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WordPress for Android – Review

Posted by dougr | Posted in Blogging, Tools/Utilities | Posted on 24-03-2010

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Posting From My Android

I just happened across the WordPress for Android app in the market today and thought it might be useful for those times that I have an uncontrollable urge to blog when I’m away from my notebook :-)

It has a simple rich text editor with Bold, Italic, Link, and

Block-Quote.

It looks like it accepts HTML just fine, not sure of limitations there, but basic formatting is good with me for posting from phone.
I can add pics too.
Posts may be saved with or without publish.
There is a Comment management tab, as well as a Pages management tab.

I wrote this post from my phone, certainly slower than from my notebook, but not bad. So if this post publishes ok I’d recommend it.

Edit: Had a crash on edit using V.1.0.2. Photo not uploading.null

Testing Contribute For Blogging

Posted by dougr | Posted in Tools/Utilities | Posted on 17-06-2009

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I’ve been wanting to check out contribute ever since I purchased CS4 a few months ago. I found, however, that Contribute was very unstable and was hanging upon each attempt to connect to a Web server.  I found a KB article which described exactly what issues I was experiencing.  You can find it here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408112.html .

Here are the conditions as referenced from the above article:

Adobe Contribute hangs when you start it on Mac OS 10.5.x.

Details

You are either using Safari version 3.2.1 or the Safari 4 Public Beta

Reason

This is due to a change in the WebKit behavior while working with Safari version 3.2.1 or the Safari 4 Public Beta

This was exactly my situation.  On the downside, the fix discussed that the problem will recur if Safari 4 Public Beta was reinstalled following the update.  This was the case for me as I installed Safari after Contribute prior to realizing there was any problem.  I updated Contribute and then found the item which I had not previously been aware of.  It was necessary to create a file and place it inside the plugins directory.

Here are those instructions from the article:

Create a file “ContributeMacOptions.override” in the location Application > Adobe contribute CS4 > Configuration > plug-ins.

I simply opened up my text editor, TextMate in my case and created an empty file names as specified and saved it to the appropriate directory.  As it seems, this has resolved my issue and since I am a Firefox user, not having Safari isn’t really a big deal to me.

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WordPress Fired Up

Posted by dougr | Posted in Blogging | Posted on 12-02-2008

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Cool, had a smooth transition from BlogCFC to WordPress. I’ve got some props to give out which I will have to do later. Be sure to let me know if you have any problems – but not too soon – I still have quite a bit of stuff I want to do before letting it rest for a bit.

Talk to you soon!