Even more "differently" mobile

There's a free blogger.com client for the I*phone* called blogwriter lite; it runs as a scaled up portrait only app on the iPad. This also means that it uses the iPhone soft keyboard, not the native iPad one, which is usable but not nearly as good as the real thing. It does provide offline writing, though, which is probably enough reason to use it anyway; I haven't checked to see if writing in Notes and pasting works with emulated apps or not, though it really should.

In the end I've done more testing of mobile blogging tools than I've done actual mobile blogging; seems that when I'm mobile I don't actually have time to sit down and write, even if I have the tools...

An unexpectedly usable mobile client

Since I temporarily have an iPad, it made sense to add it to the mobile tests, even if it is wifi-only at this time... Mobile Safari just works with the web ui here, and in landscape mode I can type surprisingly quickly with one hand (rather faster than with two, actually - resting your fingers lightly on the keys is healthy with a physical keyboard and fatal with a touchscreen :-) although if I watch carefully some of that is because the auto-correct is quite good. Still not "out of the way" enough to do lengthy essays, but good enough for captioning and tagging, certainly.