Comments on: Test post from WordPressDash

By: Blogging from your desktop on linux (Ubuntu)

Blogging from your desktop on linux (Ubuntu) — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:03:56 +0000

[...] Apple users can choose from a number of applications, including Wordpressdash. [...]

By: EWI

EWI — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:39:16 +0000

Thanks, Twenty!

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:58:07 +0000

Ok, I see where you are coming from now Twenty. I always write in the WordPress backend interface to have access to all its features. The one thing it lacks is a Spell Checker - hence my Spell Checker suggestion to Paniris.

I can see how you might want to use any admin interface other than the Blogger one - I have used that for a couple of Blogger blogs I manage and it can be frustratingly slow at times. The speed of the WordPress interface is dictated by where you chose to host it unlike Blogger which is dictated by where they chose to host it (and how many others are using it at the same time).

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:48:06 +0000

I always write in a text editor but Dashblog is great for simply posting the post, as it were. It saves having to log in to blogger, click ‘new post’, ‘publish post’ etc.

There are some programs which do the same thing. I have one called Ecto, I think, which seems to be quite good but I haven’t used it a huge amount.

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:08:54 +0000

I’ve used a couple of these widgets in the past on both windows and linux. They are vaguely useful, but the only reason I can see for using them would be if I wanted to write a very long, complicated entry and needed to do multiple edits etc. I’d prefer to use a text editor for that.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:52:29 +0000

I tried Dashblog Twenty but it doesn’t allow you to save as a draft and it doesn’t support categories - two features of WordPressDash which I think are good.

The Save as Draft facility allows you to write a post but not publish it until you have access to the full WP interface (if there’s any reason you might need such a facility(!)

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:56:51 +0000

There’s one called Dashblog which I regularly use to post to my blog.

By: hostyle

hostyle — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:51:08 +0000

WYSIWYG editors are a bad thing IMHO - they’re um … well I just don’t like them

I’d rather encourage the author to use human-readable editor interfaces ala textism’s Textile or (even better) John Grubers Markdown that are parseable by more than just browsers - although I suppose that is possibly anti-semantic

// hostyle

By: EWI

EWI — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:50:19 +0000

Great to see something like this - if a decent one for Blogger comes out, maybe I’ll work up the courage to install Tiger on my main machine