Free Software Makes Blogging Even Easier
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If you have a blog–and you should, for many reasons I’ve outlined elsewhere on this blog–I just found a tool that will make blogging even easier–especially if you have more than one blog.
It’s called BlogDesk. It’s very easy to use. It’s set up very cleanly, as if you were posting to your blog. The time-saving part of it is, you can set up your blog info once (such as the blog address, password, the categories, whether to allow comments etc.). Then all you do is click a button when you’re done writing, and it is published instantly.
You can also spell check, something I can’t do with my blog software (WordPress) doesn’t allow. This feature alone saves me lots of time, for two reasons. One, I used to write the blog in Word just to spell-check it. (Amusing side note: “blog” and “blogger” were not in the software’s dictionary!) Two, then when I copied the post from Word into my blog, there were usually extra spaces I would then have to change.
You can also do everything in BlogDesk you can do on your blog software, such as insert images or links. In fact, the “insert images” file worked better for me in BlogDesk. You can even use foreground or background color–thus: Get BlogDesk now!
Pretty cool or what? (Note: The first time I published this from BlogDesk, the highlighting didn’t show up. It only did when I cut and pasted it. So, it’s not perfect yet. Oh well.)
By the way, the one gripe I have with this is that it doesn’t seem to work with Blogger.com. I do a weekly post on a blogger.com blog, and I haven’t been able to configure that automatically. So it this is the only blog you use, BlogDesk won’t help you much. Sorry. (Google, which owns Blogger, seems to run by its own rules, you know.) I even asked my friend and technical whiz who told me about this, WordPress guru Cathy Perkins, if she knows a way to get around this. So far she hasn’t figured out a way. If she does, I’ll let you know.