2008 March 13 Archive at sionide.net

In this day and age, many people have said the future is the mobile Internet. My phone has a web browser (2 actually), even my old phone had a web browser of sorts. Of course, the other thing to boom during 2007 was social networking. And cameras on phones now are so advanced, people aren’t forking out for a separate digital camera. Even my old phone had a better camera on it than my parent’s old digital camera and the 5 mega pixel camera on my N95 means I won’t be buying a proper digital camera any time soon…

So, what do you get when you mash all those things up? Wouldn’t it be handy to be able to upload photos from your phone directly to your favourite social networking site?? No mucking about with USB cables or bluetoothing your photos across to your laptop which is just frustrating. So what’s the solution?

ShoZu is one such service I’ve found. When I first tried it before Christmas, the application was very intrusive - asking if I wanted to upload every single photo I’d taken, as soon as I’d taken it, when the answer was usually no. So I ditched it. But the latest version has got rid of all that and is definitely heading in the right direction now. Now it’s simply a case of firing up the ShoZu application and selecting which images from my gallery I want to upload. My account on shozu.com is linked in my Facebook account, allowing me to upload photos straight from my phone! It’s not just Facebook either, ShoZu also supports uploading videos directly to YouTube and other supported sites include Flickr and even your own FTP server. If you’re not on an unlimited data plan, ShoZu will even compress your photos so they won’t cost too much to upload. I tend to stick to using the wifi to upload photos, saving my data for other things..

It’s brilliant to be able to upload random photos, of whatever, wherever, whenever, without it taking a bunch of effort. One-click mobile photo uploading.. The future of the Internet is here!

p.s. I read that ShoZu kept uploading photos taken after someone’s phone was stolen, which helped a bit in identifying the culprit! Haha, see http://shozu.vox.com/library/post/26112007044.html

What a cracking film, pretty much all that you need from a quality British flick. Unfortunately for Jason Statham he does seem to play the same character in every single film he’s ever done but that doesn’t stop me from loving him! Definitely worth getting on DVD when it comes out, if you’re into 1970s cars and bank robbing.

Comment Spam

Previously, when I moved my blog from sionide.net/wp I thought I’d avoided the hundred or so comment spams I was getting daily- however, even when I wasn’t actively posting I noticed a few random comment spams trickling through. These bots just don’t stop do they? I’ll stick to Akismet now, it seems to do a good job. Also, please be aware comment moderation is enabled so don’t post twice. I shall look into other spam fighting techniques and report back.