Blog management tools
So I have just started my blog. To my disappointment, blogging tools are not as nice as everything else you get in the computer world. I am currently trying Qumana but that program is a little slow in reacting and uses java platform too. I don’t like interdepedent things as you can see from my other posts. http://www.qumana.com/
Zoundry is my alternative. And so far, it’s got entires management which I quite like and which Quamana has too. But the interface is much more simple and elegent. And it has a number of hotkeys that you can use. I just discovered that it has all these pinging options, tag options and so on. I am loving it. Very good for a starter.
Zoundry Improvement: Given the importance, despite the complications involved, the software should be able to give feedbacks on site statistics and stuff. That would make the program better.
In my ideal world, blogging should be as easy as writing emails. You should be able to browse your favorite blog right from the software and you should be able to publish your own like so too, especially if you don’t care too much about the technology side and won’t bother using all these PHP/MySql stuff.
Any more recommendations?
Opera: the best browser
Why do I say so?
1. Tabbed browsing : and supports easy switching between the tabs. Great for real surfers.
2. End of unwanted advertisement, adware etc.
3. Speed dial. I don’t know about most people, I only seem to go on a few websites most of the time. And opening a new tab with those in front of you really helps.
4. Light weight and fast. IE 6 is light weight too from my experience. But IE7 and firefox… You know, some people browser the internet with Lynx OK.
5. Free with no complexities. If you install IE7, it does 1 million things to your computer. We don’t want that to happen, so use Firefox or Opera. Portable applications are good right? Even when you re-install your system, you still have everything, bookmarks, speed-dials so on and so forth. (Some other amazing portable softwares can be found at http://portableapps.com/ )
6. I like the search function where you type g to search google, you can set it to type w and search wikipedia, maybe e to search ebay. You owe 1/10 of your life to opera if you search a lot.
7. Restore lost session. Actually, 4 possible startup choices… And everything the other browsers have.
It’s just a combination of maximal functionality.
Note: Compatibility is can be a tiny issue for the pedantics. But you know what, if everyone starts using the real browser, then everyone will test their sites with opera and problem solved!
Suggestion: However, I do propose something like conkeror for firefox. I know that’s probably for the geeks but we like it so much better that way. And conkeror for firefox is unsatisfactory because you can’t see the tabs, it doesn’t restore lost sessions etc. All I want is the best for opera!
The lastest stable version is 9.24 and 9.50 alpha is out I think. go to www.opera.com and try it out.
To give a as comprehensive opinion as my other post, I actually did try out the other things.
The IE world is just plagued with malicious wares, popup windows, and even MSN space would carry IE ad scripts etc. I’ve used firefox both on windows and on linux. I use it from time to time for compatibility. But opera just offers everything firefox offers except for maybe a few extensions. I rarely use them so … Opera starts faster on a speculative level (I could google a few links up but there was a page that I saw where a quite rigorous series of experiments were done but I can’t find it at hand.) and offers easier shortcuts like 1,2 , x,z to switch between tabs and go back or forward. Key bindings are actually kind of troublesome here. (And I am a big fan of emacs…) Speaking of Emacs, conkeror actually enables you to use all the key bindings you use with emacs but then you lose the ability to restore your sessions and it goes wrong often. So it isn’t really something reliable.
To Partita: I have seen IE7Pro which is like an add-on right? I’m still quite confused what are the new features of IE7 are. For me, I can see tabbed browsing, they claim they have something new that enables you to zoom in and out, but opera offers a perfect one. IE7 offers some new security features which is kind of ironic that if you really want security, I suppose opera or even firefox would be the choice for daily users. (I hate those Java depended security systems that are slow and only run on IE. I HAVE TO figure out something smarter. Seriously.) Safari had problems with UTF-8 character encoding for an earlier version. And as all other softwares (songbird maybe?), the first editions to Windows always have problems (software develops really don’t use Windows it seems).
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