[plug] Live Slides

[Chris Watt]

Would prefer MMS -> Phone number as it;s easier for people to use (and
also there are still a fair few phones that don't support email).  We
don;t want to use BT because we don;t want to have trouble with the
link at critical times.

>From OSX, how would I write a script (In Apple Script I assume) that
would check the phone for mms's?

The idea is that people will be able to send their images to this
phone and it will then drop them into the computer instantly/quickly.

~Chris




On 5/11/06, Michael Holland <myk at myk.id.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Chris Watt wrote:
>
> > I need to work out a way to automagically stream images from a phone
> > (or such device to a computer to make a slideshow in realtime.  What I
>
> I'm not quite clear. Why does it have to be a phone?
> Do you want to wander around, take a photo and send it wirelessly to the
> slideshow?   Does this need to receive MMS images?
>
> If you just want a wireless camera, you can tell a phone to e-mail this
> images over the 'net. Is that even close to what you want?
>
> > want to do is when the phone (or such device) receives the images, it
>
> receives how? What is the source?
>
> > will then append them to the slideshow (the main point is how to have
> > the auto transfer haoppening, the rest i will sort out myself).
>
> You can have a script on the computer to poll a nearby phone, e.g. by
> bluetooth, for new images. Am I getting warmer?
>
> > Basically - Send to a number, the comp will then grab what was sent
> > and use it as it pleases.
>
> Why a 'number'? You mean by MMS?  Would an MMS-> email gateway help?
>
>
> Mike.
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