Testing result: BlogPress

Update: 16 September 2012.
After 6 days waiting, finally an email reply from the developer just arrived, prompt me to try to connect to my YouTube account through this link:
http://familycms.tenderapp.com/kb/general/nolinkedyoutubeaccount
... and it worked! So even the reply is rather slow, for ¥450 BlogPress for iPhone worth it! Although I am now kinda like the intuitive interface of Blogsy. Let's see..

14 September 2012.
I've given up on BlogPress for iPhone set up. BlogPress is a buggy and unstable software (can't connect to My YouTube account even with 2-steps password verification for mobile google) and hard to control my layout (no image wraps, no wysiwyg for rescaled images), not to mention the "dead" customer's support (no answer to my problems). I wasted ¥450 with no sign of refundable. I learnt my lesson not to trust all application sold by iTunes just because of they are listed in AppStore. I guess I have to travel a little heavier with iPad now.
So.. off to iPad and Blogsy!
- Sent from iPad with Blogsy.

Testing: BlogPress Video

Kyoto lights from Daimonji
Testing video upload with BlogPress. Still unsuccessful.. I have to find a way to blog video from iPhone.
1. I can upload it but I couldn't publish it as I can't add my YouTube account into BlogPress. It always says "Failed".
2. I tried to contact BlogPress support but no one answers. Not recommended for ¥450.
3. Unlike Blogger, hyperlink works though..
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Kyoto,Japan

Testing: Blogger for iPhone

I went for hiking and at the moment at the top of Daimonji, and testing..
1. photo upload straight from Blogger OK
2. photo upload from library OK
2. video upload from library N/A
3. hyperlink (youtube) N/A
Kyoto lights from Daimonji.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dS78ap9YXw

Testing: BlogPress Image

Test alignment and image size on BlogPress for iPhone.


It is not possible to see the layout in editing mode, so I must save and preview. The layout positioning is unpredictable.


If I insert text in here, I don't know what kind of layout I will get. It is uncontrollable.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Possible blogging configuration

iPhone set up
- iPhone Wi-Fi and 3G (Softbank)
- Camera with Wi-Fi memory card
- BlogPress
- Filterstorm & Photoshop Express
iPad set up (613 g)
- iPhone Wi-Fi and 3G (Softbank)
- iPad Wi-Fi (and if applicable, Docomo or KDDI's 3G prepaid connection)
- Camera with camera connector kit for iPad &/OR Wi-Fi memory card
- BlogPress OR Blogsy
- Filterstorm & Photoshop Touch
Macbook Air set up (add 1.08 Kg)
- iPhone Wi-Fi and 3G (Softbank)
- Macbook Air with prepaid Wi-Fi (?)
- Camera with USB memory card reader &/OR Wi-Fi memory card
- Any browsers
- Any image processing softwares
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Testing: BlogPress

Pros:
- (Suppose to be) able to upload video straight to YouTube. Not successful yet.
- Accurate location position, but you must click it and it will shows GPS location. Otherwise it will only says Kyoto, Japan.
- Flexibility in image positioning and resizing, font color, add hyperlink (although not wysiwyg)
Cons:
- Difficult to see or edit post after published (lingo), same as Blogger application.
- Need some learning curve for HTML lingo. Not intuitively wysiwyg.
- No caption.
- Can't log in to Youtube iPhone, yet. (although this seems to be Youtube's log in problem with mobile devices)
- Can edit posts, but not the profile(?)
- Just wrote a post with 3G connection, said it was sucessfully published, GONE and even unsaved in draft! It is safer to write in another application first.
- Unreliable customer support. You buy the application, then you'll be left alone.

this image is uploaded from iPhone image library
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Kyoto,Japan

Images from my childhood

I asked my sister and mother in Jakarta to send some images of my childhood when we live in Tokyo. These were all taken by my father, whom to my advantage was a camera junkie at the time. He did not smoke nor drink, but spent lots of his time and money snooping around the counters at Yodobashi Camera (camera shop in Tokyo and many other cities in Japan). From polaroid, SLRs to darkroom equiptments, he owned them all.

Yet of all the pictures my father took, I remember nothing. 

For that is the very reason for my being in Japan now.