

Atmosphere of a Spring Morning (Image source: Edmondo)

Atomic Cloud (Image source: Hendrik Tio)

Clouds on Fire (Image source: Eben)

Heaven Can Wait (Image source: Matjaz Cater)

Return of the Light (Image source: Niels Christian Wulff)

Storm Chase (Image source: Doug Roane)

Window Seat, Please (Image source: Josh Liba)

Cloudy (Image source: Francisco Javier Ruiz Garcia)

A Soft Summer Night in the Marsh (Image source: Stuck in Customs)

Piercing the Sky (Image source: Stuck in Customs)

The Geothermal Genie (Image source: Stuck in Customs)

Chemtrails (Image source: Art_es_anna)

Cloud Attack (Image source: Soumya)

Clouds…Silhouttes…Etc…Etc… (Image source: Mine Beyaz)

Clouds (Image source: Dav71)

Clouds (Image source: Jaagaa)

Clouds (Image source: Lotusberries)

Clouds on the Horizon (Image source: Rsteup)

Clouds Over Hurricane Ridge (Image source: SnowsoftJ4C)

Clouds Racing (Image source: BadiB)

Cumulo Artistus (Image source: Mendhak)

Duality (Image source: Automatt)

Fire Sunset to Saint-Raphael (Image source: Yannick Lefevre)

Freedom must be Infinite Above the Clouds (Image source: Traumlichtfabrik)

God in the Clouds (Image source: Jeff Pang)

In the Deep End (Image source: Kane)

Through the Gate (Image source: Kane)

*Interlude* Strange Cloud Formation (Image source: Michel Filion)

Later That Day… (Image source: Paul Dex)

Lenticular Clouds at Sunset (Image source: Marlis1)

Nove Dvory (Image source: Philip Bitnar)

Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words; This Title is Twelve Words Long (Image source: Philerooski)

Plus Haut (Image source: Iko)

Sunset Sailboat (Image source: Bernardo Franco)

Through the Clouds (Image source: Fjny)

Vintage Sunset (Image source: CubaGallery)

Twilight at Muriwai Beach (Image source: EssjayNZ)

Asperatus Cloud, New Zealand (Image source: National Geographic)

Lake Nasworthy at Dusk (Image source: Extra Medium)

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Facebook has introduced its own Camera app for iOS to make sharing photos on Facebook faster and easier than ever. Yet another app from Facebook? Think again.

Facebook native apps are a dime a dozen thus separating its Camera App as a dedicated mobile app makes it easier for users to bring photos of their daily lives onto Facebook like how we do with Instagram and Path. Furthermore, being a stand alone app allows Facebook to enrich its Camera app with photo filters, inline photo viewer, multiple upload capability and more.

Lets look into the key features on the new Facebook Camera app.

Get the Most out of facebook Camera

To get started with Facebook Camera, go to this iTunes link (currently only available in US and Canada), download and install the app on your iPhone.

Upon installation, launch the app and sign in with your Facebook ID.

Check Friends’ latest photos in a single feed

Facebook Camera allows you to navigate through all of your friends’ latest photos in a single feed. That means, instead of a news feed, Facebook Camera only displays your friends’ photo feed for browsing purposes. To check the latest uploaded Facebook photos, simply scroll up the default page.

At the top of your photo feed, you may customize to see all the photos you’ve posted by tapping Me or your friend’s photos by tapping Friends.

Upload Multiple photos at a time

With Facebook Camera, you’re able to post a bunch of photos simultaneously. Scroll down the photo feed and you’ll see a page of your iPhone photos displayed, and a camera icon.

To choose existing photos, tap the checkmark at the top right corner of the photos. You can also take a new photo by tapping the camera icon on the top left corner and tap the checkmark later.

Once you have selected the photos to be shared, tap on the icon at the bottom right corner. Before uploading, you can add tags, the location and captions to your photos.

Editing your photos

Facebook Camera has powerful built-in functions for photo editing. By tapping any exisiting photos, you’re allowed to rotate, crop or even apply Instagram style effects to it.

To apply Instagram style effects, tap you see below the photo. Swipe to the left to view all of the filters and tap any filter to apply it.

Tap to start rotating and cropping photos. Drag the frame up and down or left and right to adjust the crop area. To rotate a photo, tap on . Tap on the tick icon to save the changes.

Save Filtered Photos

If you love to keep a copy of all your edited photos in Facebook Camera, go to Settings > Camera > Save Filtered Photos > On.

A copy of your edited photo will be saved in your iPhone photo album.

More Tips/Tricks

#1. You can decide who you want to share your photos to (public versus friends versus only me) by tapping the earth icon before uploading your photos.

#2. To hide comments and likes when viewing a photo, tap twice on a photo.

#3. To delete photos, when you view a photo you posted, tap and hold the photo until Delete Photo appears. Tap Delete Photo to delete it.

Fb App Vs. Fb Camera App

Here’s a quick recap of the Facebook App vs the new Facebook Camera App

	Facebook App	Facebook Camera App
Upload multiple photos
Edit photos + Filters
View friends’ latest photos in single feed
Add tag at friends’ photo
Save photo
Video Upload
Search for a particular friend’s photos
Filter friend lists

Conclusion

There are already so many features found in this little app, and you can be sure that it is the first of many more versions to come. The filters, although many still prefer those offered by Instagram, are mostly played around basic contrast, exposure and color alterations. Now iOS users will have a new way to share their photos on Facebook.

Have you tested the app?

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The split keyboard on the iPad is a cool tool to make our typing smooth and effortless, and it’s in line with the mobile experience. One of the hassle of using a split keyboard on an iPad is the need to reach a button on the other half of the keyboard — the wrong half!

Making the distance between the split keyboard closer could solve the problem of reaching all the right buttons. There is however, a better way to make your typing more comfortable — we present to you, the ‘hidden buttons’. This hidden button feature reveals six letters with three settled on either side of your split keyboard as shown above.

Activate Split Keyboard

There’re two easy ways to split your iPad’s keyboard. First, you can use the traditional way of touching the setting icon at the bottom right corner of your keyboard and select ‘Split’.

The second way, just use your two fingers to drag the keyboard apart, and you shall get it split by two.

The Phantom buttons

When the keyboard split by two, the phantom buttons are ready to be used. Although not visible, you can use them like the other keyboard buttons.

But just before you get to use these hidden keys, you need to tap on any key on the keyboard panel. For example if you need to hit the hidden Y, H and B on the left side, you must first hit any key on the left keyboard panel. The same goes to hidden T, G and V.

Conclusion

No matter how you use the keyboard, either by using the normal or split keyboard, these hidden buttons will surely make typing on the iPad much easier and comfortable.

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