Mail To Web Gallery The Flickr Way - iPhone Tip

While many .Mac users are enthusiastic about the new (or minimal) updates introduced at the most recent Stevenote there is one significant group left out of the picture: Flickr users. While we bask in our superior Social Networking capabilities that surely has Apple's panties in a bunch we can still upload photos directly from our iPhone almost as easy as .Mac users.

This can be done extremely easily and once configured actually has more functionality than Apple could ever pack into the iPhone. First head on over to http://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/ which will prompt for your log in information and from there you will be able configure how your photos will be tagged and what email address they can be sent to.

While email configuration is easy you will need to make a contact on your iPhone's Address Book. For me I simply titled it Flickr but of course you can go the creative route with The .Mac Photo Upload Killer” but then again what isn’t a .Mac killer these days? You may want to personalize the contact a bit more by adding your profile URL or Photostream URL so you can access your pictures that much easier but this isn’t required. When actually sending the photo of course you’ll want to select your picture (just make sure it’s no embarrassing drunken photos) from your iPhone library and select the more options command then select “Email Photo.

Once the email window comes up you can type the first letter of your Flickr (or .Mac Web Upload Killer) contact and then you can select from the small drop down. You do have a few extra options such as using the email’s subject line for the photo title and customizing which tags are assigned via the Web interface.

I found this at iphonematters.com

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