Tag: iOS

Apple brings networks to their knees

This afternoon around 1 p.m. iOS 7 went live (in our area at least).

Shortly there after our organization’s Internet came to a crawl (or so I hear – I was working from home).

I dropped a quick email to our network admin:

iOS 7 anyone? 😉

(I’m at home so don’t blame me)

Sure enough – later tonight I got an email confirming my suggestion. iTunes was using roughly 400MBits or more than 40% of our organization’s Internet connection.

I think @Saddington was right to be impressed that Apple’s network could handle the load of all those downloads.

https://twitter.com/saddington/status/380396490990309376

Pressgram is coming…

thesearemypictures

Earlier this year, John Saddington launched a Kickstarter campaign to support his latest project – Pressgram.

And let me just say – I’m a huge fan (and backer).

What started as a personal side project for John has turned into a full-time job thanks to the Kickstarter support.

The FREE iOS app (Android planned to be released later) sets out with a sole purpose of freeing content creators from the often insane terms of service some social networks offer their users.

The app works similar to Instagram but instead of uploading your photos to a server owned and controlled by Facebook, users upload their photos to their own WordPress powered site (hosted or self-hosted).

Think about that – a super easy way to get the features you love in apps like Instagram (filters, social aspect, etc) but you get to own the content and bring traffic to your own sites – not someone else’s.

What better way for a business to drive traffic to their site than with an app that posts images directly to their site and then shares a link to it on Twitter or Facebook? No more sending customers to someone else’s site and hoping they click back to yours.

I can’t wait!

Personally, I’ve been trying to share most of my content here on my blog again – like the good ole’ days – and while the WordPress iOS app does a decent job of posting content to your WordPress blogs, the media manager/uploader leaves me wanting.

I have no doubt Pressgram is going to fill that hole the minute I get my hands on it.

Who knows… it may even be enough to get me to finally hit that delete account button.

deleteinstagram

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What about you? Are you frustrated by the terms of service companies like Facebook and Flickr offer?

Would you delete your accounts and move everything to a self-hosted solution if the right tool was available?

Video test with iOS WordPress app

Testing out the video feature on the iOS WordPress app. Shot the video straight on my phone and uploaded it here – right away – all from my iPhone 4.

It saves as an MOV file and uses HTML 5 (or HTML 4) to run on your site. So if you can’t view the video, be sure and update your browser.

Today’s workspace

My workspace is getting a little cluttered… May need to start thinking a little more seriously about a new desk with drawers.

(Posted with the iPhone WordPress app version 2.8 – with the Quick Photo feature. As a note, I had to come back and resize the photo since it posted the largest version originally.)