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  • How To Post to Flickr and Twitter at the Same Time

    UPDATE:

    This post is ancient old (september 2009). The best way to do this now is IFTTT.

    Tired of using Twitpic? Try this:

    1. Go to your email account settings on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/account/?tab=email
    2. Find the Flickr2Twitter upload email address.
    3. Now email a photo or video to your unique Flickr2Twitter email address and the photo will upload to Flickr and a tweet will be sent to twitter with a link to that photo on Flickr.

    The Subject line of the email will be BOTH the Flickr photo title and the Tweet.

    You’ve only got about 116 characters for your actual Tweet because the rest will be a short Flic.kr URL itself.

    You may also want to check out your upload by email settings to make sure your tags and privacy settings are correct as well:

    Word to the wise: Be aware of geolocation settings on your iPhone… Flickr automatically picks up the EXIF data in your photos so if you have location services on for photos on your iPhone they will automatically show up on your Flickr map… You wouldn’t want to tell everyone where you live!? Or would you…

    Also if you want to migrate from Twitpic to Flickr use this Twitpickr. (limited to yur last 25 pics)

    [Flickr | Twitter]

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  • iPhone Tether

    old school motorola

    In 1993 I was thirteen years old. I was in a boarding school with no internet connectivity. There we’re no network connections in the dorm rooms. After reading about this new thing called the World Wide Web I really wanted to get online. I was rockin a Dell Pentium 120 with whopping 16MB of ram and 4GB of storage! She was a fast machine for her the time.

    In order to connect I used an analog Motorola mobile phone tethered to an analog/digital converter box the size of a brick. I would then log into an ISP by dialing in using the phone. The connection was obviously extremely slow and flaky but I was tethering in 1993. That pretty much makes me a giant freakin nerd.

    Fast forward to today….

    iphone 3g

    I now connect from wherever I want. I tether my mobile phone to my laptop using a wireless bluetooth connection and the 3g cellular network. My cell phone alone has more memory and processing power than my entire desktop computer in 1993. I can be working from anywhere that has cell phone connectivity. In fact I’m writing this from a cafe that doesn’t even have Wifi…

    I suppose this is an example of Moore’s Law and Gilder’s Law working together hand in hand?

    Here are some instructions on how to tether your iPhone 3g or 3gs:

    How to use your iPhone as a modem:

    1. In Settings, choose General > Network > Internet Tethering.
    2. Slide the Internet Tethering switch to On.
    3. Connect iPhone to your computer:

    Connect via USB: Connect your computer to iPhone using the Dock Connector to USB cable. In your computer’s Network services settings, choose iPhone. On a Mac, a pop-up window appears the first time you connect, saying “A new network interface has been detected.” Click Network Preferences, configure the network settings for iPhone, then click Apply. On a PC, use the Network Control Panel to select and configure the iPhone connection.
    Connect via Bluetooth: On iPhone, choose Settings > General > Bluetooth and turn on Bluetooth. Then refer to the documentation that came with your computer system software to pair and connect iPhone with your computer.
    When you are connected, a blue band appears at the top of the screen. Tethering remains on when you connect with USB, even when you aren’t actively using the Internet connection.

    Check your cellular data network usage:
    In Settings, choose General > Usage.

    [iPhone how tos]

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  • Auto Forward Gmail Photo Attachments to Flickr

    As you probably already know I use Flickr to manage and archive all of my images. I usually get at least one email forward from friends or family with photos in it. Instead of downloading these attachments and re-uploading them to Flickr I’ve set up a filter in Gmail to auto forward all image attachments to my upload by email flickr address. Of course I set them all to private by default.

    Now whenever someone sends me photos they get saved (privately) in my Flickr. Keep in mind the Flickr upload by email feature can be flaky and isn’t designed for huge files or large numbers of files. I also do the same thing for documents and spreadsheets except I use Google Docs instead of Flickr.

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