mobile blogging from a symbian phone, anyone?

Decided that wordmobi was taking too much space on the paltry space I had on my N97's C drive. It turned out symbianguru was also in search of a blogging solution. I turned to the default Nokia browser and the wordpress backend which wasn’t too much to write about. It barely does the job and is almost next to being completely unusable.

I tried out wordpress on both the opera mini and the mobile and both of them wouldn't let me type a single word.

Frustrated, I looked for help on Google and after a few stray results I got a wordpress plugin for the Iphone named the mobile admin, which unfortunately was unsupported with WP 2.5 and above.More searching around got me the Wphone plugin which allowed me to type the content until this point.

But it wouldn't support images or links. And my search continued. Searching on google got me to this blog post on mobile applications I tried out a few java apps until I came across Wavelog from telewaving. Now wavelog had a really confusing interface and it wasn't freeware. I downloaded the 30 day trial and got it to work with a little help from their help files.

The app works well on my symbian v5 device and supports v3 as well. I decided to go ahead and spend the $8.25 on the full version. Now thats the longest post I've made from my mobile phone. Now all I need are a few screenshots and this post is done. I think the search for a good mobile blogging solution is far from being complete. But then I don't have an Iphone. Because we chose to be different.

The fantasy browser wars

I have been a fearless warrior in the browser wars ever since 2000...and I have seen the nations rise and fall, so I thought I would write a blog on that... Long long ago, in the kingdom of Windowsia, two young warriors set out to dominate the land...One of them was IE, the son of Lord Gatez, the emperor of Windowsia and the other was from the rival kingdom, equally talented..the Netscape... The young warriors were continually at war...and neither side could be judged the winner... Until one day, the dragon lord mozilla laid his eyes on Netscape and took over his kingdom...with no netscape to bother, IE grew strong and powerful..but the peace was not to last, because mozilla was not at rest all this while and he empowered his new found netscape with super powers to fight IE..But alas, the power given to netscape was too much for him to handle and all the heavy artillery was too much for him to even load, making him a bloated monster unable to win...IE won the battle once again... The battle might have been won, but now Mozilla understood where he went wrong..and while he continued to support netscape with more power and troops, he secretly built his own version of netscape deep within his lair, breathing life into it with his own fire and the intelligence and strength which he derived from netscape and thus was born the firebird...but impressed by its cleverness and shrewdness, mozilla decided to rechristen it firefox instead...When firefox came out into the open, with its glistening armor, glowing aura and all the power and skill which mozilla had put into it; it was quite a force to reckon with even when it was young.. IE had to suffer many setbacks, legal difficulties which weakened it all the more... Firefox grew strong as time passed by...it inspired others to become its followers and a "flock" of men were at its side, and it was near invincible..All this time, there was lurking a powerful lord who was powerful in his own right...who was content with his share of the land, lord opera...but then... To be contd..