waltersanford's photoblog on Posterous

During the past week-or-so I've been experimenting with Posterous as a platform for photoblogging. The Posterous app for Apple iPhone, ideal for mobile blogging, is a little buggy (when the Posterous app is used to upload geotagged photos from an iPhone, the photos that appear online aren't geotagged) and there are some features that are conspicuously missing (e.g., the capability to add hyperlinks to a new post and edit old posts). In contrast, the Posterous Web interface works well and does not suffer any of the problems I mentioned.

The Posterous app was preceded by PicPosterous, another app from the same developer. PicPosterous is all about mobile photoblogging, pure and simple -- maybe too simple, or sometimes, not simple enough (see Editor's Note, below). While there is some duplication of features between the PicPosterous- and Posterous apps, PicPosterous enables you to add photos to an album you created already; Posterous does not.

Posterous does some things especially well, such as automatically resize photos and videos to fit the layout for your blog; multiple photos are shown in a good looking gallery. Images and videos are optimized for mobile viewing. And you can autopost content to other sharing sites such as Twitter and Flickr.

Posterous accounts are free; the PicPosterous- and Posterous apps are also free. Visit waltersanford's photoblog.

Editor's Note: PicPosterous app predates the Posterous Mobile apps (for iPhone and Android), and is showing its age! PicPosterous app enables you to upload one photo at a time to a Posterous gallery; you can add more photos to the same gallery, but again, you select photos one at a time. You can add a title and narrative text to the gallery; you cannot add tags. The user interface is very clunky and counterintuitive, in contrast with the Posterous app. Bottom line: PicPosterous app's time has come and gone; move on to Posterous app and never look back!

Microfiber cloth for a clean machine!

"Penny Lane there is a fireman. ... He likes to keep his fire engine clean. It's a clean machine." (Credit: "Penny Lane" by The Beatles.) Do you like to keep your mobile devices clean? You know you do, but it's harder when you're on travel. What's the solution? You need a microfiber cleaning cloth. My optometrist provides a free ClearSight lens cleaning kit with every pair of eyeglasses I buy, including cleaning solution and a microfiber lens cloth. The cloth works very well without the solution, and it's washable and re-usable.