Pocket Blog - Blogging From Your Pocket PC

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://pocketblog.com/">http://pocketblog.com/</a><br /><br />"Pocket Blog extends your weblog to any Pocket PC device. Weblog entries are maintained offline. When Internet connectivity becomes available, such as when your Pocket PC is placed in it's docking cradle or a WiFi card is inserted, changes are automatically posted to your weblog. Pocket Blog also downloads recent weblog entries, enabling you to edit entries that were originally posted from your desktop."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2004/20040712-pocketblog.gif" /><br /><br />It uses the Blogger API which means it works with Blogger, Movable Type and others. This software hasn't been updated in about a year but may still be of interest to those of you that blog. Maybe some hits on his website will encourage him to get working on 2.0, which was supposed to be out months ago. :wink: It is a free download.

[corrosive]

There's also PocketSharpMT (http://www.randyrants.com/pocketsharpmt/) which does a similar job - it needs the .NET Compact Framework, but seems to work reasonably well in my brief play with it, and it was last updated in April this year.

[RobertS]

I have been tinkering with Pocket Blog for the last couple weeks on my h2210 and it has been working fine.

A little more formatting support would be nice (bold, italics, etc) but it handles the connection process to blogger just fine, which is the most important thing.

As for updates, perhaps we will see some for 2003 SE but after a year I would suspect the code has been abandoned. Has anyone tried to contact the creator?

[bbarker]

Does Pocket Blog allow live wireless connections, or is it only for offline posting with later synching?

[OSUKid7]

This might finally get me to start a blog. Now I just need to get Blogger to work with my server...or maybe actually buy some cheap hosting.

[mrkablooey]

This might finally get me to start a blog. Now I just need to get Blogger to work with my server...or maybe actually buy some cheap hosting.

Don't forget livejournal.com either. Blogger is cool but livejournal is pretty fun with communities, etc.

[James Fee]

There's also PocketSharpMT (http://www.randyrants.com/pocketsharpmt/) which does a similar job - it needs the .NET Compact Framework, but seems to work reasonably well in my brief play with it, and it was last updated in April this year.
Yea, PocketSharpMT is my favorite. Randy does a really good job of keeping it up to date and responding to suggestions.

[foldedspace]

How do you get started with a blog?

[JoshB]

PocketSharpMT looks nice, but does it work with Blogger? From looking through his site and FAQ, I'm guessing no. Shame, as it seems a lot more full featured than PocketBlog, but I use Blogger for my sites, so I guess I'll give pb a try.

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[bbarker]

How do you get started with a blog?
Perhaps the easiest way is to visit www.blogger.com and follow the easy steps.

[mrkablooey]

How do you get started with a blog?

EASY!

www.livejournal.com
www.blogger.com

I know for LiveJournal they have some software you can run on your PC to update the blog without going through the web client. I've used both, and prefer the "community" feel of livejournal.

[Jason Lee]

So when posting a new item is there anyway to get a subject on the post? The way my blog is setup it looks kinda funny without a subject on the post.

[Qman]

I have been tinkering with Pocket Blog for the last couple weeks on my h2210 and it has been working fine.

WOW this is great news because the last time I tried it about a year go or so I couldn't get it to work!

[PPCRules]

It doesn't get you the editing function, but Blogger now lets you email posts to your blog. So you can compose offline, and when you sync, the post gets sent.

You can now also get "audioblogging" for free on Blogger.

[joelevi]

There's also PocketSharpMT (http://www.randyrants.com/pocketsharpmt/) which does a similar job

A bit off topic, but could someone please post the "Web Server" and "CGI-BIN Path" that Pocket SharpMT needs for use with www.Blogger.com?

[JoshB]

There's also PocketSharpMT (http://www.randyrants.com/pocketsharpmt/) which does a similar job

A bit off topic, but could someone please post the "Web Server" and "CGI-BIN Path" that Pocket SharpMT needs for use with www.Blogger.com?Bump for a question that I'd like the answer to, as well (if it's even possible).

[joelevi]

There's also PocketSharpMT (http://www.randyrants.com/pocketsharpmt/) which does a similar job

A bit off topic, but could someone please post the "Web Server" and "CGI-BIN Path" that Pocket SharpMT needs for use with www.Blogger.com?Bump for a question that I'd like the answer to, as well (if it's even possible).

Straight from the author's mouth:
July 13, 2004 at 11:02 AM by Randy

Nope - they both are not. Sorry!

...

w.Bloggar and Zempt both support multiple blog engines, but I dunno that they support Blogger... I have no plans to support anything other than MT (at this time) b/c that's what I use... if I change my own engine to anything (i.e. dasBlog) then it might be a possibility, but not likely.

[armwood]

I can't for the life of me undestand how a developer could create a blogging program which does not support copy and paste. This oversite makes the program just about useless for me. Otherwide the program seems fine. It could use a start menu icon. Does anyone know of a program which supports blogspot which also supports copy and paste? What are the settings for blogspot.com? :|

[Sculpher]

I know it's a bit late - but y'all should try Pocket Blogger (http://www.pocketblogger.net/screens.html) - it looks compatible with Blogger and is still being developed. :)