I’ve told people that they should use Qumana many times. It’s powerful, it supports ads, and it even has a place to put in custom HTML. Wait, what is Qumana anyway? Qumana is a desktop blog publishing software, so you don’t need to go online to post. I’ve been using it for a while, and while I still log on to WordPress.com sometimes, Qumana is helpful when I don’t have an internet connection. With Qumana, I can write up posts offline, and then publish them when my laptop is online.

There’s just one thing that I’ve noticed:
When setting up a blog, sometimes on the part where you type in your password and username to log on to the server, it gives your an error. That’s when you have to click “back”, and then it’ll ask you for your blog’s endpoint. If you look at the URL (it should say something like, https://ryanspace.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php), it’ll have https:// at the beginning. Change https:// to http://, then click next, and it should work.

Qumana is cross-platform. Qumana’s site: www.qumana.com.

Ryan

Chi ha un Blog non sempre può connettersi a Internet per inserire un nuovo articolo. E se anche il collegamento fosse disponibile spesso gli Editor dei Blogs dispongono di poche funzionalità, obbligando spesso il Blogger a scrivere un articolo con un Layout differente.

Si dovrebbe disporre di un Editor installato sul proprio PC (ambienti Windows, MacOS o Linux) che permetta di scrivere l’articolo per il nostro Blog sfruttando le molteplici funzionalità del PC, e successivamente scaricarlo cos’ì com’è sul nostro Sito Web o Blog quando si è connessi a Internet.

Fantasia o realtà?

Ebbene questo è fattibile!

Leggi tutto l’articolo e scarica i 10 Blog Editors Download Free.

Un administrador de blog es, entre otras cosas, una aplicación desde la cual podemos escribir artículos para nuestro blog, administrar los posts, subir y editar imágenes, guardar posts para  continuar su edición después y poder publicarlos.

En español y podemos utilizarlo con casi todos los blogs: Windows Live, WordPress, Blogger, Live Journal, TypePad, SharePoint, Community Server, etc. Cuenta con complementos que enriquecen el programa. Toma los estilos de tu blog y así podrás previsualizar en cada momrnto como quedará presentado tu artículo.  Permite la inclusión de cualquier contenido multimedia, pings, posting multi-blog y notificaciones para Twitter y, además, nos permite agregar determinados efectos a las imágenes (reflejos, sombras, etc).

http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

Es en realidad un navegador social de codigo abierto con la tecnología de Firefox 3. En Flock encontraremos herramientas para manejar: blogs, feeds (RSS, Atom) , páginas favoritas integradas en del.icio.us y Flickr, la creación de redes y servicios como Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. o la posibilidad de compartir fotografías.

http://www.flock.com/

Este proyecto ya no está en desarrollo activo. Está escrito en Java con un interfaz intuitivo y fácil de usar permite publicar en WordPress y Blogger así como guardar los post a nivel local para futuras ediciones.

http://www.jblogeditor.com/

Es una buena herramienta y podemos conseguir la versión portable. Cuenta con editor WYSIWYG y corrector ortográfico instantáneo y nos ofrece la posibilidad de subir imágenes a distintos servidores, barra para postear desde Word, servicios de pings y trackbacks. Se encuentra en español.

http://www.bytescout.com/post2blog.html

Qumana está disponible para PC y Mac. Entre las principales característixas destacan la posibilidad de enviar post a más de un blog, corrección ortográfica, insertar etiquetas Technorati, editar artículos antiguos e insertar publicidad en los artículos (ésta sólo en inglés).

http://www.qumana.com/spanish.php

Bleezer es una herramienta para Windows, OS X, y Linux y trabaja con cualquier servicio de blogs. Edición WYSIWYG, agrega etiquetas Technorati, del.inicio.us entre otras y cuenta con corrector ortográfico. Ping Technorati, weblogs.com, etc.

http://alchemii.net/bleezer/

Es tan fácil de usar como un procesador de textos, además de incluir herramientas sencillas para añadir enlaces, etiquetas, fotos, música y archivos de vídeo y mucho más. Es open source y disponible para Blogger, Movable Type y TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, WordPress,etc.

http://www.zoundryraven.com/

Todo lo que necesita para configurar y administrar un blog con Thingamablog es FTP, SFTP, o el acceso a la red a un servidor web. En Thingamablog encontrarás un lector de RSS integrado, ping a servicios como weblogs.com, BlogRolling, y Blo.gs, posibilidad de importar entradas de feeds RSS / Atom, organizar entradas por categorías o fechas y mantener varios blogs.

