FREE BLOGGER/BLOGSPOT IPHONE APP

phew. ok. i wanted for people to be able to find this post when searching for such a thing, as I just spent a good hour trying to find a similar app.

first of all, did you know that blogger has it's very own mobile blogging device setting? that was very poorly worded, yes, but it can be found right here. it took me a little while to figure it out--it requests a MMS message (multi-media service, for those--like me--not really in the know) to go@blogger.com, which, as you may know, the iphone kind of restricts you from sending. it's an email address, so, logic would dictate that you could just email that address, but it didn't work for me. give it a try if you'd like, maybe i was just doing it wrong, but i tried a few times, to no avail.

anyway, re: MMS, you could try and try and try to find a way to install an app to do this (uhh...not recommended, as i still haven't found one. but i admit nothing.), OR, you can do what i did. this is maybe a little ghetto, but i remembered that you CAN email photos. using this logic, i simply selected a random photo, and emailed it to go@blogger.com, with the message "REGISTER" (which is what you're supposed to send, by the way). right away i got a response, and signed right up.

now, this service requires that you email photos and notes to that address--this is how you get things posted. if you include text and a photo in the same post, it will post photos first--there may be some way to change this, but i don't know what it is.

what i DO know is that, just after figuring this out, i discovered an app that works just as well, if not better! it's called ShoZu, it's FREE...what more can you ask for? well, i'll tell you--this awesome app can also manage your facebook, flickr, photobucket, twitter, livejournal, and a whole host of other sites--seriously, there are like 30 on there, some i've never heard of. all in all, it seems like a great app to use--i've now updated this blog from the app and from the bloggermobile service and i think i like the app better, but time will tell, i suppose, which is the real winner.

anyway, hope this was helpful! i was going nuts trying to find this stuff, so, hopefully this saved you some time! feel free to poke around my humble little blog a little--it's not exciting at all, but i generally enjoy re-reading old posts, so, maybe you'd enjoy reading them in the first place?...

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the only thing about using ShoZu is that there's a little "posted by ShoZu" icon in the lower right hand corner of the screen on any posts from that app. if that's not your bag, i'd go with the bloggermobile.

so, i was driving home from work yesterday; it was beautiful out, sunny, perfect temperature, nothing to complain about. when i got onto brook street from waterman, someone pulled in front of me. no big, that's cool, it's a nice day, i can let stuff like that go. then i spied the offending volvo's bumper sticker:



are you serious? now, to answer your burning question: no, i am not catholic. but i find this sentiment deeply offensive. first of all, i'm sorry, who are you to tell me what i can and cannot be? neither of those beliefs are mutually exclusive, last time i checked. you can be a catholic and a Satan worshiper, so long as nobody from either group finds out, don't you think? (i know this is an argument that possibly just barely holds water, but come on. funny idea, at least, right?)

as a woman and a liberal (though not terribly political, but at least fairly outspoken on what i believe to be right), i have such a problem with the term "pro-abortion." does that movement actually exist? (edit: evidently there was/is a "pro-abortion" movement in existence, but, to the best of my understanding, it was pushing the existence of abortion clinics in places where there weren't any. there are also websites out there claiming that "pro-abortion is pro-life; anti-abortion is anti-life," but i haven't really looked into that one.) pro-lifers are certainly justified in having their ideals as they may, but i think most lack the understanding that "pro-choice" doesn't mean "pro-abortion." it is, as a matter of fact, easy to be "pro-choice" and "anti-abortion." "pro-choice" refers only to there BEING a choice, there. and i'd like to point out, too, that if the choice wasn't there in safe, medical facilities, there is a VERY good chance that abortions would still happen (gasp!), just not in a sanitary environment, preformed by trained professionals.

i'm not saying "abortions for everybody!" by any means. i am saying, shut your trap already. as a pro-choicer who feels pretty anit-abortion, i can tell you straight up: you have NO idea what your first instincts would be if you found out you/your girlfriend/daughter/whoever were pregnant. no idea at all.

/rant

as a final note, i challenge anybody to use the words "pro-abortion" more than five times without ending up thinking it's a pretty funny sounding term and/or sounds like it should be a term used to describe something in the legal profession.