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Hi, my name is Teemu Harju. I'm a 27-year-old engineer from Espoo, Finland and this is site is my contribution to the world wide web. I'll write here about all kinds of stuff that interests me. Python coding is my passion. I'm also interested in different kinds of web technologies.

Fupper

Fupper is a photo uploading tool that you can use to upload photos to Flickr photo service using Series 60 mobile phones. It is written in Python and released as open source under the GPL license. You can find the source code from here. To download the application see the “Installing” section below.

Fupper main menu Fupper upload

Installing:

There are few requirements that you need to be able to install and run the Fupper application. You’ll need…

  1. Series 60 2nd edition phone. 1st and 3rd edition versions are under development, but since I don’t own such phones, I’m not able to test the application on those platforms.
  2. Python for Series 60 installed.
  3. pyexpat XML parser for Python for Series 60. I’m planning to remove this dependency once I find other way to easily implement XML parser on PyS60.
  4. Fupper application installer.

Using:

I’ve tried to make Fupper as easy as possible to use, but of course improvement ideas are always welcome. Once you start the application you’ll have to choose do you want to upload images from the memory card or from the phone memory. Then you’ll get a list of photos that you have on the location you’ve chosen. Currently Fupper does not support sub-folders so you see photos only from c:\Nokia\Images and e:\Images folders.

You can preview the photo either by selecting “preview” from the menu or clicking the navigate button right. You can navigate with the navigation button in all the views. So you can get back by pressing left and go forward by pressing right.

You can upload the selected photo to Flickr either in the list view or in the preview view by pressing the navigate button or selecting “Upload to Flickr” from the menu. Then you need to give the title, description and tags that will be associated with the photo.

If you are using Fupper for the first time, it needs to be authenticated by Flickr before you can upload anything. When you see “Authentication request”, you need to go to http://www.flickr.com/auth-21694 and authorize Fupper to use your account. You’ll get a token that you need to fill in to the Fupper application. If you gave the correct token the uploading should start. You need to authenticate the application only first time you use it.

Fupper authentication Fupper token

Reporting bugs and feature requests:

Fupper is still in Beta and there are probably some bugs in it. So far it has only been tested with Nokia 6630 mobile phone. In order to make the application better you can report bugs and give feature requests here. You can also send me email to teemu.harju (at) gmail.com or leave a comment in the comments section of this page.