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/

BlogDesk está diseñado para utilizarse con los sistemas de blog WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity y ExpressionEngine optimizado. Es posible la publicación en varios blogs simultáneamente. con el asistente para la imagen podemos editarla (ajustar el tamaño, un área de recorte de la imagen o asignar una sombra) incluso crear miniaturas. Contamos  con un corrector ortográfico integrado de diccionarios en 14 idiomas y un generador de etiquetas.

http://www.blogdesk.org/de/index.htm

Es un cliente de blogs que se ejecuta dentro de Firefox, SeaMonkey, y XULRunner. La versión más reciente (0.9.1) se publicó el mes pasado. Válido para trabajar en cualquier sistema operativo.

http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/

Está disponible para Windows y todos los basados en Unix incluyendo los sistemas operativos Mac OS X, de hecho, se suministra con la mayoría de distribuciones de GNU / Linux incluyendo SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu y Debian. La versión descargable de QTM para Mac incluye la última versión de Qt. QTM trabaja con la mayoría de los principales sistemas de blogs disponibles en la actualidad: WordPress (incluyendo wordpress.com), Movable Type, Drupal, etc.

http://qtm.blogistan.co.uk/

hello

Setelah menggunakan BlogDesk sebagai blog editor dan mengulasnya sedikit, kali ini saya akan mencoba menggunakan Qumana sebagai desktop blogging dan mengulas apa yang saya dapatkan dengannya.

seperti yang telah saya ceritakan sebelumnya, BlogDesk merupakan desktop blogging tool yang gratis, memiliki tampilan yang sederhana, mudah digunakan, serta memiliki feature yang cukup menarik untuk memasukkan gambar di artikel. BlogDesk dapat diunduh di situs resminya. tapi, saya tidak akan membahas lagi mengenai BlogDesk, tetapi akan sedikit mengulas mengenai Qumana. (duh, kenapa berputar-putar sih??)

Qumana dapat diunduh melalui situs resminya di Qumana Software, Inc. silakan cari sendiri halaman yang menyediakan link unduhan, karena saya lupa mencatat linknya.ukuran file Installer hanya sebesar 9,62 MB,  lebih besar daripada BlogDesk yang hanya berukuran 3,82 MB.

setelah instalasi selesai, akan muncul sebuah kotak dialog untuk memasukkan informasi mengenai blog anda, dari alamat blog hingga nama pengguna dan sandi. kemudian akan muncul halaman baru yang berjudul "Qumana Blog Manager" menampilkan artikel yang telah anda kirimkan pada blog anda. sayangnya, hanya beberapa artikel yang muncul (10 artikel) dan artikel tersebut terputus karena terdapat "read more" sehingga tidak dapat ditampilkan secara utuh.

untuk dapat menulis artikel baru, anda dapat menekan tombol new post yang berwarna orange atau file-new post atau Ctrl+N. atau, jika ada sebuah "droppad" (bentuknya bundar, berwarna dominan orange dan hitam, dan pada bagian tengah berbentuk huruf Q berwarna hitam dan bertuliskan droppad) anda dapat melakukan double-click pada pad tersebut.

halaman baru akan muncul yang akan berjudul "Nama Blog anda : Judul Artikel". Nama blog dan judul artikel sesuai dengan nama blog anda dan judul artikel yang anda tulis. tampilan standar WYSIWYG, dengan tombol berwarna orange, hijau dan biru sesuai dengan fungsi masing-masing. tombol berwarna tersebut cukup membuat saya tertarik dan terlihat sebagai icon yang penting untuk memposting artikel.

salah satu tombol ada yang berfungsi memasukkan Ad (iklan) ke dalam blog. saya belum tahu fungsinya seperti apa, tapi untuk dapat menggunakannya, perlu mendaftarkan diri terlebih dahulu di AdGenta, dan menggunakan satu kata atau frasa untuk mendeskripsikan postingan anda.

