Been wondering about an easy way to get the pictures (pics)Â and/or videos (vids)Â of of your phone?
Well, I have.
Today, while listening to the ‘Inside the Net’ Netcast (http://www.twit.tv/ITN) episode #37(http://www.twit.tv/itn37) I learned about a really cool FREE service that will do this. The name of it is Nakama. (www.nakama.ca)Â Nakama is a free service that allows you to automatically post the pics and vids from your cell to a free account that you create with them. They also give you the ability to have the pictures posted directly to many different blog providers or embed it as a live feed to your myspace (www.myspace.com) account.
I tried it out today. In less than 5 minutes I was signed up, sent a picture from my phone, and setup the embedded link on my myspace account. It works great. When you setup an account with them they give you an email address to send your pictures to. They recommend that you save it in your address book so you don’t have to retype it every time.
Now, one thing I definitely don’t like is that you can’t setup your account in a ‘private’ mode. When you send a picture to your account, it shows up on the main page in a section called “Most Recent Photos and Videos”. There are 2 other sections “Most Active Photos and Videos” and “Most Popular Photos and Videos”. At the time of this post, you can definitely tell that a majority of the people that visit the site are guys. There are a few inappropriate pictures that are on the second 2 sections.
Overall I think it’s a pretty cool idea. Finally get a little more use out of the features in my phone.
-J