The what now? Yes, Blogo is indeed getting HTML support, as in a HTML mode, instead of the WYSIWYG one that was available previously. I'm trying this one out as we speak.

For some reason I decided to give ScribeFire another go. I like the concept, but it never really worked that well for me. I’m also having a hard time looking at it, it doesn’t have the elegance of any of the desktop blog editors I’ve reviewed in the past, and it doesn’t scale very well when the browser window is tight.

Anyway, despite this, I’m writing this with it. Maybe I’ll be converted, and maybe I won’t. We’ll see.

Cool settings in the new version of Blogo rolled out in the latest beta release:

I wonder why the import button is only available in full screen mode though?

I’ve said it before, but should Blogo offer a nice code view (since I hate the cluttered wysiwyg code genereated by, well, everything in the whole wide world) I’d have it as a serious contender. Lots of cool features here!

There are two things that the new version of Blogo lacks, two things that would so totally do it for me.

First of all, there’s a “mark as read” feature for the Microblog Viewer, which is Blogo speak for Twitter at the moment. I’m very happy with this one, but it falls short to Twhirl since I can’t mark a tweet as read. Developers, I’ve got a ton of contacts I’m following, and marking as read saves me a lot of time. I can’t exchange Blogo for Twhirl because of this.

Second, I’m not too fond of having to write in wysiwyg. Sure, it looks great and works great, even with posted, er, posts. However, when I’m lookig at the code I get the same feeling as when looking at code generated by TinyMCE or other similar wysiwyg tools. I don’t want wisywyg in my WordPress admin, and I don’t want it in my blogging tool. If I could turn it off and write code instead, Blogo would be a true challenger to MarsEdit.

It’s still in beta, so I won’t pass judgement yet.

Oh, and I so love the fullscreen functionality!

Blogo is a new blog software for Mac. It looks pretty cool, and the full screen mode is smashing. However, will it match MarsEdit? We’ll see!

I just have to link this interview I made with Lorelle VanFossen, WordPress maven and great gal. You should read it.

Right, so let’s write something brilliant here. I’m doing some final Ecto testing for a Devlounge post.

Now, did that more thing work out? I hope so.

Here goes. All written in the visual editor. Bold!

I’m back from Japan.

I must say, MarsEdit rocks. There’s just two things – so far – that really annoy me.

1. I would like to have the thumbnailing option that WordPress’ file uploader gives me. That would make it easier for me to use features from things such as the lightbox plugin. However, I do understand that it’s probably hard to tap into the serverside handling of images that the thumbnailing actually is, but still. I would like it.
2. The more tag in WordPress shows up on its own row. I don’t like that. I’d like to have it at the end of my body text (MarsEdit splits posts into Body and Extended, where the former is pre-more, and the latter post-more). More more control!

Other than that, it’s really doing it for me. Sure, there are things that could be more accessible, such as date control for instance, but I can live with that. For now, it’s a time saver, and if nothing else comes along that kicks MarsEdit’s ass, or if I run into something nasty on the way, I’ll buy this program when the trial ends.

Tag support, that is. Now MarsEdit feels like a solid choice after all.

I’m going to give this one a serious go when I’m in Japan. It would be very sweet if I could manage all my blogs in one way, that would increase the number of short quick posts for sure. One web interface is one thing, two’s OK, but three’s certainly a crowd.

So let’s try an image – this is what I’m listening to in Spotify at the moment:

Is it there? No error messages at least…

Edit! It worked like a charm.