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7:05 PM

16 Best Blogging Apps for iPhone & iPad 2017

The list of the Best Blogging Apps for iPhone & iPad is here. In this list, you can see 16 best blogging apps. If you are are a blogger and own iOS device(s), this article for you. You can see here 16 best iOS apps that are most useful for a blogger. Now see the best iOS blogging apps-

1. WordPress

Probably the most popular blogging site for the tech industry is WordPress. This official app makes it possible for you to manage your posts on the go. You can create and edit posts and pages, upload pictures and videos, moderate comments, and view your website’s stats. When you are finished polishing your daily masterpiece, you can publish it right on your iPhone. You can also keep track of blogs you follow in your personal feed. Find new WordPress users to follow and keep track of their posts, as well. This app is available for free.

2. Flipboard for iPad

When it comes to reading apps, Flipboard and Zite are my favorite feed readers for iPad. It really is a perfect app if you are planning to use your iPad to keep track of the latest news.

You can integrate Flipboard with your Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader and custom searches. The magazine-style look makes your reading experience comfortable.

3. PressSync Pro - for WordPress ( iPhone + iPad)

If you have a WordPress blog(s), this app should be helpful for you. This is an unofficial WordPress app that can be used to manage multiple WordPress.com and Wordpress.org blogs easily from your iPad or iPhone. PressSync Pro has some useful features, such as- image tag editing, categories and tag management and more. With this app, you can upload photos to your blogs without losing EXIF information, and if you want to protect your privacy, you can remove geotags from your photos.

Also read: How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to PC Windows 7/8/10

4. Blog with iBlogger

It is a superb blogging application, which is not free but costs only $10 to users and that is quietly affordable. It supports platforms, i.e. WordPress, Blogger, ExpressionEngine, TypePad, and lots more. Typically, it is known as a home based blogging application, which is entirely designed especially for SEO experts and daily blog writers.

5. BlogPress

It is easy to use the app and offers bloggers almost everything they need. They can upload files, videos, images, anchor texts, hyperlinks, etc. using this app. Besides this, many other features are also provided to the users by this superb application. It is available on both iPad and iPhone devices. The platforms BlogPress supports include Blogger, MSN Live Space, WordPress, and much more. It is paid for bloggers and costs $3 only.

Also read: 25+ Surefire Tools That Make You Successful in Digital Marketing

6. Tumblr ( iPhone + iPad )

This is the official app of the Tumblr. Tumblr is one of the most widely used free blogging platforms in the world. If you've Tumblr blog(s), download this app. Tumblr's official app is available on the App Store for free. This app has all the features that help you to manage your Tumblr blogs, and this app has a very easy to use user-interface, so you can easily blog from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. With this app, you can posts text/pictures/video/links, see and reply to messages, save drafts, queue posts and more. This app also lets you post, like, reply and reblog when you're offline.

7. Squarespace Blog

Squarespace is a lesser-known, but incredibly beautiful web-building platform that allows users to craft elegant websites. This official app gives you complete access to editing and managing your Squarespace content from multiple accounts. You can create and edit posts using the company’s Layout Engine, add photos, format text, and create links while on the go. Keep track of comments and reply to readers with little effort. You can even mark a comment as spam “with a flick of your finger.” Instead of logging in and out of different pages, this app allows you to toggle between websites seamlessly. This app is available for free.

Also read: 16 Essential Blogging Tools That Will Make You More Productive

8. Blogo Blog Editor App for iOS 9.0 Devices

Suitable for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch with iOS 9.0 and above, the Blogo blog editor gives you all the tools you need to create amazing blogs. The Pro version works with WordPress and other blogging software. You can list, edit and update existing or new posts, pages or drafts. Plus a lot more.
The Pro version allows you work with multiple blogs simultaneously. The Free version is packed full of features, but if you want more than the Pro version costs $2.99/month.

