Now that Wireless connection is

Now that Wireless connection is a routine event, its time to get nBog working.

Installed nBlog 1.0a8, which includes three packages nBlog, nHTML, and XML-RPC. Then set the preferences. This was the first problem area for me. The instructions at nBog state:

“Before you can use nBlog you must first set up nBlog’s preferences. Tap on the Prefs button and enter your information for host, path, port, username, and password. Tap Save and tap the Refresh Blog List button to retrieve your list of blogs from the internet.”

The instructions included a great screen shot:

As straight forward as these instructions are, my wee little brain didn’t get it.

My humble site is a Movabletype blog that is installed in a subdomain of www.my-list.com. After many trial and error attempts to correctly set nBlog preferences, success was achieved. The key to success was the realization that the Host: preference setting must be the URL where the Movabletype cgi script is installed and not necessarily the blog URL. Also the Path: setting is the path and file name for the cgi script that provides for a remote post. The specific setting which appear to work a some level are:

Host: http://www.my-list.com
Path: /cgi-bin/mt-xmlrpc.cgi
Port: 80
Weblog API: Blogger 1.0
Username: <my username>
Password: <my password>
Title start tag: <b>
Title close tag: </b><br/>
Aways Publish checked

I have two persistent problems. The first is all nBlog action icons with the exception of “User Info” are grayed out and inactive. When the User Info action item is tapped the Newton connects and return the correct user information. The second is when I tap the nHTML package a slip pops up with the message: Sorry, a problem has occurred. (-48809) I have downloaded and reinstalled this package twice. However, the error still occurs.