Blogger in Draft

http://draft.blogger.com

I'm not sure how many of you know about this. I've been using it from quite sometime now.

Blogger in draft not so different from Blogger but with added functionalities. People behind blogger add new features to blogger in draft before releasing them to rest of the world. It has a better editor with some great features. All that you need to do is to log in to draft.blogger.com instead of using blogger.com and you can switch between them anytime.

You can find more FAQs here on their blog.

Using third-party templates has always been an headache in blogger, but not anymore. Use Blogger in Draft's new feature to design your own template, released just today. The best part is, it is highly customizable. You can choose between 4 of the templates (as of now), and you can customize it with hundreds of cool backgrounds and a variety of layout designs in adjustable size. You can change just about everything.

There are some more features that you may like in Blogger in Drafts. The WYSIWYG editor is more powerful and handling pictures and videos is very simple.

Snapshot below can help you find the template design feature.

"Template designer", new option under Layout Tab

Here are a couple of snapshots of what they offer at their template designer.

Basic Screen of Blogger Template Designer(click to expand)

click to enlarge

This is the secret behind my new theme ;). Kewl ain't it?

Bilbo - Best blogging client for Ubuntu

I used Live Writer to compose my blogs for all the time I was on Windows. Now when I'm on Ubuntu, only Client I had was my browser :(. That was because I wasn't very much impressed with Drivel or KBlogger.

But today I came across this client called Bilbo (now been renamed as Blogilo). It did blow me out of the world. It was better than Live Writer.

Currently featured:

• A full featured WYSIWYG editor + An HTML editor
• Previewing your post with your blog style! like when you are visiting it at your blog.
• Support for Blogger1.0, MetaWeblog, MovableType (Wordpress supports All of these!) and Google GData (used on Blogspot.com blogs) APIs!
• Support for Creating/Modifying/Deleting posts.
• Support for creating drafts and scheduled posts!
• Support for uploading media files to your blog (Just on supported APIs e.g. MetaWeblog and MovableType)
• Support for Fetching your recent blog entries.
• Support for adding Images to post from your system. It will upload them on Submitting post to blog (Just on supported APIs e.g. MetaWeblog and MovableType)
• Support for saving local entries before publishing.
• Saving your writing copy to prevent data loss, at configurable intervals.
• Internal auto spell checker. (KDE spell checker used so most of languages are supported)

Installation is easy as you can find it in the repositories. You can download from the Ubuntu Software Center by searching for 'Bilbo' or you can also run the following command in your terminal

sudo apt-get install bilbo

Now, my search for a blogging client has ended.