20th May 2015
In the past couple of days I have been through a rather interesting exercise regarding posting this blog while we are away.
Having read that Sea Princess has WiFi throughout the ship I assumed it would all be hassle free.
I Googled for the relevant information only to find out that WiFi charges are something in the order of almost a US dollar a minute and the comment was ‘
“Don’t be surprised if you find you drink a lot of coffee waiting for down and up-loads etc”, indicating it is a slow service. This is scary knowing that photos can take for ever to upload to the blog on slow systems.
We only have the iPhone and a Apple laptop that I don’t want to be carting around everywhere just to access the internet. I was thinking of stealing daughter Lisa’s iPad but she does use hers a lot even for work. Three months may be stretching the friendship if I take it.
I am posting the following information for the interest of those that may find themselves in a similar situation as it may be of some help to them also.
After a bit of thought and some research on good old Google, I downloaded three apps on my iPhone, ‘Word’ and ‘Pages’ that are Microsoft and Apple document handling apps and ‘Google Chrome’ to access my blog.
The following is a description of the process I need to go through to establish a blog posting while on board the ship and then use my iPhone to ‘Publish’ it once I have access to suitable WiFi eg ashore somewhere.
First of all I write the post in a Word document on my Apple mac and save it to an easily locatable file.
In this description I have used the ‘Pages’ app for document transfer but it is the same process if you use the ‘Word’ app. – I have yet to establish if one application works better than the other.
Step one.
Connect iPhone to laptop by USB.
1)
Open iTunes on the laptop.
2)
In iTunes select the phone icon then click ‘Apps’.
3)
Scroll down to the bottom of ‘Apps’ window, then click ‘Pages’ in the ‘Apps’ list under ‘File Sharing’ (which is being recognised from the iPhone).
4)
Click add, and all my laptop files show in a drop down window
5)
Select the required file.
Step two - iPhone
1)
Open ‘Pages’ app in the iPhone
2)
In the document manager tap +, and several options appear, then tap ‘copy from iPhone’.
3)
Tap the document again to activate transfer of the previously selected document from iTunes on the laptop to the iPhone. When the transfer has completed the document appears in the document manager.
Step three
When you know you have access to suitable WiFi
1)
Go back into the ‘Pages’ app and in the document manager tap the screen for the option menu, ‘Select all’ and tap again, the next menu allows you to ‘Copy’.
2)
Once you have copied the document turn on your WiFi and open the Google Chrome App to access the blog.
3)
Establish a new post on the iPhone as you would normally on the laptop and tap the screen for the menu to allow you to paste the document you copied.
4)
Publish in the normal manner, you can then go into your blog to check if it was successful.
I reckon this will test Nancy’s patience when I do this while we are sightseeing.
So my friends it depends upon how successful this process is as to how much photography gets uploaded.
Apart from that any suggestions are most welcome.
NB: I used the above process to establish and publish this post, however I used the 'Word' app and found it slightly more user friendly - both work.
