How to publish from your cell phone
Summer is here and you might want to go to the beach or to the park. Why not take pictures of your outdoors experience and share them with the people that are following your activities?
Here's a quick guide to setup a workflow that will publish a picture on flickr and announce it on twitter.
Open the accounts tab:
Insert your twitter credentials:
Give tarpipe permission to upload pictures to your flickr account:
Open the workflows tab:
Create a new workflow:
Give it a title and optionally a description:
Click on the MailDecoder connector:
Click on the Flickr connector:
Click on the TwitterUpdater connector:
Arrange the connectors around the canvas:
Connect the MailDecoder's subject to the Flickr's title:
Connect the MailDecoder's imageAttachment to the Flickr's picture:
Connect the MailDecoder's subject to the TwitterUpdater's title:
Connect the Flickr's pictureUrl to the TwitterUpdater's url:
Save the workflow:
Notice the email address that appeared above the "save workflow" button:
Now, simply take a picture with your cell phone and send it to this email address. Your subject line will be used as the picture's title and also as the text posted to twitter:
That's it. It might be a good idea to save the workflow email address as a contact on your cell phone. Now you can show everybody what you're up to!
Oh, and don't forget the sun blocker. Have fun!
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You know what would be really great :) ?
using MMS instead of email :)
Comment by Diogo Gomes — July 4, 2008 @ 4:45 pm UTC
Hello Diogo,
I believe that sending from your cell phone to an email address is considered (by some operators) an MMS. Just select “Send MMS” and then type the email address instead of a phone number.
Activating an MMS short number involves some fixed costs that unfortunately we cannot support right now. Maybe on a near future.
Thanks
Comment by Bruno Pedro — July 4, 2008 @ 5:43 pm UTC
Nice tip! didn’t knew about that… Because sending an image through email is quite more expensive then an MMS :(
Congrats on your work :)
Comment by Diogo Gomes — July 4, 2008 @ 6:13 pm UTC
Hi,
Very nice post. I think I will try MMSing as email using this workflow. Thanks!
Tarpipe really has a lot of potential. Congratz!
Cheers,
Guillaume
Btw, did you too discover the Jing tool to quickly take screen snapshots? Really sweet huh? ;) I discovered it this week by some post shared on reader by Scoble, I believe.
Comment by Guillaume — July 5, 2008 @ 12:56 am UTC
Hi Guillaume,
I’m actually using Skitch for my screenshots (http://skitch.com/). I’ll also try Jing, thanks for the tip.
Happy MMSing!
Comment by Bruno Pedro — July 5, 2008 @ 11:39 am UTC
Ok,
It’s http://www.jingproject.com/
I’ll have to try skitch too ;)
BTW, thanks for helping me out, Bruno. It now works!
My problem was that my MOTOROLA L6, by default, hides everything but the pix and the msg body in the MMS. Thus, it’s best for MOTOROLA L6 owners to use the “body” from the workflow’s email connector rather than the “subject”.
Have fun!!
Cheers,
Guillaume
Comment by Guillaume — July 6, 2008 @ 6:03 pm UTC
Oh, what the heck, it’s sunday and I don’t mind procrastinating on sundays.
How about geolocating the MMS pushed pix (insert EXIF metadata on the JPEG)?
Here’s the mockup:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/2643100396_435b215deb_o.jpg
My idea simply goes by adding a google maps search in the body of the MMS, while the pix comment remains in the title …
Technically, you’d have to pull off the lon/lat coordinates from the gmaps query using the gmaps API and insert them as EXIF metadata into the JPEG file. Newer phones probably will automatically add them in pictures taken. But most MMS mobiles still don’t have a gps built-in …
This would be a smart and elegant solution for posting geo-located files using old-hardware phones.
Let me know if you actually implement something alike …
Cheers,
Guillaume
Comment by Guillaume — July 6, 2008 @ 7:14 pm UTC
Hi Guillaume,
Following your suggestion, we’ve implemented a Google Geocoding connector. We’ve also added the ‘tags’ input field to the Flickr connector.
Now you can geocode any text and have your Flickr geotagging automatically done. We haven’t done the EXIF manipulation but we’re almost there.
Thanks for the tip.
Comment by Bruno Pedro — July 10, 2008 @ 2:49 pm UTC
[...] a suggestion by Guillaume Riflet, we implemented a Geocoder connector and also added a tags input field to the [...]
Pingback by tarpipe blog » Geotagging your pictures — July 10, 2008 @ 4:45 pm UTC
I’m amazed with how quickly you responded. I’ll make sure I try it out! This is disruptive tech in my book.
Cheers,
Comment by Guillaume — July 12, 2008 @ 4:20 pm UTC
hi!!
this is really useful when I sent my photo from iPhone to Flickr
But it can’t suppose Chinese characters title….
could you add unicode character in the workflow?? thank you~
Comment by appleseed — November 18, 2008 @ 11:57 am UTC
I’d like the dumbest addition: just a connector that provides a fixed string that can be typed into the connector. Then for example I could feed a string into the text formatter to add info.
Let me know if that doesn’t make sense!
Ant
Comment by Ant — November 27, 2008 @ 4:13 pm UTC
Can someone post a diagram or explanation of the correct way to wire up the geoconnector? I’m not sure what should be connected to the location input from either decoder: image? body? etc? I keep getting a failure. I know the photo I am testing has lat. and long. metadata from iphone. Anyone?
Comment by Tiger — January 16, 2009 @ 9:30 pm UTC
Hi Tiger and thanks for the comment,
The Google Geocoder accepts one text based input called location. The location should be anything from a complete address to a city or country name. The goal of the Geocoder is to convert this location into latitude and longitude that can be reused on other connectors.
If your picture alread has latitude and longitude, flickr will detect it and eventually show some geographic information.
Comment by Bruno Pedro — January 16, 2009 @ 10:49 pm UTC