Day 21– Easily Share Photos from Phone to Tablet to TV on a Windows 8 Tablet
A Windows 8 Tablet for Teaching and Learning - Day 21
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
First of all Happy Holidays to everyone and I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year. Today is a very special day as many are celebrating Christmas Day.
Many pictures will be taken today to share with friends and family. There are many ways to take pictures including digital cameras, mobile phones, and now tablets with built-in cameras. I prefer to use my mobile phone as it is more portable (I almost always have it with me). I also do not like to look silly holding up a big 10+ inch slab of glass taking pictures and possibly blocking others view. If you have ever been to concerts where some people hold up their tablets to take a photo or video you know what I mean.
Mobile phones are great for portability but sometimes a 3.5 inch screen is just too small to do your pictures justice when showing them off to others. I found an easy way around this limitation as I use my Windows Phone to take pictures and upload them to my Skydrive account. It is possible to setup my Windows Phone to automatically upload every photo to Skydrive when I take a picture with my phone. I sometimes do set it up this way, but I prefer to be more selective in what I upload to my Skydrive account so I usually just upload only select photos on demand to Skydrive.
If you have been reading this blog you probably know where this is going. I can access my Skydrive account on my Ativ 500T tablet and have immediate access to my photos taken on my phone that were just uploaded to Skydrive. You do have to have an Internet connection to do this but once the photos are uploaded to Skydrive I can easily show them off on my tablet on a beautiful 11.6 inch screen.
The pictures look so much better than on a small smartphone screen. One better, because the Ativ 500T has a microHDMI out I can easily connect it to my HDTV and share my photos in near real-time (there is some delay for uploading the photos to Skydrive depending upon your Internet connection speed) but once uploaded the photos can be displayed on the TV for everyone to see.
I do not recommend uploading your photos to Skydrive unless you are connected to local WiFi connection. Uploading photos over a 3G or 4G connection may eat into your data cap and possibly result in overage fees. I have not tried the Skydrive app on Android or iOS but I would think this would also work on those devices.
You can later share your pictures on Facebook or Twitter if you so choose or send an email with a link to the picture you want to share from Skydrive via email.
To send a link via email on a Windows 8 Tablet do the following:
With the picture open in Skydrive, go to the Charms bar, select Share, then Email. Type in the email address of the recipient, type a short message and then press send. The email will be sent to the recipient with a link to the picture on Skydrive. The advantage to this method is there is not an attachment so you do not have to worry about sending large file sizes through email systems as some have file size limitations.
With the picture open in Skydrive, go to the Charms bar, select Share, then Email. Type in the email address of the recipient, type a short message and then press send. The email will be sent to the recipient with a link to the picture on Skydrive. The advantage to this method is there is not an attachment so you do not have to worry about sending large file sizes through email systems as some have file size limitations.
So there you have it. Take a photo on your phone, upload to Skydrive and then access it on your Tablet connected to your TV for the entire family to enjoy. Now if there were just an easy way to make a movie out of all those photos, stay tuned.
Keep on Learning,
Dr. Grissom
Tom Grissom, Ph.D.
Dr. Grissom
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