It’s been a while since I bother to post anything techy. The plan was to split all the techno babble onto XSet and leave this as a pure journal style space, but, in true rob form, I’ve yert to get round to doing anything with XSet and so feel that I must relapse and share some of the cool things I’ve discovered / heard about recently.
Performancing Firefox Blog Extension
This is a corker of an extension for Firefox 1.5 (if you haven’t downloaded it yet then go and grab a copy). Effectively it gives you a Blog posting application built in to your browser, no need to login, full WYSIWYG (with a couple of glitches but what the heck, it’s new right?), recent post history and almost everything else you’d expect from a full application. With support for all popular blog engines (wordpress, blogger, mt and anything else that uses their XML-RPC’s) it’s a fantastic addition to my blogging experiance. The only downside? Yet another reason to cuss and moan when I’m using a PC without Firefox installed!
You can download the Firefox Bloging extension from the Performancing website.
MSN 8 (aka MSN Live)
I’m not privalegde enough to be on the Microsoft Beta Tester list for their new products but I’ve been hearing a lot about the new Live services including the new version of Messenger. For more infor on some of the cool up and comings then go and see the Live Messenger blog at MSN spaces.
Joomla (ne Mambo) OS CMS
Looks like I’m a little bit closer to not having to write my own CMS system. Joomla is what Paymaster are using to run their support site and, whilst it has taken some getting round of my head, it’s pretty freakin cool. If you need a simple way to organise / maintain a big website and you have no budget for software then you could do worse than check it out.
Ok, that’s enough geekery for one day… now to see if Performancing actually saves the post!!!
22/12/2005 at 6:00 pm Permalink
thanks for blogging about WL Messenger!! send me an email at this address and i’ll get you signed up for the beta
23/12/2005 at 3:07 pm Permalink
Performancing is a nice add-in. For a *much* more advanced blog editor, check out RocketPost:
http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost
It supports built-in photo editing, auto links to related posts, Technorati/Delicious tags, AutoCorrect, and lots more. (I designed it.)
23/12/2005 at 4:19 pm Permalink
Manish, Rocket Post looks pretty cool but stumbles at the first, second and third hurdles. Firstly it’s Windows only. As a Mac user I’m pretty much out of luck there, secondly (and I do apprecaite the effort taken to develop applications as fully features as this one) it costs money. In my book free is the best possible price! Thirdly it is a completely seperate app. What I love about Perfomrancing is the integration into the browser - perfect for capturing which ever site you happen to want to blog about.
That said it’s always good to see what’s out there for bloggers who need powerful tools - thanks for the heads up