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Blogging from a Pocket PC
March 23rd, 2005
Prompted by an email from someone who found this site via Google, I’ve been playing with mobile posting from a Pocket PC to the blog. There are several Pocket PC clients out there - in more or less ropey conditions - but the one which seems to work the most consistently is SharpMT. Although it’s positioned as a Movable Type client, it’s talking quite happily to a Wordpress 1.5 blog - just amend the CGI-BIN path in the options screen and away you go. I’m using a Dell Axim X5, and it’s working fine via wifi and Bluetooth to a GPRS phone.
I haven’t tried playing around with image uploads yet, as that’s something that’s been a problem with Wordpress for as long as I can remember, but for basic posting on the move it seems to do exactly as it says on the tin.
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I have just been playing with this, on my Orange M1000 Pocket PC and Wordpress 1.5 . Unfortunately, I wanted a client that could store posts until I synced - I have no WiFi and need to be able to blog when unconnected for later posting. Any ideas how I could do this?
Uhm… yes.
Go to Hexia.net and sign up. You can then send pics and stuff from your mobile via MMS, Text messages or E-mail.
It interacts nicely with WordPress, just select the Hexia connected option along with the MetaWeblog protocol.
After you’ve set up the connection to your blog, you can create emails/MMSs on your Orange Pocket PC thingie and then send them in whenever you want.
You will also shortly be able to get access to our mobile feedreader which enables you to read any feed scaled to your mobile browser, this being a link to this site on one of our testservers: http://asterix.hexia.net/portal/entrylist.do?feed=http://feeds.feedburner.com/infosential/cdIB&limit=9&filter=blog
If the feed was ‘full’ and not just a snip it would be more interesting, though.