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Google’s widely general free blogging service, Blogger, provides the option to construct blog posts thru Gmail or any other email service. This option, called Mail2Blogger, enables users who have email capable mobile devices, like the Blackberry or iPhone, to add new blog entries remotely–and not just text posts, but multimedia ones showing photos and videos, along with a lot of basic HTML formatting.

Don’t have a Blogger account? No big deal. If you already have Gmail, then register with your user name at the Blogger homepage. Setup is simple.

Setting Up the Mobile Option

Once in, click Settings on your dashboard, then the Email & Mobile tab. Here are the necessary steps to activating the option, then creating the posts:

1. The “email posting address” is the one to which you will send your email post; it follows the form username.secretword@blogger.com, where the user name is your Gmail handle and the mystery word is the one you pick for security purposes, so that no one else will be competent to post to your blog unless given your authorization.

2. Choose your posting option, either to draft or directly to publish. I’d commend the former if you’re aim is to lay the groundwork for a later post, which you’ll revisit from your computer to further edit before publishing. If you’re looking to without delay make public your live blogging at an event, go for the latter.

3. Once these steps are completed, click Save Settings, and you’re ready to commence blogging by way of email.

Creating the Post in Email

To field: Make sure to put in the posting address, the one with your user name and mystery word. For ease of use, I commend creating a contact for it.

Title: The subject for the email will be employed for the blog’s title.

Body: The text entered into the body will become the writing for the post. If HTML is enabled within your email service, then you’ll be capable to do a heap of formatting. Gmail allows you to choose font size, align the text, fabricate lists and, importantly, add links, among others.

Multimedia: Include photos and videos by adding them as attachments. They will appear in the post amid the title and the text entered into the body. If attaching a video, count on more time before it publishes due to processing.

Ending: To refrain from having further and added text normally appended to your emails also included–like your work signature or the “sent from iPhone” message–add #end at the indicated ending point in the body.

Using the Blogger by way of email option is a handy way, if attending an event or conference, to do live blogging, where you’re making updates to your blog in real-time, on emplacement as happenings unfold–all from your mobile phone, without having to lug around your laptop. It’s as simple as snapping a photo of of a speaker, attaching it, then writing in the body of your email the nugget of wisdom he or she just dropped from the stage, in turn unveiling it on your blog’s stage for the rest of the world to witness.

About the Author

Jason Chen is a freelance technology, gaming, and buyer electronics writer and an editor for the gadgets and engineering science blog, Gizmodo.

Adam Pash is a freelance technology, software, and buyer electronics writer and an editor for the productivity and technology blog, Lifehacker.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Its all in what’s needed.
By Eutychus
This book is thorough, basic, elemental. Yes, there’s a section about “jail breaking” you iPhone to be able use third party apps…that’s what the author is about in much of his work. It would be good to have this book in hand and some of it read before one’s new iPhone is broken out of the box. For example, his tips about conditioning the battery on the very first charge and after are very, very valuable. I bought the book “too late.” Much of it covers material I had already come across with my phone’s use. The book was more basic, for the most part, than I had hoped. Get it before you get the iPhone or shortly thereafter…that way, your needs will coincide much more closely with the author’s presentation. It’s a very good manual…if you need it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Just another user’s manual, and a pricey one at that.
By Mark J
90% of this book is just a retelling of Apple’s own user’s manual.

The section on hacking is so tacked on, that it appears after the index in the back and isn’t even in the table of contents. Needless to say this book was published months after the first generation iPhone came out so the hacking material is sorely outdated and most useless as the programs it centers on (iBricker and AppTapp) have fallen out of usage in the community. The section on unlocking is also woefully outdated and not helpful at all except to point you to the iPhone Dev Team’s website. If you have to buy a book about this, stick to something with a much more recent publication date, or just Google for the information.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A bit disappointing
By Brad Chandler III
I read this after having my iphone for only a few days. In those few days I learned 95%+ of what was in the book. The book was okay – I was just expecting to learn some amazing things and that wasn’t the case. Probably an okay book for someone who has no technical expertise.

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