Comments on: My IPad Blogging Toolkit And Setup

By: Lesley Horn

Lesley Horn — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:52:07 +0000

Hello Ruud,
Well, I have progressed somewhat. I am ow in Spain and have been blogging since I arrived. I am officially blogging for A local newspaper. I do have trouble organizing my photos but im getting there!
Thanks so much.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:50:52 +0000

In reply to Lesley Horn from The Yukon.

Happy to hear that Lesley. Blogsy also recently added working offline with images in posts. Killer feature.

By: Lesley Horn from The Yukon

Lesley Horn from The Yukon — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:23:36 +0000

Hi Ruud,
Thanks so much for the information. I am about to embark on a journey to Spain for siix months and was searching frantically for a way to blog and upload photos from my iPad . I’m finding my way around Blogsy and will by the time I reach my destination will have started blogging!
Muchas Gracias!

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:36:34 +0000

In reply to Sani Moyo.

With the right apps it’s definitely a work machine too. When it comes to writing and researching, email, I’m either on my desktop or on the iPad. Rarely that I want/need to open the netbook anymore.

By: Sani Moyo

Sani Moyo — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:47:55 +0000

Thanks Ruud

Mulling over getting an iPad as a need rather than a want, and this post and comments go my way.

I guess a laptop is still the best but it’s a mission lugging it around, so iPad it is.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:02:56 +0000

In reply to Gemma Thompson.

I hear you on the format fiddling 🙂 I’m moving to plain text apps, using markdown to indicate basic formatting like bold or heading.

My Writing Spot sounds kinda cool with the colors and all 🙂

By: Gemma Thompson

Gemma Thompson — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:29:53 +0000

Hi Ruud,

I do almost all my writing on my iPad, I write very first thing in the morning as soon as I wake up and I love the fact that I can just reach over, grab my pad and start downloading all my thoughts into it.

I’ve been using My Writing Spot to do this precisely because it doesn’t have a lot of formatting features within it, I’m the kind of person who will fiddle about with the writing instead of doing the writing if I have a choice so I love that it doesn’t give me that option!

One thing it does do though is allow me to mark different post with different colour stickers, so I have developed a very simplistic filing system … One colour for posted, one for ready to go and another for ‘still needs work’. I have a lot of posts in that last section!

I love the sound of photo pad though … In fact I need to go now and check it out!

Thanks for this post, most helpful 🙂

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:04:58 +0000

In reply to David Alastair Hayden.

I had a few old ones but had to leave them when I emigrated. I like the big Royal’s with the wagon wider than the whole machine so you could put paper in in landscape. Beautiful machines. I’m trying to get the machine I grew up with shipped over.

Nice comment, David; thanks!

By: David Alastair Hayden

David Alastair Hayden — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:38:49 +0000

Thanks for the review of Blogsy. I’m about to start using it. Also, I collect vintage typewriters. I love anything with a keyboard. Typing is pure joy, whether it’s on my ’29 Royal Portable, my Hermes Rocket, or my iPad’s onscreen keyboard.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:19:08 +0000

I agree, the image search from within Blogsy is limiting yourself unnecessarily. FilterStrom Pro looks like a cool tool 🙂 I’ll hold off before buying it; the geek in me wants it but I’m no graphic wiz at all.

Thanks for the comment, Kimon!