Blogger App for iPhone

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Written on 10:58 PM by Walski69

It seems like the Blogger app for iPhone has been released. I just installed it and am giving it a go.

In fact, this posting was done using the free app. My assessment so far? Rather primitive and needs a LOT of work.

That said, it's quite intuitive, allowing you to get started without bruising any brain cells trying to figure out how. But because it has been designed for the iPhone, it doesn't look so nice on the iPad.
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Blogsy Test

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Written on 11:50 PM by Walski69

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This is a test of using Blogsy, a new blog authoring tool for the iPad that I recently installed. For the most part it works pretty okay.
(additional initial thoughts, and more, in the full post)

The only thing I don't like so far is the conversion of HTML paragraph tags to line breaks. I can add these quite easily in Write view, but once you swipe back to the WYSIWYG mode, they're automatically converted.

Kind of a bummer.

I will come in handy to post quickies that I'll revisit to put in proper look and feel. Pretty much how I use Amplify, come to think of it. Just have to remember NOT to preview!

Another annoying thing – Blogsy doesn’t handle the post-break code (using the HTML span tag) very well, and is another thing that needs fixing once I get a chance to download a post for editing.

In case you were wondering, the break code works fine on this post, because it’s been edited after posting.

One thing I could do is to do a posting without the break while on the road, and add that in later. Something to consider.

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iPad Blogging

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Written on 10:36 AM by Walski69

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Sometime back, I decided to give this blogging tool on iPad a go.

The tool is called Blogger+ and what it does is allow blog posts (and it works with Blogger, my platform of choice) to be created and posted directly from the iPad.

And for the most part it works pretty okay, except that it is nowhere near as flexible as Window's LiveWriter, which is what I normally use.
(the shortcomings of Blogger+, in the full post)

One of the main shortcomings is that while facilities are provided to embed pictures and other media, the choice of available online image repositories is limited. Another shortcoming I find is that this tool does not really cater to bloggers who use a standard template that is to be re-used.

But perhaps the biggest shortcoming is that while there is a text editor function built in, it treats text as whole objects, making template blogging impossible. It treats the template as an entirely different object altogether.

So now, we're gonna test what happens when one inserts blocks of text into the post.

This is the text that was inserted using the built-in text editor. After I complete this paragraph, I will go ahead and post this.

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IPad blogging Part 2

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Written on 4:53 PM by Walski69

This is my second attempt at using the iPad to draft a blog post out. The first one was to myAsylum. This time around, I'm posting this without using the usual template as a starting point, and test-posting it to this blog instead.

So, let's see how it looks...

Okay, except that the template stuff - like Technorati tags and the break-in-the post aren't included. Workaround? To keep the template permanently in drat, then copy it across whenever I need to post something new. A bit tedious having to compose in HTML, but until BloggerPlus has a WYSIWYG editor, or until the day Blogger comes out with an iPad app, this method will have to do.

It will definitely make it easier to blog on the go...

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