I have been trying to find some good software to post to Blogger from my iPhone. Unfortunately the amount of quality out there is limited. So I decided to be the lab rat and try out as many free blogging tools that support Blogger as possible. The first one that I tried is LifeCast.I was quite excited to give LifeCast a try. The interface was polished and the program appeared to be quite simple. The first step after installing LifeCast is setting up your blog, and I did so using the configuration screen below:
After LifeCast is configured you can see it in your blogs list:
The blog list was quite cool to see, since I have two blogs that I post to regularly. The next thing I did was type a message, to do this press the bottom left button (see the 2nd screen shot down). When typing, a simple notepad that is reminiscent of Windows Notepad is shown that allows you to type. As you can see I typed that post a long time ago.
After you type your blog post you can see it all ready to be uploaded.
LifeCast is meant to upload your blog posts for you in the background but I never found it to work at all. So the two posts I wrote are still stuck there on my iPhone. The lack of an export option makes it all the more difficult to overcome problems with LifeCast. There is a photo upload option as well but I decided not to test that since the most basic writing functionality was not functional.
In conclusion I would not really recommend LifeCast. If you do decide to try it do a test post first before putting in any real energy to write a proper post. Please note that at the time of writing there was a version available that was not compatible with my version 1 iPhone using 2.2 firmware so maybe that one works as expected. Nonetheless I do not see LifeCast as having enough features to make me want to use it instead of typing my post in Mobile Mail and sending it to my Blogger address.
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