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» Blogging about mobile WordPress blogging

I know, I know. It is a somewhat corny blog title but that’s the best I could do at this hour. So anyway, I wrote two blog posts earlier today. One from the WordPress native iPhone App and one from the mobile WPhone plugin for WordPress. I had my complaints on the app that it can’t do pages and comments but while working with both for a while today and discussing it with Terry White, I’ve found my way which I think I’ll be using them.

There is just no better way right now to make blog posts on the iPhone than from the native app itself. It can post pictures (sadly you can’t choose where in the post they appear) and you can manage the posts far more easily. Sadly you can’t input hyperlinks or any text formatting in either of them which is a bummer.

The interface of the mobile plugin is really good for being a plugin and it is the best solution for editing comments, pages and users. You know, the extra bit on your blog. However the posting of posts is just noway near the advanced (under the circumstances yes) way the app does it. Now, I’m not saying there is not room for improvement. I like many want links, text formatting and a lot more. Yet I feel the app has a more positive feel to it and is the future for the editing.

Right now though, I can see myself sticking with both. I’m definitely going to use the app for all blog posts I do and if I need to do anything else, the mobile version of the control panel is a good step in the right direction and something easy to use for that. It just takes a little reassessment of what I thought would be in it to see that it is really good. I thought at least that comments would be there though and it is definitely (along with formatting) something that could well make use in the app.

» Blogging from the iPhone 2

As another way of blogging from the iPhone, we have the plugin called WPhone. Sure it can’t do hyperlinks (neither can the app) but it has the benefit of being able to do more. For example you can write pages and manage comments and plugins from the interface. As if that wasn’t it, being safari and web based, you can just turn it around and you will get the vertical keyboard that you just can’t in the app that makes typing fly. A bummer though is that you can’t get any images…

Granted neither is this one perfect by I don’t know yet which one I like the most…

» Blogging from the iPhone 1

So, this is the first blog post that I am making from my iPhone. This post is using the WordPress app now available in the app store.

I don’t fancy this app that much as I had expected too because it just let’s me post posts and not pages or see comments etc.

I’m doing this as a comparative review between this app and a free (which this also is) plugin that gives a full interface. Next post from that…

» Calling and the iPhone

After ten gruesome days with my number in transition I can finally use the iPhone as a phone and it really does make it complete. Being able to surf whereever is really cool and of course being able to call and send SMSs the iPhone way is also really cool and something I’ve been waiting on for quite some time.

I’m realy pleased with how it behaves though and being able to call and do other things at the same time is cool, at least I think so. It’s a shame though that I can’t get visual voicemail here in Sweden yet because I bet that would be cooler than cool.

SMS

For me, sending text messages has never been simpler. Partly because I’ve never been fast on T9 writing and love a full keyboard – also partly because the way it is displayed which I quite like. It makes it much easier to follow up on the conversation you’ve had with someone without any hassle. It just works!

The Phone

The iPhone is a phone afterall and it does really do very good in the phone application as well. At a quick glance you get the favourite contacts and just a tap away are your recent calls, contacts the keypad and of course the voicemail (that for me is just a shortcut for calling the voicemail number). All of these lists are easy to navigate and they also look great (as does everything on the iPhone).

Final Verdict

The iPhone works as it should as a phone and I’ve had no problems with it after using it for a full day yet, it just works as I expect it to. I just wish the carrier here (TeliaSonera) would hurry up and develop Visual Voicemail with Apple.

 

» This weeks KelbyTraining news

I like to keep an update of what’s new in training from the good folks at KelbyTraining (note, I don’t get any perks from them by doing this, I do it just because they’re super). This week there are two new online classes going online.

• First up we have a new class from the great Lesa Snider King and this time on Photoshop Elements. The class is called Practical Photoshop Elements and in it, Lesa will take you though the most practical and non-destructive techniques in Elements. If you are an elements user, this class is definitely for you!
   
• Secondly we have a new class from Taz Tally called Professional Scanning Secrets. In this class, Taz will talk about how to scan properly to get the highest quality results.

If you haven’t been to KelbyTraining I would strongly suggest you go there and look at the classes, books, dvds and more that they offer, they are great. I have my review up of their online training as well.