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Zero following - the Joy of Buzz

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The Twitter Posterous posting with post.ly, posts everything possible to post, possibly.

Trying the post.ly Twitter Posterous Posting
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iPhone Page 12 survives the iTunes Sync

...even though it is shown as an invisible page in iTunes:

   

Update: ...but not the third Sync. Now back to eleven pages. The difference is that if I move the Apple Voice Memos app to be an 'invisible', I get 12 pages with the Voices Memos app place back on page one on the subsequence sync. Running with 12 pages in OS 3.1.2 means that with each sync you never know which pages with be visible because each sync they change in some way. I've found it necessary to manually return my iPhone to eleven pages to avoid all the hassle.

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12 Pages of Apps on iPhone OS 3.1.2

I rearranged my apps. Currently there are only 349 installed on my iPhone. I moved Voice Memo off page 10 to the invisible page 12 in iTunes. I did this by bumping. I dragged Voice Memo to page 11 in iTunes which causes the last app icon to start a new blank (invisible) page 12. I swapped Voice Memo with the app icon on page 12. I moved a couple of other apps to page 12 in my rearranging. I then did an iTunes Sync. Note: This is not a Jailbreak iPhone.

When I came to use my iPhone, page 2 was blank with one app icon. Big poo smells, I thought. This has happened in the past with iPhone OS 3.1.2 but it usually means that the previous page 11 is now invisible. But when I looked, I realised that the previous page 11 was still there, only now as a *visible page 12* on my iPhone. When I went back to page 1, I saw the Voice Memo app. The one I had moved to invisible page 12 in iTunes before I did the Sync. All the other apps on the invisible page 12 have remained invisible.

I've never had 12 pages of apps on iPhone OS 3.1.2, I did have on OS 2, so 12 pages on OS 3 is a first for me. I will see if the extra page disappears on the next Sync.

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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.

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What a day watching #guardianapp fly out of iTunes

An unexpected treat to watch the Guardian Newspaper App  (iTunes Links) on it's launch day. Unable to sleep, I first spotted it in iTunes in the early hours of Monday morning (1:01am,14-Dec-09). I bought it. I tried it. I posted a initial review to iTunes. I didn't realise that it had just been launch.

In the morning, I saw a tweet by the Guardian's Editor in Chief announcing the launch. I then saw Guardian Tech tweet the hash tag and watched as the #guardianapp tag started to grow, most visually on Trendsmap.com

Then it was Top Paid App in the App Store:

And last I saw it was Top Grossing App in the App Store:

To top off, my iTunes review goes to the top of Most Helpful:

This tired teddy must now go to sleep. I've never seem an app fly before; not even one made from newspaper.

Update:
By 23:00 on the 14-Dec-09 (that I noticed) The Guardian app had become #1 Paid App in the iTunes App Store:
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..was on the front page of iTunes App Store:
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...Apparently selling 9000 downloads in the first 36 hours. (The article says 2 days but was posted 36 hours after the app launch.)

...and on Apple (UK) Hot News 16-Dec-09:
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My Solution getting ScreenSteps to work with 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.

For some strange reason, when I sent a lesson to Posterous only nine of the thirteen images appeared in the Posterous post (sometimes it's ten of thirteen). The other images became two HTML 'br' tags. Ae well, all the images appeared in a long string at the bottom of the post and not in place within the text with empty image boxes appearing in the text.

Update: The problem was being cause by having the Preference checked to 'Sync Image Name to Step Title' in ScreenSteps. This caused images to have titles longer than 74 characters. If an image in longer than 74 characters then Posterous doesn't show it.

Solution: Use short Step Titles in ScreenSteps if the image names of synced to the step title.

After some perseverance, I discovered that if I emailed the copy and pasted lesson from Mail to Gmail (I used the Google Apps version of Gmail) and then Forwarded that email from Gmail to Posterous (removing the Forward text), the email appeared correctly, with every image in place, in my Posterous post. This is the post: Test - pasted ScreenSteps Mailed to Gmail Forwarded to Posterous

It's important to include the Subject line tag: ((nogallery)) in the email sent to Posterous, otherwise the images will be turned into a gallery album.

Update: One advantage this revealed is that the ScreenSteps clipboard content does not paste into Gmail directly. If you need to email a lesson from a Google Mail account then you can email to that account from Apple Mail then Forward from Gmail successfully.

Tip: Post ScreenSteps to Gmail via Mail
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Test - pasted ScreenSteps Mailed to Gmail Forwarded to Posterous

Amazing -- this works, sending straight from Mail doesn't ¿O_O?

How To Add Multiple Inline Images into Gmail

Gmail doesn't support Inline images in emails 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

02. Click Labs

03. Find and Enable Inserting images by Kent T

04. Click Save Changes

05. In Google Mail: Click Compose Mail

06. Click Rich Formatting (if not enabled)

07. Click in text where image is to be inserted

08. Click Insert Image

09. Click Choose File. Select an image from the hard drive. Click OK

Note: My Computer is selected by default.

10. Alternatively on a Mac using Safari: You can drag-and-drop an image on the Choose File button.

Make sure you drop it on the button.

11. The Step 10 method way can be repeated without clicking OK until all images are added.

This is quicker because all images can be added, still one at a time but without having to click OK and Insert Image for each image added.

12. Repeat steps 07-09 to adding one image at a time into the text.

If multiple images were added as in Step 10, just double-click on the appropriate image in the dialog box.

13. To Resize or Remove an image, click on the image to reveal the options

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How To Add Multiple Inline Images into Gmail

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

02. Click Labs

03. Find and Enable Inserting images by Kent T

04. Click Save Changes

05. In Google Mail: Click Compose Mail

06. Click Rich Formatting (if not enabled)

07. Click in text where image is to be inserted

08. Click Insert Image

09. Click Choose File. Select an image from the hard drive. Click OK

Note: My Computer is selected by default.

10. Alternatively on a Mac using Safari: You can drag-and-drop an image on the Choose File button.

11. The Step 10 method way can be repeated without clicking OK until all images are added.

This is quicker because all images can be added, still one at a time but without having to click OK and Insert Image for each image added.

12. Repeat steps 07-09 to adding one image at a time into the text.

If multiple images were added as in Step 10, just double-click on the appropriate image in the Insert Image dialog box.

13. To Resize or Remove an image, click on the image to reveal the options

Filed under: google howto images inline image insert image

Not all logos are equal, some are invisible especially in Tweetie

Invisible Twiiter Logos (Avatars) when viewed with Tweetie. Edit done with ZeusDraw on the iPhone.

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