posted on 2012-01-04 at 04:38 PM - amd.im/B9Ho
I recently went on a business trip for a few short days and decided to go "laptop free" and just bring my iPad with an Apple Wireless Keyboard.
To make a long story short, I loved it.
I bring my iPad anytime I travel. I read on it, watch movies, play games and otherwise pass the time. Up until this trip, if I had to do real work, I would bring a laptop as well as it's just a bit better for cranking out email and the like. With the keyboard, the iPad was just as productive or more than my laptop had been.
Benjamin Brooks just posted that he is trying the same experiment but can't quite get away from his MacBook Air because he needs to be able to upload content to Amazon S3 in order to post to his blog. I host my imagery on S3 as well and ran into a similar situation that was preventing me from easily posting from my iPad or iPhone.
The solution that I came up with was to write a script that allows me to send a Markdown formatted email to an email address that my custom blog software checks. Images that are attached are resized, uploaded to S3, and embedded in the body of the post.
It totally changed the way I blog and made it so much simpler to just shoot off an email to the server. This post was written in just that way, using a keyboard paired to an iPad.
I don't know what platform he uses, but I'd guess there's something pre-written for his platform. I know there is for Wordpress, Posterous, Tumblr, and others.
amdavidson.com is a simple blog run by Andrew Davidson, a manufacturing engineer with a blogging habit. He sometimes posts 140 character tidbits, shares photos, and saves links. You can also see posts dating back to 2005.