TimesToCome Mobile

The new WordPress 2.6 broke my favorite mobile interface plugin. That is not good. So I was happy to see an iPhone Wordpress application.

The application lets you edit your most recent posts, create a new post, upload a photo to a post, and publish a post.

What is missing is the ability to delete a post, or edit a comment, or post a comment or approve or disapprove a pending comment. I’m hoping this shows up in future versions.

What the iPhone Wordpress application does, it does well. I’m hoping other iPhone WordPress applications will follow, or this one will get fleshed out more. Better yet would be a fix for the mobile interface plugin.

In the meantime we shall make do with what’s available.

I tried setting up email to use to blog from my cell phone with WordPress. While it worked effortlessly when I emailed from my desktop computer, all emails from my cell phone were placed in a ‘hold’ instead of being published. Posting by email does not handle images.

You can set up Flickr to push email posts to your WordPress blog as another alternative. But I think you’ll find the iPhone WordPress application does just fine.

This is really cool. I love the idea of blogging mobile.   Right now it is in free beta – the final version will have a monthly fee attached.

Podcaster will let you stream live video to the web from your phone to a webpage on their website. It will grab you gps if available, notify the friends on your friends list and let you customize your page on their website.

They have totally simple step by step, with pictures, set up information.

Any phone that has a camera and email will let you post to your blog via Flickr.  Most blogging software will work.  I’ve used this from my Palm, WM phone and from my iPhone.

You can just as easily blog to your Wordpress blog as to your via Flickr.

First set things up with Flickr->Log on->Go to You->YourAccount->Go to Extending Flickr->Go to Your Blogs->Edit

You can then add a blog [Blogger and Wordpress are painless to set up] Just give it the url and user name and password. You can also adjust the how the layout of the post will appear. Flickr will give you an email address which you can attach pictures and write a post. Any email sent to that address will be posted to your Flickr account and to your blog.

Ok by now everyone knows you can visit m.youtube.com but did you know you can upload videos from your mobile phone?

Just like uploading Flickr photos or mobile blogging you can also take a video with your phone, send it up to your YouTube account.

First sign up for a regular YouTube account. Then visit You Tube Mobile Share the Love and sign up for a mobile account. It’s totally painless. Like Flickr you’ll be given a coded email address to send your videos.

See also: How to add You Tube videos to blog posts

You can view a picture on your smart phone, hit the menu key and from there you can send the picture to another phone via blue tooth, beaming, or picture mail.

You can use your free flickr account to upload the photo to flickr, and you can also send it from there to your blog automatically. Go into your account – Extending Flickr.

You can open a free blogger account, sign up for mobile blogging and send the picture to your blogger blog.

Flickr has a mobile website Mobile Flickr pretty much everything you can do at Flickr can now be done from your smart phone.  I’ve done this with my Palm, WM phone and iPhone. Any phone with a camera and email will work.

In your free Flickr account is a Flickr upload email. If you send picture email to that account it will automatically put the image and the subject and text of the email in your account pictures.

It can also automatically post this message and picture to a blog if you wish. You have two Flickr email accounts for uploading images. One will upload the image to Flickr. The second will upload the image to Flickr and post the image to your blog that you connected to your Flickr account.

Test post from Treo via Flickr

You can now submit it to the news media. If your picture is chosen for a story you will be paid. Prices are still being worked out last I looked.

Yahoo News:
news.yahoo.com/you-witness-news

CNN
www.cnn.com/exhange/

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