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Each day I like to learn something new and to try something I have not tried before. Sometimes the ideas run thin but it seems like most of them appears from thin air. Today’s idea turned out to be something that should have been easy. It is something that I’ve done many times before. The difference between then and now – before I used a PDA cell phone to attach a photo to my email and today I tried it on my iPhone 3G.

I needed to add a photo to one of my blog posts. Not wanting to boot up my laptop in order to use my SD card from my digital camera I decided to take the photo with my iPhone and then email it to myself. My desktop is already up and going so I just wanted to keep things simple.

First of all I took the photo. Then I opened an email and that is where my idea hit a snag. There was no way to attach a photo. What did I do? I asked Google.

Sure enough there is a way to attach a photo to an email on an iPhone 3G.

· Open the photo app on the iPhone
· Snap a digital photo
· Touch the little double square in the lower left hand corner which opens the screen showing all of your photos
· Touch the photo you want to send
· Touch the little square with an arrow in it in the lower left hand corner
· Choose the “Email Photo” option – give it a second and the email will open with the photo in it. (The photo will end up as an attachment to the recipient)
· Touch the “To” space and enter the email address
· Touch the “Subject” space and enter the subject of your email
· Touch the screen above the photo and type what you want to say
· Touch the “Send” button

Even though attaching a photo to an email on my iPhone 3G is not earth shattering it was important to me. After working hard all day I just wanted to get the task done. I have now fulfilled my daily goal of trying something new so I will end it here. What have you tried today?