Hal yang kurang bagi saya adalah fasilitas insert image. berbeda dengan BlogDesk dan Live Writer, Qumana tidak menyediakan fasilitas edit image lebih lanjut. fasilitas yang disediakan hanya sebatas mengatur wrapping style, ukuran, teks alternatif, judul gambar, dan garis tepi gambar. sementara pada BlogDesk dan Live Writer menyediakan fasilitas untuk edit image, sehingga gambar lebih eyecatching. selain itu, tidak terdapat tombol "read more" untuk meringkas artikel menjadi dua halaman. hal tersebut  terjadi pada BlogDesk yang juga tidak menyediakan tombol read more.

jangan lupa, jika tidak ingin ada footnote yang bertuliskan "Powered by Qumana", anda dapat menghilangkannya sebelum mem-publish artikel anda.

kesimpulan saya adalah sebagai berikut

1. Editor ini cukup bagus dengan adanyaBlog Manager sehingga bisa mengatur artikel, adanya droppad sehingga bisa langsung membuat artikel dengan sekali klik (semacam quicklaunch), beberapa icon yang cukup menarik, dan Insert Ad yang sepertinya menjanjikan
2. Kurang sesuai untuk saya, karena fasilitas edit image kurang lengkap (malas edit image dengan external image editor seperti Photoshop, Coreldraw, etc), dan tidak ada tombol readmore.
3. Not bad, as desktop Blogging Tool

update :

Udah ga berguna lagi! mending jangan dipake deh,,,

just look above. what u see? That doesn’t like a blog editor. that’s an error of Qumana!

FYI, before I post this article, I’ve write a review (some kind like that lah,,) about Qumana, the new Blogging Tool. but, few hours later, when I want to read my own post, there’s something that make me surprise. Where is my article? It doesn’t appear in my frontpage. S**t. (hush, misuh2 ra ilok).

I opened my Qumana. Nothing error found when searching in blog manager (Qumana have this feature). The top article shown that the article was successfully uploaded (published) in my blog. Then, I edited my last article, delete there, insert this, and update post.

blup,,

nothing change in my blog, except I suddenly received error occur in my Qumana. It said “error publishing post”. What kind of error? “read timed out”.

what?? what does that mean?? The biggest provider for blog is difficult to read???

oh my god! this editor is full extremelly not recommended for you and back to your Live Writer.

Recently I was offered a job for a company the write web applications, specifically a PHP framework among other things. Since I’m desperate for a job I began working my ass off, learning two programming languages from scratch (PHP and MySQL), researching tutorials and learning new technigues, as well as downloading free ebooks on the subject.
(By the way, I know this awesome site where you can download full ebooks for free. When I say ebooks, I don’t mean they give you a few chapters, they give you the whole book. And they’re popular books too. I just downloaded a book on PHP that I was going to buy from Barnes and Noble.)
Wow, I can never stay on subject. So anyway, working on this stuff had me sitting at a computer most of the time. As time went on I started to get frustrated by my lack of efficiency. Over time I saw that it took too many steps to do one thing. For example, I had a web editor called Taco HTML Editor. In order to work with more than one file you needed to have a bunch of different screens open. Now back when I was a beginner I didn’t mind because I never needed more than one or two editor windows open at once. Now I did. I also noticed that I was collecting scaps of information with nowhere to put them. I had a folder structure with notes here, pictures here, PDFs there, but when the folders got to be filled with information it was a bitch to go through and try to find one line of info or a piece of code even when I knew what folder it was in. Enter my favorite Mac apps.

I apologise Windows users, all of these except for one are for Mac. But read on because the one that is for both Mac and Windows is truly awesome…

Before I get into reviewing these apps I want to say that all of these are beautiful and powerful. Mac users are really lucky to have to many great applications that are free or nearly free. Windows users would have to pay big bucks to get the kind programs we get for free… except for one on this list. I searched the web and have personaly tried each and every one of these apps. I tried multiple applications that did the same thing so I could make sure the program I use for a particular purpose is right for me. That said, here are the programs I tried. I review multiple programs that do the same thing so you can make an informed choice.

