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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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Test - 13 images renamed testxx drag and drop

                         
Click here to download:
Test_-_13_images_renamed_testx.zip (253 KB)

Update: This was a test of 13 images of which only 9 were posting to Posterous. When I renamed the images with short names, all the images posted correctly.

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Test - ScreenSteps copy HTML to clipboard

The was an error in SSPro 2.7b24 that when a lesson containing video was copied to Clipboard an Error dialog appear. This test was to see that it has been fixed in 2.7b26.

ScreenSteps Pro 2.7beta23 - Double Tag Create Test

Trying to Replicate the double tag problem in ScreenSteps Pro 2.7 build 23 (beta) to send to tech support.

Click Add Tag

Click into Box

Type Tag

Tap Enter and the Tag appears twice

Click Back to Manual

Tag is show only once

YouTube video screen capture to show problem

Vimeo video screen capture to show problem

ScreenSteps Pro 2.7beta23 double-tag problem from Neil Boyd on Vimeo.

Screencast.com Video

The bug fix

 

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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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What's the best way to learn new software?

Trying out the new poll (Poll Everywhere) feature in Posterous. This has been sent via email, with the URL for the created poll in the first line.
I tried sending the poll using the Bookmarklet but it didn't show how I expected. Update: The bookmarklet problem has now been fixed.

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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'
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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.
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Now, Just Evernote needs a Google Reader Custom Send To

Now that Posterous has a Check Box to add it as a Send To link in the Settings of Google Reader, it's just Evernote that needs the Custom Link adding:

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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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