I’m always looking for a desktop blogging client to write my entries. Sure, the ones that come with the blogging system using the browser has improved enough for everyday use. WordPress even allows for offline access with Google Gears installed. But something about using the browser for writing doesn’t jive with me. It never did. It’s why I don’t use Google Docs and other browser-based word processors to write. For a long time, I used the defunct iBlog to keep my .Mac blog, and tried a bunch of different clients for this blog: ecto, MarsEdit, Tinderbox and MacJournal. Now that I’ve moved the .Mac blog to my personal domain running WordPress, I’m even more devoted to find a capable client that works with MT and WP smoothly.
This new version of MacJournal looks better than previous versions I’ve tried. Setting it up with my two blogs isn’t difficult. I also like how it can work with .Mac to post your entries, though only in their barest forms; none of the other clients supports this, so it’s good to have the option. MJ can also sync to MobileMe, so that I can have MJ on my PowerBook G4 and MacBook Air and both will contain the same content. I know blogging clients pull data from the server, so you will have the same content on any computer anyhow, but since MJ supports personal journaling that isn’t published to the server, the MobileMe syncing does come in handy in this respect.
MacJournal is having a promo sale on MacUpdate right now, so I downloaded the demo to try it out, and if it works well enough for me to use regularly, I can buy it at a discount.
This new version of MacJournal looks better than previous versions I’ve tried. Setting it up with my two blogs isn’t difficult. I also like how it can work with .Mac to post your entries, though only in their barest forms; none of the other clients supports this, so it’s good to have the option. MJ can also sync to MobileMe, so that I can have MJ on my PowerBook G4 and MacBook Air and both will contain the same content. I know blogging clients pull data from the server, so you will have the same content on any computer anyhow, but since MJ supports personal journaling that isn’t published to the server, the MobileMe syncing does come in handy in this respect.
MacJournal is having a promo sale on MacUpdate right now, so I downloaded the demo to try it out, and if it works well enough for me to use regularly, I can buy it at a discount.
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