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[j4]

As I twittered yesterday, there's now an LJ app for the iPhone. This test of its capabilities doesn't count towards the post-a-day, but may make it easier to keep up while I'm away at a conference next week.

Okay, it lets (not "let's"! Stop autofailing my apostrophes, goddamnit!) you put in cut-tags, but it doesn't seem to let you delete them. You can add LJ-user tags, as I'm just demonstrating to addedentry. Bold, italic and strikethru are all easy. So are links, though you have to type the URL because there's no cut-and-paste / paste-from-bookmarks / etc., and when you hit the link button a second time to add the "" the cursor jumps down two lines.

You can even add a photo:

Though it doesn't paste it where the cursor was, and after pasting the photo in, the ribbon of buttons for styles and special tags disappears altogether!

In summary: quite usable, a bit buggy, but since it's free and this is only the first release I will persevere with it and see how it develops.

PS: I should point out that this is the first LJ client I've tried at all. I did look (back in the early days) to see if there was a command-line LJ client, and there wasn't, so I stuck with the web interface. 8-)

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Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

A nice touch is that when you post the entry it offers you the choice of viewing it in the browser either in full or in "light" format (http://j4.livejournal.com/328825.html?format=light). Has the "light" option been there all along and I just never noticed?

BTW, the LJ app does let you set your icon, but I forgot.

[imc.livejournal.com]

Has the "light" option been there all along

Quite a while, yes. I don't know when it was created.

There are also quite a few command-line clients (http://www.livejournal.com/download/?platform=Command-line) too. The sclj community was created in 2002 and mentions version 2.4 in the first post.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Coo, okay, thank you -- I can't have looked very hard! :-}

I have downloaded JLJ and when I can face working my way through the config I will have a go with that...

[sparrowsion]

I have charm --sync running as a cron job to give me a local archive of my posts, but I can't say I've ever used it for anything else in anger.

[abi]

I also downloaded this app the other day; sounds good, so I must get round to trying it.

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

What it doesn't do which would be nice is let you browse your friends' entry is a nice iPhone formatted way, it would be really useful to reply, manage comments on your own entries and that sort of thing all from the iPhone.

Still nice though.

[j4.livejournal.com]

True, not being able to manage comments is a pain -- I could've done with an iPhone-mail-style delete interface (slide-tap! slide-tap!) for all those Japanese spam posts earlier...

While it'd be nice to have everything in one app, for reading I find the ordinary web version isn't too bad. Though the mobile version (http://www.livejournal.com/mobile/) is even lighter than the light format mentioned above!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ISTR there was an emacs mode for LJ posting. Haven't used it for a while though.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Oooh now you're talking. How do I get that?? (Okay yes I am being lazy, I will go and google for it...)