PostBot: App of the [Unit of Time]
June 17th, 2009Today’s app is PostBot for android phones. I’ll be reviewing it on my G1. Postbot is designed to allow remote updating of wordpress blogs.
Configuration
Pretty straight forward… from the phone configuration. I didn’t realize that remote posting had to be enabled on the wordpress blog itself (although it sort of makes sense). Unfortunately the only indication that something was amiss was a very brief pop up java exception that hinted at checking the admin page.
Once I enabled remote posting, everything went swimmingly.
Features
I haven’t fully utilized everything yet, but basic posting is fairly straight forward. You can add new categories – something that’s prettty cool (when it works). I had some timeout issues despite having 3 bars on the edge network.
In theory there’s also picture uploading, but I haven’t messed around with that too much.
Screen Shots
Vertict
This might change as I start to use PostBot more often, but for right now I’m giving it an arbitrary 3 nickels out of a possible goose (pretty devent app). We’ll see if the time outs extend to posting new messages, or if any issues arrise from media manipulation.
Also, it’s worth noting that this entire post was typed up on my G1 using PostBot.
Links
Developer’s blog
Cyrket Page