Thursday, November 27, 2008

Not again

"...We will ensure this will not be repeated..."


"...We will answer in the strongest possible terms..."


"...No body will be allowed to escape..."


For how long we are going to hear the same lines again and again from the Premier?


Are we dumb? Are we lambs? Does the rulers have any backbone? Shame!!



Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Photo blogging

It appears that the software will not upload photo to the blog as I had hoped. It just refers to a online location and if it is available, it will be shown.

I am tempted to think this is a imitation with blogger itself but I had sent picture messages earlier and it had posted successfully. Lets see.


How is photo blogging in Qumana?

If you see this post properly, then it means it is working fine. Otherwise, one more issue to ponder.


Blog software evaluation continues...

THe test for a good blogging software is how it handles the WYSIWYG editor. So far, I am not impressed with Qumana in this front. If you see the last post of mine became right aligned even though I had typed it left aligned. Signs of bad software!! 


I must say the publishing aspect is somewhat good and easy. As you can see, it also works with Blogger. Today, I also tried blogging through TextMate and it fails on two counts, 1. it does not support blogger yet but that can be forgiven, 2. it does not deal well with Unicode Tamil. The second one is a big letdown since my tamil blog is in Wordpress and I can't use it. So, back to Qumana for a while.




Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The quest for good looking blog

I have been looking for a blog application that will let me be at peace with myself while I relish typing my words in beautiful fonts/typefaces more than the content. Ever since I moved over to Mac platform, I am looking for a blog software that will give me a Mac like experience.


Alas! most of the blog world seems to be quite concerned over content than display. Wordpress is good on both counts (form and function), Typepad looks delicious but its costly. Recently, I have compromised myself to look only for a blogging client that will give the Mac like experience. This will provide me the experience I want and in turn can helps me being productive.


This search is seem to be quite tricky. MacJournal is not to my liking. Ecto is good but I believe it costs too much. So is Journaler. So, as of now I am trying out Qumana. It is free and provides some decent interface. At least, I can't complain about the price.


 Don't get me wrong, I am not a stealer. I do pay for good software. I've bought loads of apps for my Mac (from big to small) based on need. Its just that I don't seem to find anything good in the blogging software side. Still looking.