I’ve been resisting posting my daily progress on new work simply because it would be too time consuming. To post anything on this blog I have to reformat the photos to low-res (created an action in PS for this), then upload them to a free photo host (so as not to use up my paid space on my own server), then copy the embedding code from that free host to the WordPress post entry with the “upload/insert” applet. Then, when done I hit “publish.” It doesn’t sound like much, but it is a lot of work if I’m going to be doing this every night. Instead I thought I would try out posting via email. If I could do that all I’d have to do is take a photo with the Pre and email it… which takes two seconds.
So I tried in vain to set it up. I set up a new email account on my server, and tried to copy and paste their footer code. However, since my blog is my own (i.e. not hosted by wordpress) there are some steps that weren’t clear. I tried multiple things (changing the URL in the “iframe” instructions, etc.) but nothing worked. My test email went off into a black hole and never ended up here on the blog and I have no idea why.
Of course, after doing all this – I realized that this plan wasn’t going to work anyway – the Pre takes 3 megapixel photos and apparently has no options to downgrade the resolution/size at all… so the photos I email to the blog wouldn’t fit my 600 pixel width restriction anyway.
hrmph!
I almost feel like starting a twitter page for this stuff… almost.
Maybe someday there will be a wordpress app for the Pre….I bet there’s one for the iphone…
UPDATE: Apparently I should do my research first… there is a plugin for the Pre available for WordPress. No idea how it actually works, but I’m gonna try it out…..
SECOND UPDATE: Apparently web journalists aren’t too hot on research either… turns out the “manage” part means “look at.” All that was created is something that switches the viewing of the blog to a mobile friendly format – there is no admin for mobile devices… Here is one of the completely erroneous reportings of the plug-in that lets you “manage your blog on the go.”
Just got a Sammy 46″ 7000 yesterday. One of it’s attractions was an ethernet port to Yahoo widgets. When I checked the e-manuel it seermed to say that you had to buy the Samsung adapter (80 dollars) but I went on line and found easy directions to get the widgets to load–oh boy, now I can watch grainy u-tube videos on a 46″ screen. And Adele can check the weather in Paris 24 hours a day. I know, I know–“there’s an App for that”.
I watch all my TV on a 30″ computer monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution. Have fun with your stretched out 1920×1080 resolution. =P
I understand how Yahoo has managed to stay in business now though.
Actually… one of the few apps the Pre does have is a temperature app. It also shows the weather for every hour and the status of the moon at night, etc. Helped me save the environment (cough cough money) by knowing at what hour the house would cool down enough naturally to turn off the AC.
And of course my monitor doesn’t glow around the edges =(
You’ll have to fill me in on what DLNA is….
It doesn’t glow–don’t believe evrything you see on the net- or anything that comes out of Odumbo’s mouth. And 1080p gets you beyond anything you can see on tv or dvd on a 46″ screen—didn’t get it for photoshop.
Besides, I got it for the scarlet edge: OSU room color.
The 16:9 ratio is correct for hd tv–whats with the “streached out” comment?(It auto detects 5:4 or 16:9)
DLNA is just a sort of USB so that it makes all the devices that are DLNA compliant “talk” to each other over USB & Wi-Fi.
I don’t need to multi-task-I’m an old white guy, remember?
“And 1080p gets you beyond anything you can see on tv or dvd on a 46″ screen” did you leave a word out? I’m not sure what this means. Or did you mean 30 instead of 46? Aren’t the HD channels broadcast in 1080?
Stretched out means stretched out. They don’t make more pixels, they just make them bigger. Next time you’re watching “HD tv” get about two feet from the screen and look at anything stationary – you’ll see it still looks quite “muddy.” This is true of BlueRay as well. HD is a joke in that most computer monitors have been capable of displaying higher “density” images for a long time – but there isn’t any commercially available entertainment that actually makes use of it. They are working on it though – in the next decade they’re going to try and roll out a new standard that is “100 times” the resolution of HD. However, a little sooner Samsung is trying to quadruple the resolution: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12421.cfm When that comes out, at most available sizes it will be comprable or better than the resolution on my monitor. But it isn’t out yet… and I guarantee it will be a lot more expensive than buying a computer monitor, computer and tv tuner card.
Saying HD tv is better than a decent computer monitor is like saying a cheapo LCD computer monitor is better than a CRT. Good CRTs still display more colors and have a higher contrast ratio than even my “top of the line” monitor. In the same way “HD” TVs are actually not very “high res”… just a lot higher than the old TV you used to have…
My point was just what you are saying: tv can’t make use of the higher resolution untill a standard is issued (by fcc) allowing broadcast in a higher resolution. I do belive the HD standard is 720 max. Blue-ray can get true 1080p but the source has to be procsessed for that resolution—everything is usually just upscaled, and just like jpeg, you lose detail with every process cycle. Hence, 1080p is already overkill for absolute rez of detail (for TV).
I wasn’t saying that there is anything “better” about the sammy–just that your high resolution moniter is only going to be as good as the source—again–I am not doing photoshop on the T.V.-I got the 2 24″ dells if I need the high rez. -T.V. is for the relaxing.
If I wanted a 30″ to watch TV on my computer I would have bought one.
you have two 24″s now?
PS – yes, I will be very jealous of you on certain Saturday nights this fall. Although I could watch HD broadcasts on my computer – I currently have the “cheapo” cable plan that doesn’t include any HD content.