Comments on: TypePad iPhone App: What’s Up With All The Hate?

By: Online Store

Online Store — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:17:13 +0000

Now blogging can be as easy as 1234 if you have your own iPhone .

By: Philippine Real Estate

Philippine Real Estate — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:56:49 +0000

Nice application for iphone especially now that we are in the time that blogs are in.

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:24:07 +0000

Hey Leigh,

After checking your blog, I think I see what you mean. I would recommend you continue to use CellSpin if you are just posting images (an app I am going to review tomorrow).

As far as editing the photo goes, have you tried Picoli? (an iPhone App).

By: Leigh Hanlon

Leigh Hanlon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:41:46 +0000

Darnell,

I agree that TypePad’s iPhone app has many good features. In fact, I bought a TypePad account just so I could use my iPhone to moblog.

Unlike you, however, I’ve never been able to get the app to post high-quality images. The TypePad iPhone app ignores my custom settings and simply posts images to fill the entire width of a post’s text field.

Oddly enough, the app does this by saving an iPhone camera image to a width of 320 pixels wide and then dropping it into the body of the blog text field with HTML coding that proportionally stretches the image to 400 pixels wide. The results are far from high quality.

I’ve alerted Six Apart to the problem and they’ve acknowledged the issue and say they’re working with Apple to fix it.

You can see just how bad the app makes my iPhone photos look by clicking on my website link.

Are you doing something I’m not?

Leigh Hanlon
Chicago, USA

By: Stephane Delbecque

Stephane Delbecque — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:10:41 +0000

Hi, my name is Stephane Delbecque and I’m the Mobile Product Manager at Six Apart. Thanks a lot for having tested our application. We know there is room for enhancement and feedback like yours is really appreciated. Regards. Stef