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
How to Send Images within Message Text using Google Gmail
1. Enable the Settings > Labs plug-in Inserting images by Kent T and save changes.
2. In Rich Text mode and the cursor where the image is to go, click the Insert Image icon and drag an image onto the Choose button or click to Choose File from My Computer or use a Web Address. The images here, have been dragged straight from the Skitch screen capture window.
3. Clicking on the image show an image sizing or removal option:
4. Send the email
Hassle Update: Third posting. I've added the Posterous tag ((nogallery)) to the subject line because following an HTML link edit on the original post (which didn't use the tag), only the first image remained. For the second post, I tried copy and pasting from the Gmail sent folder which lost all the images after posting. @Bad#words@. It's a load easier to place images within text in Apple Mail and do a Message > Send Again if it goes wrong.
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
• 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)
To use the template
• Click on the template message. (see note 1)
• Click Message > Send Again
• Edit as necessary.
• If desired: Click Save As Draft button again. (see note 4)
• Enter or edit the To: address, as needed.
• Click Send button (Message > Send) to send the final message. (see note 3)
Send Again will work for any message you have, including messages that have been sent or received, not just newly created drafts or "templates".
Note:
1. If the draft template message is in the Drafts mailbox folder — double-clicking the message will open an editable message i.e. the text and message fields can be edited immediately.
2. If a message has previously been sent, received OR moved from the Drafts folder into another mailbox folder — double-clicking the message will open an uneditable message.
• To make the message editable: Click Message > Send Again
• This menu choice can be used with an opened message or on a highlighted message in a mailbox folder.
3. A message sent from the Drafts mailbox folder is immediately removed from this folder (like sending an original letter — you no longer have it once it's posted) but there will be the resulting sent message in the Sent folder.
• If the message is sent with Send Again from any other mailbox folder (i.e. not from the Drafts mailbox folder), the original message is not removed from its folder, and the resulting sent message will be in the Sent folder (like taking a photocopy of the original and posting the photocopy).
• Clearly, having a Templates mailbox folder separate from the Drafts mailbox folder is an advantage for a message that wants to be used again and again because the template will remain in the Templates mailbox.
4. Caution: When editing a template message that is NOT in the Drafts mailbox, Save as Draft will save the newly edited message into the Drafts mailbox not the original's mailbox. It will not overwrite the original message. Therefore, if the template message needs re-editing — make the changes, save the changed then move the undated template message from the Drafts mailbox and into the Templates mailbox.
• Move the saved template from the Drafts mailbox before Sending. Otherwise the updated template in Drafts will disappear. The Sent message will then have to be re-used.
• If the Subject: title has not been changed; the updated version of the template will have a later Date Received date or time in the mailbox folder list.
• Delete the older version.
5. Drafts cannot be moved on the iPhone but they can on the web.
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'.
02. Login into Feedburner using my Google Account Details
03. Paste the RSS Link from Step 1 into the 'Burn a feed...' box and Click 'Next'
04. The Feed is automatically given a Title. I changed the Addess to be all lowercase letters. Click Next.
Change the title and address as desired. I left mine with the default text based on my URL.
05. Complete the activation steps for the Feedburner Account.
06. In Posterous: Click the links 'Manage > Manage this site' for the Site being added to Feedburner
This may be slightly different if you only have one Posterous site. I currently have three sites. Sign-in to Posterous to see the Manage link at the top of the browser page.
07. Click the link ' Edit my posterous'
08. Type the last part of the 'Feed Address' in the Feedburner box
09. Don't forget to click 'Save'
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'
02. Choose the domain and click 'Manage'
03. Click the 'Change Nameservers' link
04. Check that the nameservers are 123-reg's
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the 'Back to Control Panel' link
05. Click the 'Manage DNS' link
06. Scroll down to the 'A, CNAME and TXT records' section
07. Check 'Delete' for both the current '@' and 'www' entries.
08. 'Add new entry' for both '@' and 'www' - Type 'A' - Content '67.207.139.81'
09. Click the 'Update DNS' button
10. Click the 'Back to Control Panel' link
It may take a few hours or longer for the change to take effect.
Posterous Custom Domain Setup and A2Hosting
The steps needed to add a custom domain to a Posterous account with an A2Hosting account.
1. In cPanel: click 'Parked Domains'
2. Type the domain name and click 'Add Domain!'
3. Wait for confirmation that it has been created
4. Submit a Ticket to A2Hosting Support to Change the 'A Record'
Posterous IP Address: 67.207.139.81
Allow time for the change to filter across the internet.
5. On Posterous: click 'Manage' at the top of the browser page
6. Click 'Edit Settings' under the account up want to change
7. Type the Custom Domain in the 'Addresses and such' section
8. Click Save and hopefully everything will be 'Cool'
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