Blogsy - My first try.

Hi everyone. Yeah, I know, it's been a long time since I last added to my blog.
I thought to kick things off again, I would blog about my ongoing upgrade to my home network. But before I could do this, I wanted to dabble into using my iPad to do the actual blogging.

Side track one!
Where to start?
I have read a bit about how some of the bloggers I follow, use their mobile devices to update there blogs. That might be by using their iPhone, Android device or the like. I decided that the iPad, with it's large screen, would be the way I am going to go.

Next....
As everyone knows, "Google is our friend". A couple of searches, and I was lead to "Blogsy". The app isn't free. At over $5.00, it is even expensive when compared to most apps in the store. I thought, what the heck, it's only money.
My attempt to install the app straight on to my iPad failed. It wanted iOS 5 to be installed.

Side track two!
OK, I thought, not a bad time to update anyway. Several hours, yes, several, I had my iTunes and iPad upgraded to the latest. (That might be another post.)
So back to the install of Blogsy. It went without any problems, as you would expect from an Apple Store install.

First Try....
As you can see from reading this blog, it must be pretty easy to post a blog. I mean, if I can do this, anybody can.
When you first start the app, you are presented with an example, which is also a very basic tutorial with links to guides and videos on how to use it.
As a normal sort of user, I disregarded these, and went straight to try and figure out how I could get my post up in the cloud.
I could not work out how to start a new post, so I just deleted the text on the given example. Seems to work. An edit to the Title and select Draft to "ON". These can be done by selecting the gear/pencil button in the top left corner of the screen.
By swiping the screen from right to left, it flips to give the writing screen. It's a black screen, which is different to the "Rich" screen, which is white. Then I just started typing what you are now reading.
I have worked out how to save the blog as a draft online, but not locally. More research required here. I mean, that's what I wanted to able to do. Blog on the go, without being tied to an internet connection while writing the bog.

Conclusion....
You can see I have added an image to the post. It's all a bit basic in layout etc, but it's a start.
After the feeling of "where do I start", things became pretty obvious rather quickly. I'm sure there are many more settings and features under the hood, but they will be learnt, and perhaps posted about, in the coming days.
I think this may become a useful tool, and help me keep up with all the topics I want to "ramble" about.
Let's just see about that.

Edit....
Just tried to add some labels, and app crashed. Blogsy has nice feature to allow you to send crash details to the developer. I sent it. Let's see what happens from there.