u*Blog

How to use

Entry List

All entries in a palm device are listed in this form.
Icons in left side show entry statuses.

Palm	Not posted
Arrow	Posted
Pencil	Edited after being Posted

When you use u*Blog for the first time. You have to tap popup trigger labeled as "NewBlog" and configure Blog Setting.
You can switch blogs by tapping same popup trigger.
When you tap New Post or existing entries, you can edit a entry.
Icon in right bottom shows network status, orange means Connected and gray means Disconnected. You can switch these status by tappin this icon.

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Edit Entry

You can edit an entry in this form.

Back Icon	Save this entry in a palm device and back to a entry list form.
Trash Icon	Delete this entry from a palm device.
Tool Icon	Configure Detail setting
Clip Icon	Attach files to this entry.
Post Icon	Post this entry to a blog.
Tag Icon	Insert HTML tags and templates registered.

To register HTML tags and templates, tap Edit Tags... in the list shown when you tap Tag icon. Tag edit form will be shown.
When you edit a posted entry and post it again the old entry will be overwritten.
When you wirte <extend> in a body, later part is handled as Extend
You can write Keywords and Excerpt by choosing menu.

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Attach Files

When you tap Clip Icon in Edit entry form, Attach file form popups.
In this form you can attach files up to 3.
Files of any types can be attached.

Back	Close Attached files form.
Preview Icon	Show selected file.(Jpeg only)
Clip+ Icon	Show a file list.
Trash Icon	Delete a selected file form an attached file list.

When you tap Clip+ Icon in Attach file form, files in a directory indicated by application setting are listed. Select a file you want and tap Select button to attach it.
You can also preview and rename files in this form.

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Entry Setting

In this form detail settings are set.

Only settings which can be used selected XMLRPC Type are shown. Screenshot shows MovableType settings.

To get a category list, tap Reload... in the Category popup list.
Category tiltes must be less than 64 letters and the number of categories must be less than 32.
Trackback ping will be sent to URLs indicated by Ping URL.
When an entry is posted without date and time, current time is used as Datecreatd.

When Save as Default is tapped, all settings are save as default and they are applied to new entries.

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Register HTML Tags

In this form HTML tags and templates can be registerd.

When New button or Edit button is tapped, this form will be shown.
Configure name and tag.
These macros shown below can be used in tag.

%s	Selected string when Tag Icon is tapped
%f	Attached file name

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Blog Setting

In this form you can configure blog settings

Name	Set blog name
Type	Choose XMLRPC API Type supported by your blog.
User Name	Account name
Password	Account password
Host	Host of your blog. See below for more detail
XML-RPC Path	XMLRPC path of your blog. See below for more detail
BlogID	Configure all settings except this and tap Find button. Blog names will be listed. Then choose one and Blog ID will be set automatically.

Set Host and XMLRPC Path as indicated below

1. Find out XMLRPC Path of your blog.
   In MovableType, mt-xmlrpc.cgi in mt directory is the file.
2. For example, when XMLRPC Path is http://foo.com/cgi/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi
   Host:From next letter of http:// to the end of domain (in this case foo.com )
   XMLRPC Path:from the end of domain to the end of the path (in this case /cgi/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi )

More Blog Setting

In this form you can configure blog setting more in detail.

Port	In most case use default value.
Timeout	Increase this when your blog sever is too slow.
Image Archive Path	Set upload directory for attached files in relative path from your blog. Take care no / is at the top of this path.�B
Use UTC as date created	This setting is for some Japanese blog service. Leave it as default.

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Application Setting

In this form you can set application setting.

Image Path	Input image archive path in externail memory. Files in the directory indicated by this setting are listed when you choose files to attach.
Line Color	Choose a color you like :)

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blogger.com

Type	Blogger
User name	Your account name
Password	Your password
Host	plant.blogger.com
XMLRPC Path	/api/RPC2
Blog ID	please use Find

TypePad

Type	MovableType
User name	Your account name
Password	Your password
Host	www.typepad.com
XMLRPC Path	/t/api
Blog ID	please use Find

MovableType

Type	MovableType
User name	Your account name
Password	Your password
Host	Your host
XMLRPC Path	Path to mt-xmlrpc.cgi from http://yourhost/ For example, assuming mt-xmlrpc.cgi is at http://foo.com/cgi/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi, set /cgi/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi here.
Blog ID	please use Find

Opinions and Ideas

Send me e-mails
Any e-mail is welcome but SPAM ;-)

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Bug Report

When you find bugs, please let me know.

At that time send me infomations below to make debugging easier.

• Version of u*Blog
• Name of blog service you are using
• URL of target blog
• Your palm device name
• Version of PalmOS
• Detail about bugs ( How to make it happen again )

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Developer

This palmware is developed by EIJ

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