Bleezer comes in Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX flavors. If your taste in weblog editors leans toward keeping your data on your desktop, then Bleezer may be what you are looking for. It has more bells and whistles than a newbie may want or need. It is a piece of software worth investigating for what it can do.
Bleezer
Why use Bleezer to blog?
Blog from anywhere. Work on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Work with any blogging service. As many as you want, even Blogger.
Add tags for any tag service. Technorati, del.icio.us, or anything else.
Create custom markup. Define your own key combinations for custom HTML markup.
Spell check. Ensure everything is speeled spelled ok.
Advertise. Ping Technorati, weblogs.com, ping-o-matic, Pingoat, or any other service.
Work online or offline. Compose posts offline and post them when you want to.
Did we mention Bleezer is free?
I am taking advantage of my son`s absence to download and try out Microsoft`s new desktop blogging application Live Writer. My son uses Windows.
At the start up, it asks you if you want a Live Spaces blog. The last thing I need is another blog. I declined and went to the next window to configure Live Writer to my EduGenic blog. It was painless. I gave LW my domain, login name and password. LW automatically configures itself so you are then off and running quickly. This is great for the beginner. LW works with the major blog systems like Google`s Blogger and Live Journal, Typepad and Wordpress.
One can easily insert links and photos. You can add embed music or video players and maps. I tried to add a map, but it didn`t work. It may be because I am using a XP Latin American version.
So if you want a cool and easy to use desktop blog editor for your Windows box, you have it here. Remember, this is a beta, so you may get a more robust program when it comes out of beta.
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update: Here is the link that I forgot.
There was was talk at Techcrunch and about the lack of a Mac version. Om Malik says that Mac users already have mature apps with plenty of bells and whistles. I have to agree. I work well without Microsoft Apps in general. In terms of desktop blog editors for the Mac, it is hard to beat Ecto and Mars Edit. I have to also say that Qumana is good and FREE! When the coversation about desktop blog editors comes up I get nostalgic about Userland’s Radio, which was the bomb until development seemed to have stopped. Radio was way ahead of its time. Don’t get my started. Too be honest, I now prefer using the WP Dashboard to get work done.
Desktop weblog editor viJournal enables you to edit Blogger and vJournal sites for $19.95
viJournal
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Features:
- Optional file encryption
- Two optional layers of password protection
- Parallel notepad
- Multiple journals
- Drop Box for storing images and text
- Daily image gallery
- Full-text searching
- Export to RTF, HTML, PDF, MS Word
- Post entries to Blogger or LiveJournal
- Add hyperlinks to selected text (link to websites, local files or other viJournal entries)
- Insert checkboxes
- Optional Aqua interface
What’s new in this version:
- Easily synchronize journals on more than one computer.
- Backup/restore is now many times faster.
- iTunes track markers. Insert clickable markers to play iTunes tracks.
- Corrected behaviour on activating app when main window is closed. (Main window now only re-opens if app is activated by clicking Dock icon.)
- Fixed bug where selecting a search result found in a note would fail to display the note content.
- Fixed bug in header and title page template where Save and Revert buttons didn’t activate if only the background colour was changed.
- Various minor bug fixes.