Kite Day in Morecambe
A Christo in Morecambe. Best bit of public art I've seen
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27 inches of loveliness
Including a glimpse my 1960s Snow Leopard flour bag. Now all I need is my back to allow me to sit to it.
Sent from my iPhoneScreenSteps copy-paste solution for Posterous and Gmail
ScreenSteps Desktop is an application to help create step-by-step instructions, quickly. ScreenSteps 2.7 beta introduces a new feature to copy a 'lesson' to the clipboard so that it can be pasted into an email. This means that lessons can be emailed by Apple Mail to Posterous rather than have to publish to WordPress, TypePad, etc or ScreenSteps Live.
How To Add Multiple Inline Images into Gmail
Update: 11-May-2010 Google Mail now supports drag-and-drop of images into the message body if using Gmail in the Google Chrome browser.
Sadly, I was not able to copy-and-paste images into the message body.
Gmail doesn't support inline images in the message body of an email directly. To add them you need to turn on a Lab Setting called Inserting Images. Even then, you cannot copy and paste multiple images or text and images in a single paste (if you can, please tell me how). Each image needs to be inserted one at a time. If there are a lot of images, like in this step-by-step, your need patience and time.
This has been sent by Gmail to Posterous with ((nogallery)) tag in Subject line of the email.
01. In Gmail: Click Settings
November brings tree lights blossom
One of the prettiest sights at this time of year. Sadly, the pretty quality is not capture in the photo, only the moment is recorded.
Taken with PhoneGrafer (Russian Filter) on the iPhone.
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How To Create and Use a Draft Template in Mail on a Mac
I wrote this note on how to create a Template in the Desktop version of Mail on a Mac at the beginning of 2007 but it still seems valid. In fact, it is also relevant to using Mail on the iPhone. Currently, I notice that if I create a draft on the Desktop version of Mail, the Draft is *not* shared via MobileMe to the web nor the iPhone versions of Mail; even though the 'Store draft messages on the server' is checked in Mail Preferences. Drafts created in either web Mail or iPhone Mail *are* synced and available to both these versions of Mail. One way to get a Desktop Draft onto the iPhone (or the web) is to move the Draft to a Mailbox folder then copy the text from the synced email in the Mailbox on the iPhone but it shouldn't be necessary.
Create a draft or template Mail message
• Open Mail, Click New button (File > New Message)
• Create the template contents in a new email message.
• Click Save As Draft button (File > Save as Draft)
• If desired: Move the draft message to a different mailbox folder e.g. a new one named Templates. (see note 2 and 3)
Speeding up Safari in Snow Leopard - My Work-Around
Safari in Snow Leopard frequently stalls with the 'Spinning Pizza' cursor and 'hang' what seems an age before it starts to load a page. This rapidly gets infuriating. One way I have found to improve things is to specify the DNS servers in the System Preferences Network settings.
I have a BT HomeHub wireless router. By Default the System Preferences Network settings look to the router to get the DNS servers. The following step-by-step method gives the servers specified in the router directly to System Preferences Network settings. I don't know if BT changes these from time to time but if I delete the numbers I added, Network settings defaults back to looking to the router for the DNS server addresses.
Note: To do this I needed to use Firefox. Safari does not work with the Advanced settings of BT HomeHub.
01. In Firefox: Go to the URL bthomehub.home
You may need to load in with admin and the correct password.
Posterous Setup for Feedburner
The Step-by-step process to add my Posterous blog to Feedburner when I have more than one Posterous site.
01. On my Posterous Site: Copy the RSS Link in the Sidebar
Right-click on the orange button below 'Subscribe to this posterous'.
Posterous Custom Domain Setup with 123-Reg Registered Domain
How to set up a custom domain name for a Posterous site and a domain registered with 123-reg.co.uk
01. Click the link to 'log in to your control panel'
