Here are five useful apps that you should really have on your phone. Obviously, you cannot really write a full six hundred word blog post on your phone, but there is nothing stopping you from marketing your blog, editing your blog, and adding to your blog via your phone. Things such as edits are probably better done on your phone anyway, because you are likely to have your phone in your hand whenever you have some spare time, but you cannot always get to your desktop computer when you have time on your hands. Here are five apps in the order that they are most useful to a pro-blogger.
Tumblr
Why is a social media app taking the number one spot? Because blogging is 45% writing and 55% getting people to read your posts. Tumblr is a great place to market your blog. It is a good place to share images related to your blog posts, and great for adding little snippets of text to try to get people to visit your blog. Sites like Facebook are good for marketing your blog posts, but Facebook should be accessed via a PC or laptop. With Tumblr you can snap a picture that relates to your blog, upload it and tell the world why they should visit your blog (all of which can be done whilst walking your dog).
WordPress
This is the world’s most popular blogging platform and you can access it via your mobile phone app. You can add bits to your blog, and edit it on the move. You can even reply to your blog comments if you wish. You can upload images or install new plugins and widgets. You can tinker with your blog in ways that you may find unproductive when on your PC/laptop. But, that is an ideal break from the boredom as you sit in a waiting room or wait for a train.
Twitterific
Another social media app ranks highly on this list. Again, you may market your blog via Twitter, with the great thing being that it is probably the quickest marketing device available. It is actually quicker to compose and send a Twitter message, than it is to write an SMS text. The app allows you to play with your Twitter account in the same way that you could on a desktop browser, except that you can post messages at any point of the day and wherever you are.
Instapaper
If you struggle to think up new blog post ideas when you are sat at your computer, this app may suit you. You can use it as a note-taking app, so that when you see something that inspires you, you can take note of it. When you are surfing the net, it allows you to download pages so that you may reference them later. The app tries to render the web pages so that they will work a little better on your phone, since some web pages are not really designed for viewing on a mobile phone.
Adobe Photoshop Express
This is a lighter version of the one you use on a desktop computer. It allows you to optimize and adjust your photos on a mobile device so that you may upload the images to your blog. Phone cameras are now up to 13-Mega pixels, so one cannot say that a mobile phone picture is not high enough quality to go on a blog. The problem is that the images are not optimized for your blog. They may be too large or have parts on the photo that you do not want appearing on your blog. So, you can use this app to fix the pictures and make them suitable for uploading onto your blog.
The article was written by Alice N. She writes for best essay writing services and contributes articles on education, blogging and writing.