WriteRoom: Costs Money
Do I use it: No
Review:
WriteRoom is really clever application. It reminds me of Blogo’s full screen mode but even better. Blogo’s full screen has to have some buttons because its main function is to edit blogs. WriteRoom is a straight up minimalist writing application. Its just a black screen with white text. No frills. I recommend it.

JDarkRoom: FREE
Do I use it? Yes.
Review:
JDarkRoom is a free program that does what WriteRoom does. Its for both Mac and Windows. You can really concentrate on just the writing using this program. When its running it looks like one of those old school IBMs that you had to press Y or N to do something. You know, the ones with the black screen and distinctly computer like font. The ones that had those enormous floppy disks. Funny stuff. I wrote this entire blog using JDarkRoom. As you can see, it really lets you get into the writing. There are no mouse controls except one. You save, copy, paste and do everything by using key combinations like Command+C for copy or Control+H for help. The only thing the mouse lets you do is move the cursor to a certain spot. But thats all. It doesnt select words or text. Just places a cursor where you want it. It really works like an old school IBM. I like this program a lot. Writing is so enjoyable I actually thought about writing a book using it.

Blogo: (Costs money – Demo Available)
Do I use it? : Yes. I wish I could keep it but I don’t have the money. Once my trial period is up it will be deleted.
Review:
Blogo is an awesome program. Its simple at first glance but powerful under the hood. When I first opened it I thought I was going to hate it but it grew on me. Its very graphocs oriented. You won’t find much text in the user interface unless you hover over the buttons. It does exactly what you would want a blogging application to do. It lets you write blogs, add tags and assign your post a category. You can go back and edit previous posts (which I’m doing right now) and add trackbacks and ping servers from the list of servers built in or from a list of servers you specify. Full screen mode is the feature I love most. You hit the button and you get a blue screen with a white text box in the middle. All you see it the program. Nothing else. No Apple menu, no dock, nothing but the text and some word processing buttons that blend in to the background. Thats whats cool too, the buttons. If you’re in full screen mode you don’t need to exit it in order to add a link or a photo, or to make text bold, underlined, etc. Full screen mode cuts out all distractions and lets you just write.

Ecto: Costs money – demo available
Do I use it? : It will be my main blog editor when Blogo’s trial period ends.
Review:
Ecto is a cool product too. Before I found blogo I thought it was the be all and end all of blog editors. It does everything blogo does but its focus isn’t really on the writing itself like Blogo. Ecto encourages you to add photos and other media to your blog. It has a flickr plug-in built right in so you can add photos from your flickr account to your blog. There are other plug-ins but I haven’t tried them out yet.

Bleezer: FREE!
Do I use it? Not anymore. Before I got a hold of a free copy of ecto Bleezer was my fave.
Review:
Bleezer is a great blogging tool and its free. It does what the other two do and it does it well. Before I got a free copy of ecto and before I got my Blogo demo, this was what I had settled on. There are only two things I don’t like about this program. First, for some reason it wasn’t able to fetch my list of categories for posts so I had to leave my posts without a category. The other thing was its icon. It has this clipart looking typewriter icon. I know it has nothing to do with the functionality but I keep a link to my blogging app in my dock for easy access and I don’t want an ugly icon in there. But if you don’t want to spend money on blogging software by all means get Bleezer. It works just as well as the other two.

Qumana: FREE!
Do I use it? Hell NO!
Review:
This thing sucks. First it took forever to load. This program things its photoshop or something with its splash screen and its listing of components to load. A blog editor should not be as big as Photoshop nor should it take as long to load. Then it wouldn’t connect to my wordpress account. Then it decided not to startup. It sucks. But I should expect that from a program written in Java. Java programs, unless they are small and simple, suck. They may run smoothly at first but after five minutes they start sucking up system memory like a system memory junkie. Limewire does this sort of thing. Thats why I switched to Acquisition.

Limewire: FREE!
Do I use it: No way!
Review:
I’m sure everyone has used Limewire by now. Its an old program. I’ll keep this short. It starts sucking up memory thus slowing down your computer if left running for more than five minutes. There are better alternatives, especially for Mac users.

