Posting to Vox on a mac

Despite the fact I'm the interaction designer for Vox, I'm not apt to post a lot of entries because I use a mac and can't post in Safari. And we would love to support Safari here and we're looking forward the next version enabling us to.

I could post using Firefox, but it just doesn't feel like a real mac app. The real killer for me is it doesn't quite feel like a mac especially when it comes to composing text.

Being dyslexic, the inline spell checker is a must and I cope by composing most of my entries and comments in the mac Mail app, then pasting it into Firefox and fixing any formatting.

There's a way I can skip the cut-and-paste part though.

We call the feature mobile posting (it's in your account settings) because just like sending a text message, you don't have all the rich text formatting options like the compose page offers. A mobile post is sent by email, which means you can update your blog from any mail application.

While it doesn't support rich text messages and if you want to do any formatting you'll need to write html code, that doesn't matter when you're just posting a quick update to let your friends know what's up.

You can even email your photos to Vox from inside iPhoto.

Here's what you do.

1. Go to your Account > Mobile Settings
2. You should find a couple posting emails already set up to make friends only or public posts.
3. Copy the email address to your address book
4. Send an email to that address (I named mine "Vox: Everyone" and "Vox: Friends and Family" so they'll autofill when I start typing Vox)

We have a couple advanced features you might like as well. If you want to set up and address just to send photos, audio or video files, you might want to turn "Create post" off so they will go directly into your library without making a post. You can also set up emails to automatically add tags or send the post to a group, or several.

Like I said, you don't get all the features from compose, but I was able to create and post this from my mail application. There's more in Vox Help.