Michael Gorey

I don’t use my mobile phone much for taking photos. At various times I’ve bought phones with ramped up camera capabilities, but for various reasons I haven’t utilised them much.

My brain hasn’t tuned into the fact that phones today are also cameras, voice recorders and music players among other things. They do almost everything except vacuum and turn the lights out.

My JasJam mobile takes a reasonable photo, however.

While browsing for the latest Windows Mobile freeware I discovered a relatively new web-based data sync service called Dashwire.

Sign up for a free account, supply your mobile number, install software on your web-enabled phone and it magically synchronises your phone data to a private web account.

This includes pictures, text messages, ringtones, contacts and call logs.

Through the Dashwire admin panel you can choose which elements you want to share with the world.

My public site shows the handful of decent photos I’ve taken with the phone in the past year or so.

There are some limitations: You need a Windows Mobile phone and it’s recommended you have an unlimited data account.

I’m guessing the latter applies if you’re syncing lots of photos and video files in particular. I have a capped data plan and I’ll monitor it over the next week to see how much I’m using.

These articles might be of interest:

• Unyverse mobile wiki
• Imified
• Pre-paid mobile phone rip-off