Day: December 24, 2008

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-12-24

  • Really bummed that the deli where I normally go to get a coffee and sandwich while fixing the car is closed. Too cold, wet, and raw outside. #
  • It is still too cold for rain, so everything is icy. Miserable weather to have to drive in. Have an appointment to fix the car window. #
  • Very cold up here. About a foot of snow and freezing rain outside now. #
  • Was able to get out of NYC for a few days. Miss the energy of Manhattan, but the quiet of the mountains is a nice change. #
  • Hurray, five days off in a row! #
  • Farewell, PC Magazine (new blog post) http://tinyurl.com/7v24qq #
  • Off to get my haircut during lunch. It was rescheduled from last night. #

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WordPress “Press This” via the BlackBerry

I have blogged several times about my desire and struggle to be able to create blog posts from my BlackBerry. I am not satisfied with Postie or the built-in emailable blog posting capability of WordPress. Too many delays and punctuation and formatting issues to make them reliable solutions.

However, I think I may have found a solution in the recently upgraded WordPress 2.7 “Press This” feature.

Press This is a shortcut bookmark feature to save on a browser for fast blog postings when on a web page of interest. Instead of saving it to my desktop browser, I saved the link to my BlackBerry browser. I opened the bookmark on my phone, was given the most basic posting options, and this post is the result. Press This allows me to post directly to my blog without opening my blog’s full admin screen (which does not open on my BlackBerry due to all the coding and features there).

This is my second post using Press This, and I wanted to share this success with anybody out there who is also struggling to post to a WordPress blog from a BlackBerry.