BlogPress: Multi-Blogging Client

One thing that bugged me for a long time was the fact that there was no real application available to blog from the iPhone to the Google Blogger service. The Wordpress App was quite stunning and working flawlessly. But only for the (as the name of the App implies) Wordpress service.

I was glad then to see a Multi-Blogger App popping up in the iTunes store which had the possibilities to upload posts to Blogger.

The App is called BlogPress and is worth about 8€. A hefty price I thought but hey, I wanted to give it a spin.

After using it for almost 2 weeks I have to say that it is working pretty neat. You can manage your Blogs, delete entries, upload posts (with pictures) but what I found lacking was the Tagging/Categories function.

On the other hand, you can post to multiple Blogs the same time (Crossposting) which is kind of nice.

Overall the App is stable and working nicely for people which are on travel and want to keep up blogging through their iPhone.

The developer is quite responsive and told me that he will try to add the Category and Tag function to his as App also.

All in All it's still a hefty price for an App, but it is totally worth the money if you are a heavy Blogger.

Info: BlogPress Version tested 1.0 tested with Blogger and Wordpress Service

The Application can be downloaded here: iTunes Store Link


PS: This review was written whith WordPress.


-- Post From My iPhone

Where To?

Where To? is a nifty little Application which is aimed to help you
find fast different Points of Interest near you. Are you looking for a near Restaurant? Or do you want to find fast the next car mechanic? This Application helps find it for you.

First I was a little bit sceptic about this Application, due the fact that it is optimized for english language which means for the U.S. and GB.

So, I checked using it in France and in Germany to see if it is also working in not native english speaking countries.

For most of the entries searched, I found something, which was a result expected. In fact, the biggest problem in Europe is that most Businesses aren't on Googlemaps so the Application can not find them.


Overall, in 90% of searches I found Businesses near to me (not all due to the lack of Business applying to the Google Business Service) but it was still a great experience. The App is well designed and very functional in what it does.

Some examples of possible searches:

After selecting what you want to search for (in my testing case Restaurants) you will have the second screen coming up where you can select for example if you want to search near you or near a contact (if you are invited to some friends you can already start looking what's next to them to go out).

In my case I chose "Where I Am Now" and after selecting this option, Google Maps opened and showed me the results:

Overall, this little Application is well crafted (made by Sophia Teutschler - the same woman making CoverSutra a nifty iTunes Controller for Mac) and sure people might tend to say that they can enter those search words themselves into Google Maps, but I see this Application as nice Front End to Google Maps. It is well made with nice Graphics and I really love the "Surprise Me" function which randomly searches for you (funny results are expected).

It's priced at 2,39 Euro and can be downloaded via the iTunes Store.

I really would like to see more polished Apps like this one in the iTunes Store but sadly there are more and more worthless Apps popping up.

Anyway give this Application a try, it is the most convenient way of searching Points of Interest available on the iPhone.

Intermission: First rumbling against the iTunes App Store

Long time not an update of one tested application here.
This is due to some issues which I would like to explain. First of, the Apple iTunes App Store looks like getting lamer every single day.

That's really lame, where are the so-called "great Apps?
Every day, I am checking the new releases in the iTunes store and what do I see? Mostly lame Applications where there should be great stuff. As of writing this, there are already 141 pages of Apps in the iTunes store and sadly the bad Apps are hiding the real pearls, Apps which were carefully crafted by the developer to make people enjoy using it.

We will continue to provide here unbiased reviews and will try to clear the mist of Lo-Apps out of view.

Stay tuned.