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Applications

Reviewing Qumana Blog Manager – So far, so good…

27 October 2009

Qumana is the latest in a bunch of desktop blogging applications I’m testing, all in an effort to see if there’s one out there in Internet land that’ll be my magic bullet, working flawlessly with all the features I need. Qumana 3.2.3, updated 1 May 2009 Installation was a breeze. The first hiccup happened when [...]

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Post revisions in WordPress

27 August 2009

With the duplicate entries I was seeing in Zoundry Raven, I started to wonder if it might be something with WordPress itself, so I started searching. And I found a few forum threads about this. Like this one and this one. And the overwhelming WordPress party line as expressed in the forum threads was "but [...]

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Playing with BlogDesk, another desktop blogging application

25 August 2009

We’ll see how this one goes. At least it hasn’t crashed yet. BlogDesk Version 2.8, build 400 from 22 February 2009 Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP and Vista Free Considerations The forum is nearly dead. Infrequent posting. On the other hand, very few threads have no replies. It has both English and German sections. [...]

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RocketPost-powered

24 August 2009

I’m running the fully-functional 7 day trial of RocketPost blog software with all features enabled, or so the advertising says. Anconia RocketPost 2 Pro 2.5.441 $49 professional (unlimited blogs), $29 home (1 blog), free – basic (1 blog on Blogger or Live Spaces) Requirements: Microsoft Windows® (Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT, Me, 98), 20 MB [...]

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Taking Raven out for a test drive

23 August 2009

It’s official – I’m looking for a desktop blogging application, and Raven is next in line for me to test out. Will it work or not? Zoundry Raven Beta 1.0.375, built on 08/05/08 (no idea if that’s May 8 2008 or 5 August 2008). System requirements: not easily found if they’re listed. I still haven’t [...]

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Taking BlogJet for a test drive

20 August 2009

I use a desktop blogging platform for writing my blog entries. It’s something I’ve always done, and was, in fact, the whole reason I found Fahim in the first place. I started with Fahim’s Blog, but lately, it hasn’t been serving my needs quite as well. Fahim’s switched over to a Mac, so doesn’t do [...]

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Potentially useful software

7 December 2008

AdesClrPicker – capture colour codes from anywhere on your screen. Extremely useful for those times you find the perfect colour in another application or image and want to transfer it to your web design or such. Link Popularity Check – lets you check your own website’s link popularity through a few search engines. Similar Posts: [...]

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Write or Die?

18 November 2008

Write or Die is a software application that could be useful to you if you’re a. a writer and b. procrastinate writing. As their slugline says, Putting the "Prod" in Productivity! Hopefully not a juiced-up electric cattleprod, though… With Write or Die, you type your text in their text editor, and whenever you switch from [...]

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Norton Internet Security 2009 Not a RAM Pig?

11 November 2008

Nope, it ain’t, and that there were many claims that NIS 2009 was not as resource intensive as previous versions was the only reason I gave it a try. NIS 2008 nearly crashed my system, and many previous versions of Norton AntiVirus actually have crashed my systems. Norton has, historically, been the problem child of [...]

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Changing of the anti-virus guard

10 November 2008

Yep, it’s true. I’ve been sucked into Fahim’s perpetual cycle of switching anti-virus every few months, only now, it’s expanded to include firewalls. But this time, it’s partially my fault as well. I’ve been using AVG Free version 8.0 with much happiness. It’s a decent program, it works well with little to no fuss on [...]

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