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Turn Your PC into a 'Moblogger'

Posted by michael on from the mob-log dept.

ptorrone writes "Engadget's weekly how-to article this week shows how to turn a PC in to an 'automatic moblogging' machine. Their example they show a Windows PC, what do you use on your Mac or Linux machines to post images automatically?"

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  1. Re:Moblogger by falcon5768 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    specially since I have never head of the damn thing... I think people who make up these "techie" terms should be shot, they make no sense and dissapear as fast as they appear sometimes

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  2. Re:I guess the big question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A MOBile telephone LOG. As you travel around your daily life, you take photographs of anything you think is interesting using your mobile phone, add a few comments and send them to a special web site which will automatically convert the E-mails to a web page.

  3. Textamerica?? by Kaa · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Textamerica is an interesting site. It claims ownership of everything posted to it, which is, umm... unusual for a blog-hosting place.

    I am guessing the great majority of people with accounts at Textamerica never read the Terms of Service and don't know that they don't own the images and text they posted to their own blogs there any more...

    Quotes from their ToS:

    "14. Textamerica.com may use, sell and/or share with its affiliates any information provided by you on this website, including your name, e-mail address, usage patterns, and uploaded images and text.

    ...

    17. Textamerica.com and any images and comments on this website are intended for personal use only and may not be used except by Textamerica.com for commercial purposes."



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  4. Screen Scraper for SprintPCS phones (phone-email) by Amgine007 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hi,

    I just can't stand the cruft sprint makes your friends sift through to get picture mail.

    For Sprint phones, I have maintained a screen scraper sort of tool, that intercepts "shared image" emails as you send them, cuts out the spint ads and junk HTML redirection, and sends it on its way as a plain old attachment.

    This can easily be interfaced to blogging sites like text america -- they know how to look inside e-mails for attachments, but that's about this.

    More details at: http://pcs.hoho.com

    (PS: its free, and the Python source is available.)

    cheers..

  5. Pretty easy to do by bretth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I set up my co-located web/mail server to support moblogging in a few hours. I was running procmail anyway, so it just involved adding a new recipe for email messages coming from my mobile phone. They get handed to a perl script that extracts any pictures and text using MIME::Parser. It then creates unique file names for any images, the HTML for the blog entry and inserts it into a postgresql table along with the date. My personal home page lists the table entries in reverse date order in order to generate the blog.