Xtorrent: FREE and Pay Versions available
Do I use it: No
Review:
Xtorrent is a torrent downloading program based on Transmission (I’m pretty sure). It adds search functionality right in program so you don’t have to use an online torrent tracker like Pirate Bay. The problem is that since its connected to the Gnutella network (I think… I know it connects to the same network as Limewire) there’s nothing but music and video files. No one on the Gnutella network is sharing torrents, they’re just sharing files directly using P2P. So you end up having to go to an online torrent site if you want anything other than music and video. Thats why I dropped it. Of course it does just fine as a torrent program but the extra funtionality is for nothing. I just use Transmission – its a lighter faster program that does the same thing.

Acquisition: FREE and Pay Versions available
Do I use it? Yes
Review:
Acquisition is my replacement for Limewire. Its fast and doesn’t use up all my system memory. Its also a great looking program. The user interface couldn’t be outdone by Apple itself. It was created by the same guy who made Xtorrent so it has some of the same features. If you’re looking to download music or movies/photos then this is your Limewire alternative. Forget Xtorrent. I use this for my music and movies and Transmission for my torrents. You’re probably saying “why not just use Xtorrent for both?”. Because I’m usually looking for files other than music. So I use Transmission because it is light and allows me to use some heavy duty programs while it sits in the background and downloads. If I were to use Xtorrent I would be keeping a program thats more likely to use more memory thus leading to less efficiency.

FrostWire: FREE
Do I use it? FUCK NO!
Review:
This is an exact replica of Limewire. All they did was change the name, color, and some icons. And worst of all, it manages to be even more of a memory hog and much much slower than Limewire. Fuck whoever came up with this one.

InvisibliX: FREE!
Do I use it? Yes I do
Review:
Small useful little utility that hides/shows hidden files or folders. This is really useful if you’re developing software or doing any highly technical stuff. It removes the need to type in the folder path in the Apple Menu’s “Go to folder…” option. I usually have to edit hidden files when I’m programming and its really annoying to have to open Onyx (a great program for customizing your Mac with hidden features) and then enter my password and then tell it I don’t want to check the S.M.A.R.T. status of my hard drive then press cancel on the little popup that tells me I should verify my system permissions then click the “Paramters” button, wait for the loading bar to reach 100% then enter the ‘Finder’ tab and finally click on “Show hidden files and folder”. If it took you long to read that imagine how long it takes to actually do it.

BBEdit: Costs Money
Do I use it? Most of the time so far.
Review:
I fortunate enough to come across a free verion (and no, I didn’t “steal” it) of BBEdit and I love it. Now that I’m doing some more advanced web programming this app has become extremely useful. The great thing about it is its Projects and Groups. When you save a project it saves all the files you work with together. When you create a group you name it and add all the files that belong to the group. Then they all show up in the sidebar together. Its better than having tabs. All the files I need are listed neatly in the sidebar. No more flipping through open editor windows trying to find the file I want to edit anymore. I can have as many open files as I want with one window open. Its light and fast. Just the way I want my programs.

Coda: Costs Money
Do I use it? Yes
Review:
I haven’t used this program much so far but from what I see its more powerful than BBEdit. It has a beautiful user interface with a sidebar listing the files and folder in your main web site folder beside the main editing window. It has a leg up on BBedit in that it allows you to access the terminal from within the program. It also makes it easy to access files on a remote server in order to edit them. It doesn’t have the groups like BBEdit but if all your files are within your site or program’s main folder, which they usually are, you should have no trouble accessing those files. It also supports tabs. Oh, and I forgot it has a live preview option. You can preview what your site will look like in Safari without having to open it. Coda uses Safari’s webkit engine to display your site exactly how Safari would display it.

