It’s easy to take a photo or video on your phone and then send it in a MMS to a friend, or even multiple friends, but it’s not as easy to take that same picture and post it to Twitter or Photobucket. Sure you can go online and upload it, plug your phone into your computer and download it, or send it to yourself in an email, but there just has to be a better way! Enter Shozu, an undercover app that, like a stealthy ninja, sends your pictures to your online photo hosting sites as soon as you take them.

It takes opening Shozu twice to actually get to the app the first time you use it, this is because the first time you open it you are starting it and every time after that you are opening the app. Of course you don’t have to open the app to use it every time, when you take a picture Shozu pops up and asks if you would like to send it to your photo hosting page right away (This is a wonderful idea as I generally forget to send the photos to the sites after I’ve taken them).

Shozu currently supports photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, PhotoBucket, Twitter, Friendster, Kodak Easyshare Gallery, Picasa and more! Also, Shozu supports blogging sites like Blogger, LiveJournal, and Wordpress (plus others!), a few citizen journalism sites (e.g., BBC News, CNN, etc.), and FTP and email. If you want to send your photo somewhere more than likely Shozu supports the site or plans on supporting it in the future.

You can read more about the freeware app, Shozu, or you can go ahead and sign up right away! Shozu is definitely worth the time to sign up and get this service on your mobile phone. Shozu is currently supported on most mobile phones with a camera, but you may wish to check for availability on your phone. Remember, Shozu uses a data connection to upload and download files so it is best to get an unlimited data service from your provider.