Jasonisms

I'm a sucker for a good scary movie. Not the masked killer type, but a good haunted house flick that's eerie and tense.  Unlike a lot of people, I thoroughly enjoyed the first  Paranormal Activity  movie (they kept getting worse with every sequel) and then  The Conjuring  until the ending where they blamed everything on witches. The Conjuring 2 was okay, but it just felt like the studio or director was making a caricature of a haunted house movie.  This movie,  The Changeling , I had thought would be worse than it was, but I can see it's actually quite formulaic in regards to this genre and thus it was good, but not great.  Immersion-juice

So, it would appear punctuation marks in the title of posts using the Blogger Pro app are also a no-go.  I changed the above title three times and thrice - yes, I said thrice  - it posted with the symbols instead of the aprostrophe. 

Well, the title sort of sums it up: it doesn't look like you can share from the YouTube app to Blogger Pro either.  I'd watched the movie  Hotel Artemis  earlier and wanted to share such with the boys that scroll this blog, but was unable to due to, well, there being no sharing option from YouTube to this Blogger app.  Don't get me wrong, it is still far and away a superior app to the homegrown Google one (which has been abandoned, I read) but it still lacks a couple of necessary features. Everything is is great though, so I'll probably use Blogger more often, even for micro - or, lightning - blogging.  You know, the way I used to use Google+. The only thing I don't see, besides what I've already mentioned, is the ability to add tags.  Princess

I just took a small 2-3 second video and tried to upload it.  I can confirm videos are not able to be loaded via the BP app.  GOP Ruled by Soviet Interests

Turns out, I can't reach out from this Blogger Pro app to Flickr for images. Amazone Drive? Sure. Box.com? Yessiree. Flickr? Nope.  Damn.  But, it's still better than the official Google Blogger app. 

Just testing to see if this new  Blogger Pro  app I downloaded autofills a preview of articles for linked URLs. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/trump-blasts-savages-ocasio-cortez-three-other-women-color-schiff-n1059941 It doesn't seem to be the case. At least not before posting. We'll see if it happens during the posting process. 

Decided to  try something new.  Turns out the official Google Blogger app is useless and like everything else useful in the Google ecosphere, it's been abandoned by Mountain View.  So, I discovered this third party app that will hopefully fit the bill.  Let's see if we can add photos. I'm going to try it three different ways. Share from within this app from Photos Taking a photo from this app. Then, in a new post, I'll try sharing from the Photos app to the Blogger app. Let's see what happens.  Old Legs, New Shoes The photo from camera does seem to auto rotate.  Okay, after loading the post the image automatically rotated, which is good, but I can't seem to upload from the Photos or Flickr apps to this new  Blogger Pro  one. At least this app is more useful than the Google one. 

Just changed the image upload setting to "smaller" than originally set in the hopes that blogger will actually upload images for me. ... it's not. In fact, one of the images not showing is one shared to Blogger and the other is one brought in from within this post. Neither are showing as posting. At least not on drafts. I wonder what happens if you try to take a photo from within the Blogger app. I don't think I've tried that in a while, but then again, I don't think Blogger has updated the app in a while either. Update: So, image sharing on the go is not happening in Blogger, but if I use the camera app from within the Blogger app and take a photo it appears to work. So, no edited images or sharing images from the device or the gallery on the go it seems.

This was a test to determine if Google out any effort whatsoever into this Blogger app. And the answer is ... no . I'd hoped to start blogging again but without autofill links (think every other social media site where a preview of articles pops in once the URL is posted) or image posting, what's really the point?