21st cm tests mobile image posts

Just when you thought it was safe to come back, you've caught me at it again. This time i am testing sending photos to the blog from my phone in preparation for my travels. I knew i'd crack it in the end but i hadn't expected so many hurdles. Hope you like the photo.

ADDENDUM - At present the image isn't appearing so it looks like there has been another glitch (hopefully a temporary one) after all. I have had problems sending images from my phone when using my email accounts (both btinternet and gmail). I also tried sending directly to Blogger using MMS, but there seems to be recognised problems caused by the format of text in the "From" data when using the T-Mobile MMS platform (which O2 appears to use). Consequently, I tracked down the ShoZu sharing application which enables you to download its application directly to your phone. It is then possible to configure the application to send multimedia files directly to Blogger, YouTube and other social networking sites. Apparently the ShoZu site is down at present, but hopefully when it is back soon, the image will re-appear.

21st cm Tests mobile blogging

If you can read this then i have successfully cracked mobile blogging from my nokia 95.

Hooray it works. X

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Addendum

Setting up mobile blogging to Blogger was fairly straight forward and Blogger members can follow the full set of instructions at: www.blogger.com/mobile-start.g

The first thing that I did was to set up the mobile interface for my Yahoo account, an option that is available on the Yahoo email interface. Once this was created I sent an email from my phone via yahoo to go@blogger.com.

This triggered Blogger to create a mobile blog account. Their system then sent a "claim token" to the email address that I used via my phone.

To complete the next step, I found it easier to log onto Blogger's mobile start page from my laptop to register the claim token. Blogger then gave several options. I could choose to keep my mobile account independent of my blog, or choose to merge mobile posts with my blog. I chose to merge with the 21st CM blog.

Once I updated my account, I accessed Yahoo via my phone, created the above post and crossed my fingers (or rather pressed the send button).

My next challenge is to test out sending photos. However, until my old number is transferred to my phone I will be unable to add MMS, which I will need for emailing images. However that's only a week to go.