Toshi,
I think you're doing a fantastic job on this kit which would probably have left me in tears looking at all the small plastic pieces I'd have to pick up from having smashed it against the floor . Seriously, your patience and increasing skills are testiment to what can be done with an ill-engineered kit.
OT ... I'm a visual learner so written explanations are sometimes difficult for me to grasp. I am going to post how I believe you should be able to post images from Flickr using your iPhone but, as you've already said, you don't see the black area with the symbols. I just don't understand that but I take you at your word. Perhaps there's a different matrix/html code for Apple products than for Word/Android OS's. At any rate, FWIW, if you WERE able to see the area in question, here's how I believe you could post images from Flickr to FineScale: