Getting photos off my phone.
I guess like most people who have smart phones with cameras, actually carrying a physical camera with you when you go somewhere has dropped by the wayside. So when I created this blog, I was thinking that I could take photos on my phone and post them directly to the web with a little bit of text straight from the phone itself.
Not having the time to explore very far, I downloaded an Android App -
Blogaway and (yes I know I am supposed to be a techy) couldn't get it to work right away so gave up on that idea. Actually, my problem was that I wanted to be able publish it on my blog as a draft, then at a later time when I was sitting at the computer, I could make sure it made sense and publish it live. It's still installed, and so maybe I will get back to that sometime...
Anyhow - back to this blog. I was looking for some way to get my photos off the phone and onto my desktop (partly to back up the images, and partly as I needed to get at them for a newsletter). I hunted around and found
AirDroid (which obviously I wasn't the first to find given that 263,238 other people had commented on the app!).
If you are happy for this app to pretty much take over your phone, then this will allow you to do lots of stuff across a local wireless network connection from your laptop (of any flavor, as long as you have a web browser.
I particulary wanted to be able to drag'n'drop the files from the phone to the desktop - but unfortunately they aren't there with that functionality as yet- you have to download them either one by one or it will produce a zip file and then download multiple photos.
So "maybe" - I will be able to post more frequently here?... who knows :-)
