Music Tech Talk

I noticed that a lot of people have been trying to find the best email program for making Posterous posts.  While I have only used a handful of email programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Express and Outlook (2010), there is one that has become my particular favorite for email posting…

Outlook is the clear winner for me.  There were always weird little things I had to do to ensure my post wouldn’t look strange with other programs.  With Outlook, I consistently get an acceptable post (no need to edit formatting) in multiple platforms.  Each platform will make things look a little different, but nothing really whacky for the most part.  One problem that I have not taken the time to overcome is getting post tags to appear properly in anything but Posterous.  When I’d include formatting for Wordpress, for example, that same formatting would then screw-up the Posterous post.  In the short-run, I have found it much easier to just login to my Wordpress accounts and paste in the tags (and quickly click on the appropriate categories, for that matter). 

So, just for fun, we’ll see how the following formatting posts (from Outlook):

plain

bold

italic

centered

left justified

right justified

RED GREEN BLUE

And here is an image (centered – 670x593 - PNG):

A link to my Posterous site:  http://musictechtalk.posterous.com/ (NOTE:  links will target the same page, unless you change them… Generally speaking.)

OK, that should be enough.  I’ll update the post in comments with any formatting changes that were necessary when I get the chance.  Good luck with your email posting!