Safari 4:
Do I use it? Constantly
Review:
I love Safari 4. The general public can’t get the new version until January if they release it on time. Since I’m a member of Apple’s development community over at Apple.com I was able to pick up a copy. Part of the terms of being a member is that I’m not allowed to say anything about it. So this is all I’ll say: Its fast. It has no bugs so far. The new features are subtle. Only a few. But there isn’t much to improve about Safari anyway. Since I can’t get into detail (they could sue me) all I’ll say is that I recommend it. Safari 3 is available now. Get it and by the time version 4 comes you’ll be hooked. Windows users – Safari is available for you too. Try it out, I’m sure you’ll love it. This is not the app that has a windows version I was talking about earlier… that one comes later…

Shift: FREE
Do I use it? Yes
Review:
Shift is a program that connects to your MySQL database. It allows you to manage your database, tables and all, using an interface instead of coding by hand. I currently don’t have databases on a web server. I have Apache running MySQL and PHP 5 running on my Mac. Thats what I’ve been using as a server environment. It can connect to your database even if its on your own machine. I used to use PHPMyAdmin then I used YourSQL which worked just as well as Shift but Shift has a prettier interface. When in doubt I always go with the better looking program.

Yojimbo: Costs money
Do I use it? Not anymore
Review:
Yojimbo is a personal information manager. What’s that? It stores all sorts of scraps and random information. Yojimbo boasts that it lets you organize your information the way you want but after having tried other software like it I know thats not true. I had Yojimbo for a while and liked it until I found other PIM apps could do far more. Its not a bad program. It just didn’t fit me. This is why I switched to another PIM: The icon. Haha, again a superficial reason. But I want my personal info manager to be my digital Moleskine. A big red circle (think: Japanese flag) with a sillouhette of a guy karate kicking in front of it doesn’t encourage me to treat it as if it were a Moleskine. It boxed me into holding only certain types of information. Yojimbo holds notes, bookmarks, web archives (copies of web sites to be read offline), photos, passwords, and serial numbers. I want it to hold pdfs too. It doesn’t allow you to create your own folders to group information the way you would like to. The categories I just listed are the only ones you will ever have. Yojimbo doesn’t offer any text editing capabilities. If you write a note it will always be black text on a white background and it will always be in Arial size 12. I want to be able to make text big or small, red or green or blue or whatever, and have any font I desire. Thats why I switched after finding others that do a better job.

Journler: FREE! for now…
Do I use it? Not anymore
Review:
Journler is really cool. It does what Yojimbo does but it lets you organize your way. You can create category folders to keep certain types of scraps in. And best of all its FREE!!! But not for long. In January it will costs $30 or something. You can get Journler 2.5.x right now for free but as soon as 2.6 comes along early next year you will have to pay. So get it now before its gone… or read on to learn of an even better program.

Mori and Notae: Both Cost money
Do I use them? Not anymore
Review:
Both Notae and Mori are beautiful applications that do what Yojimbo and Journler do. They are PIMs. Both of these programs have pretty much the same features. You can group notes and store any type of file in them, etc. The big difference I found is in how the organization looks. Let me explain. In Mori the folders you create sit on the left side of the screen. The look like a folder tree. Each folder having a little triangle next to it that when you click all the folders within it drop down like a tree branch. I personally didn’t like the way that looked but I thought Mori had a prettier user interface so I rate it higher than Notae (when in doubt…). Notae on the other hand, displays its folders like iTunes but slightly different. You know how in iTunes you have the columns for Artist, Song, Album, etc. that you can scroll through. Well Notae’s folder view looks like that. Your main folders sit in the first column to the left and when you click a folder it displays any folders it has within it in a column to its right. If you can picture how iTunes does it I’m sure you get how this works. I liked the way Notae displayed its folders but not the overall look of the program. One selling point for Notae is that its program icon is two Moleskines stacked on one another.

Now for the program you’ve all been waiting for. The mother of all Personal Information Managers. Its the rare kind of program that is for both Mac and Windows. Its…

