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MCTS Software & Web Developer - Microsoft .NET, C#, ASP.NET, WCF

Photo Sharing via Mobile

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Facebook IconFlickr IconPractically all social media websites feature photos, and some are entirely based upon photos… So this tells us one thing, photos are important!

If you have a camera phone, then its likely that you’ll have taken some photos and really wished you could have uploaded the photo to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter there and then… Well now we can do that using email. Most phones are equipped with an email client, and Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter (Twitpic) provide a secret email address for every user to send their photos to… Resulting in the photos appearing on the website straight away – to get your secret email address, visit the following URL’s:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mobile/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/
Twitter: http://twitpic.com/upload/

If you want to send your photos to all three (or more) addresses in one go, then set up a contact named “Social Media” and enter each email address followed by a semi colon ;
This will mean you send one email and your photos appear on X number of social networking sites at the same time!