I’m eagerly awaiting the arrival of the iPad. The original timeline suggests it’s 30 days away until the wifi models are released, but we’ve heard no news.
Regardless, I’m looking forward to the iPad as a tool to write more blog posts. To that end, I’m testing a program for the iPhone OS called BlogWriter.
In fact, this entire post has been written with the free version of the program on my iPhone. (The free version only allows you to connect to one blog, but if you don’t mind entering the login information each time, arguably you could use it to post to other blogs.)
The program is not terrible. Of course, it can’t drop in photos or other media. Surprised to learn that it doesn’t support landscape mode – at least not in the free flavor.
Categories get imported with the blog setup, but there is no chance to set the tags for SEO purposes.
You also don’t get the option to set the post date or save as a draft for later editing on a more robust blog post editor, like MarsEdit or Blogo. Speaking of draft status, you better like what you’ve written because there is no way to save a draft on the program itself.
Otherwise it’s a decent and clean interface for writing a quick post. I’m notbsure, though, that I’d want to use this as my primary blog post creator on mobile platform. Let it be known that i’ve been saving my iTunes credits for iPad programs, so developers…get cracking.
The AppStore is nearly unnavigable. Anyone have a suggestion for another iPhone OS program to try?
I use the Wordpress application on my iPhone to occassionally draft posts. It does allow to save drafts which is good because I like giving things a final review at my computer before posting. Mostly I use it to capture post ideas when they occur to me.
I agree that these apps should really shine on the iPad. I imagine a large drafting window with a pane of blogging controls split to one side. I use the ” would be able to access these snippets.