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Sep 09Testing wordpress blackberry app
Testing wordpress blackberry app ver. 0.9.0.149. As you all know I’m a run leader at the Toronto runners lounge, well tonight Priscilla Lopes-Schliep will be at the lounge so I wanted to document and so decided to try the WP app.
This is my second attempt on posting from my Blackberry Bold, I lost a very amazing post when I attempted to add a second pic from my SD card. Ok so the test was a three parter:
(1) overall feel and intuitiveness of the app
(2) ease of use of features
(3) attaching images
(4) attaching video
Before I get into, I would recommend you save often and definitely before adding additional images. I have it set to save a draft to the server but you can choose to have it save locally too. I just checked the server after hitting save 3 times nothing there. I just changed it to ‘local draft’, and copy the article in case something happens. Today more and more apps are being released as BETA, vendors are cutting test and using use as the unknowing BETA tester, I blame google and they can blame Microsoft.
(1) overall feel and intuitiveness of the app
(2) ease of use of features (1and 2 are basically should have been one in the same)
As far as the look and use of this app I really like everything I see and have used. Its clean easy grasp on this my first use. Things are well laid out and easy to find. The only thing I don’t like is that when I searched for a pic on device it gave me a list of the images not a pictorial preview of images so you have to know the exact name of the desired file.
(3) attaching images
Like I said this is were I lost the first article that was amazing…yes amazing. Well I’ll try to take a picture and see what happens. I’ve first, not sure if that’s working but I hope so. I took a new pic(shadow of me hold a peace sign). When I took the pic I notice both the pic shot earlier of my tired football cleats and the pic of the kodak kiosk from my SD card that made me lose the first article that was amazing, are still there…could that be a bug, I’ll check the forums.
(4) attaching video
As I noted in my first article there are no provisions for attaching video so I’m going to look for a youtube app if any and will shoot the vid, upload then link it through my youtube account.
Conclusion
All finished and no crash…yet. The fact that you are reading this is evidence posting was successful. I like this app so far and since I find myself thinking of the most craziest things at the most inopportune times having a way to blog them on the go is a great thing for me. I hope they continue to improve this app and add more features in the future. And for myself I hop this helps me to blog more.
****UPDATE****
it actually didn’t work after I reviewed it I had to go in and repost using the web interface and recode the images to work properly.
NOTE
- limit on how many tags can be used
- lose all when adding image from SD card
- text list of images, a image preview would be better.
- when I tried submiting I received an error “Local Draft cannot be sended”
- add video or audio option
- my theme could be retrieved
