The quest to do blog posts from my Nokia E71 cellphone has been accomplished. Today, I installed some Beta software called Scribe, written by Jay Fenton who is one of the partners of Howler Technologies. You can download the software here.

This a post using his software. Now the quest is to add photographs, and I suspect that soon Jay will have an easy way to do that from my E71, for now, it only allows me to enter a link to an image that is on the web.

Well, it finally works! But the solution was much more involved that I first thought.

There were two issues.

Text works fine with Jay’s software. Very simple to write and post text.

But then I wanted to include images from my E71, and while Jay’s software provides the ability to link to an image on the web, the question was “how do I get the image on the Internet?” By this I mean to my own folder, not at Flickr or somewhere else.

So, I needed an FTP client and I found one. It’s called SIC. It is free software from http://www.sic-software.com. Course, after installation, I had to understand how it works. Took me some time to configure the FTP correctly and then to understand how to upload to my Internet folder. Once I understood this, the next quest was to downsize images on the E71 as small as I could. There is no native image editor on the E71! But one can simply take a shot that is smaller. Say 640X480 pixels. So, after making adjustments to the camera settings, I took the shot shown above, uploaded to my Internet folder via the SIC software, then modified the blog entry using Scribe, and wow, now I have both text and images.

So, now I can record both text and images easily with my E71, then upload stuff to my Internet folder, then write away and link to those images easily.

Imagine doing a blog from a cellphone! I love it. Course, now I have to find something interesting to write about, include some photos, etc. My next trip is to Scotland, there should be ample opportunities on the Road.

And I am grateful that there are people out there who write free software that one can use for stuff like this. Many thanks to Jay Fenton and the folks at sic-software!

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