iPhone. News and Tips

Before updating your device to a newer firmware, you are unlikely to check whether your software will run under it. And so I rushed to update from 1.1.4 to 2.0.1 after I’ve read a review of a wondrous reader-app in AppStore, which supported Russian and is reported to be convenient (later it turned out to be far less convenient thaт i2Reader).

But reader-apps are not the issue here. Instead, I’d like to talk about a free tool from AppStore, that makes it easy posting content to various social networks like LiveJournal and more. After updating I realised that I have nothing that can be used to post to my LiveJournal blog. It was even worse, since I had a hard debate in my blog with some malicious “opponents”. You would certainly agree with me that using a PC for blogging is inconvenient after using mobile tools for that. Too bad. So, what can I do?

I have searched all over the Internet for an update to my LiveJournal 0.3.2 (which I had running under my 1.1.4 firmware pretty smoothly) with no luck at all. I tried AppStore. I’ve tried numerous pages until I found the search function. So, here it is, the CellSpin. I’ve downloaded and installed it. It requires registration on their “service” and the activation of an account. That’s OK. I run through a common registration procedure and wait for a confirmation code to be sent to my phone. Nothing. That was supposed to be a SMS with a corresponding info. I try several times with no luck. Then I read: “If you can’t get the confirmation SMS, send us a letter. I did that. Then I wait for three or four days with no result. I have already gave up all my hopes by that time, I have removed CellSpin from my iPhone to save some space. And here comes the confirmation sms. The same day I get a message on my mailbox: “Sorry, our system is under maintenance, we’re addressing all requests manually. Hopefully, you’re not being disturbed too much by the fact that our automatic service is down.” My account was activated, everything was working. Just fine. Now let’s briefly talk about the app itself.

First, I’d like to remind you that this is an only app for posting to our favourite LiveJournal at the moment. That’s probably its main benefit.

Now, the features. You can post plain text, pictures, audio files (or whatever you bandwidth permits). You can take a picture or record an audio note without leaving the app, which is nice. You can type the text from the keyboard as well as feed a text file to a program containing the post’s text. While posting, however, you would experience some problems – because the app can’t submit post titled in Russian, so you have to submit untitled posts.

The app can not only post pictures from your folder (where the pictures taken by your camera are located), but also from your “Photoarchive” (where I store wallpapers and some other oddities, whether they’re funny or not). That’s nice – LiveJournal 0.3.2 couldn’t do that, so even while using EDGE you had to wait for a long time until your pic was uploaded.