Plus Newsrack’s latest update does not fix the bug that won’t allow universal image download. Now I have to download per category which is a real drag.

The fix: I deleted Newsrack on the iPhone and synced it with the laptop. Refresh all feeds and all is good again.

Diptic has one of the best basic but useful wysiwyg in-app photo editing functions. Brightness, contrast, saturation, and the ability to do a mirror image and adjust the width and colour of the border.

Collage apps are rare. Great collage apps are even rarer. This is the only one you’ll ever need. A steal at $0.99.

I have trouble syncing and image download, although claimed otherwise does not appear to be automatic anymore. I had to go to each folder to download the images manually. And worst of all, it takes ages to view each post! Wait till they fix these bugs before updating.

If you have, delete Newsrack from your iPhone and resync from your computer. This is assuming you updated via iPhone and not from the computer.

I’m currently using Blogpress ($2.99) which does the job but for:

1. The extra spacing (br br) it gives above an image. I need to manually remove the auomatically inserted break codes. The developer should add a HTML version too rather than only a wysiwyg version which sometimes can go horribly wrong.

2. When I edit a published page on the computer which was published by Blogpress, the images revert to left aligned and I have to manually center them again.

3. Can’t add categories and tags till logged in. Surely there must be a way to download the categories like WordPress does and refresh when connected.

4. If for some reason your screen flips upside down, all your text is lost. Learnt that the hard way today.

5. You can only upload images to one selected server, even if you have multiple blogs. Although technically you can keep changing the selection under Settings.

I had been using WordPress but it is worse. It won’t even load one of my other blogs and you can’t insert images wherever you want. You’ll have to publish first then edit the HTML to get your images to centre or cut and paste to wherever you want to locate them.

Forget about iBlogger which costs $9.99 and has the gall to add its own advertising (posted with iBlogger on iPhone) to your blog posts.

Update 22/7/10: I bought BlogBooster ($4.99) which looks promising with the ability to insert links and codes and upload images to your own server, but I am still waiting for them to add Categories for WordPress and fix the saving local drafts bug which cost me a post that disappeared when I closed the app. Here’s a review from the Blog Herald.

So there really isn’t anything better for now. Alternatively, type your blog post in Notepad and just copy and paste when you login using Safari or Opera.

Only when I closed all the apps that were running did the camera snap again.

I think we were fine without multitasking. Apple should add an option for us to choose not to multitask.

Here are more opinions that it sucks.

The shutter speed seems turbo charged and there is zoom! Well we can delete all those .99 cent camera apps we purchased now.

2. Video focus

You can now press to focus for videos now. No more blurry videos.

3. iBooks (or rather its potential)

The iBook store sucks. There are only Project Gutenberg books there. But the reading experience is divine.

4. Text Message Character Count

Now I solve the mystery of how I managed to send 700+ smses in a month after never exceeding 500 in ten years.

5. Folders!

Need I say more? The horrible cluttered mess can now be categorized. Perfect for neat freaks like me. Just press till they wiggle and pull one of top of another and they will be popped into a folder with a default name which you can then rename.

Worth the upgrade to iPhone OS 4? Absolutely. (How quickly I forget the nightmarish transit to get here…)

Instructions are clear and concise.