{"id":912,"date":"2008-08-06T12:25:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2008-08-06T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T04:21:44","slug":"wordpress-for-iphone-changed-the-way-i-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/06\/wordpress-for-iphone-changed-the-way-i-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress for iPhone Changed the Way I Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt isn’t often that a mobile software tool completely changes the workflow of something I’ve done for a long time or changes the way I think about performing a desktop task. But, the free WordPress for iPhone<\/a> app has managed change the way I create blog items and the way I think about my blogging workflow.<\/p>\n

My typical workflow for writing about smartphone software or web services used to work like this: I would write a note about the topic using something like Word Mobile or Word Excel on my Window Mobile smartphone. Then, I would use Ilium Software’s free (and still awesome) Screen Capture<\/a> utility to capture a screen. Then, I would either email the BMP image file (not a good idea because BMP files are relatively large and I am on a relatively slow EDGE network) or wait until I get back to my desktop and copy the files from the smartphone to the PC using ActiveSync. Then, I’d convert the BMP file to a GIF or JPG file to reduce the file size, upload it to this blog, and finally start writing the blog entry.<\/p>\n

WordPress for iPhone on my iPod touch has simplified this Rube Goldberg-like process to this: Capture a screen on the iPod touch, write a blog entry using WordPress for iPhone, attach the screen shot, post it to my blog.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, there is another step or two added to this. For example, this blog entry and the one that preceded it both started on my iPod touch. However, I saved the starter blog entry and the screen shot as a draft instead of publishing right away. Then, I moved to a desktop computer and finished writing the blog there since it is easier to type with a full keyboard.<\/p>\n

This has really made blogging here much simpler and faster. And, it is probably why you may have noticed that I post more items about the iPhone\/iPod touch here than I did in the past. Now, if only there were a WordPress for Windows Mobile, I would be a lot happier since typing on a Windows Mobile physical thumb keyboard is still a lot easier and faster than typing on the iPod touch’s on-screen virtual keyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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