Yet another way to post while traveling

Several devices such as Blackberries have dedicated software for blogging. You can also just email to an address you set up for your blog as well. I'm trying this post using my iPhone's browser and the standard blogger web interface. It seems like the Safari on the iPhone gives you good access to the blogger software.

Blackberries and Blogging

After messing around trying to find a way to do mobile blogging it seems that the simplest way is the most obvious. The combination of the email blogging capabillity of Blogger with the ease and incredible portability of the Blackberry.

The one thing that is missing is the ability to edit. Some of the other solutions such a HBlogger do provide editing ability. There is a bit more overhead involved with that than simply firing an email off to your secret Blogger address.

Since I have both, I mean look at the name of my blog, I will end up using both. I suspect for quick posts it will be hard to beat the Blackberry. While you can save posts with HBlogger of course, it still requires the actual process of hooking up. This is based on my setup which is a Palm T5. With a Treo as hardware HBlogger might be more similar to emailing from the Blackberry in terms of ease of use.

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Just checking Palm blogging .....

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Some more info about transferring files between devices and posting from a mobile phone

Okay, had an interesting series of experiments while in the US Air Club at SFO. I had typed the entry on a Psion 5MX. I then used a program called nconvert to change the Psion word file to three different formats; html, text and rtf. I then used a program called plBeam to transfer all three to my Nokia 6600 cell phone. They appeared as messages on the Nokia. I then tried forwarding the message as a multimedia file or an email. So I forwarded the text message to my Blogger email. Only the multimedia message worked. The email to blogger from the phone came out as gibberish. The rtf file doesnt look like it will work with Blogger either. This entry was typed on the Psion and converted to text, sent to the phone and forwarded as a multimedia message to Blogger. If seems to work fine that way.

I also sent an rtf by email and mms to a MS Exchange address. I will check on how the attachment workedwhen I can get a broadband connection. So far impressed with the combination of devices. It will probably work even better with a real POP address.

Let's get started. Hello everyone

This is my first posting. What will be interesting is how I end up doing the posting. As my handle implies I like gadgets. I also travel a lot. A combination of work, pleasure and frequent flyer miles for the travel. It is one of my hobbies, along with gadgets and photography. Not that they are mutually exclusive of course. Quite the contrary in many cases.

Of course traveling a lot is a relative term. I travelled about 225,000 miles on planes last year. Some people do that much in 6 months. More probably don't do it in 10 years though. The purpose of this blog is to talk about technology from a user standpoint. I'm particularly interested in how technology can be used for travel of course. As such I will probably drift a bit into travel and travel related items that aren't strictly technology More on that as further posts are made. And now to the point of this post.



Im currently on a US Air flight. I left LaGuardia this morning, stopped in Pittsburgh and am now almost to San Francisco. I have about 90 minutes scheduled in San Francsico then off to Charlotte and back to New York later tonight.

So thats all I wll put in this post, a bit of an introduction. The posting of this little exposition is the subject of the experiment. Im trying to get a better idea of what tools I really need to travel with to do a variety of things. Like write and mail a busines letter and make a blog post.Im typing this on a Psion 5MX. My next post will have the results of how I got this post on the web, information about some of the other tests I did and some thoughts on the results.