Inspiration for a blog can come from anywhere--at any time--so you'd best be prepared. Lighter than your Wi-Fi-enabled laptop computer and more immediate than jotting journal notes is TypePad Mobile (for Symbian, Palm, and Windows Mobile,) a blog-updating iphone app made available from TypePad for its paid subscribers. Blogging about mobile blogging from a mobile phone. helperseed there. I evaluated TypePad Mobile on a gleaming HTC Vox S710 (watch Bonnie Cha's video review) running Windows Mobile 6. The smart phone's nice slider QWERTY keyboard and motion-sensitive vertical-to-horizontal display made for favorable testing conditions. Begin with a TypePad.com blog. You start by logging into your TypePad account and choosing which blog page to augment. helperle on this page. TypePad membership permits multiblog maintenance). Options are limited from there, but that's generally the point of this purpose-built updating app. Fractal flair there. Choose "New Post" and begin typing away. One thing I'll say is that the mobile-blogging (or moblogging, as it's horrifyingly called) platform encourages brevity. Full HD Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them Online 2016 Film Watch. I tend to be a, um, thorough blogger, which is fussy and time-consuming on a condensed mobile keyboard, even one as expansive as the Vox's. More than brevity, TypePad Mobile encourages photojournalism, which is what gives moblogging (I shudder at this every time) its edge. A camera icon on the program's interface launches the smart phone's camera, which you operate from within the app. Photos load into a new post by default saved, which you can cancel, save, or publish after filling in the body and title. Camera preferences are called up from the smart phone's soft key. You can adjust picture quality, photography size, and whether you want the application to close the camera or save the photography without dropping it into a new post. You can always insert any photography stored on your smart phone or expansion card into a post by selecting the empty photography box in an unpublished post (this is editing mode) and choosing "Photos." Selecting "camera" activates the convenient in-app snap-'n'-save process. Photo preferences, not to be confused with camera preferences, offer options to resize uploaded photos to 640 pixels wide and delete photos from the device once they've been uploaded. The resizing option is intended to optimize for blogging photos that contain been transferred or saved onto the phone. helperbetter on this page. It doesn't much benefit images taken with TypePad Mobile's interface, since they are already optimized at one of the three predefined sizes found in the camera preferences. The websites update live on TypePad.com. Sadly, I can\'t edit mistakes from my smart phone. Publishing posts is a speedy operation over strong Wi-Fi, but the one that demands some level of commitment. Users can only delete posts published through TypePad Mobile, but they won't be able to edit them until they sign into their online accounts. I'm debating the merits of this pruned-down app. The software seamlessly has so far published, and does as it claims, but is that enough? rutrackerren here. On one hand, the limited management controls perform some crowd control, squeezing down what would be the ballooning storage demands of content-heavy websites were the application to download all posts. This version of TypePad Mobile is a noble start, but I'm leaning toward a next-generation software that integrates some of TypePad.com's full-fledged content management interface, particularly the part that would let users selectively download, edit, and republish websites remotely. Until then, users must exit the app and point their native mobile- or Opera Mini browser to TypePad.com, contending with a somewhat squashed and cluttered interface, interminable scrolling, and any downloading or uploading lag time.
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