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w.bloggar

I've posted about this useful little free tool a couple of times. I've just discovered I missed a minor update to v.4.00.0193 made in March. According to the release notes, the following additions have been made:

• Support for MSN Spaces;
• New Languages: Spanish, French (Canada) and Russian;
• Button to import the xml file with the saved settings and accounts directly from the "Add Account" wizard.

In addition, the save post option now suggests the post title (when it exists) as the .post file name. There have also been a couple of bugfixes.

You can download it from http://wbloggar.com/.

w.bloggar version 4.0 released

I posted about this handy blogging tool back in August 2003.

This new version supports MovableType advanced post options and also support some new tools: Wordpress, SquareSpace, b2evolution, Blog:CMS, UBlog, .Text, BlogWare and Xaraya. Check what else is new at the w.bloggar site.

New FeedDemon Tips Blog

Hard on the heels of the successful launch of his TopStyle Tips blog, Nick Bradbury has started a FeedDemon Tips site. This new blog will be regularly updated with helpful tips and tricks for FeedDemon users. Authors include Nick himself and these FeedDemon power-users:

• Radek Gontarek
• Oskar van Rijswijk
• Matt Zur

To visit FeedDemon tips, point your browser to:

http://nick.typepad.com/feeddemontips/

PS: Don't forget to subscribe to the FeedDemon tips RSS feed :)

Nick Bradbury has announced TopStyle Tips

Nick Bradbury has announced TopStyle Tips,

"a blog whose authors are all TopStyle power users. TopStyle Tips is devoted to providing helpful information to TopStyle users, including general web authoring tips and tricks. Entries will be posted by Nick and these TopStyle pros:

• Rijk van Geijtenbeek
• Christopher Owens
• Randy Peterman
• Oskar van Rijswijk
• Matt Zurr

Additional authors will be added as the blog matures."

For some reason Nick has invited me to contribute. I have been using TopStyle since the early betas of version 1.0, but I certainly wouldn't place my knowledge and expertise on anything like the same level as those experts he mentions above. I haven't yet thought of what to write about, but hope inspiration will strike soon.

To visit the TopStyle Tips blog, just stop by:

http://nick.typepad.com/topstyletips/

PS: If you're using FeedDemon, be sure to subscribe to the TopStyle Tips RSS newsfeed.

w.bloggar

The usual way to publish blog posts is to use the browser interface. This has, of course, several drawbacks. I've started to use an excellent Windows freeware program called w.bloggar to compose and publish my posts. It works like a dream. Because it runs under the Windows GUI it allows the user to edit his posts without being connected to the Internet, saving locally one or more texts to be posted in the future. Another great advantage of w.bloggar is that it is compatible with most of weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to have one only interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, under different publishing systems.Currently w.bloggar is compatible with Blogger API, metaWeblog API, MovableType API (which includes TypePad) and b2 API.

Highly recommended!

Here we go

Well, I've been reading other people's blogs for some time now, and have finally got around to starting my own. I can't promise regular posts, nor can I guarantee interesting content. At the moment I can only say that I will post things that interest me.