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Test 3 from iPhone

Doh!!
Forgot to switch email (from) address!
#end

Melissa Davis
TheMacMommy
Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Melissa M. Davis" <themacmommy@gmail.com>
Date: September 29, 2010 9:11:11 AM PDT
To: "post@momsgonegeek.posterous.com" <post@momsgonegeek.posterous.com>
Subject: Test 3 from iPhone ((tags: tinkering, mobile))

Testing a Posterous post from my iPhone to MGG blog using just the Mail & Photos apps.

One of these days I want to learn how to format the text using code.

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The Quest for Mobile Blogging Tools

by TheMacMommy

I'm always on the prowl for the most efficient mobile blogging tool. So far, Posterous is the service that comes closest in my opinion.

Smart phones are all equipped with email, so if you can compose an email on your phone, you can do some mobile blogging while on the go.

I'm posting this entry by sending this from our Moms Gone Geek email account using Posterous. I've made an Address Book entry and given it the nickname "post." If your contact list manager (Address Book) supports nicknames, then all you have to do is type "p-o-s-t" and it should auto-fill out the rest for you.

Right now I'm using my Apple Mail client to compose this message. (You can do the same from Outlook, Entourage, etc. — those are all mail clients. You can even use Gmail from the WebMail online application — not a client, but still an email application.)

Once I click the send button, this post should show up on the hosted Moms Gone Geek WordPress blog because I've authorized Posterous to aggregate it to our wordpress blog.

If this works, authorized writers for the Moms Gone Geek blog can all use it to post from our mobile phones by using our email app and addressing the message to posterous while sending from the MGG email account.

Formatting
You can do some limited formatting. I haven't yet tested out injecting code like CSS to format or typeset the text, but one day I will tinker with this some more.

Here is a photo I'm attaching. Let's see how it looks.
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Tags
We can also use custom tags by putting them into the subject line. After the subject, type: ((tag: your example tag, separated by a comma, tagname, tinkering))

Be sure to enclose your tags with double parenthesis.

Next, I'll test editing and creating a new post using this method over on my iPhone.