In the account settings there are things like "Sync Picasa Web albums" and "Sync Instant Upload". I assume those have something to do with automagically uploading pictures as soon as I take them.
Is it possible to write an app that would add yet another automatic upload feature? Some kind of special intent that is recognized. What jargon would I search for in android docs to learn how to do this?
I'd like to see if I could upload pictures automatically to a local web server on my LAN, no "clouds" involved.
This is just curiosity, I'd like to learn how this stuff works.
Auto upload uploads photo and video as soon as you capture it. Google instant upload is in Google+ app, where you can activate/deactivate it.
Auto upload is also on Dropbox app and also in AllShare app, so you more programs for auto uploading.
I tested them and because I have slow internet connection and I wanted other features I created own upload feature in my program that uploads files onto PC (via wifi or usb cable).
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I've spent a couple of hours looking at the big photo sharing sites but I'm sort of confused as to which one I should go with. I'm mainly going to use it to share photos with friends and family. Nothing public. I've looked at the following sites:
Flickr
Windows Live Photos
Picasa Web Albums
Photobucket
My ISP's own photo sharing.
Here is my criteria:
1. When inviting friends, they should not have to sign up before viewing photos. Most will not bother signing up. I should be able to send them a link via email and then when they click on it, it should just bring them to the gallery.
2. When I upload new photos or update an album, the site should automatically notify my friends and family via email that something has changed.
3. Possibly have friends upload their own photos to the same album or new album. I could create a public user id on that site so that my friends and family can log in using that account. Rather than creating an account of their own. Couple this with #2 above, I think it would work well.
Can somebody recommend a photo sharing site that can do this or anything that is close enough to the criteria above?
Thanks in advance.
you wanna so much
maybe if you have a server and make your own you can give all this offer to your friends.
I use both flickr, ms photo sharing and googles Picasa
all of them are free and works for my needs
I've decided to use Windows Live Services because it does most of what I need... and also because I have a hotmail account. Those of my friends that have live or hotmail accounts can be on my "network" and they receive updates of new photos that get uploaded by me and vice versa. they can comment on my photo and I've given them permission to upload their own photos - like when we go out to a dinner party and they have pics of me, they can upload it to my album.
Those that don't have a live/hotmail account are still able to view my album, but they will not be able to add additional photos.
With the addition of Windows Live Photo Gallery, I don't even need to open a browser to upload photos, I can do it all from within that app. I found that it uploads to flickr accounts too.
Nice, I think Microsoft has done a decent job with these Live services.
with the program gladinet cloud desktop
you can access your live dirs such as photo sharing as a drive
Z in my computer
I use that to easy navigate files around using total commander
Rudegar said:
with the program gladinet cloud desktop
you can access your live dirs such as photo sharing as a drive
Z in my computer
I use that to easy navigate files around using total commander
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Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.
This might sound obvious, but have you tried facebook?
So many people have a facebook account these days that you shouldn't particularly need to worry about them having to sign up just to view your photos, and it should do everything else you need.
Alternatively, flickr is probably your next best bet.
iammorris said:
This might sound obvious, but have you tried facebook?
So many people have a facebook account these days that you shouldn't particularly need to worry about them having to sign up just to view your photos, and it should do everything else you need.
Alternatively, flickr is probably your next best bet.
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Actually, yes, I've tried facebook. The problem with it is that I haven't figured out how to share photos with specific people (like family only). If I upload some pictures of my kids, it seems like your entire friend list can view these photos. Not good considering that I have some friends who are just acquaintances.
I've been playing around with Windows Live and the more I use it the more I'm liking it. The Windows Live Photo Gallery (an install to your PC) makes uploading photos so easy. Also, the web interface for Windows Live Services looks very good... unlike Google's.
The one thing that I love about Windows Live Photos is that you can share photos with people who are not a part of Windows Live. You basically send out a specialised URL to an email address and that person just clicks it to view the photo gallery. People who are on Windows Live and are a part of your network have even more options. They get instant updates on when you add photos or comment on a photo. Not only this, Windows Live is about permissions. When you setup an album, you have several options on who you want to share it with and what they can do with it (ie. upload their own photos). I don't think anyone else has this kind of functionality.
The other thing that I just discovered with Windows Live is that if you have a camera phone (who doesn't nowadays) and you have a data plan, you can actually upload photos to specific albums from your phone. All you do is enable the feature in Windows Live and for each album assign a keyword + secret word. This keyword+secretword combination makes up a unique email address. Hence, once you've taken the photo, just email it to the unique email address and it gets put into your album automatically and instantly. All the people on your network will get notified of a new photo. That's pretty neat...
