I've been trying to use my PDA more often during the last couple weeks. If you are going to own something that cost someone a month's rent, it shouldn't just clutter your desk or handbag, after all. The feature that really convinced me I wanted a new personal digital assistant was the ability to have wireless connections available when I don't have my laptop with me. So, it made sense to attempt wireless uses. One of the things one can, theoretically, do with a wireless PDA is blog. My efforts at achieving that goal have been mixed.
They definitely began without promise. The wireless blogging applications seemed not to work with my Palm Tungsten C, which uses Palm's latest operating system, OS 5. I've yet to wheedle a post out of Blogplane, Azure, Vagablog or Kablog. The responses from the PDA to Blogplane, Azure and Kablog is: "The application required to view this data cannot be found." That is after installing and reinstalling the software, both from the laptop and directly into the handheld. Vagablog alternates between saying there is a Java language format exception, to saying something is wrong with XML, to just refusing to make the post.
I've had better luck with the oldest of the PDA blogging software, Avantblog. The program uses a channel on the well-known anthologizer of websites for handhelds, Avantgo. Many, if not most Palm and Pocket PC users, consider Avantgo a must have service.
Beau Lebens, its developer at Dented Reality, describes the processes.
Access to the Internet via your synchronisation/cradle
1. Install the AvantGo program on your Palm.
2. Install the AvantBlog channel in AvantGo, using the link provided on
http://www.dentedreality.com.au/avantblog/.3. Synch your palm to get the channel onto your Palm.
4. Open AvantGo on your Palm and there should be an AvantBlog channel listed
there - open it.5. Log in using your Blogger.com username and password.
6. Synchronise again to transfer your user/pass to Blogger and make sure you
are allowed to continue - you will get back a list of blogs on your account.7. In AvantBlog on your palm, there should now be a screen where you can
enter a post and submit it to a blog. Write something to post, then click
'Post.'8. Synchronise one more time to transfer the actual post to your blog, via
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