I am always on the lookout for interesting blog editors, and stumbled upon ScribeFire while working on a project on Chrome extensions. This one is already quite popular in its Firefox avatar, and a Safari version exists as well.
ScribeFire proved pretty simple to set up: just enter your blog’s URL and it fetches most of the technical details itself. You can add brand new posts or even work on your existing posts. One done, they can be published directly or scheduled for publication at a specific time. They can be saved as drafts or private posts as well.
ScribeFire supports categories, tags and custom fields. You can add a custom permalink as well. The only niggle is the inability to upload images from your hard disk. One hopes the developers are working to iron this out since it is a significant drawback.
~PD
Writer’s Log is now running on the spanking new WordPress 3.0, codenamed “Thelonious”. The upgrade was done automatically from WP 2.9.x and it happened in the blinking of an eye. Things are running smoothly subsequently.
WP 3.0 features the integration of WordPress with WordPress MU (multi-user), a slimline dashboard, a new default theme called TwentyTen that shows off all of the new WP’s bells and whistles, and lots of nice touches.
For one, now you can choose a custom name during manual installation instead of the default “admin” and a bulk update feature lets you update multiple plugins and your WP installation at the same time. Using custom menus, backgrounds and headers is much easier now, all possible from within the Dashboard instead of having to edit files. You can also generate short links. Various other new features make is easier to use WP as a full-fledged content management system as opposed to just a blog interface.
Oh, and lest one forgets, there are over 1,200 bug fixes as well. Check out the full list of features or watch a video:
~PD
More than half of January has already gone by, but Writer’s Log still lags in last year. It hasn’t been for want of trying, but that is a lame excuse. Anyway, here’s a to-do list for 2010 (in no special order):
- Don’t make lame excuses about not updaing my blog
- Redesign my site (eeeep!)
- Put the entire site on a single CMS (double eeeep!)
- Redo the Halvard Castle site (yes, it’s so hopeless that I’m not even linking it!)
- Do a site for the Vakker book
- Upgrade Web development skills (yes, Niklas, that means return to my JS books)
- Learn something new this year (a language, a skill, whatever; JS doesn’t count)
- Write more.
- Finish the Shadow in Eternity IV novella (there, it’s in writing now!)
- Go out more
- Don’t pretend to be happy about things I’m not
- Buy a vehicle, even if it’s a bicycle
- Start on (and preferably finish) a new book
- Be happier and complain less
- Do my tax returns
- Visit Europe
- Stop being scared of pregnant women
- Stop being scared of babies
- Play more games
- Start following football again
That’s all folks.
~PD
