SendPics sounds useful, but I'm not jailbroken and don't plan to. I'm sure come June sending fullrez photos from your iPhone with true iPhone SDK apps is going to be easy to do!

I agree. I don't use it that way either. But I've learned in recent days that some people do.

Also, the tagging works. I did an example the other day when we were chatting.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalnomad/2402626666/

But thanks for pointing that out.

As for the problems you had with tagging, it has always worked for me, so I don't know what issues you ran into there. Sounds frustrating! Another neat feature that Flickr offers is to have default tags set on incoming emails. This removes the need to have to put the tag into the email. Of course, this assumes you want to lifestream every emailed Flickr photo to Twitter. I guess many people do roll like that.

The timing issue can come up with direct messaging. You have to make sure that Flickr has actually received your post via email. With the tagging method, I can see how if you are expecting real-time, you may be a bit anxious. But once you've used a service successfully and trust that the pics will post, then just tagging them in your mail to Flickr and moving on will probably work for most people, imho.

Your two emails method works of course, but I'd rather just store my photos in one place. I've considered offering a mail-in service which then forwards on to Flickr and only temporarily resides with my service. Perhaps some folks would still like something like that.

Feel free to let me know if there is something else you'd like to see.

Thanks!