Sam Shaw
iPhone Application Developer

It allows you to post to blogs on several different platforms and/or update your status on Twitter and Facebook.

And now WordPress was released for iPhone, too. Great.

Is there not a general mobile phone application that can be used for all?

( http://www.haveamint.com/ )

I’m still tossing up between Twitterrific and Twinkle. Both are good apps. I’m thinking Twinkle is easier to use at this point.

Having my mail on the iPhone has been handy, though I’m worried that it’ll check when I’m in the car or at a restaurant and download some huge email with attachments and run up my bill. Eek.

Safari is also good, especially with tabs, and it’s the first time in almost ten years of PDA usage that I’ve enjoyed using the net on my phone. It’s a chore using any other phone with any other phone browser. It does sometimes get slow, especially the keyboard, when there are several tabs open, and I tried twice to comment on this post with it—it crashed both times. Perhaps it’s the site not playing well with Safari, perhaps Safari has a few kinks to be ironed out.

Evernote, Facebook and the Google Mobile apps have been handy. NetNewsWire might get useful sometime soon, I hope—it’d be nice to have a usable mobile version of my favorite desktop feed reader.

One of my biggest uses for a Windows Mobile phone was reading with Mobipocket. Terry Pratchett, mostly ;) I was very worried what would happen to my reading and my Mobipocket books, but there’s a great app (though it’s still young and somewhat buggy) called BookShelf that reads those files. I’ve been able to pick up where I left reading the Pratchett book I was in the middle of when my last phone’s screen cracked.

Currency is a good app for conversions. Light is good, especially when I need to swap my lamp out for my charger in the bedroom. ;) And Crash Bandicoot has been a somewhat expensive time-waster. Very enjoyable.

And, of course, I’ll be ecstatic when the WordPress app comes out, but at the same time I usually write longer articles, so it might not help so much. Still, it’d be nice. I’d also like to grab a copy of OmniFocus for the iPhone and a matching copy for the Mac—but I’ve already blown my app budget for the month!

Wow, that could’ve been a freakin’ post in its own right. I’m very happy with the phone. It’s opened up a whole new world of being connected that I may live to regret! Sorry about the lengthy ramble.

I use a bunch of stuff – I use bloglines.com twitterriffic

I use social apps like loopt too. I want to see something connected to feedburner or maybe analytics taht would be great for productivity

For me, I love Twitterific so I can keep a pulse on what the latest trends and interests are within my friends, and also so I can tell what potential Virtual Assistant clients may be interested in reading about.

As for Durr – my guess is he wanted to be the first one posted and wanted to tacky. This blog is not only about the blogs themselves my friend, but the lifestyle of those people that participate. I say next time participate, don’t pass judgement.

Don’t listen to em Darren for a young 20-something new to blogging your a lifesaver.

Lemme explain why.

As adventure travel writer, the less bulk and weight the better. When my wife and I paddled the Mississippi River, I cludged together a setup using an old Handspring Visor and folding keyboard (no wifi), but was still stuck with having scamming internet connections to send in stories and photos. I have (and hate) my Treo/keyboard setup, but it sort of gets the job done.

More details about my search for the perfect mobile writing tools are at http://sourcetosea.net/writing-while-traveling-on-the-mississippi-river

Mr. MacGoog also is a regular user of Google Notebook to store and organize blog data and wishes that there were more functionality in the iPhone (mobile) version of this online app. Adding notebook and blogger functionality to the new Google App would make Mr. MacGoog VERY happy!

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Thanks for those links! Those are great. I’m installing wptouch as we speak to give it a try.

I think the Google app + Evernote is great. Sometimes I’m driving and I’ll think of something I want to write about but I need to look the info up. At a stoplight I can fire up the Google app because it searches so fast. Then I can leave myself a quick note with Evernote about write the blog post when I get home.

There are plenty of ToDo list applications for the iPhone – most of them are free. I use todo lists to quickly jot down blog ideas.

“Mocha VNC provides access to a VNC Server. Using your iPhone, you can connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X and see the files, programs, and resources exactly as you would if you were sitting at your desk, just on a smaller screen.”

thanks
Glenn