Apple does a very good job integrating support for downloading photos and images from iPhone and digital cameras using iPhoto. But sometimes all you want is to pull a couple of photos quick and easy. Or (and this is truly unbelievable!) you happened to have no iLife on your Mac.

Here comes Image Capture to the rescue. Image Capture is a handy application that is a part of every Mac OS X installation. You can find it under Applications in Finder. Image Capture provides no tools to organize images into albums, but it does help with retrieving images from iPhone, digital cameras and even scanners. And it does it well.

To get photos from an iPhone, first, connect it to your Mac. Then start Image Capture application either from Finder’s Applications folder or by searching Spotlight:

Once running, Image Capture recognizes iPhone and displays its name in the title together with showing iPhone icon on the left:

On this first screen you can change download location; choose to run additional tasks like cropping or building a slideshow; and change options. Once you decided ‘where to’ and ‘how’, the last remaining question is ‘what’. To download everything, click Download All button. Otherwise Download Some… will open a browser window, where you can make your image selection:

Hit Download button. You are done!

P.S. Did you know that Image Capture can be used to monitor a remote location? The answer is in the Help.

Contributors: ihagaki
Donate link: http://www.ihagaki.com/
Tags: comment, feedback, form, gmail, mail
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 2.8.6
Stable tag: 1.2

Description

HGK Feedback Form plugin adds feedback (or comment) form to any page or post. It does that by replacing <!-- hgk feedback form --> magic comment with the form’s HTML.

HGK Feedback Form features clean look and feel similar to WordPress’ standard Submit Comment form, yet customizable via included style.css.

The following options can be set from plugin’s admin panel:

• Recipient email address for user feedback submissions.
• Subject for notification email.
• Message to show user in case of successful feedback submission.
• Message to show user in case of submission errors.

Installation

1. Download hgk-feedback-form.zip.
2. Uncompress.
3. Upload hgk-feedback-form to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
5. Configure options via plugin’s admin panel. Once plugin is installed and activated a new HGK Feedback From item appears in General menu of WordPress admin Dashboard.
6. Edit a page or post and insert <!-- hgk feedback form --> to its content.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I see a demo of the plugin in action?

We use it on our site, please see Contact Us page.

Screenshots

1. Screenshot of HGK Feedback Form Options admin panel.

   

Changelog

v1.2 2009-12-18

• fixing javascript for IE7;

v1.1 2009-12-05

• localization to Russian and Spanish;
• fixing incorrect encoding bug for non-English user input;
• fixing bug when Comment textarea was displaying html break tag in place of newline symbol;

v1.0 2009-09-10

• initial release;

Support

Please feel free to contact us by visiting support page and leaving your feedback:
http://www.ihagaki.com/wordpress/hgk-feedback-form-plugin/

During synchronization iTunes performs image “optimization”. In reality images are resized to iPhone screen resolution of 480 by 320 pixels. This is probably sufficient for on-screen viewing (unless you want to zoom in on details), but even for sharing via email 480 x 320 is not that huge.

There is a couple of ways to workaround this limitation. They are not perfect, but lets work with what we have…

Email

If you have email account configured on your device, simply email high resolution photos to yourself. Then on iPhone

1. Start Mail application;
2. Navigate to the message with the photos:

   

3. Tap on attachment icons to download images:

   

4. Tap and hold on an image until prompted for actions:

   

5. Choose Save;

Your full resolution images will be saved to “Camera Roll” (“Saved Photos” on iPod touch).

Mobile Safari

If you have your high resolution images published on a website, you can save them to Camera Roll from Safari using the same tap and hold steps as above.

Contributors: ihagaki
Tags: gmail, mail, phpmailer, smtp, wp_mail
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 2.8.4
Stable tag: 1.1

Summary

This plugin reconfigures WordPress email to use secure SMTP such as Gmail. Plugin options are accessible through the admin panel.

Description

HGK SMTP plugin reconfigures wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail(). Particularly, it allows sending outgoing mail via Gmail or Google Apps accounts.

The following options can be set from plugin’s admin panel:

• SMTP server address.
• SMTP server port.
• SMTP username and password.
• Whether or not SSL should be used.
• From: email address and Sender’s name for outgoing mail.

Installation

1. Download hgk-smtp.zip.
2. Uncompress.
3. Upload hgk-smtp to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use HGK SMTP plugin with Gmail or Google Apps?

Yes. In fact it was originally developed to work with Gmail.
The following options should get you going:

• SMTP server address: smtp.gmail.com
• Use SSL connection: yes (checked)
• SMTP server port: 465
• SMTP username: your Gmail / GoogleApps email address
• SMTP password: your Gmail / GoogleApps password

This plugin does not seem to affect my WordPress blog mailing behavior?

Make sure that no mailing, SMTP or other plugins with similar functionality are active.

Still this plugin does not seem to affect my WordPress blog mailing behavior?

HGK SMTP plugin works by modifying behavior of wm_mail() function. Unfortinately, some plugins are known to call PHP’s mail() directly. If the case, you should be able to correct that by searching for instances of mail() and replacing them with wp_mail(). Since the parameters to the both functions are the same, this simple textual replacement works.

Screenshots

1. Screenshot of HGK SMTP Options admin panel:

   

Changelog

v1.1 2009-09-14

• enabling localization

v1.0 2009-09-09

• initial release

Support

Please feel free to contact us by visiting support page and leaving your feedback:
http://www.ihagaki.com/wordpress/hgk-smtp-plugin/

Emoji is a Japanese word literally meaning “picture character” or emoticon. In Japan mobile handsets have built-in support for Emoji characters and are capable of sending and receiving wireless messages containing them. [Check Wikipedia for more details.] iPhone too supports Emoji starting with firmware 2.2, but by default it is disabled on units sold outside of Japan.

There is a lot of information available on the Internet discussing different ways to enable Emoji on iPhone, but arguably the easiest is with a little help from “Spell Number – get emoji…” free iPhone app [App Store link]. This app in addition to its spelling bee smarts contains what’s known in software industry as Easter Egg and enables Emoji keyboard.

The steps below do not require jailbreaking and were verified to work on iPhone and iPod touch with firmware from 2.2.1 to 3.0.1.

Here is what to do:

• Install the application from the App Store;
• Start “Spell Number” and
• Enter the following: 91929394.56 91929394.59;
• Return to Home Screen by pressing Home Button;
• Go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> International Keyboards -> Japanese;
• Turn ON the slider for Emoji.

Now start any application accepting text input – Notes, SMS or iHagaki Postcards, tap on a text input control to bring keyboard on, then tap on World Icon until you see Emoji pictographs.

That’s it!

A word of warning: SMS containing Emoji are perfectly readable when sent to iPhone users, but people with other mobile handsets most probably will see some garbled text instead. The same is true for Mail app: Emoji characters in email messages are readable when viewed on iPhone, but other email clients, including Mac’s Mail.app, Mobile Me and Gmail, do not handle them correctly.