Monday, June 28, 2004

Kablog troubles

For last couple of weeks I have been constantly trying to use Series 60 version of Kablog to post blog entries with images through blogger.com. The emphasis of my trials have been on images, and that is exaclty the thing that does not work.. Everything works as expected with the test blog of kablog, but with blogger.com and the blog hosted on own server, just odd error messages.

OK, I agree that Kablog is very early in development, especially the Symbian version. Additionally, the posting of images needs specific blog host related settings to work even with the blogger web interface. My present guess is that kablog cannot handle the sftp path setting that is specific to the server the blog is hosted at - I bet that kablog uses hardcoded value instead.

Kablog authors have a lot work to be done on the usability of the utility, too. It is kind of shame, as having very well thought and utility utility like this would be really a success. Anyway, it is the only possibility there is right now so I will continue trying..

First things to improve would be:

  • Provide complete examples how to use the tool with different configurations of blogging systems, not just for the test blog.
  • When resizing the image, provide a possibility to duplicate the image first - not to resize the original one!
  • Lots of usability issues - Take a look at S60 style guide.. 8)

Any pointers for open source mobile blogging utility with possibility to post also images? (Hmm, maybe I should start one on the next momemt of Spare Time(tm) 8)

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