Jul 16
I’ve just rewritten portions of my site blog to allow me to submit blog entries direct from my cell phone.
I have a Sony Ericcson T610 cell phone which supports POP3/SMTP email so i’ve used CFPOP/CFMAIL to monitor a mailbox to publish content straight to my blog from the venue. It’s going to be a pain in the ass to punch entries in via the keypad but hey, it’s a labour of love!
I’m attending an event next weekend and due to it’s popularity live reports would be a bonus - good job i’ve notified Hostmysite that i’m gonna probably hog the bandwidth!
July 16th, 2004 at 4:46 pm
That’s real nice, John. I’d like to know more details, when you have the time. I recently got a Nokia 3300, and had been wishing that I could do the same thing.
July 16th, 2004 at 4:58 pm
well all that happens at the moment is, i send an email to a POP3 mailbox and i have a scheduled task on my host that CFPOPs in and picks up the messages, checks that it’s from me or one of my registered users and then adds the content to my blog.
Come August, when i get my Smart Phone running Windows SmartPhone i’ll be looking into mobile blogging more, in particular photo’s attached to entries - the quality of the T610 camera sucks and even perhaps a Flash UI (If MM have released Flash for SmartPhone by then)
I have a whole host of other goodies in the ‘members only’ section of my site. For instance, when i want to add photos to a gallery. I ftp them up (Hostmysite won’t support cfx_zip) and then visit a web page which sucks the images in, registers them in the db allowing me to add comments, creates thumbnails and then stores the originals unmollested. Well, i think it’s neat!
July 16th, 2004 at 6:28 pm
That is neat. I’ve been using Fireworks’ batch processing to create thumbs, which is very fast but not automatic like what you’re doing.
I’m guessing that your CFPOP solution creates new entries and doesn’t handle comments (yet), right?
Is Flash for SmartPhone different than Flash Lite? I saw something about KDDI making the W21S for Sony Ericsson as one of three phones to support Flash Lite.
July 17th, 2004 at 6:05 am
All i’m using is cfx_image to do the processing. If it was my own server and not shared then i’d use inbuilt Java functions, but being hosted i can’t access Java object.
Correct, it only handles new entries and not comments.
I’ve heard of FlashLite but not had a chance to look into it yet, I’ve found more <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/devices/products/flashlite/">here</a>