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BlogPress for Blogging on the Go

Dave Newman — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:05:37 +0000

iPhone and iPad users: If you’ve had enough of the complete bugginess of the WordPress App you need to give this one a try. At $2.99 it’s not as cheap (free) as the WordPress app but BlogPress (iTunes link) actually works! You just enter the type of blog you have (WordPress self-hosted blogs still use the WordPress setting), your username, password and site address. That’s it!

My site was giving me error messages until I enabled the XML-RPC feature under Settings > Writing > Remote Publishing but now all is well. Holy crap! It’s like the future!

Mobile app: WordPress (geekwithkids.com)
WordPress, Matt Cutts, And Google (wptavern.com)
WordPress Now Lets You Phone in Your Blog Posts (mashable.com)

Not a fan of AT&T…

Dave Newman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:06:40 +0000

then this is pure poetry.

iPhone Troubles

Dave Newman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:43:57 +0000

Image via CrunchBase,
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I love Apple products. Everyone who knows me understands that I am a fanboy of the (almost) highest order. My only “Meh” area is iPods but only because I usually have something else to listen to music on and we geeks can only carry so many toys. Which brings us to the iPhone.

I bought a first generation iPhone two days after its arrival on the market and have been very happy with it and its newer 3G version since I upgraded last month. But now we’re starting to have some issues. For example: Every time I speak to a client of mine for more than 15 minutes, the call “fails” and I hang up on her. This has happened at least five times in the past three business days.

Next one: The battery life on the 3G is pathetic. If you play with any of the cool features that you bought the phone for, you will easily drain the battery in three hours. I shouldn’t have to carry a laptop or external power source with me if I decide to take my phone to the Titans game. Not that I’d talk on it there but just sayin’.

Next: What is with the eternal freaking backups when you sync? All I want to do is update my Apps and music, not recreate the silicon chips inside! I had this fixed by using a little Terminal script on found on the Intertubes but now iTunes 8 seems to have re-introduced this ahem “feature.”

Now I don’t want to slam on Apple – I own stock for Pete’s sake – but they really need to get this thing sorted out. I won’t go back to a Blackberry either though – it’s bad karma to send money to those guys after the Predators deal and it’s just not that great a phone. To sum it all up, this is by far the best phone I’ve ever owned but it has to perform better for me to continue to sing its praises. There is nothing like it when it comes to the Internet and even being able to edit client sites from anywhere without a laptop (except for power – j/k). I hear there’s another software update on Friday. Let’s hope this is the one we’ve been waiting for.

Geek of the Day shot

Dave Newman — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:19:59 +0000

My iPhone with its new and improved cellular carrier thanks to iFuntastic - It works with the newly updated iPhone software too (1.01):

Safari 3 for PC and Mac

Dave Newman — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:38:36 +0000

Okay, who saw that coming? Safari for PC? Why? And then I got to thinking, remember how the sales of the iPod really took off once iTunes was available on the PC? And didn’t that fuel some migration from Windows to Mac? Now what hardware could possibly need a browser to sync on a Windows machine, and could that hardware be shipping in 18 days?

Here’s my theory: iPhone will use Safari to connect with .Mac in order to sync contacts, addresses, bookmarks, and anything else you want to sync between PC/Mac and your iPhone.

Another little item that makes me feel this way: Apple is going to allow for applications to be built for the iPhone but they will have to be web-based. This was announced today as well. Coincidence? We’ll see.