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A Mobile Blog

I’ve created a new blog, which you can see here:

PCS Photo Blog

At first glance, it just looks like some photos with captions. But what’s really cool about it is how the photos and captions get up there.

My Sanyo SCP-8100 phone from SprintPCS can take small photo snapshots. Then, from the phone, you can add a text caption and a voice memo, and send it all to any number of email addresses, or other multimedia-capable phones.

So what I did (and I got the idea from “Maokh” at the Sprintusers.com forum) was write a program to capture the emails sent to a certain email address, extract all of the relevant information from them, and insert it into a database. Then, I wrote another program which goes to that database, selects all of the information, and displays it in a blog. Simple!

So basically what this amounts to is that I can post photos, text, and audio to a blog, all by simply sending an email from my cell phone - no additional user intervention required!

I hope you all get a kick out of reading it.