Weblog Client

After some decent research and trying out some favourite tools for blogging , here's the outcome ...

Current Tools :

1. Semagic - Originally a windows binary, can be used on Mac using PlayOnMac / Wine . 
   1. Setup Steps here but needs 500MB space for Wine , libraries etc. 
   2. Installed well and was able to post to Live Journal as a test.
   3. Does not seem to login to Blogger for some reason using gmail id (a.r@gmail.com) keeps throwing "Client Error, no Username sent".
2. ScribeFire - Chrome or Firefox Addon. Seems good since and I'm currently writing this post with !
   1. Fast and able to compose the content to Post pretty well.
   2. Needs a better interface for adding tags, photos etc. Its simple as it gets.
3. Flock - A browser for blogging with excellent performance. 
   1. No new Mac builds since 2010 on their site except a vague "Stay Tuned". 
   2. It was last in news when it got acquired by Zynga in 2011.

Anything like RockMelt as a Social browser with a blog client built into it would be fantastic for productivity.

Maybe even an opensource version like BloGTK that is based on Python and PyGTK that works on OSX.

Ideal Tool :

1. Works as a Native OSX App
2. Good UI for - posting,editing,saving offline, cross-blog posting & managing multi-blogs.
3. Managing Flickr Image uploads.
4. Does not add unrequired HTML tags (seen on Blogger UI some times).
5. Absolute control on layout - True WYSIWYG editor.
6. ** FOSS / Opensource based license.
7. ** Developed using Python incase I'd like to contribute a fix.
8. ^** Push Posts to FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ if required

** Optional

References :

1. Ultimate List of Desktop Blogging Tools

 

Credits : Posted using ScribeFire plugin for Chrome.

Userland Frontier

Happened to search about an end-of-life weblog software: Userland Frontier, while browsing through Joelonsoftware.com's About page.

His reference to the use of Frontier as his weblog in the initial days led me down memory lane and it seems that the product has been GPLed since 2004 as described on their Wikipedia page.

I remember trying out Frontier as a trial software for windows 97 during 2003. Plan to try it out on my MacBookPro in 2012 , almost 8 years later. It could be a great tool to keep track of documents on my local server.

The Opensource releases of Frontier are uploaded at frontierkernel.org. The last update on their sourceforge page is about a year a go.

I would have presumed some one would have forked and re-forked the project multiple times if the original project has been offered to opensource domain.

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