TimesToCome Mobile » Blogging from your cell phone

WordPress on the iPhone

timestocome — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:17:52 +0000

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.

Pocketcaster: video blog from your cellphone

timestocome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:00:43 +0000

This is really cool. I love the idea of blogging mobile. Â 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.

How to photo blog from your smart phone to your WordPress or Blogger blog

timestocome — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:00:50 +0000

Any phone that has a camera and email will let you post to your blog via Flickr.Â Most blogging software will work.Â 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.

Mobile You Tube

timestocome — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:00:00 +0000

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.