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One of these nights, I will do something about the way this site looks in Safari and Mozilla. I don't know what they problem is, and since I haven't changed the code in over a year (sorry about that), I am suprised there are suddenly so many folks complaining. Or could be no one before now said anything. Either way, my goal is to adjust for "skins" and be done with it once and for all.

But one great new toy that is making me do the happy dance is Randy's "SharpMT."

If you've looked at wBloggar then you know what to expect - but it does it better and does more. Want to ping a trackback? No problem. Want to write a post now but upload it later. Easy! Want to blog all day and post them at the end of the day? Done. Extended posts or Excerpts? It is in there. In fact, imagine the whole MT Entry Edit screen in a Windows interface and you have "SharpMT!" Read more about it and see if it is right for you.

The program is in Beta right now (1.0.2 b3), but you can give it a whirl over at Randy's Ravings SharpMT section.

What I really like is the opportunity to blog all day and upload the posts in one fell swoop. You see, with all the browser traffic logged and reviewed, I never, ever view my own site at work. I just don't need that kind of a problem. So, that meant I could not use the web interface to MT. So it was either post at night, or post via e-mail (which isn't easy to do in MT currently). So both options were bad. Enter wBloggar - a stand-alone Windows program that connects to MT. It was thiiiiiiiis close to being what I needed, but it lacked the option of offline blogging. It was an intermediate solution, and I kept hoping for new features to be added.

But by trying to make wBloggar work with sooooooooooo many blog publishing systems, there would always be a lack of focus on the "one" that any given user liked better. In my case I use MovableType, and while wBloggar did support MT, it didn't do several things I wanted it to do. That is the beauty of SharpMT. It is designed only to work with MT and thus, Randy is able to focus on giving the user what they expect - the Entry Edit Screen in a windows interface.

This post is my "test drive" but so far, I like what I see. By the end of the week, I fully expect to be supporting this "donationware" 100%!

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Posted by on April 29, 2003 @ April 29, 2003 03:07 PM    
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