Shozu

I love Shozu. I kinda miss my old moblog, but it’s no fun when the community is dead and nobody ever looks at your pix. At flickr.com, you always have ppl looking at your pix, so it’s more fun. So now I just use the tag “moblog” on my flickr account as my moblog.

Shozu allows me to upload pix to flickr, from my phone, with less steps than if I just emailed it. Also, it auto-reduces the size for the web so that I don’t have to, saving me MANY clicks on the phone. But for some reason, tonight, it’s not reducing for web even though it ABSOLUTELY is set to do that. Shozu has been SO buggy. It was on my nokia 3650 and it is now on my nokia N80 (both symbian phones). It’s always freezing up causing me to have to reset my phone. When I’m not using shozu or uninstall it, this never happens. Today a few times I turned off the phone, popped out the battery, waited a few minutes, restarted, and when I went into shozu, the first thing it did when I tried to call up an image was say “memory low, close some other programs before using shozu” or something like that. But there were no other programs running. I’m going to uninstall it and then resintall it. What a pain. I hate to have set it all up again. But I love it, just wish it wasn’t so buggy. From googling around, I see it’s not just me.

I could just email the photos straight from the phone, but it’d take many steps to reduce the image size and send. Shozu is like one or just a few clicks and it does all that (when it’s working right). The other thing I like about shozu is that shozu caches your images on the server until you delete them from the phone so that you can then upload a pic to another site or email address without incurring the cost of another upload. Shozu just signals the server without uploading the image, and tells the server to forward on the image to the second place. If it weren’t for these features, I’d try other moblogging services. Nakama.ca is really good because they have no software to munge up your phone, but then you don’t have the features I mentioned (although I will be taking another look at nakama, as I’m sure they are always adding features).

Ok, sleeping pill kicking in, so I gotta go. :)

Updated to add: I cleared most of the pix off the phone and it’s still freezing up.  Guess I am going to have to uninstall/reinstall after all.  Ugh.  I need to go to bed!

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