Evernote: FREE!
Do I use it? I wouldn’t use anything else
Review:
There is so much to say about evernote. It does what all the PIMs listed above to and more. It truly is my digital Moleskine. I can create notebooks, which are basically folders, and create saved searches. So say I wanted to search for all my scaps that are tagged with or contain a password I would first search for them then save the search. Once the search is saved I now have a smart folder that will add scraps to itself automatically based on what terms I was searching for. Evernote comes with a free web service that allows you to access any information online or from your cell phone. It can handle any file you throw at it. Music, movies, pictures, web pages. It even lets you take a screen shot of the current web page in your browser for later use. This could be helpful for a lot of things. For me I could take a screen shot of a programming tutorial online. This is how I use mine. So far I have two notebooks in Evernote. The first one I created so that I could load everything I used to have in Yjimbo and the other PIMs by importing the information. So right now that notebook is a mess. But even if your notebook is a mess you tag entries when you enter them. So if you have tons of information all you need to do is type what you’re looking for in the search bar and it comes up instantly. This works like magic especially if you are consistent with your tagging. Since Evernote can be used as part of their web service (you can use just the application and not the web service if you like. But why note both? Its free and very useful) you can allow your notebook’s contents to be shared publicly with others online or privately just for you or you can create a notebook that doesn’t sync up with the site at all. I didn’t explain syncing have I? Well if you have a free account you are allowed to store 40MB of information on their web site so you can access it from anywhere. You can get more storage if you become a premium member. What I do is I have a notebook that isn’t synced online. It contains things like large files that I wouldn’t need anywhere else and passwords and serial numbers. My other notebook is private but is also synced online. So far I’ve used 15MB of my 40MB monthly limit. If you happen to reach the monthly limit, no worries. You can still store an unlimited amount of info in your program on the computer and just wait until next month. Or if there’s something you really need to get online just move some files into a non synced notebook to make space. I must stress that this program is free, has no limitations, does not require you to join their service, and you can keep your files as public or private as you want. You can encrypt any text or file you want and it will show up like those dots where you enter your passwords online. To see the text just enter your password. There is really a million ways you can use this program and its service to organize your digital life. This is actually a program that I would pay for and not only do I get a program but a free online service that lets me access my “digital Moleskine” from anywhere. Windows user, ever wanted to know what it feels like to have awesome software? This is your chance. Evernote is free.

And this is important. So important it needed its own paragraph. There is one benefit to signing up for the free online service. If there is any text in a picture you store, when Evernotes syncs it will read and catalog any writing in the photos you store. When its done syncing you can search for the words contained in a photo and it will highlight them. So say you’re out somewhere and you get a phone number. You can write it down, take a picture of it with your phone, send it to Evernote using their phone (you can set up your phone to do that) then when you get to your computer you search for… lets say you wrote the words “Phone number on the sheet of paper you took a picture of… you search for “phone number” and that picture will come up and the words “phone number” will be highlighted. Amazing. I just got it yesterday but I’m already working it hard. I have it organized so that I can get to my passwords, song lyrics, blog ideas, books, tutorials, etc. with just one click. If you collect a lot of junk and scraps of info from online and you have no place to put it or no way of easily wading through the jungle of files and folders you’ve created in an attempt to get organized easily, Evernote is for you.

Toast Titanium: Expensive
Do I use it? Yes
Review:
I just got this program today. It saddens me to say that I have outgrown iLife. iDVD doesn’t allow me to burn downloaded movies and the movies I can burn have a time limit of 90 minutes. Unless I’m burning a Disney film that sucks. So I got toast. And I love it. I have an iMac G5 thats about four years old and it burned Interview with the Vampire in about 3 hours. Thats fast considering the fact that my computer is a little old, I had to convert the movie from .avi to DVD format, and burn it at 2X speed. My dad’s newer computer running Windows XP has a DVD+/-R drive and software specifically for it and it wouldn’t burn the movie because of some stupid error. I never get errors like that on my Mac. But anyway, Toast Titanium is a great program. I thought it would eat away at my RAM but surprisingly it didn’t. Don’t go and open Photoshop while you’re converting or burning but you can do simple things like surfing the web, email, or blogging like I’m doing.

If you’re an organization nerd like I am, check out the Google Group I started called “Digital/Analog”. I’m the only member but hey, groups don’t just have 100 members over night.

I really want an offline client for blogging. Something free if possible. On the mac!!!

On Windows, I can use Windows Live Writer, but on the mac… Well, there is Qumana, but that is not in the same league as the MS tool. Right now I am trying Flock, but thats even worse for blogging, as its a browser essentially, with too many functions…

I will try other options which I can find, but right now, it seems, that I will need to use WordPresses webpage, which still gives me the best options…

Is there a better one?

