A while back I wrote a post about blogging clients for Palm devices. Since then, I’ve had a chance to use those three tools and learn a bit more. Below you will find a comparison chart of the Palm blogging clients I’m looking at. I put in the features I thought were important, but if you are interested in others, please let me know. And, of course, if there’s a palm bloggin client I’ve not listed here, please let me know about it!
So far, I like Vagablogger for it’s ability to post a draft – which is nice when I want to capture an idea, and get it on the site so I can edit it further. But, mo:Blog is probably better for truly Palm-based blogging as you can keep multiple posts on the Palm, and can also have multiple accounts. Hblogger is alone in the ability to store past posts, but it doesn’t yet support subject lines, although they say they will be adding features in the coming months.
I haven’t had any use for the image uploading capabilities yet, so they remain untested.
One last note: With regard to the blog compatibility, I’m using the statements by the authors. In reality, all will post to my WordPress blog.
Enjoy!
| Vagablog | Hblogger | mo:Blog | |
| Multiple accounts | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple posts in progress | No | Yes | Yes |
| Post signature | No | Yes | Yes |
| Post Subject | Yes | No | Yes |
| Edit timestamp of saved posts | No | No | No |
| Post date posts | No | No | No |
| Specify category in post | Yes | No | No |
| Specify category in account | No | Yes | Yes |
| Save posts without sending | No | Yes | Yes |
| Save sent posts | No | Yes | No |
| Upload images | No | Yes | Yes |
| View image directory | No | No | No |
| Send without publishing | Yes | No | No |
| Tags | |||
| link | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| bold | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| italic | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ordered list | No | No | No |
| unordered list | No | No | No |
| emph | Yes | No | No |
| br | No | No | Yes |
| underline | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| p | No | Yes | No |
| One click for both start and end tags | No | Yes | Yes |
| One click each for start and end tags | Yes | No | No |
| Compatible weblogs | |||
| Blogger | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live Journal | No | Yes | Yes |
| Movable Type | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ujournal | No | Yes | No |
| DeadJournal | No | Yes | No |
| Blurty | No | Yes | No |
| NeedlessPanic | No | Yes | No |
| Plogs | No | Yes | No |
| Caleida | No | Yes | No |
| GreatestJournal | No | Yes | No |
| TypePad | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Weblogs | No | Yes | No |
| WordPress | Yes | No | Yes |
| metaWeblog | Yes | No | No |
| JournalSpace | No | No | Yes |
| B2 | No | No | Yes |
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Great overview !
I just wanted to state that I got Hblogger to work with subject titles in WordPress. The only thing you need to do in Hblogger is define your blog as a MovableType blog, point it to your WordPress xmlrpc file and start your entries with (title)Your Subject(/title) followed by your body text. Replace the brackets with smaller than & greater than signs.
It works great. You can use this technique for every other blog client out there as well…
Grtz,
iBuzze
Hint: If your Palm blog client supports it, you can create a code snippet for this title tag, so you don’t have to enter it manually each time.
I’m trying to get hblogger to work with WordPress, but keep getting an error with in the xmlrpc. Did you have this problem? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!
I recall that I did have that problem, and as I remember I had to make sure that I had the path and file name correct. In particular, make sure you have the .php on the end of xmlrpc – the actual file name is xmlrpc.php
I hope this helps!
Hey! Whay about this blogging tool? Is the one I use, and is free. Take a look:
u*Blog
http://palm-ya.com/palmware/index-en.html#uBlog
Some times the site is down, but keep trying.