Thanks to one of my favorite sites (Weblog Tools Collection) I found a truly nifty WordPress Plugin designed for iPhone- and iPod Touch-owning WordPress bloggers, although according to the plugin authors it also works for other mobile phones as well.

This cool plugin, WPhone, gives you a simplified admin interface for managing all aspects of your WordPress blog, including writing posts and pages. It does a beautiful job of paring down all the pretty fluff to present you with a very clean, easy to navigate menu structure and a simple form for entering posts or page content. WPhone also smartly recognizes your phone’s capabilities, and gives iPhone and iPod Touch users an interface utilizing full javascript and animation support – other mobile phone users get a “lite” version that doesn’t use javascript.

What’s amazing is that the plugin authors wrote this tool without actually owning an iPhone or iPod Touch – and the only bug I could find after extensive testing is a simple style issue that needs tweaking.

Although it’s already a simple matter to post an entry from your iPhone or other mobile phone using email, any WordPress blogger who occasionally finds themselves needing to login to manage other aspects of their blog will really benefit from this plugin.

Helpful Links:
Download the Plugin from WordPress
Plugin/Author Homepage

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Back in August I posted a review of iSkin’s revoCase for the iPhone, which I love. There are times, however, when I really need a belt clip for my iPhone, but the clips available (until now) would not fit over my iSkin Revo case, which wasn’t acceptable (I’ve had problems with clips for previous cell phones that left my phone crashing to the floor more than once), so I chose safety (with the revoCase) over convenience.

Now, to my delight, iSkin has created a belt clip that fits over the revoCase, named [appropriately] the revoClip. So naturally I ordered one.

First, the good: It has a nice, snug fit – no worries that your iPhone will accidentally slip out and hit the floor. The clip is good and solid too – it won’t accidentally come off of whatever you clip it to, so you iPhone will be safe from accidents. It has cut-outs for the top (on/off button and headphone jack), bottom (so you can sync or charge with the clip on), and even a cut-out on the backside for the camera lens. You can easily use your iPhone without removing it from the clip if you choose to. And in my opinion, the best feature is the most obvious one, that it’s designed to fit over top of the iSkin case, so my not-cheap-even-with-the-price-reduction iPhone is as protected as possible while still being functional. I suppose I could keep it in a safe under lock and key, but that makes it hard to show off. And lastly, a really nice feature is that the clip itself becomes a desktop “stand”, holding the phone at a good angle for landscape viewing of video.

The bad: The clip design does not leave a cut-out for using the volume up/down control, or the ring silencer switch. You could, of course, put the phone in the case the opposite way if you use those two controls a lot, but then the camera lens cut-out is in the wrong spot. For me this is a non-issue, because I don’t use those controls at all. On the rare occasion that I might need to, those settings are always also available by clicking on the Settings icon on the Home screen.

Because I know that there are some folks who might need access to those two controls, I can’t give the revoClip a 5-paw rating (perfect), but since it’s perfectly solved my own needs, and very nicely, I am happy to give it 4 paws.

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