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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

by David Pogue
August 2008
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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MobileMe Photos

The online photo gallery of Me.com is one of its juiciest features. It means that any photos you've uploaded (or published from iPhoto on the Mac, or sent straight from the iPhone) are available to anyone in the world, right on the Web. (Or anyone to whom you've provided the password, if you so desire.)

Viewing Your Galleries

It's worth pointing out that when you visit a MobileMe photo gallery on your iPhone, you get a special version of that slideshow, custom tailored to fit the iPhone's screen.

Tip

Tap the screen to make the slideshow control arrows appear.

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Uploading Straight from the iPhone

You can send photos to your online gallery straight from the iPhone, wirelessly—an amazing, futuristic feature that's a blessing to photobloggers, photojournalists, and photo-lovers of all kinds.

Not just any MobileMe photo gallery can accommodate photos submitted from cellphones in this fashion, however. You have to prepare it in advance, like this:

First, on your computer, log in to Me.com. Click the little sunflower icon to view a list of your photo galleries.

In the list at left, click the name of the album (gallery) that you want to open up to cellphone submissions. Then click the Settings button, identified by the cursor below.

Now you're looking at the master Settings box for this ...

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