The Downward Spiral

so live writer is pretty slick actually.. there’s no gay windows signup.. there’s a button that integrates in to firefox (blog this, new post or open post). Startup time kinda sucks, but once it’s open it’s just fine. Categories and back dating work well. You can edit wordpress pages, which works the best out of all of the ones I tried so far. It tries to match your look with the look on the page, but not annoyingly so.

But.. of course…

1. Images upload is just like the rest of them, no remote browsing of images
2. No private posting(!!) ..
   • althogh it will meet me half way… I just hit save as draft and edit on website, so it saved it as a draft with the correct category, and opened a browser to make me login, which took me to the edit screen, and now I could mark this as private if I wanted to

.. which I didn’t do as this is public.. but I did hit publish on the website and then opened this up for writing again in live writer.

and the presentation is nice … and of course that goes a long way with me.

blogjet also sucks.. and just for two reasons that it seems all of them do, which makes them not as good as the web interface

1. you can’t mark things as private or pending review
2. while you can image upload, you can’t browse the images on the server.. your wordpress image library

so I’m certainly not paying for that.. I can let those things slide on a non-pay client, but certainly nothing I’d pay $50 for.

The free stuff is missing a clean fast integration in to mozilla.. that’s what I’m really looking for… which Deepest Sender has, but it has NO image support, which kinda sucks.  Scribefire’s image support sucks and it opens in that annoying half screen thing and the controls are just kinda kludgy.

Gah.. nothing as good as just logging in and using the website… maybe I’ll look at Livewriter… that might annoy me too much being an MS product.. I dunno.  If I have to get a windows ID, forget it.

I really like WordPress, but so far I haven’t found a desktop client I really like.  Well, I really like Deepest Sender, but it doesn’t support wordpress that well.  Today I tried w.blogger, zoundry, scribefire, and blogdesk… I found them all lacking.  I’m gonna try BlogJet.. I might like it.. which sucks.. because it’s not free.  Me?  Paying for software?  No way.