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Topic History of: Comic-Touch Review Roundup Max. showing the last posts - (Last post first)
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SFDex
Harley, thanks for this roundup. Very useful information!
Harley3k
Facebook just upgraded their iPhone Application to 1.1.
Now you can upload an existing photo from your photo library.
And unlike the MySpace App the photo quality is just as good as e-mailing it to photos@facebook.com or your custom e-mail fbookpix.com address.
And it's FAST...
Thanks facebook.
Harley3k
Ok, first off I love this app on my iPhone. It's so much fun, and obviously when you make these comic touch enhancements to your photos you want to share them with your friends.
So I've tested several methods for sending photos to different social-networking sites directly from my iPhone. Here are the results.
Facebook (via e-mail):
Saving the comictouch photo to the photo-library and then e-mailing it to facebook from the library worked fine. But e-Mailing from the ComicTouch app DOES NOT WORK. I tried sending to mobile@facebook.com, photos@facebook.com, and the unique address they gave me for my account of xxxxxxx@fbookpix.com. Incidentally I also tried sending to each of these addresses just using an e-mail client, and nothing ever went through. I think facebook is really checking the message to make sure it's coming from a phone. And sending from the comictouch app doesn't qualify. So sending to Facebook is a two step process. Save the comic touch photo to your photo library, then go e-mail it from there.
MySpace (via e-mail):
MySpace doesn't seem to have the ability to send a photo to your photo-library via e-mail (that I could find). I would think they would set this up at some point since Facebook does it. So no go here.
Flickr (via e-mail):
This worked great, directly from the comic touch app. One step process. The problem is that most of my friends aren't on Flickr. I could put a link to a flickr site on facebook/myspace, or use some app to expose it, but then my facebook/myspace friends don't see *updates* when I add a photo....They have to actively go check it.
To Various E-Mail Addresses:
Sending from the comictouch app to my @me.com address worked.
Sending from the comictouch app to my @gmail.com address worked.
Sending to my work address did not work, but that could have something to do with spam filtering on that system...not sure.
MySpace iPhone Application:
The MySpace iPhone App (free) DOES allow you to post photos from your photo-library - multiple at a time in fact. So saved ComicTouch photos can be quickly posted to MySpace via this method and it was A LOT FASTER than sending e-mail from the photo-library. The BIG PROBLEM with this method is that the photos are severely shrunken...like way small. The Comic Touch Medium font is almost illegible in fact, so this is not a preferred method. Hopefully they will fix this at some point.
Facebook iPhone Application:
The Facebook iphone app (free) allows you to Take a Photo from within the Facebook App and post it directly to your Facebook Photos. However it does NOT allow you to pick a photo from the photo-library (like a saved comic-touch photo) on your phone. Hopefully they will add this feature later.
Summary:
So, to easily share my comic-touch photos, it looks like the best method is to save them to the iphone photo-library, then e-mail the to facebook from inside the photo-library (2 step process). If I want it on MySpace, I can save it to the photo-library, then use the MySpace app (faster than e-mailing), but the photo size will be small. Or for MySPace, I have to attach the phone to my computer, pull off the photo and post it to MySPace manaully (or e-mail it to myself, etc.). Flickr works the best for going straight from the comic-touch app to the site, but my friends don't visit my Flickr page as much as they would my MySpace/Facebook page.
I look forward to enhancements to the sites and/or the comictouch app that will make this easier in the future
