Let's face it. I am not ready for the online world of data entry -- including blogging. Tiny little boxes, delayed keystrokes and the editor inputting garbage code such as <span style="font-weight: bold;"> when all I wanted was a damn <b> had really started to get on my bad side. But I have put up with it ... until now.After searching for a desktop client to publish my blogs with, I discovered ScribeFire for Firefox. I am posting from it right now. And my first feelings about it are --- awesome.
Setup was a breeze. ScribeFire will interface with several popular blogging platforms and according to the website, more will be added. The Blogger API is also supported and it has a built-in FTP for uploading images to your own server.
Right out of the gate you notice something different about it, the split-screen. You enter your post into the ScribeFire interface on the bottom of your Firefox window and up above you can browse multiple tabs -- think compilation of multiple blog posts on one subject. The split is adjustable to your taste.
ScribeFire is feature packed. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing into your post. You can even drag images (I discovered this by accident). The image for this post was dragged off of the main ScribeFire page.
You can start a post by clicking on the ScribeFire icon which sits in your status bar. The editor will open up and have the Title of the page and the Url link already to go for you. If you had selected text on the page, that is transferred as well. This is just like a "blog this" button in many ways.
There are three views for the interface: posting view, html view and the pre-view. Even in the posting view, if you have inserted an image, it will display on the screen where you have placed it. If it is in a bad place, just drag it somewhere else.
Have a long post? You can either publish it as a draft or save your work locally. I like the save locally option. This is known as Saving a Note -- but I use it to save drafts.
You can add Technorati tags to the end of your post and send those tags on to del.icio.us as well.
Does your blogging software NOT support trackback Urls? BlogSpot comes to mind. No problem with Scribefire you can enter in the trackback Url and it will send it on.
Do you want more? Okay, the Page Tools panel will show you how popular a post is via Technorati and how many backlinks the post has. Chances are if this screen shows oodles of links, then you are not the first one to know about it. Just put in your quick two cents and move on.
There is a bookmark feature. Not quite sure what that is for yet. And I am sure there are some other features or quirks that I have missed.
All in all, I am a very happy camper. I highly recommend that you try it out.
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