iSean

one of the things that i’ve not enjoyed about blogging is the tool i have been using. i have been using Qumana, which is available for Macs and PCs. I use a Mac. Qumana has been in beta since i started using it earlier this year. i guess i had forgotten that until i noticed that version 3 was released yesterday. i’ve used it long enough to know that i don’t want to pay for it so that got me looking for a replacement. to be fair to Qumana, i appreciate that they make a Mac application and a PC application. my guess is that they built Qumana using Java. i don’t particularly like Java apps. selecting text is more cumbersome and some keystrokes that i am used to don’t work. the environment is just slower in response to my typing, etc. the little things added up and realizing i was going to have to pay finally pushed me over the edge.

i fiddled with Bleezer. this is also available for Macs and PCs. i can tell from the interface that this app is also not Mac native. probably Java again??? i think i actually like Bleezer over Qumana, so if nothing else, i’ll come back and play with Bleezer before i return to Qumana.

i am currently testing out MacJournal version 4. something tells me this isn’t a native blogging tool, but it is clearly written for Macs and the spellchecking works just like in MS Word (with the red underline). i had to customize the toolbar just to get it ready to use as a blog editor. i also can’t find an easy way to add tags to a blog entry, which is something that Qumana and Bleezer do with ease. i added “keywords” so we’ll see what that does. the other thing that is easy with Qumana and Bleezer is the ability to make my entry have a category. i don’t see categories with MacJournal. hmmm. i don’t think i’ve found my solution just yet. i’ll keep fiddling with this tool (15 day trial), but also searching for the killer Mac blog editor on the side.

aha, i just went to send this to my blog and a little window popped up that allowed me to choose the categories i wanted. that’s a bonus. but, i had to manually add the tags below. that’s crummy.

Tags: qumana, bleezer, macjournal, blogging, wordpress, macintosh