August 2008
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h 33m
English
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Photos to Your Web Gallery
If you have a Mac, and you're paying $100 a year for one of Apple's MobileMe accounts (Chapter 14), then a special treat awaits you: You can send photos from your iPhone directly to your online Web photo gallery, where they appear instantly, to the delight of your fans.
There's about 10 minutes of setup required to make this happen. For example, you can't create Web galleries on the iPhone, so you have to set them up ahead of time on the Web or in iPhoto. It's all covered in Chapter 14.
Once that's all set up, though, you can use a magical new option that appears on the iPhone when you tap the 
button: Send to MobileMe.
When you tap it, a screen appears that lists all MobileMe Web galleries you've set up beforehand (or at least the ones you've opened up to public submissions by email or the iPhone). Tap the album name you want.
Now you arrive in, of all things, the iPhone's Mail program, where a message appears, preaddressed, with the photo attached. That, it turns out, is how the iPhone communicates with your Web album: It emails the picture, just the way anybody can. Whatever you type into the Subject line becomes the photo's title on the Web.
Tap Send, then wait a moment. The iPhone flings the photo on the screen straight up on that Web album, for all to enjoy. (They do have to know the Web address of the album, of course, as it appears in the upper-right ...
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