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"Tumblr is designed to be incredibly easy to use, so new tumble posts can be created on the fly, regardless of whether you're browsing the web or snapping photos on the go.\nWe're big fans of the official Tumblr iPhone app, new audio posts, and bookmarklet for hassle-free tumblelogging, but we really love these five Tumblr extras for even more efficient, dynamic, and creative updates. So whether you want to turn your tumblelog into a playlist, add a tag cloud, tumble faster, have audio posts transcribed, or make your photos come to life as comics, these apps are here to help.\nHave another must-try suggestion? Tell us about it in the comments. You can follow Mashable on Tumblr here.\n1. Tumbltape\n\nWe recently featured 18 of the best music tumblelogs. Did you know that you could use Tumbltape to turn any of those tumblelogs into instant playlists?\n\n\n\n\nIt's super easy. Just visit the Tumbltape site, enter the Tumblr user name of your choice, and click \"Go.\" The end result is a great little playlist of that tumblelog's recently posted songs. Pretty cool, right? If you're still unconvinced, try entering one of our favorite music tumblelogs, \"songsyouusedtolove\" (or just click any of the tracks in the embedded Tumbltape for a preview). Your ears will thank you.\nPlus, you can also browse the site for other cool Tumbltapes, listen to random choices, or embed your favorites anywhere you want.\n2. Tumblr Firefox Add-On\nThe Tumblr bookmarklet is great, but if you want even more features for browser-based tumbling, this Firefox add-on is top notch.\n\nYou can use the extension to drag and drop content \u2014 photos, videos, mp3s, quotes, and links \u2014 onto the Tumblr icon in the Firefox status bar. Content is then automatically posted to your tumblelog, though you can adjust the settings for each content type so that the extension's dialogue box prompts you to add additional info prior to posting.\nThe add-on is also sophisticated enough to handle YouTube and media parsing, so any time you drop a link to a YouTube video or raw embed code onto the icon, the extension will post a video entry with the appropriate content.\n3. Tumblr Tag Cloud\n\nSure Tumblr appears to lack some of the typical features we've come to expect from blogging platforms, but because you can tweak your Tumblr's HTML you can add in a lot of those extra features yourself, including your very own tag cloud.\nThis third-party tag cloud creator is just a snippet of code that you can copy, customize, and paste into your site description (if you're using a custom theme, you'll most likely have to paste the code somewhere in the custom HTML). Now you have a cute little cloud to help your visitors view past posts, and have even more of an incentive to add tags to your tumblings.\n4. Dial2Do\nYou can already record audio posts that automatically post to Tumblr, but Google doesn't index audio, so if you want transcribed audio posts on your tumblelog, you can turn to Dial2Do.\n\nDial2Do is a lot like Jott, except it's free while in beta, so you can use audio commands to record a reminder for yourself, send \"texts\" to contacts, and best of all get your audio posts transcribed to text and automatically posted to your tumblelog. Basically you just configure your Tumblr account, dial 1(213)325-5615, say the Tumblr command, and start talking. Dial2Do will do the rest.\nDial2Do is also worth checking out for a myriad of other applications and services like Gmail (you can record emails and listen to your inbox), Twitter, Evernote, FriendFeed, and even Mashable (you can listen to our posts). It's all around a very impressive service.\n5. Comeks\nComeks is a super fun and pocket-friendly free iPhone, Android, and Nokia app that will turn your photos into comic-style original content, so they pop with creativity and wit. You can use your existing photo gallery or start from scratch, but the end result is a better-than-reality image that you can quickly add to your tumblelog.\n\nThe app comes complete with stickers of all varieties, so whether you want to add callouts, funky hairstyles, sound effects, or symbols, you can find a plethora of image-altering goodies to choose from. You can even add chat bubbles, use multiple photos, rearrange and re-size items, and erase what you don't want.\nThe best part is that even though the app integrates nicely with Tumblr, you can share your creations with Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, and Flickr as well.\nMore Tumblr resources from Mashable:\n- 18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs- Tumblr: What's the Best Tumblelog- 20 Great Widgets to Enhance Your Tumblr Blog- 20 Beautiful Tumblr Themes- Turn Your Tumblr into a T-Shirt Store"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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