Blogo… my short review.
Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by John in Technology
Blogo is a Mac OS X application that allows you to write blog posts on your machine and then post them to the server later. It is nice if you are inspired and do not have a network connection, or simply dislike having to login to the admin portion of your blog to post to it.
This review only applies to Blogo and WordPress 2.7
Pros …
- You are able to write without having to login to WordPress and wait for pages to load when saving (which I like to do a lot of). And yes I know that WP 2.7 saves your draft pretty often, but I’m a little OCD when it comes to saving.
- You can save a local draft on your machine, which is really quick.
- You can save a draft on the server, which is really awesome.
- You can set the date to a future date and Blogo will post the article as scheduled in WP.
- It is quick and easy to add urls to the content. It even has a preference to always set a url as opening in a new window.
Cons …
- If you save the article as a draft to the server (or even to your local machine), the next time you open it all the double-spacing (like after a period in a sentence) is truncated to a single space.
- It would be great if some of the options from WP were able to be controlled from Blogo, in particular Custom Fields. This would be great on this site for example because the picture for the post is a custom field that simply references a url of where the thumbnail is located and then the picture is entered on the blog post using code in the template.
If the Blogo team is reading this I’d love for you to comment on the CONS. I did ask support about the truncating of the spaces and I was told that this is a limitation of HTML, which I totally understand and agree with. However, my buddy Jordan wrote a program just within the last few weeks and was able to get around this by changing any double-spacing from whitespace to some html code that then keeps the double-spacing in-tact, so I think the Blogo team could accomplish this as well. It would be an awesome update for sure!
Over all Blogo is a very nicely done app that is useful to me on a regular basis at this point. I think it has the potential (with a few enhancements) of becoming the #1 OS X app for posting to Blogs and twitter.
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24. Apr, 2009
New blog post: Blogo… my short review. http://blog.unseenbattle.net/blogo-my-short-review/
john
24. Apr, 2009
Benjamin! Thanks for the response.
That’s awesome that custom fields are coming. Is there any ETA on that? Like, in the next month or in 6 months? That will be a HUGE help and keep me from still having to log in to the blog back-end just to add a thumbnail.
As for the double spacing thing… my friend Jordan ( owner of http://forum.codecall.net/ ) is working on a project where users will be able to collaborate on code … http://www.asciibin.com/ (it’s still in its infancy stages).
For asciibin Jordan looks at the entry for all the spaces and if there are 2 or more in a row he replaces each space with a  . This keeps the HTML from truncating it to 1 space.
Again, thanks for the response and for all the hard work that has obviously gone into Blogo!
Benjamin Jackson
24. Apr, 2009
Thanks for your review!
We’ll be adding custom fields in an update soon.
As for the double spaces, unfortunately HTML treats them like single spaces and compresses whitespace, so there isn’t much we can do about this.