I was giving KDE4 a trial on my Arch installation when I bumped on a very very cool opensource application – Blogilo. It lets you blog right from your Desktop ie you can compose the blog offline and publish/save the post on the blog server later on. It supports WordPress, Blogger etc and so is handy for most bloggers over there. Actually I am publishing this post from Blogilo !! ;)
Adding Blogs
You can get started by adding your blogs. You can do so at Settings > Configure Blogilo > Blogs. Say you have to add your wordpress blog, fill the url field with “wordpress.com” and fill out your username and password. Then click auto configure and bazzingaa you have your blog configured. Click OK and then you will see your posts displayed in the right panel. Rest of it is just straight forward. Edit your post and click “submit”. It has an option to save draft or to publish straight away !! The same applies for blogger and other supported APIs (listed in the Advanced tab of the Blogs menu).
Composing Blogs
Blogilo features a visual editor, an HTML Editor and a preview tab. All standard text and multimedia formatting is available in the editor interface. Blogilo even imports saved categories and you can select categories from the right panel. Post options like summary and editing permalink is also available. Multimedia inserted is uploaded onto blog servers and named metuculously (which I am very impressed with).
Installation
Blogilo is available in the repositories of most Linux distributions. A windows edition is also available. Visit http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/download/ and start blogging quicker and more efficiently !!
Going to install it on my Netbook :)
If I am not wrong you are running Ubuntu. Being a KDE app, it will bring with it a lot of stuff into ubuntu. It wont read gnome-proxy but KDE proxy.
Edit ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc and add the following section and settings
[Proxy Settings][$i]
ProxyType=1
httpProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
httpsProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
ftpProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
;) Just a tip !!
hiii rohit..when i try to auto configure blogilo it is showing an error message and asking me to enter my blog’s API..how can get my blog API..i am having a self hosted wordpress blog..thanq
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Or you could install full KDE as well. What harm in having an extra Desktop Environment !!
interesting stuff. previously i used bloghatter software. would like to try blogilo if it suit me. how bout all the plugin functions used to help making a good seo article, can it be used within blogilo too… will find out.
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Plugin support isnt there yet. Unlike bloghatter , blogilo is free and opensource. It is under active development by some good folks. So give it a try, drop them a few mails; who knows plugin support might land !!
There is brilliant plugin for Tumblr that allows you to right-click on any image and blog that photo.
Sorry, I can’t remember what it’s called. But it’s worth finding if you have a Tumblr microblog.
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i would like to try its windows version as i am not liking Windows Live writer..