9. Buffer Tool

Schedule Posts for Twitter & Instagram ( iPhone + iPad ) - This is not a blogging app, but handy app for bloggers who have iOS devices. If you want to automate and manage your blog post sharing tasks from your iPhone, iPad or even from your Apple Watch, you should use Buffer official app on your iOS and watchOS devices. With this app, you can use Buffer's features on the go and automate your blog post sharing on most popular social networking site including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. You can connect up to 4 social networking accounts for free.

Also read: How To Use Apple Pay On Apple Watch

10. Weebly Mobile

Weebly is a well-known simple website creation tool. You can download the app free from iStore. Weebly mobile enables to you blog log and edits your blogs directly from your iPhone or iPad. You can use photos you have just taken on your iPhone and immediately publish them on your blog.

It allows almost instantaneous publication of anything you have on your iPhone or iPad. The only issue is that, like any other free application, it can fold at any time. You will also have the Weebly advert on your site. If you want to pay for no Weebly ads, more storage, and functionality, fees for begin at $14/month – or $96 for one year in advance.

11. Posts

Whether you use Blogger or WordPress, or even both, this iPad app helps you create and publish great content from anywhere. If you manage multiple blogs, you’ll have easy access to all of them and be able to check on everything at a glance. Browse your content by date by checking the built-in calendar. Create, edit, and publish content, including image layout and video uploads. Receive notifications when someone comments and then write and respond from within the app. Work offline, including creating and editing new and previously published posts. All work will be saved in the “outbox” and published when you are back online. This app is available on the iPad for free.

12. BlogTouch Pro (for Blogspot Blogger) for iPhone

BlogTouch Pro is a powerful Blogger/Blogspot editor for Apple products. It can be downloaded for just $4.99 from iTunes/iStore. This blogging app can be used on iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac! Blog Touch devices. It makes blogging easier for you by helping you manage multiple blogs – publish, edit and delete comments, post, and pages.

BlogTouchPro enables you to blog directly from your phone when on the go. Have you ever come across something you must share with others – now!! Well, you can do it with BlogTouchPro – just start typing wherever you are. On foot, in a train or even in your home – fire up BlogTouchPro and get it down and online in almost no time at all! Text, pictures or just your thoughts!

Also read: 10 Money-Making Blogger Tools to Make Your More Money

13. HootSuite

In recent years, blogging has taken on a whole new meaning. Many people consider posting to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more, to be part of the “micro-blogging” world. If you are a mini content creator, HootSuite is a great way to manage your various social networking sites. The app gives you access to an account, giving you control over when and how you share content. Create and schedule publication to various sites over different dates and times. Keep track of messages, “likes” and comments. Plus, you can monitor and track click-through stats from wherever you are. In iOS 8, use app extensions to share content from any app.

14. SEO Tool (iPhone & iPad)

If you want to analyze your site’s search engine ranking on the main search engines, this great app can help you to check your site’s position on major search engines. This app comes with some useful and essential SEO tools.

15. Evernote

Evernote usually sits at the top of the list for any serious note-taker, and for a good reason.

As one of the first “online notebooks,” Evernote lives up to its promise to help you “remember everything.” It is also available online, as a desktop app (Mac and Windows) and as a mobile app (both iOS and Android) so you can jot down ideas wherever inspiration strikes.

What makes this particularly useful for us bloggers is the search functionality. You can make an unlimited number of notebooks and quickly search through them.

Best of all, it is free to use, although you would need to upgrade to the paid plan to unlock more features.

Price: Freemium

Platform: Online, mobile, and desktop (Windows and Mac)

16. Drafts (iOS only)

What if you just want to quickly take notes without scrolling through half a dozen menus and buttons? This is where Drafts comes in.

Drafts were designed from scratch as a “write-first, organize-later” type app. Everytime you open the app, you get a blank page so you can jot down your inspiration right away. This design choice fits the writers’ workflow correctly.

But there’s more: once you’ve got your notes down, you can use one of the many pre-built ‘actions’ to get more from your notes.

For example, you can automatically send the note contents straight into your Dropbox.

