{"id":449,"date":"2011-03-21T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2011\/03\/21\/more-sharing-options\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T17:52:51","slug":"more-sharing-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2011\/03\/21\/more-sharing-options\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sharing Options"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week<\/a> I wrote how to email figure snapshots from MATLAB and MATLAB Mobile. I had such a good response from last week, I want to continue that thought and talk about some more options for sharing from MATLAB.<\/p>\n

Before I get started, I’d like to mention that my co-worker Rich Quist had already packaged that sendmail<\/tt> trick with a submission on the File Exchange<\/a>. If you’re interested in emailing your figures around, take a look at that function.<\/p>\n

“Local Sharing”<\/strong>
\nBesides e-mail, there are many other ways to distribute pictures. You may want to add a particularly pretty or informative plot to a gallery. In MATLAB Mobile, you can select “Save To Photos” to add a snapshot to your device’s Saved Photos album in the Photos app. On a Windows machine you can move a saved image file to your “My Pictures” (or a Library folder in Windows 7). On the Mac, you can move the file to your iPhoto directory.<\/p>\n

\"Save<\/div>\n

SMS\/MMS<\/strong>
\nMany iPhone apps let you share text and pictures via SMS\/MMS. When we were designing the action menu, we didn’t want to clutter the menu with an extra action without a strong use case. But, should you want to send a snapshot from your iPhone, you can first save it to the Photos app and then share it via SMS from there. However there is a pretty good use case for sending a text from the Desktop. It may be useful to send messages as part of a long-running script to notify you of its status, results, or errors. There is not a specific SMS function in MATLAB, but you can use sendmail<\/tt> to send an email to a phone number if your carrier allows. A quick Google search, turned up this page<\/a> for the email addresses used by the major carriers.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/strong>
\nFor those of you who think 140 characters is more than enough, you can send messages via Twitter from MATLAB too! I was tuned into this post describing a twitter function via the MATLAB… and more…blog. There’s also a similar function up on the File Exchange<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’m laying down a challenge to you Twittering MATLAB users. I’d like to see a function that uses the TwitPic API to upload a figure image along with a tweet from MATLAB.<\/p>\n

And while you’re on Twitter, be sure to follow @MATLAB<\/a> for all sorts of MATLAB news and info. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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