A quick googling for best desktop blogging client would yield just a few (read millions/gazillions) results. Having researched the subject a lot, my choices were finally limited down to BlogJet and BlogDesk, as per my feature set requirement goes (Primarily, off line editing, draft, WYSIWYG editing, categories, tagging support, pinging, trackbacks support, timestamping, past post editing, automatic image uploading) BUT there is one little problem. Both of these don’t work on Linux.
In fact, the current crop of Linux based blog clients is at best childish, compared to these. A piece of software called Bleezer did offer a good set of features and supported linux as well, but turned out it was so crash-y, hogged up enormous amounts of ram, and had other issues that come usually packed with all java apps. But I wasn’t gonna boot into WinDUHs, just for one sole software, was I?? Sure, I wasn’t 
. I tried the usual routine of trying to run them through wine but it wasn’t supported. I resorted to my faithful ol’ google, and chanced across this little nugget, with step by step instructions to achieve my goal. And it had a bonus. It told me about IEs4Linux (IE’s For Linux). yes, you read correctly. You can run Internet Explorer on your Linux box as well. All this in under 10 minutes (Ubuntu wins again). And yeah, don’t forget to say thanks to me (and Alex as well).
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Hi Shantz
Nice info buddy!
Ur blog looks really cool.
Keep rocking!!!!
Good Luck!
> And it had a bonus. It told me about IEs4Linux
> (IE’s For Linux). yes, you read correctly. You
> can run Internet Explorer on your Linux box as
> well
That’s a bonus? a good thing??
Back on topic, I have been looking for a good Linux client since Drivel stopped Blogger.com support and Blokker is nowhere to be found. But, I don’t think that I care to install and run Wine just for blogging, and since all of my needs are otherwise covered in Linux, I’ll live without for now. Hope it works well for you!
@lefty: yeah I called it a bonus because of an evil necessity. One of my bank accounts’ online transaction system, and many of the bills I have to pay online don’t work in anything else than IE. I know its bad of them, and I’ve even written to them about it but all in vain. Sad but true
so your bank is telling you they do not want you business and yet you stay with them?
@housetier: No other option. Its a salaried account given by my employer.
I recently installed ScribeFire (http://blog.scribefire.com/help/), an extension for the Firefox Web Browser that integrates with the browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog. You can add images, videos, etc., tags, categories.
And you can configure ScribeFire to write in multiple blogs.
Really useful for a work done quickly and easily.
@giadrago: I tried scribefire sometime back. It was good. The only issue I found with it was that it requires firefox to be open and then hogs a lot of memory.
I’ll try this. I love linux-only…
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