Think of it as a built-in IFTTT for your notes. You can see a list of actions here.

The only downside? It’s only available on iOS (iPhone, iPad and yes, even Apple Watch).

Price: $5.99

Platform: iOS

Have I missed to include any of your favorite blogging apps? I would love to know that in the comments.

5:38 AM

How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to PC Windows 7/8/10

So you need to transfer photos from your iPhone to Compute or laptop? Don't be worried, there are simple three methods to import photos from iPhone to computer. The iPhone has become a popular camera replacement, but how can you backup your photos in case your phone gets misplaced? There are several ways to do this, depending on your operating system and installed software.

How to Import Photos from iPhone to Windows 7

1. Connect your iPhone to the computer. If the AutoPlay window appears, click "Import Pictures and Videos using Windows".

How to Copy Camera Roll Photos from iPhone to Windows 7

2. Click the Import Settings link > In the resulting window, you can change the folder to which your Camera Roll's photos will be imported by clicking the Browse button next to the "Import to" field.
3. After setting your import options, click OK > Choose a tag if desired and click Import.

Pro Tip: If AutoPlay not working, you can either transfer the photos from iPhone to PC using Windows Explorer or import the photos using software such as Windows Live Photo Gallery.

How to Import Photos from iPhone to Windows 8

1. Connect you iPhone using the cable with your Windows 8 PC. Wait for your PC to detect your iPhone. You might see a notification with Trust option. Top Trust option to continue.
2. Open "The PC" and right-click on the iPhone device and then select "Import pictures and videos".
3. Select "Review, organize, and group items to import" option if you are transfer or importing images first time. Or click "Import all new items now" if you have already transferred photos from your iPhone. Click Next.

4. Click on "More Option" link to choose folders where you want import iPhone pictures and videos. Set folder for Pictures. click OK and then Next button.
5. Select the groups of photos you want to import, click the Import button.

Transferring Photos in Windows from iPhone

1. Connect your iPhone to your PC with the USB cable. Open your Computer by clicking the Start menu and selecting Computer. In Windows 8, type “computer” while you are at the Start screen.

If the AutoPlay windows appears, click the “Import pictures and videos” link and skip down to Step 3.

2. Right-click on your device. In the list of devices, you should see your iPhone. Right-click on it and select “Import pictures and videos” from the menu.

3. Select Import Settings. Choose the location that you want to import the photos to. By default, they will be copied to the My Pictures folder.

In the Import Settings menu, you can choose to have the photos deleted from your iPhone after copying. This will save space on your iPhone.

4. Import your photos. Once you’ve chosen tags, click the Import button. A window will open showing the progress of the transfer. Once the import is complete, Windows Photo Gallery will open showing your recently imported photos.

If not all photos transferred, you can copy photos manually. Open Computer and double-click your iPhone. Browse to \Internal Storage\DCIM\100APPLE\. This folder contains all of the images you took with your iPhone camera. Copy any photos that you would like.

How to Manually Import Photos and Videos from an iPhone or iPad into Windows

iPhones and iPads go with Macs like peanut butter goes with jelly. If you use Windows however, you can still access your photos and videos on these devices with just a few quick steps.

As popular as Apple products have become in recent years, there’s still a huge Windows user base. This often means that said users are left scratching their heads on how to make their iPhones and iPads get along with their PCs.

One thing that we’ve discovered is that while it’s super easy to access your photos and videos from a Mac, using a Windows PC requires a bit more work. It’s not too terribly difficult, but it isn’t necessarily elegant either. That said, once you know how to import photos and videos on your iOS device, you can make quick work of it.
When you first plug your iOS device into your Windows computer, it will prompt you to allow your PC to access its photos and videos.

If you tap “Allow” and you have a photo program installed, then you might get a prompt asking you if you want to import. In this example, our Windows 10 PC immediately pops up with a dialog asking us if we want to import items from our iPhone.

