Okay, so Jaiku is flavour of the month again thanks to the Google acquisition, and you know you have to start using it, however hard you might resist. But unless you have a symbian or Java phone, you’re basically screwed. Sure you can use SMS, if that’s your bag. Unless you live somewhere like Japan where SMS is totally dead technology, long since buried by effective, cheap mobile email without all of that silly character limit business.
Well, there’s a quick and dirty hack for all of you, so fear not:
1.) Grab yourself a Tumblr account. If you have one, get a new one, just for this job.
2.) Grab the RSS feed of your Tumblr account. It will be in the following format: http://username.tumblr.com/rss
3.) Go to the Settings menu from the Tumblr dashboard, and turn off the option that says “Truncate RSS feed”
4.) Go to the Goodies tab of the Tumblr dashboard, and scribble down the “post to mobile” email address you find there
5.) Add said email address to your mobile address book
6.) Add your Tumblr RSS feed to your Jaiku incoming feeds (>Settings >Manage Your Web Feeds >Add Another Atom or RSS Feed)
7.) You’re done, now you can email Jaiku’s out to your heart’s content
But I want to read them, too I hear you cry.
Sheesh, some people want the earth.
All you have to do in that case is make use of your Jaiku feed and stick it in RSSFwd, so that it gets emailed to your phone in your choice of HTML or plaintext, by-the-post, or in email digests. Woop.
Not the most elegant of hacks, I know, but until Google make Jaiku a wee bit more friendly or third party developers rush to the new hip scene, leaving Twitter for dead, this will keep Symbianless tech-fashion-victims happy for now I hope.
Not sure how useful this one will be outside of Japan, but there you go.
BTW - if you do have a nokia, you can download the nokia app, and if you are on another Java based phone there’s a widget for you.