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Reviews

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 trying [...]

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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.

There’s help, FAQs, [...]

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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 unused [...]

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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 found them. [...]

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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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