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Yesterday I spent my day doing the ironing and dancing around the back room with the kids. Meggan spent the entire day with me and she was joined by our boys for brief periods. I ironed clothes and Meggan demanded the music – notably Katy Perry’s ‘I kissed a girl’ to dance to. Eventually she … Continue reading “those crazy kids”
Yesterday I spent my day doing the ironing and dancing around the back room with the kids.
Meggan spent the entire day with me and she was joined by our boys for brief periods. I ironed clothes and Meggan demanded the music – notably Katy Perry’s ‘I kissed a girl’ to dance to.
Eventually she got tired and the picture above shows what she did, unprompted, to ‘relax’ after her dancing exertions.
I was inspired by TheRonster to try out iBlogger after being faintly disappointed with the native WordPress application. The results are pretty encouraging though I’m not 100% sure that I like the editor – aren’t I a fussy bugger? Anyway – testing out a link and photo. Aha – links are listed at the bottom … Continue reading “iBlogging”
I was inspired by TheRonster to try out iBlogger after being faintly disappointed with the native WordPress application.
The results are pretty encouraging though I’m not 100% sure that I like the editor – aren’t I a fussy bugger?
Anyway – testing out a link and photo.
Aha – links are listed at the bottom unless you hard code them and photos are at the top, again, unless hard-coded. Not bad. Will give it a go on the road tomorrow during Open Coffee.
Nigel Cooke (monkeynuts) was debating an eee PC or trying the iPhone out… So there you have it – full blogging on the train. I must admit I’m very impressed with how natural this feels. The whole post, including proof reading, has taken about 6 minutes (which includes ponderous moments of white wine intake) Monkey … Continue reading “Blog by Train”
Nigel Cooke (monkeynuts) was debating an eee PC or trying the iPhone out...
So there you have it – full blogging on the train. I must admit I’m very impressed with how natural this feels. The whole post, including proof reading, has taken about 6 minutes (which includes ponderous moments of white wine intake)
Monkey is gonna like this ! Oh and during this blog post I’ve taken 2 calls from the office, replied to 3 emails and sent a calendar invite to 10 people for Monday morning. Ladies and Gents I give you the future, and it’s iPhone shaped!
I’m impressed as well.
HerIndoors has decreed that no laptops will be making the journey with us on our two week holiday after the wedding. None. That’s quite frightening considering that I’m used to having a multipurpose computing platform close by at all times. And being stuck with something that doesn’t have a keyboard, can’t print, can’t really transfer files around and has finite storage (though 16 GB is an awful lot).
But two weeks without an iPhone sync? Or a refresh of materials?
See, my intent is to spend the two weeks blogging from around the world. I reckon it will cost me an arm and a leg in terms of mobile data but it should be worth it in the end. How better to mark an occasion.
As I mentioned before, I think WordPress for iPhone really misses the mark. It doesn’t really add anything to the existing apps that are out there – look at iPhoneSlide which I’ve used a couple of times. It has much the same capabilities and works straight from your email client (and because it uses email, … Continue reading “WordPress for iPhone: relegated”
As I mentioned before, I think WordPress for iPhone really misses the mark. It doesn’t really add anything to the existing apps that are out there – look at iPhoneSlide which I’ve used a couple of times. It has much the same capabilities and works straight from your email client (and because it uses email, is available from within the Camera application on iPhone without having to take a picture, then switch apps. It also doesn’t have that nasty picture-attachment bug which causes crashing and means your post has to be recovered every time. In my opinion, this release from WordPress was not ‘rushed’ so much as it just needs a rethink about what features they were intending to put in.
I’d like to see an interface for comment moderation and replies. I mean, some of the web based mobile interfaces allow this. The software as-is is a posting machine. It needs to be a conversation machine. This part of it is completely missing and that’s somewhat inexcusable.
I’d like the ability to place an image (even just as an icon placeholder), center it if necessary and allow the user to place some text underneath the image. At this point it does no better than the email services as it just adds the content as an attachment at the bottom.
The app is now relegated to my back screens for “software I likely won’t use much” until there’s a significant update. The next step is simply removal.