Trying to photoBlog from my iPhone

By Josh Highland in internet, iPhone, Josh's Rambling, software

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I like my iPhone, and I like Flickr, I also like to blog and photoBlog.

The iPhone has a really good camera and a constant internet connection and real web browser. It sounds like the ultimate photo Blogging tool, right?

Problems

  1. There is not file access to iPhones pictures through the web browser, so forget uploading pictures directly to Flickr
  2. It’s possible to email pictures to Flickr, but AT&T has a hidden back door charge of $0.50 for ever picture emailed via the iPhone, so uploading 20 pictures would cost me $10 extra! forget that!

I modified my iPhone a while back, and there are two applications currently that get around both of these problems, iFlickr and Pushr

iFlickr sucks because you have to take the picture using their application, and you cant upload any existing pictures on your IPhone.

Pushr is closer to what I want. You take pictures with the default camera application, then fire up Pushr. Pushr will push ALL the pictures you have on your phone to Flickr. This sounds good in theory, but what if you don’t want to push all your pictures to Flickr? You have the option to de-select the pictures you don’t want to send. So if you have 100 pictures, and you only want to upload one, you will have to de-select the 99 you don’t want to send. The whole de-select process seems counter intuitive. I think you should be able to select the pictures you want to send and just push those.

Because of the current limitations of both iPhone Flickr related apps, I am with out a good way to send my pics to Flickr.

I decided to send an email to Chris Lee the creator of Pushr and ask for a change in the software…

Josh Highland to Chris Lee:
Is there a way to make Pushr work in such a way that a user selects what pictures they want to send to flickr, rather then picking the photos they dont want to send?

example : I have 100 photos on my iphone, and i only want to send one of them to flickr. I would liek to select that one photo to send, instead of removing the 99 photos to not send

Chris Lee to Josh Highland
Hi Josh,
Currently, there is no way to do that. However, it’s a feature request
I’ve gotten, so I may add a preference for it in a future version.
Thanks for using Pushr!

So at least a change like that is on the radar of the developer of Pushr. I hope it gets implemented soon. Until then I’m stuck having to wait until I get to a computer to upload all my cool pics to my photo blog.

If you know of a good solution to my iPhone + Flickr problem, please let me know!

InfraRecorder: my new burning software of choice

By Josh Highland in Josh's Rambling, software

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A while back I had access to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), and along with that came access to every piece of software that Microsoft has put out. Most of the downloads came in the form of ISO files. I downloaded everything I could.

Recently I decided to rebuilt one of my favorite computers in the house, my Windows MCE 2005 box that powers my TV (the hard drive had crashed). I couldn’t find my MCE 2005 dics anywhere, so I decided to burn a new one using the MSDN ISO file for it using Nero.

The ISO burn using Nero completed and I tried to install the OS. It would make it about 30% into the install and fail time after time. I thought the disc was bad, so I burned another using Nero. Same thing, this time about 50% of the install before it flaked out. I burned another disc, and it failed again. I started to Google the errors I was getting and there were no real answers for what I was seeing.

I decided to burn the ISO files using a different application then Nero, but realized that I didn’t have any other burning software installed. I’m a fan of open source software, and a fan of free things, so I did so searching, and came across some burning software called InfraRecorder.

InfraRecorder is an open source disc burning tool. It’s lightweight and was quick to install. I sent the ISO file through it and crossed my fingers. The disc burned fine (then again thats what Nero told me). I went through the install process one more time…. 100% install! My problem wasn’t the ISO file, it was the way the disc had been burned by Nero apparently!

I have burned many discs using Nero over the years, that’s why it was the only burning utility I had installed, and I have never produced coasters like I was with the ISO files from MSDN and Nero. What ever InfraRecorded did, it did it right. I am switching from Nero to InfraRecorder for sure.

Chalk this up to another win for open source software over corporate solutions.

You can check out InfraRecorder here http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net

Time to move the party

By Josh Highland in Josh's Rambling

My town house has become the redlands party house over the last few years. It looks like its time to move the party though…
I am selling my town house and putting an offer on a new houe (pictured below). The new house doesnt have shared walls with my neighbors, has a yard for the dogs, a pool for hanging out, and a huge open floor plan for massive parties. cross your fingers and wish us luck

Mentors last words: The hacker manifesto

By Josh Highland in internet, Josh's Rambling, linux, software

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Lurking around online this morning I ran across the hackers manifest, written by Mentor. I haven’t read this in a solid 10 years. Going over it again brought back found memories of 1993 and my x468 66mhz (my phone is faster then that now!), with a 14.4 kbps modem.

If you have never read Mentors famous last words, hackers manifesto, here it is for you.

Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager
Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”…
Damn kids. They’re all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world…
Mine is a world that begins with school… I’m smarter than most of
the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me…
Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.

I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain
for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms.
Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…”
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is
cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I
screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me…
Or feels threatened by me…
Or thinks I’m a smart ass…
Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here…
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.

And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought… a board is
found.
“This is it… this is where I belong…”
I know everyone here… even if I’ve never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again… I know you all…
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…

You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,
but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.

ah to be young and think you knew it all.