August 8, 2013 - iPod Touch

So now I'm trying out an iPod Touch. It's tiny. Typing with my right thumb with the phone in portrait is ok, coz the program autocorrects decently. I believe my left hand will start to hurt from holding the phone before my right hand will tire from typing. In landscape I can type with two thumbs but have to concentrate harder... Though it'll probably be faster once I get used to it.

Now: let's see about adding a photo...

Ok, taking a photo and adding it on the spot is seamless.

How about adding one from the iPod library? Let's see...

... Ok, that was easy too. Just need to figure out photo rotation...

You just need to rotate it in the gallery before adding it to blogger.

I read in the reviews that if you're not connected to wifi, you can't save draft posts. That would severely hamper blogging on the go. I notice that instead of saying "saving post" it says  "uploading"; not a good sign.

I'll try switching off the wifi and see what happens. After saving this draft, that is :-D

Testing, testing...Right, so I get the message that there is no wifi so I can't upload ... But that said, there's nothing to stop me typing a post, right? And uploading it when I'm in a wifi zone again?

Done! 

Now to add a photo from Dropbox... Huh, that does not appear to be an option. Really?! Ugh Apple, who do you think you are??

In conclusion: this device would be handy for typing posts in down-times (waiting for a bus, lying in bed before falling asleep), and adding photos I take with this device. Maybe if I can add photos from my Canon camera  to the post "later", via a different device, that'd be an efficient-enough work-around? Or perhaps I can wifi photos directly from the Canon to the iPod... Let's check for an app that'll facilitate that... Yep, Canon Camera Window exists for iPod, and I've downloaded it, and transferred a couple photos from my Canon to the iPod. Here they are:

I think this would work for me for blogging-on-the-go. As long as I don't turn off the phone before I get to wifi - otherwise I lose whatever I've written...

"Let's see whether I could type a blog post in iDocument, and then copy and paste it into Blogger." Oh my! It works!! This is quite exciting :)

I could also create blog posts in Word on the Surface, and then copy and paste them in to Blogger when I have a wifi connection.  Ok, that works. But why doesn't the Surface have a Blogger App that I could type straight into and save to the Surface... like the Samsung Tablet had??