Greg In The Desert

As I try to get back into posting interesting iPhone applications, I am still surprised at the amount of crap that is available to the iPhone store. Mac users always complained that sure, Windows has a more software available to it but most of it is crap. I think that is true with the iPhone.

The Wordpress App is not one of those crap applications (that is, is you have a Wordpress installation you can use it with). I’m not sure why they created an all new iTunes entry for the 2.0 app when both the 1.0 and 2.0 apps are free.

Although I find the iPhone to difficult to write entire blog posts on, the Wordpress app is great for creating basic drafts that get me started, fixing existing posts and managing comments.

Wordpress 2 is available on the iTunes store for free.

WordPress 2 is the only iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress, users of all experience levels can get going in seconds.

What’s new in version 2.0:

- A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
- Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
- New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list
- Passwords are now stored in the keychain
- Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
- Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
- Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
- Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
- Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
- Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
- Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded

For support, please visit our forums at http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org — we aren’t able to respond to support requests submitted in an iTunes review.

For the last few days I have been playingSpy Hunter for both the Mac and PC. The CD comes as a Hybrid. The boys have it for the Playstation in which it came out some time ago and I played it then. It was a good game, IMHO. I like car games like this. Although it doesn’t compare to Carmageddon. Still I looked forward to the computer version. I can say this, Aspyr needs to release some bug fixes but it seems true to the Playstation version.

One strange thing I found on this is that it didn’t play to well on my PC, but played really well on my Mac. My PC is a 1.8Ghz P4 w/ a GForce MX 400 with 32 MB video ram. Not top of the line. However since this game only goes to 1024×768 I would expect decent performance. Even at 800×600 the display is choppy. So choppy that it effect game playability. (Maybe time for a new video card here anyway.)

On My Mac I have a 1Ghz G4 with a Radeon 9000 & 64MB video memory. I’m guess the big difference is the 2X video memory. It was very playable on the Mac and there was no choppiness. However I was disappointed that it didn’t have any wide screen resolutions on it.

Unfortunately I have only been able to get past the first mission. After that the screen freaks out and it gets into some loop where it cycles through everything continuously.