UPDATE: Found Scribefire, which seems to be much better than anything that I tried before, at least on the mac… for now, I’m quite happy…

Well, I was going to make this a really cool first post from Qumana, the easy to use desktop blog editor … but I can’t get it to connect to any of my WordPress.com accounts (I currently have nine!).

I get this error:

Error trying to retrieve your blog information.
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed:

There may be more, but that’s all I can see.

I’ve got it to connect to the other place, which is a stand-alone WordPress.org installation but not to our Web Team blog which is another.

just a test for Qumna and WordPress !

post articles and manage blog via Qumna

Tags: Qumna

After 3 years and 99 posts + 7 drafts

here I am with, the 100^th post …

On this occasion, I though of throwing party to all my lovely readers … who have endured all my PJs, Senitaapa and crappy philosophy…

So …

Only thing is … its virtual

Lets start it with some appetizers and starters …

Enjoy ….

In the mean time … lets go through the History

HISTORY :-

Though it look as it all started at Sep-21-2005.
But the first post I wrote was back in April – 2005 … But removed them later…

stated with Blogspot.com …. shifted to WordPress.com about a year ago.

more history details here …

According to the feedback from friends … I made a countdown of 10 best posts …

10
equation of job !!!

9

Letter to god

8

A new but decent logo for IIIT

7

picture story !!!

6

Hindi Movies – B

5

oath for IIITians !!

4

बहारें फिर आयेंगी !!

3

new symbol of IIIT

2

स्वयं लिखी कु्छ पुरानी कवितायेँ !!

1

IIIT – Trendz => Bonjour

Lets … start with Dinner now …

As you feed your eyes … … lets go through some stats …

STATS :-

I love worpess for it statistics management …

Joined WordPress on May 3, 2007 ….

Blog Stats

Total Views: 14,799

Best Day Ever: 472 — Sunday, June 17, 2007

Totals

Posts: 99

Comments: 747

Categories: 16

Tags: 65

No stats of Blogspot …

Top 3 posts according to the no. of hits ..

3

AIEEE counselling 2007

2

Hindi Movies – B

1

Dataquest-IDC survey of T-school in India

Some search terms people used to reach my blog …

poems about pom poms

meaning for bevda in hindi

d grade hindi sex talk

eeg recording movie

old indian movies on you tube

nsit discussion

iisc stanford

list of old bollywood movies beginning w

ism dhanbad edn better or iit roorkee ed

‘c’ grade movies

Frustoo

Ohh see it’s already time for desserts and Ice-creams

So, here the party ends …

Thanks to all of you for coming … it was nice having you all here … hope to see you again at the next post …

Shabba khair …

PS : – iti 100vi post samaptam

PS: — IndiBlogger meet rocked … Couldn’t write a review coz of this post …

PS: — All the blogging tools sucks .. sucks .. sucks big time ..

PS: —- I can’t tell you how much i detest Windows live writer, and then when i haven’t used it …

PS: —– Because it doesn’t get installed .. first it asked for Windows update agent 5.8.02469

PS: —— After installing it … it again asked for update 3.1

PS: ——- After installing that also setup didn’t installed Live writer

PS: ——— Qumana and scribefire is a different story.

PS: ———- This post would have been much longer I wouldn’t have tried using scribefire … lost every thing I wrote when it hanged Mozilla.

PS: ———– GOD I am so frustoo.

PS: ———— Again thank you all for bearing with me this long.

PS: ————– Final Adios ..

My first post using WordPress gave me a headache as I was unable to insert the screenshot image with line breaks above and below, separating it from the text. It’s supposed to be easy! I shouldn’t have to switch from the WYSIWIG editor to the muck with the source HTML and insert <p> tags where they belong. It turns out that TinyMCE, the editor used in WordPress (and other blogging software as well) is buggy with Safari and deletes line breaks for fun. Grrrrr.

Now, the question is, if I bother to continue, do I hack with Safari (as described in the support article), use a second browser like Firefox (kludge), or an offline editor (kludge)? I’m writing this in Qumana, and it’s an OK Java app (but obviously Java).

We’ll see.