Posts Tagged ‘ wordpress

Mobile blogging via the WP symbian client

I’ve been looking around for that perfect mobile wordpress blogging client and so far nothing’s quite worked out. If this post is published with an image, then my mobile blogging quest has been successful. The WordPress client for symbian was too basic the last time I checked out. But version 0.5.5 is quite robust. No blog errors so far, in many ways this is a test blog post.
now to try inserting an image, because I find that’s something most clients are bad at and that’s one reason I’ve never been able to blog off my mobile phone…

mobile blogging from a symbian phone, anyone?

Decided that wordmobi was taking too much space on the paltry space I had on my N97′s C drive. It turned out symbianguru was also in search of a blogging solution. I turned to the default Nokia browser and the wordpress backend which wasn’t too much to write about. It barely does the job and is almost next to being completely unusable.

Mobile Upload

I tried out wordpress on both the opera mini and the mobile and both of them wouldn’t let me type a single word.

Mobile Upload (1)

Frustrated, I looked for help on Google and after a few stray results I got a wordpress plugin for the Iphone named the mobile admin, which unfortunately was unsupported with WP 2.5 and above.More searching around got me the Wphone plugin which allowed me to type the content until this point.

Mobile Upload (2)

But it wouldn’t support images or links. And my search continued. Searching on google got me to this blog post on mobile applications I tried out a few java apps until I came across Wavelog from telewaving. Now wavelog had a really confusing interface and it wasn’t freeware. I downloaded the 30 day trial and got it to work with a little help from their help files.

Mobile Upload (4)

The app works well on my symbian v5 device and supports v3 as well. I decided to go ahead and spend the $8.25 on the full version. Now thats the longest post I’ve made from my mobile phone. Now all I need are a few screenshots and this post is done. I think the search for a good mobile blogging solution is far from being complete. But then I don’t have an Iphone. Because we chose to be different.

Wordmobi, mobile blogging for wordpress

Got this symbian app to blog from my mobile, Wordmobi. And decided to take it out for spin..wordmobi needs python for s60 to be installed on your mobile phone..but the download link is available on their google code page.
I’m not too sure how links and html works on the real post..but the app has support for categories, tags and even statistics which i believe needs the api key. Have i found the perfect mobile blogging solution? Well, atleast for the wordpress solution. And the app looks polished and is pretty easy to use as well. I cannot stop complaining the dearth of symbian apps. I don’t even get a facebook symbian app.

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Press this – the nifty wordpress bookmarklet

Scribefire’s blogging extension for firefox was featured on thunderror.com a while ago.

I always had the press this bookmarklet on my bookmarks list, but had never bothered to use it until now. But I soon came to realize what a valuable tool it was. Instead of sending those weird bits and pieces of the internet to your tumblelog or your twitter, why not blog about them on your primary blog? Twitter as always has been a major distraction to my blogging activities. So get back to microblogging on your own blog. Thanks to Press this!

The bookmarklet allows you to post to your wordpress blog from anywhere on the web, which is as good as scribefire. All it takes is a click off the button. Like something you see on the web? Click on the bookmarklet and share it with your blog visitors.

I know most of you would already have used this tool if you own, or have owned a WP blog at some point of time. But this post is for all those people who wish to come back and blog more than they tweet!

If you have a wordpress blog, go to your tools page and you should find your press this button right there, waiting for you!

TALE OF A MOBILE BLOGGER

Posted from a mobile phone:
This post is to commemorate the success of mobile royale, the completely mobile maintained blog. I came across his blog through one of my google reader entries. You can read his account here. All the more appreciable is his effort considering that it is hosted on a free domain name and attempts to keep it alive inspite of the tough times.

My passion for mobile tech has ensured that I read most blogs relevant to the subject..Is it possible to completely eliminate the use of computers? After all, what you have in your pocket is not one thing. It is manthis post comes from my mobile phone as well. from my trusty e66.

I use the WordPress mobile plugin to make blogposts from my mobile phone. The plugin barely does its job if you ask me. It is good enough to provide a mobile interface for your blog but not for making blog entries from your mobile phone. Which is why, I had to complete this blog post from my PC, since the plugin kept moving the cursor around and didn’t even let me complete the blog post. Yeah! I said trusty e66 and a not so trustworthy plugin. Try out ready.mobi to check whether your blog is truly mobile web ready!