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Blogging From my iPhone

Josh Kenzer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:25:02 +0000

It took me quite awhile to get around to trying the WordPress iPhone app. Writing thisl post seems to be easier than entering the title and tags. This is because the auto correct/predictive text doesn’t seem to me enabled for anything other than the body of the post.

Adding a photo is pretty easy, although I can’t see it in the preview. You can choose a photo from your library or take one fresh.

For mobile blogging, I think email to Flickr to wordpress works fine. I guess this would come in handy if you wanted to bypass Flickr.

EverNote is Pretty Impressive

Josh Kenzer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:06:35 +0000

I was introduced to EverNote by my friend Colin. He asked if anyone was interested in a beta invite…mmmmmm, beta invite. I quickly said yes – of course this was via Twitter. Upon first inspection of EverNote, I thought, “great, another scrapbooking application to take notes and place images.” I was ready to pass, but then I noticed its unique element, text recognition.

To put it simply, you can take a picture of anything, and it will make the text in that image searchable. Why do this? Here’s my use case:

My daughter dropped my five year old camera and it broke. Of course, I started the research process on a new one at CNet. I cut and pasted some reviews, prices and notes into EverNote. Then I went to Costco, Best Buy and Target. While there, I took pictures of their price tags – the ones that say the model number, the features, and the price with my iPhone. I emailed the photo to my private EverNote email address. I then was able to open EverNote and search on all the text. I could compare models and prices and which store had which cameras.

I have since taken pictures of articles in magazines, mail that I needed to track, and direct mail that I was interested in. The desktop client for Mac is easy to use and it integrates well with Skitch.

If you want a beta invite, please feel free to comment. I have 9 available.

Official Gmail Blog: New Gmail for the iPhone

Josh Kenzer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:58:33 +0000

I think I’ll stop using the built in email feature on the iPhone now that Google has released a new version of Gmail specific for the iPhone. It’s snazzy and goodness and I find that using ~~POP~~ IMAP with Gmail isn’t a nice email experience (although it gets the job done).