Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Shozu, the nifty photo sending / sharing application previously available for Windows Mobile, now supports Pocket PCs too! The application lets you take pics, upload them to your blog with a description and tags, and even view and reply to comments directly from your device. Supported blogs include blogr, flickr, typepad, wordpress and even youtube for video upload! Shozu is FREE, and can be downloaded from http://www.shozu.com. I'm downloading it now, and will let you know how I get on :) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NikLP Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 (edited) Well I hope it's easier to configure than when I tried it, I spent a whole evening trying to get this to work and it DIDN'T. Edited November 23, 2006 by NikLP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShoZu Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Thanks for the post Paul :) NikLP: Feel free to try out the new version designed specifically for Pocket PCs. I replied to you earlier today over here. Unfortunately the version you were trying was designed for Smartphones and not Pocket PCs. We are in the process of qualifying a lot more PPC variants at the moment too :D If you try it out on an unsupported PPC, feel free to report any bugs. Cheers! Mark www.shozu.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jcostantino Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Finally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Demens Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Oh dear god. I've been waiting for something like this for so long. Now i can finally: - FTP upload video/pictures to my homepage seamlessly. - Update my blogger. (allthough i didnt get it to work yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShoZu Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 - Update my blogger. (allthough i didnt get it to work yet) Unfortunately the Blogger problem is a global issue. Even though their site itself works great, it seems to be having a few problems authenticating requests from external sources. There's a bit of chat about this on our own forum too http://forum.shozu.com/showthread.php?tid=382 We hope there's a resolution soon! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I like it... been testing it on my missus' blog with Wordpress... it works find on her MDA Compact III by the way. Here's some feedback: - When I run the program, I should be able to click / double click on the options to select, rather than doing menu / view. - In 'Files', where is it reading those from? SD / Internal Memory or both? - How are the thumbnails created for uploaded pics? They seem extremely low quality - I'd like to be able to change the layout of the uploaded blog post. Maybe a HTML file I could put in the Shozu directory with some variables in for %PICTURE% and %TEXT%? - When in the settings dialogue, the Done / Menu buttons still show, but don't do anything. The settings seems to be a non-full screen PPC form. Make it full screen, and set the soft keys to relevant options. - I'd like to have transfer status displayed all the time when it is actively uploading, maybe a bar that pops up at the bottom of the screen. - When uploading, it'd be useful to have a percentage uploaded, and perhaps an estimated time remaining. Can't think of anything else atm :) All in all a very promising applicaiton tho! P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NeilPepper Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I like it... been testing it on my missus' blog with Wordpress... it works find on her MDA Compact III by the way. Here's some feedback: - When I run the program, I should be able to click / double click on the options to select, rather than doing menu / view. - In 'Files', where is it reading those from? SD / Internal Memory or both? - How are the thumbnails created for uploaded pics? They seem extremely low quality - I'd like to be able to change the layout of the uploaded blog post. Maybe a HTML file I could put in the Shozu directory with some variables in for %PICTURE% and %TEXT%? - When in the settings dialogue, the Done / Menu buttons still show, but don't do anything. The settings seems to be a non-full screen PPC form. Make it full screen, and set the soft keys to relevant options. - I'd like to have transfer status displayed all the time when it is actively uploading, maybe a bar that pops up at the bottom of the screen. - When uploading, it'd be useful to have a percentage uploaded, and perhaps an estimated time remaining. Can't think of anything else atm :) All in all a very promising applicaiton tho! P Hey Paul Thanks for trying ShoZu 1) If you click on the image/thumbnail with the stylus it will take you into the deeper view rather than having to select menu view, or you can use the navigation buttons, the middle button will take you in deeper. 2) ShoZu should monitor both, although with MS devices this can be a little hit and miss, we use the published Microsoft API to retrieve these locations, unfortunately this is not always implemented by the manufacturer. This is one of the main reasons why we can't blanket release all PPC devices without testing pretty much every device first. 3) Thumbnails are generated from the original images to a suitable size for the thumbnails not sure why they seem low quality. 4) Always interested in getting feedback from users we will always put those suggestions into the bag with the others. Thanks 5) The settings screen is a model dialog and is dismissed using the OK button in the title bar, the softkeys are only relevant to the previous screen. We could look into making it full screen. 6&7) See 4 Thanks Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chucky.egg Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I've been using the Smartphone version and I think it's great, but a word of warning for anyone who (like me) never reads the manual... If you set it to auto-upload then it really will! I was messing about and uploaded loads of junk photos (could have been much worse I guess :) ) to the BBC News submissions service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShoZu Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Just an update..... we've added a whole lot more PPC and Smartphone variants today We now support: Audiovox SMT5600 Cingular 2125 Cingular 3125 Dopod S300 HP iPAQ HW6915 HTC Faraday HTC Hurricane HTC STRTRK HTC Tornado HTC Typhoon HTC Voyager i-Mate JAMin i-Mate K-Jam i-Mate SmartFlip i-Mate Smartphone2 i-Mate SP3 i-Mate SP3i i-Mate SP5 i-Mate SP5M Motorola MPx220 Motorola Q O2 XDA sp O2 XDA Mini S O2 Xphone Orange C500 Orange E200 Orange F600 Orange SPV C550 Orange SPV C600 Qtek 8080 Qtek 8300 Qtek 8310 Qtek 8500 Qtek 9100 O2 Xphone Samsung i300 T-Mobile MDA Compact T-Mobile MDA Vario T-Mobile SDA T-Mobile SDA 2 But feel free to try ShoZu on an unsupported phone and let us know how you go. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShoZu Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 ..................and more variants added today :-) Alltel PPC6700 Audiovox XV6700 Cingular 8525 Dopod 838 Pro i-Mate JasJam i-Mate SP2 i-Mate SP4 Mio Digiwalker O2 XDA Orion O2 XDA Phone O2 XDA Trion O2 Xphone II Orange M3100 Orange SPV M3000 Qtek 8020 Qtek 8200 Qtek 9600 Qwest 6700 Sprint PPC-6700 Telus 6700 T-Mobile MDA Vario II Verizon XV6700 Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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