Microsoft has really done a good job with their Live services.... now, if only they could get the Live calendar to sync to my WM device OTA... then I would consider becoming a MS fanboy.
ckl...that's very good info on windows live! I'll check it out since it sounds a lot more flexible than the Flickr I'm using...
I've always been a big fan of Picasa. It's one of the Google services that's being integrated with mobile devices along with PC and Mac platforms. So not only do you have online access, but also mobile/desktop access. I likey :].
Hey,
I've tried searching for this but have had no luck.
Am looking for a way to upload photos to an album in picasa as soon as I take a photo, automatically without having to do anything after taking the photo.
Is there any app that will allow me to do this?
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-itookthisonmyphone-application-zFq.aspx
That was the only one that said automatically in the discription, I don't have an account so I can't test that feature.
I realize I'll probably get yelled at because the answer is probably somewhere painfully obvious, although I've searched and haven't found anything... How exactly do you save/downloads pictures from the browser or email, etc to your phone? I tried to do a long press and wait for the option to come up, but just isn't happening for me.
Please be nice, it's been a long day... :-/ lol
I struggled with this myself...
for the browser it is long press/hold and an option will come up, but if your at the mobile version of the website you wont be able to (except for some sites) if you switch to desktop view (full html) you will get the long press/hold options.
Email (gmail client) I have not been able to figure it out not sure if there is a way to, except for clicking the attachment and let it open on your phone then save as within the program that opened the attachment or picture, or open gmail in the browser
hope this helps a little, If someone else knows a way please shed some light
I'm trying out 2.2 and have the default email client (not Gmail) set up to sync with an exchange server. I can't open jpg files sent as attachments. I can open other formats (pdf, doc, etc).
I assume this is because the email client doesn't think there's an app set to default for jpg files, but Gallery and Astro both have viewers and open just fine when I click on a jpg file already on my device.
Does anyone know where/how I set the default jpg viewer in such a way that the email client recognizes it?
Thanks!
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Email (gmail client) I have not been able to figure it out not sure if there is a way to, except for clicking the attachment and let it open on your phone then save as within the program that opened the attachment or picture, or open gmail in the browser
hope this helps a little, If someone else knows a way please shed some light
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For email attachments I use Black Moon attachsave lite found in the market
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For email attachments I use Black Moon attachsave lite found in the market
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black moon doesn't seem to work with the default email app (not gmail). It's probably the apps problem. I don't see any way to preview on attachment. As I posted earlier,I only have this problem with jpegs. I can open other files attachments. The open/preview button just isn't there on the jpeg attachments. But thanks for the suggestions!
I was able to open email, pull down notification bar, tap down arrow of attachments, option to save or open attachment.
Hey guys did some searching already and I was able to find some similar posts but never one with the exact same issue. I was wondering if it is possible to set the native Gmail app to always display pictures? Yes its right at the top of the app but its kinda a pain to have to hit every time I want to see the pictures. My thoughts behind why google does this is to cut down on data usage for those who do not have an unlimited plan, but they could atleast include the option somewhere. Anybody know of any work arounds or mods that can be used to always display the pictures in the native Gmail app?
Thanks in advance guys
I Second!
Looking for a work-around on the Gmail app that will auto-show images from my CCTV system. Downloading attachments one-by-one can be painfully slow on Gmail so I'm using K-9 Mail from Market which gives me more speed in favour of the 'Batch Operation' = open email - all images load - scroll through images.
Even logging onto my account through stock browser is faster and shows a preview of all the attached images but not enough to define detail.
I would prefer an app modded or otherwise as sometimes my browser hangs on HSDPA and preview is not sufficiant.
Just to clarify, I would like to be able to tap an email and have the images load vertically down the page so that I can scroll through them.
Warm regards.
I heard we could upload anything to the skyDrive via our phone, however, I have no idea how to do that...i dont find SkyDrive mentioned anywhere on my phone...
Like, my docus, or my photos, contacts, msgs....
any help?
You can sync One Note docs with SkyDrive, however at the moment you can't directly sync other documents/files.
The only way would be to open the SkyDrive website in IE.
Photo's can be uploaded by viewing a picture, and selecting "Upload to SkyDrive" (if you have SkyDrive set as your "Quick Upload Account" (Settings > Applications > Picture + Camera)) or Share... > Upload to SkyDrive
You can also have your phone automatically upload every picture you take to SkyDrive in Settings > Applications > Picture + Camera > Auto upload to SkyDrive
at this moment you can only sync photos tove the skydrive, mango will bring full skydrive intigration. but MS just launched the web office, words, excel web apps....