iPhone BlogPress App

I’m lazing here on the couch watching the kids play Battleship with their dad, and I thought-”hey, great opp for a review–on the run blogging!”

I like this app. It’s handy and easy. You’re not going to be doing an HTML heavy entry from it, but would you really want to?

Upsides- ease of use-you just start typing, and photos embed where you tell them to. It lets you set up lots and lots of blogs, which is cool, and you can post simultaneously to multiple blogs. I’m doing that now with juliekenner.com and jkbeck.com

Downsides: I’ve lost work I thought I’d saved. Lesson learned-compose in another program and paste. Also, it tends to give me an error if I try to include more than 1 photo. (Catherine, my kiddo, tells me she doesn’t have that problem, so it may be a total size issue rather than the number of pics). I have 3 photos in this entry. We’ll see if it posts thru.

Also, the image inserted has to be in your library or camera roll- you can’t snap and go (though I typed, closed, snapped, and opened right up to my draft)

Also on the downside, there doesn’t appear to be anyway to include tags or categories or hyperlinks. If that capability exists, it’s not intuitive.

The app is 2.99, and since I can’t include a link, just search for Blogpress in the app store. There’s a lite version, but I can’t speak to it. All in all, I’m giving 4 out of 5 iPhones to this app, which may be a little generous considering the lack of certain features and the occasional lost data, but on the whole I like the app, it’s simplicity  and it’s ease of use.

Later, I’ll review the WordPress app.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

**on the computer now, and I’ve gone in and added categories and tag and a link to the app store.