Archive for June, 2009

WordPress for iPhone

The WordPress for iPhone app is great! So far I’ve enjoyed using it with a couple of new blogs that I have setup (including my own). Having the ability to blog while on the to will help a lot with me actualy trying to get content on the web.

A few of the features I really like:

  • landscape mode: it’s a lot easier to type long lengths of text with the iPhone landscape keyboard
  • support for drafts (local and server based), this makes it very easy to start writing a post on my iPhone, then finishing it up on my desktop/laptop (I did that with this post)
  • photo uploading; it’s very easy to select photos and upload them along with a post. This will be very beneficial come next school year – I’ll be able to take pics at GAA events and post them instantly with a write-up of the event

Using this in combination with my desktop should make me quite the productive writer.

iPhone 3GS and OS 3.0 (and the Palm Pre, Too)

The new iPhone looks pretty cool, but it really is a minor upgrade. Besides the few hardware improvements, such as the increased processor and ram, as well as the new digital compass, not much has changed. If there is one feature that I would want from the 3GS, it’d be the digital compass, if not only for the new tomtom app that will be coming out later this summer (although, it should still work with the 3G).

I am very excited for the 3.0 release, though. Spotlight, the iCal updates, and copy-and-paste are my most anticipated features. Just over a week to go before I can update my iPhone!

Speaking of all of this cellphone stuff, I had the opportunity to play with a co-worker’s new Palm pre, and I’ve got to say that it is a pretty slick phone. Palm really is giving Apple some competiton, and I hope Apple brings a good plate back to the table. Favorite feature of the pre: unified contacts/calendar/mail.

I’ve Been Busy

It’s time for a blank slate, time to start something new, and time to actually be fully productive. For the last couple of years, I’ve actually wanted to work on my site, but the problem was mainly time. I’ve always tried building custom solutions for my web site (i.e. generated a new Ruby on Rails application just so I can blog and post to a portfolio), while I was working on making other people’s custom solutions. Since I no longer, or rather, never had that amount of time to dedicate to my web site, I have decided to go a new route: WordPress.
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