BlogPress – App Review
By App Type: Uncategorized
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By: Lin Ling
Version #: 1.0.0
Date Released: 2008-09-16
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Price: 9.99
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Blogging is an extremely popular thing today. Almost everyone seems to have a blog anymore, even my grandpa has a blog and he’s in his 70’s. Due to the quantity of blogs all over the net comes the demand for users to be able to post/update their blogs from their iPhone. There are a few options out there that promise easy to use options to do this, the problem with that is a lot of them come with hefty price tags. Browsing through the app store for a blogging app the other day I came across BlogPress. Looked great, and had a lot of features that I thought would make blogging from my iPhone even easier than I had anticipated. Unfortunately, all of my excitement was for nothing as BlogPress seemed to be quite the letdown.
Visually BlogPress is great. You can have multiple blogs if you have more than one that you post to. You can easily post new blogs and edit already existing ones right from within the application. BlogPress even gives the option to post a picture in the blog and have the text wrap it, or post below it, whatever you like. My favorite part of BlogPress is the option to use a landscape keyboard to type as opposed to the portrait one, making typing much quicker and more accurate. Right there is where the perks to BlogPress end.
The problems with BlogPress greatly outweigh the perks. The first thing I noticed when trying to edit a existing post, was that the flick scrolling feature the iPhone is famous for, only works about half the time with this application. The other half the time it simply tries to edit the text, making it impossible to scroll up if what you were wanting to edit was higher or lower in the post. This problem rolls over into the new post as well. If you spend your time typing up your most recent entry and decide you want to go back to the top and add a line, or a paragraph, or simply change a word or two, good luck because the odds of you being able to do it are remote. It took me almost 45 minutes to post a simple blog saying that I was posting from BlogPress. It’s utterly ridiculous. Issue number two is the one that caught my attention in the first place, the landscape keyboard. Just like the flick scrolling, the landscape keyboard only works about half the time. The other half of the time when you tilt your phone sideways, absolutely nothing happens. Last issue I found before I finally gave up on even using the application was that it won’t even connect to my WordPress blog. It promises WordPress support, and WordPress is an option under the blog selection, but it always tells me my username/password are wrong, or there are network connection issues. Problem with that is, username/password are right, and my connection is fine.
QUICK TAKE
Value: High (if it worked correctly)
Would I Buy Again: No
Learning Curve: Medium
Who is it For: Anyone who wants a simple way to blog from their iPhone
My Likes: Landscape keyboard when it works.
My Dislikes: Flick scrolling issues, landscape keyboard issues, posting issues, WordPress connection issues
Final Statement: BlogPress has a lot of potential and simply needs a few updates before it becomes an application worth the large price tag attached to it. If you really want an easy blogging tool either wait for this app to update a few times, or download iBlogger. Also, swing on over to www.bretpeoples.blogspot.com to see me and my blog in action!
Rating: 1 star
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