Fairly recently entered into the dictionary - if there at all - is the word "moblogging". Essentially it is the verb meaning to blog via a mobile device; a PDA, phone and so on, with bonus geek-cred if you're on the move skateboarding with your open-source buddies between free wifi spots or something similar.

Of course typing your life's work in a 2-mm screen with half-assed 1 kb per hour £10 a minute Internet access is a little fiddly. Hence specific software exists to aid the production of blog entries without requiring a full-on web browser. For those of you using a Palm OS device that can access the web directly - a Treo, Lifedrive, TX and so on - the Poorhouse would like to recommend u*Blog.

It's perhaps not as famous as mo:Blog and its ilk, which are indeed reputedly fine applications, but they don't have the advantage of being free.

Features of u*Blog include being able to create, edit and save blog entries without being online. You can then transmit them at your leisure when connected to the Internet. It supports the famous XMLRPC APIs Blogger, MetaWeblog and MoveableType so should be compatible with most popular services.

If you're using the more advanced APIs it allows you to upload files from your memory cards, tag posts and alter date created amongst other such bloggy functions. You can create shortcuts to aid entering HTML tags. And it hasn't crashed on the Poorhouse's dodgy devices even once. Free and easy, who could ask for more?