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Jan 05

BlogJet

I’m evaluating three blogging tools: ecto, BlogJet, and w.bloggar. The competition is tough but BlogJet is my current favorite. It has a well organized interface and a nice feature set. Interestingly enough, I’m using Onfolio for this post because I was using it at the time and it has blog posting capability. Never again. The “link” feature doesn’t allow attributes to be specified and I can’t find a way to edit the HTML directly prior to posting. I guess tags are out on this one. Now, back to the evaluation.

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Jan 04

My Favorite Firefox Extension

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This extension gives the user full control of the tabbed browsing experience in Firefox. A “must have” for sure.

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Dec 20

Another Blog Posting Tool

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I’ve enjoyed looking at BlogJet and w.Bloggar. Both make posting easy, etc. but I’m looking for more. I read about ecto and thought it would be worth a try.

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Dec 14

BlogJet - Final Test

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What a better way to evaluate blof tools than to litter my blog with fake posts.

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Dec 14

This is a test post using w. bloggar

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I’m looking at blogging tools and have narrowed the choices down to BlogJet and w. bloggar.

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Dec 14

Testing BlogJet

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I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein

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Nov 04

Riya Photo Search Is Amazing

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Riya Photo Search (previously called Ojos) went alpha this week. This very cool service uses facial recognition technology to identify people in photos. Text in photos is also recognized, and ultimately, these features will allow for automatic tagging and submission to photo sharing sites. So far, I’ve uploaded uploaded 330 photos. With less than fifteen minutes of training, Riya has recognized 99 faces. I would have spent more time training if it weren’t for email address requirement. Each person that you recognize in Riya requires an email address. This is to create uniqueness; however, most of the faces in my photos are kids who don’t have email addresses yet so it’s hold off or make one up. For situations like this, it would be nice to have an alternate way to arrive at uniqueness. I’m sure they’re working on it.

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Oct 03

You can’t go wrong with writley

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The more I use writely, the more I realize that web-based applications present a compelling alternative to apps on my PC. Call it web 2.0, call it AJAX, call it connected, call it what you like. I call it cool. You create a new document by sending an email, you edit, you collaborate, you post to your blog…from any browser in the world. If this is a sign of things to come, I’m looking forward to the future.

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Mar 08