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This is my first test post with a free app called BlogWriter Lite. Since this is the second free blogging app I have tried, it will have to go up against the WordPress 2.0 app.

First I noticed that BlogWriter does not offer a horizontal screen when writing, so I have been fat fingering this post.

Let’s see how it handles code, this should be red, if that worked then it handles code like the WordPress app.

OK, that is too funny, I am finishing this post up by writing from the WordPress app. The reason why is that the “Lite” means you can’t edit a post your have already published and since I published to see how it handles code I got stung by a poor piece of freeware.

Here is what you have to pay $1.99 to have functional:

The only thing that makes it worth paying for is it’s multiple-platform support. So if you have a Blogspot, WordPress.com, or supported blog and want to use one app to post from your iPhone you might consider this app.

I’ll keep looking as new apps come along,
Richard

I found a very intriguing iPhone app a couple of days ago called Glue. Glue is an app designed to update all of the major social media sites from Facebook to Twitter to WordPress and a bunch more from a single post. Cool right? Well the promise was kept, glue does update my FB status and Twitter but the results do vary. My FB status is a title and a link to my glue site which I would argue is an annoying thing. I really dislike having to click a link to see a status message.

That is not the only disappointment in this app. When you do click you get a tiny message on a vast white web page. Since you can’t post anything but text, no photos, no colors just text that great big white page swallows your little status update.

It is a great concept I will stick with it over time and see how it develops.

Blog on!

Things are progressing quickly in the Apple apps world and with the new release of WordPress 2.0 iPhone blogging app that is indeed the case. As I wrote in a previous post, this is an entirely new version of the app and your 1.0 version will not prompt you to upgrade. So let’s dive right in.

First I liked the 1.0 version of this app for the ability to breakout into HTML code as you type. So if you know some basic HTML you can do things like add a span tag with a style command you can change the look of your text on the fly.

OK, that feature still works the same, now let’s see if they have fixed the one big issue I had with version 1, the adding of an image without having to publish the post.

Great, looks like the new version let’s one save a draft to the server and add the image without having to publish your post for all the world to see. I am definately liking this new version.

The first thing a user will enounter in the new version is an improve interface with better blog management features.

As you can see you now have much more front and center comment management. The photo insertion tool works much like the 1.0 version except better. You also have page management front and center in this version and it works just the same as the posts management.

Tables
Can we do tables, let’s see.

Very cool that looks like a table to me.

Here is the code:

Well that is about all I can say at this point about the new WordPress for iPhone and iPod Touch version 2. Overall a big improvement over version 1.