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July 22, 2008

I’m using the wordpress app from the apple apps store on my ipod touch to write this. Yay tiny mobile things with really slow input methods!

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I picked up an iPod Touch a couple of weeks

scottlo Scorbal | July 22, 2008

I picked up an iPod Touch a couple of weeks ago. I really really like it.

I saw the WordPress app come available recently and was tempted to get it. Problem is, I don’t work with any WordPress blogs. I wonder how long it will be before a tool like MarsEdit appears for the Touch.

As for text entry, I started using the Writing Pad app this past weekend. Text is input by tracing the letters of the word with your finger across the keypad. Seems really kludgy at first, after a while it seems mind boggling. I only wish it would be ported as a system wide option for text entry. And it’s free.

Actually, funny you should mention that.. i heard the author

Radar | July 22, 2008

Actually, funny you should mention that.. i heard the author of marsedit on a podcast a couple of days ago and he made comments that make me think an iphone/ipod version of marsedit is on the way. i’ll be using that instead of the wordpress one when it is.

But to be honest, blogging from the ipod is painfully slow. I don’t know if it was the 2.0 software update, by the touch interface works a lot less precisely now. I have to push harder and more times to get stuff to register right. I did go in and turn off internationalization and it seems to be better, but, I only had 5 minutes of testing after that. Could well be placebo affect. And why would that affect the touch interface?! It shouldn’t.

Anyway… for now, MarsEdit on the Mac will certainly be my blogging tool of choice