Tuesday 9 October 2018

Bodrum is buzzing but I can’t show you the pictures

Where is the photo you ask - I’m asking the same question on every forum I can find about blogging. After losing my iPad and iPhone in the same week, I decided to buy a big phone to take the place of both. As everything is backed up in iCloud, I chose an iPhone 8 Plus with all the bells and whistles and massive price tag.  I have used the Blogger app on my iPad for the past 6 years so assumed I would just carry on only to find that it is no longer available for iPhones. I can use the web version on my phone to add text but it won’t download photos.   Hours of trawling the net came up with an app only downloadable to an iPad. Friend Angela luckily had an iPad mini for sale at a non-eye watering price, so I drove over to Yalıkavak on Sunday to collect it.  I set it up, installed the app to find that despite the description in the App Store, it didn’t support Blogger.  The only alternatives I have now are to 1. Buy a Google-friendly tablet or 2. Swap the blog to Wordpress.  Or I just have to stick near my desktop which still supports the blog but as it is now over 10 years old, there is a fair chance that it will give up the ghost soon. The first option is more expense, the second is daunting.  Any advice would be very welcome. 

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  1. Do you have a friendly little computer man/women that can help?

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    1. It is a Apple v Android problem - not local unfortunately

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  2. I'm sure someone will be able to help ... not me unfortunately as I'm a bit of an Iguanodon when it comes to these things ...

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    1. Very annoying - why can't things that work stay the same?

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  4. Hi Annie, I swapped over to Wordpress when Blogger was banned in Turkey and have stayed with them ever since. You can import all your old posts from Blogger. If you do decide to go this way, my advice is don't go with Wordpress.org (the self-hosted version), stick with Wordpress.com so they do all the hard work!

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  5. Grab the rest of your life back whilst you have the chance. Have used Linux/Ubuntu for years and avoided Apple/Microsoft like the plague they are. Good luck with sorting an inexpensive solution. If my experience is anything to go back Wordpress and those who support it are not without their unsolvable problems.

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    1. It's scary out there . How on earth do I chose a host?

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