How to: Blogging with your Blackberry

sim_plic_i_ty · Thread Author #1 04-13-2008, 11:54 PM

I recently setup my blogger account so that I could post blogs from my blackberry anytime I wanted. You will require the ability of sending emails from your BB in order to do this.

Go to your Blogger profile. Go to Settings --> Email

For "Mail-to-Blogger Address", the format of username.blank@blogger.com will be given.

Fill the blank with a secret word or else anyone with that word will be able to post on your blogger account.

You have two options after. You can choose to publish the posts directly to your blog or have them saved as a draft so you can edit them before posting. Select whichever one you want and click on save settings.

Now just send an email from your BB to the email address and VOILA!

Helpful tip - If you choose the option of posting directly to your blog but would like to eliminate the signature that is sent with your blackberry emails, e.g. "Sent from my Blackberry device", after your email just type in "#end" and it will not appear.

Bla1ze · #2 04-13-2008, 11:57 PM

That's cool as long as you use blogger of course...personally for blogs I use wordpress though as I have more control over it...that also allows you to do mobile blogging fairly easy...you just set up a specific email address say...blog@mydomain.com...when you email that address it posts to your blog for you.

sim_plic_i_ty · Thread Author #3 04-14-2008, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bla1ze

That's cool as long as you use blogger of course...personally for blogs I use wordpress though as I have more control over it...that also allows you to do mobile blogging fairly easy...you just set up a specific email address say...blog@mydomain.com...when you email that address it posts to your blog for you.

Sounds pretty good. Im assuming you would still have to make the email a not-so-obvious one to prevent others from blogging?

sunkast · #4 04-14-2008, 12:13 AM

Same type of deal with Tumblr.

pooger · #5 04-14-2008, 03:33 AM

Do you mean wordpress.org or .com?

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

sim_plic_i_ty · Thread Author #6 04-17-2008, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pooger

Do you mean wordpress.org or .com?

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

I'm not sure as I dont use wordpress. Just PM Bla1ze and I'm sure he'll help you out.

pooger · #7 04-17-2008, 03:42 PM

I use blogspot right now. I email my blogs to blogspot and if I need to edit a post I use Opera Mini. It works pretty good.

I have to get used to it because I am going to be away for a year and don't really have a choice not to use a computer.

thebokonist · #8 04-27-2008, 04:06 AM

If anyone uses livejournal, the url is

livejournal.com/mobile

five4three2fun · #9 05-18-2008, 10:41 PM

hmm. i'm a vox user, and i can never seem to sign in when i try on opera. it sucks.

kkrueger · #10 05-19-2008, 08:09 PM

I blog on Open Diary and can sign in and post easily on Opera Mini.

mje5270 · #11 05-20-2008, 10:06 PM

Thanks, sim_plic_i_ty! I've been wondering whether this was possible with Blogger.

kwhitney · #12 05-21-2008, 03:38 PM

TypePad (not free) just released a BlackBerry application. Doesn't support all the quick text features like auto-capitalization, auto-period at end of sentence, etc. You also cannot view or edit existing posts, only drafts. You can include photos if your BB has a camera.

It works, and it's fast.

bmorris · #13 05-25-2008, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bla1ze

That's cool as long as you use blogger of course...personally for blogs I use wordpress though as I have more control over it...that also allows you to do mobile blogging fairly easy...you just set up a specific email address say...blog@mydomain.com...when you email that address it posts to your blog for you.

hey do use wordpress.org on ur own domain?
what about photos?
does it pick up lines? like <br> or enter?

danpass · #14 05-27-2008, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pooger

I use blogspot right now. I email my blogs to blogspot and if I need to edit a post I use Opera Mini. It works pretty good.

I have to get used to it because I am going to be away for a year and don't really have a choice not to use a computer.

I mms my blogs to blogspot. I kept getting a failure when using an email address (thru my blackberry).

It posts right away to the blog. According to the site it will post pictures for you as well but the size limit is 250kb, any picture over that size will be rejected.

edit: I just mms'd a 160kb'ish picture with some verbage, it worked perfectly

edit2: I just mms'd a 576kb and it went up easily as well. I'll work with that lol

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