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Much to my chagrin, my blog has never really looked correct on my iPhone. Most websites that don’t have a mobile version never really do look correct on mobile devices, so…

Really though, I’ve never considered mobile versions for the websites I work on and run. Until smartphones took off, the consideration was never really there for me… Well, they’ve taken off.

Thus, my quest to make my blog look correct on at least the iPhone has been completed. I’ve installed a nice new plugin to my blog that’ll make it look slick on the iPhone, and supposedly it’ll look correct on other mobile devices as well.

I’ve taken a test drive of the plugin and success. It looks good. I suggest for you to go take a look in your iPhone as well.

Oh, and let’s not forget an update on my busted liver, err knee. It’s been slowly getting better. I’ve got more range and motion today than any time since the injury, and I’m actually a bit more confident that there’s no permanent damage, or damage that will eventually need to be surgically repaired. I have an Indoor Soccer game this Thursday, so we’ll see how it feels during that game, afterwards, and that night as well. I think it’ll be alright, though.

So while Laura’s got her 365-Day Project going on, I figured I should do the same. You know, take a picture once a day and post it online. Little did I know that my wonderful wife would refuse to alternate which days each of us got the DSLR camera we have. It’s more her camera than mine, but nonetheless… I got locked out.

I briefly toyed with the idea of a 365-Day iPhone Project, but then decided I didn’t want to have to constantly connect my iPhone to my home laptop to do it.

Well, the other day I got TwitterFon on my iPhone. It’s a nice little Twitter client that has built-in support for replies, direct messages, searching, etc. And when I was writing a Tweet on it, I noticed an icon for a photo… Lo-and-behold, my savior!

It integrates with TwitPic, a picture hosting service for the purposes of putting short URLs to pictures into your Tweets. The thought occurred to me: I could use TwitterFon to get my iPhone photos into my Tweets! Granted, it’s not posting the photos on my blog or Facebook, but in my Tweets!

All I needed was a way to tag my Tweets that are in this project as such, and the nice convention of #<keyword> helped. Basically, I put #iphonephoto in all of my iPhone Photo A Day Tweets to tag them, which makes them searchable in Twitter.

I’ve already posted two, which you can see here. If you’re on Twitter, start following me, I’m rfludwick. All you need to do is keep up with #iphonephoto and you’re good. And I highly suggest participating if you’re on Twitter and have an iPhone. It can be random posts, anything really!

So I got this WordPress app for my iPhone. It’s pretty cool, it’s an integrated app that lets me post on my blog from my iPhone. Like right now.

I don’t imagine I’ll make long posts from my iPhone, since I can’t type near as fast on it as a computer.

It’s still easier to use than to try to load up my blog in the browser on my phone though. Good times!