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I have it going through the radio and play music from the itunes app. Waze will pause the music, say "Turn right onto Walnut Ave...." then resume the music. I think in "audiobook" mode, it pauses, and out of that mode, it just ducks the volume of the music.
This is what I have too - if I'm driving and listening to the radio, I'm probably somewhere I know well enough not to need the voice navigation.
Wordpress has an app that can update a blog, but I don't remember it working very well. Been quite awhile since I tried, though.
Tumblr's very trendy right now. I don't like their mobile app, but I don't know if the iPad one is the same as Android. Anyway, I just use the web browser even on my phone.
I know that Wordpress.org offers free hosting for basic blogs, fwiw.
wordpress.com is the hosted service -- wordpress.org is the free software you install on your own hosting. The mobile apps work equally well whether you host with them or on your own.
Either way, second the WP recommendation (but note that I might be a bit biased).
Hahahaha, IT sits at the table behind me, and one of the IT guys just got a GS4 to test after being a long-time iPhone user. Now he's asking Android and Siri competing questions and making them fight. So far, Siri is a lot sassier than the Android voice search.
amych, can you recommend any online resources for WordPress? I'm just learning and I'm finding my knowledge of HTML to be a handicap, in that I just want to do it my way. I have some sites I'd like to move to WordPress and teach someone else how to update them.
Not amych, but the Wordpress Codex was useful to me when I was putting a site into WP. I had very specific goals, though, so I could search on how to change the Category page so it sorted by two critera. There are still some general pages that explain how the PHP files are structured that will probably help.
Ginger, the best I know for people who are getting started running sites is [link] (paid, with some free samples and a 30-day refundable period).
If you're looking for stuff that's more on the programming side, [link] has been really solid for the last couple of years (although some of their older stuff was pretty dodgy).
If you need free, the getting started stuff on wordpress.com is quite good (http://en.support.wordpress.com/) with the caveat that there will be some things that don't apply to a self-hosted site -- still, for how to get up and running and drive the software, it's good stuff.
(Also, if there are specifics that you're struggling with, you can just ping me)
Thanks!