I recently and luckily came across this and thought its worth writing about. If you are not very proficient with blogging yet, you definitely want to know about this:
Basically it is a client where you can create rich formatted text and publish it your blogs at wordpress, blogger, etc. You can edit and delete old posts too. In addition to this basic stuff, what makes this tool extraordinary is the plugins you can use to add functionality into your articles. Take a look at the gallery to find about the available plugins:
And the best part- its free and works like magic!
If you are wondering why you should bother, well it would serve you well to note that the difference between writing “into” your blog and using this client editing tool is like the difference between writing code in Java and Perl to read from a file:
Java:
package MyProject
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* This program reads a text file line by line and print to the console. It uses
* FileOutputStream to read the file.
*
*/
public class FileInput {
public static void main(String[] args) {
File file = new File("C:\\MyFile.txt");
FileInputStream fis = null;
BufferedInputStream bis = null;
DataInputStream dis = null;
try {
fis = new FileInputStream(file);
// Here BufferedInputStream is added for fast reading.
bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
dis = new DataInputStream(bis);
// dis.available() returns 0 if the file does not have more lines.
while (dis.available() != 0) {
// this statement reads the line from the file and print it to
// the console.
System.out.println(dis.readLine());
}
// dispose all the resources after using them.
fis.close();
bis.close();
dis.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Perl:
my $contents = do { local $/; <HANDLE> };
Java fanboys – this was only an illustration, so don’t feel bad. Hope you got the drift. Explore this tool and I bet you won’t easily go back to writing your blog entry from editor built into your blogging service.