5:44 AM

Mobilize Your Blog Promotion Using QR Code Generators

Mobile marketing is getting more and more popular as market share of the smart phones continues to grow. Whether you are into the whole aspect of using your Android based device or iPhone for browsing the web or not – you shouldn’t ignore the opportunity. While there are many ways to make your WordPress blog mobile ready – today I want to talk about marketing it using what is becoming one of the more popular options – QR Codes.
I don’t claim to be the expert when it comes to using mobile marketing as I’m just getting started with the process and quite frankly don’t have enough stats to show for it but as a blogger and Internet Marketer I just can’t ignore the possibility of getting more traffic and readers. What’s even more – I have read quite a few articles and guides on the topic over last few days and noticed some missed opportunities.
In this post I will share my own idea for a very simple marketing using QR Codes and also free QR code generators you can use absolutely FREE (my favorite price)!

What Is QR Code?

Here is definition from Wikipedia QR Code page:

A QR Code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

In a nutshell – QR code is a way to encode a very specific information into image format that is readable by Android devices or iPhone with a bar-code scanner application. An image you can use in some very specific ways to promote your site, business or just share the information of your choice.

Free QR Code Generators

While doing research I have found quite a few paid product that will allow you to create almost any type of QR code but quite frankly – why in the heck would I pay for something I can get for free? Convenience – may be, but it is still not worth the $30-$80 I have seen these QR Code generators been sold for…
So here we go – some nice, web based QR Code generators for you:
QR Code Generator from the ZXing Project
This nice small web based application allows you to generate multitude of QR code, should be more then enough for any marketing needs, absolutely FREE.

QR Code and 2D Code Generator
This one is quite a bit more advanced and gives you options to generate not only QR code but several other encoded formats. Page also contains some very useful information on how to use the multiple options provided:

QR Code For Blog Marketing Ideas

Obviously these ideas are based on my own needs and business priorities so how you choose to use it – is entirely up to you but perhaps it will spark some ideas of your own you will be interested to share in comments.
First of all – before I proceed to creating QR code for my blog I sat down and identified my goals:

What is it I’m trying to accomplish using mobile marketing?

Answer in my case was surprisingly simple – get subscribers, readers, leads, customers. But this simplicity was simply a logical extension of my overall business plan and place of the blog in it. I’m a strong believer that implementing proper email marketing in combination with your blog is not just a MUST to be done, but is absolutely essential to overall blog and business success.

Once my goal was identified – I proceeded to aweber and created a new web form to collect subscribers. I did it by simply copying the pop-over subscription form you get to see when visiting this blog for the first time because it has proven highly effective. This step was done so I could track the statistics properly and also – to embed this form on a page that is more modile device friendly!
When I had my form completed I created the new page and published it and then created a “Navigate to URL” QR code you can see in the very beginning of this post. Simple, inline with my overall goal and at same time – separate for tracking results.
But my implementation of QR code is just the beginning of what could be done!

Because you can encode quite a few different types of messages, including your contact info – QR code becomes a very convenient form of sharing you details easily by placing this code on your business cards, flyers, printed materials.
Instead of just sharing your contact info – you can also use image to lead prospects from printed materials to your subscribe page. Just offer something of value and then encode that url, much like I did for the blog but spread it offline.
You can create codes to integrate Twitter and Facebook marketing into your efforts. Just imaging if instead of a link to the subscribe page – you create a link to Facebook Like option,
If you are running coupon discounts – you can build a targeted list of repeat customers by encoding that specific url, segregate your list to get more efficiency and better performance.

There are many great ideas just be sure to stick to some basic principals:

Any page you send your mobile customers to via QR code should be mobile friendly
If trying to get subscribers – offer incentives to do so
QR codes on printed materials can be extremely effective if you target audience actually uses those devices! So before you go overboard – evaluate your niche and perhaps start small at first: you contact info, Google maps location, subscribe squeeze page.
Do a split test – always to see which marketing option works and which doesn’t!

That should cover some of the basics and I’m looking forward to your comments and ideas! And do share this post on social networks if you like what you read.

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