First Look: Typepad for the iPhone
I've been blogging for way too long, and for a good chunk of that time my personal blog has been hosted on Six Apart's TypePad. I'm a big fan of the service (though some might recall it was a little flakey in the early days, I'm happy to report I can recall no major downtime in the last 2 years) and that's why I was very excited to see TypePad was coming out with an iPhone native blogging app.Typepad Mobile, as it is called within the program itself, is available now on the App Store for the low, low price of free (of course, Typepad isn't a free service). It is a blogging client that lets you post directly to your TypePad blog from your iPhone as you might have guessed from the name. You can also snap a picture with your iPhone's camera and post that to your blog, or you can post a photo from your iPhone's photo roll in just a few clicks.
During the course of my testing this app was very zippy, and it did everything I would expect from a 1.0 release. I hope to see some more blog management features in future updates (being able to approve/delete comments would be very cool).
Check out this gallery for a a quick tour of this neat little app.
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I've been blogging for way too long, and for a good chunk of that time my personal blog has been hosted on Six Apart's TypePad. I'm a big...
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Even better, a WordPress App is now available:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13549_7-9988501-30.html
Actually, a WordPress app is not available, and no timeframe has been given. It's worth pointing out, because the TypePad app can be downloaded right now, today, and it took a lot of work for that to be true.
July 11 2008 at 1:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI need something like that, but for wordpress!
nobody uses typepad
One app to rule them all... how about iBlog, that posts to all of them?
July 10 2008 at 7:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNow we just need some wordpress action. And none of that wp-admin for iPhone crap, we need some real 'applish' stuff.
July 10 2008 at 7:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI expect my TypePad blog will get a lot more action once I update to 2.0 firmware on my iPhone. :)
July 10 2008 at 7:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLooks nice, but I'd much rather have a Blogger app (or at least a mobile site!). Still, nice to see some good free apps from the App Store!
July 10 2008 at 7:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI would LOVE to see a Tumblr app, since that's the only place I blog. I'm sure the Tumblr devs could come up with something pretty great if they put their minds to it! Who's with me?
July 10 2008 at 7:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wonder if it will work on personal blogs that use Movable Type.
July 10 2008 at 6:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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