WordPress has just released the 1.1 version of their iPhone Blogging application. This was mostly a bug and stability fix so their are no noticable feature updates or changes. They did reference the coming 1.2 version and provided a link to it from their announcement iphone.wordpress.net.
The 1.2 version virtually looks like my Don’t Like and Wish List combined together. It is supposed to include the ability to add links to posts, better image insertion, and password protection. This app already has gotten me blogging more but the addition of these items would make my life much easier.
Thanks WordPress team for awesome blogging software and an awesome software app!
I know it gas only been a day (or so) since the WordPress iPhone blogging app has come out but I have already used it to do at least 5 posts on various blogs. As I speculated it is allowing me to blog more which I really have been struggling to do. The fact that I can blog from anywhere has caused me to try to utilize my down time more and I am actually trying to think of things to blog about now. Also, I do not feel restricted by the tiny keyboard and have actually typed some rather long posts (quite longer then long emails that I have done in the past).
With that there have been somethings that have surfaced on my like/dislike/wish lists in regards to the app. I will start with the likes first.
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Another update here at the idano.net website is that I fixed the issue that I had with images being uploaded and displayed properly.
I did not have the “Full URL path to filed” set. It says that this an optional setting and it worked before but I guess it wanted it now.
Anyway here are some pics from my iPhone to make sure that it is working.
Well I found out the hard way that WordPress does not support posting photos via their post by email function.
I did a little searching and found the Postie plugin that allows you to do so ( sorry I cannot provide a link – the iPhone doesn’t have a way to do so).
Anyway, this is cool because now I can blog from anywhere.
Now to go get it setup on my other blogs…
- This was sent via my iPhone, please excuse any typos.
As you know I have been searching hign and low for a Desktop Blog Editor for Mac that works half way decent. I recently tried Ecto but was not impressed.
The biggest item that has been missing from all the Blog Editors is the ability to resize images easily within the post. So instead of looking for a desktop client that could do this I looked for an image manager for WordPress.
I found a great one.
The name is quite simple – ImageManager. ImageManger replaces the included imag upload feature that is included with WordPress. It gives you ability to upload and image which creating a thumbnail. It also allows you to resize the thumbnail and apply style to. When you are done manipulaing the image you just click OK an the code is automatically entered into you post.
The above image was added to this post with ease.
Next I am going to look to get the photo border added to my CSS file as you can add classes to the images also.
It looks as though I am back to using the online editor now.
Technorati: WordPress, WordPress Plugin, ImageManager, Images
I was recently editing a page in Dreamweaver 8 and discover a cool little function in it. The function allowed you to resize an image in the page and then resample so that the original image became the same size as the resized image. I thought to myself that this would be really cool when doing a blog post. Windows Live Writer does this but I am still on the hunt for a Mac equivalent.
Enter Adobe Contribute.
Adobe is in between versions right now and is supposed to be releasing the CS3 version in about a month. With a little digging I was able to download Contribute version 4 to try out. Another item to mention is that Contribute is expensive @ $150, especially when other desktop blog editors are free. I am trying it out because I am planning on upgrading to the CS3 web suite and Contribute is a part of it so in essence I would not paying for it (on it’s own anyway).
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I had reviewed Qumana quite some time ago on Windows and wasn’t quite impressed because of some bugs that I experienced at the time. Since I have been jonesing for Windows Live Writer lately I thought that I would give Qumana a shot on the MacBook.
I have to say that the initial experience has been more of a positive one them I remember. Qumana downloaded quickly and after the unzip I dropped in my applications folder. From there opening Qumana prompted me to enter my blog info which automatically detected my WordPress blog and downloaded my most recent posts.
From there I started this post. The first thing I noticed was their "Posted by Quamana" message in the bottom right hand corner. A quick trip to the preferences window allowed me to remove that. While I was there I noticed a check box to check spelling inline – nice – I activated it.
Next, the image test – the best that I have come across so far for Mac. Qumana allowed me to browse to an image, resize it, upload, and apply spacing to it – all without having to go to the HTML source. Also, once you have done al of this if you do not like the size of the photo you can right click on it and edit all of the same items – double nice!
Great job Qumana!
I am totally stoked. I have now officially found a Blog Desktop Editor that works really well in Mac. I will have to retest it in Windows to see if it works as well there.
Tags: Desktop Blog Editor, Mac, Qumana, Windows Live Writer
Here there. This is just a test post from the Flock blog editor.
The reason for the test is that I am looking for a blog editor to go on my MacBook. I currently use Window Live Writer on Windows but it does not work on OS X (of course).
The biggest item for me that is important in a blog editor is how it handles images. WLW does this amazingly well. Unfortunately images within Flock are a different story.
First, I could not find how to add an image until I consulted the help section. I found out that you add images through the main browser window which connects to your Flickr account. Second, once you get the image to your post you cannot resize it without distortion. Third, there are no controls (that I could find) to align the image either left or right.
While it seems like Flock is cool by adding the function to blog it just does not seem very usable.
Final Note: While manually editing the above picture to float to the right and have some space on the left side I noticed Flock added some unnecessary markup to the HTML. Some of these things included a rough span tag and several break tags within paragraph tags. With that I find it to be totally unusable.
P.S. I went back and edited this post with Windows Live Writer because the above picture just looked terrible.
Technorati: Blog Desktop Client, Flock, Windows Live Writer
I got a following email from Microsoft on whether the issue that I was having with uploading images was resolved with the latest version of WordPress.
I am happy to say that the image to the right was uploaded via the xmlrpc.php as opposed to the FTP option that Window Live Writer offers.
I guess this was user error and I am sorry for the false alarm.
My props goes to Microsoft for actually seeking out feedback on their product and trying to fix issues that come up.
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