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The other day I tested Blogjet, and it was pretty good. My last couple of posts (including this one), however, have been done with Qumana, and I like it as well. Here’s the skinny on it from their site:
"QumanaLE helps writers quickly capture, organize and edit chunks of content. Users drag-and-drop pieces of text, links, pictures or images. Then,with one click you can add Technorati tags.
"Edit and publish the blog post … to as many blogs as you wish … or save it as a draft to work on later. Turn your content into a draft Word document by saving it as HTML or RTF and opening the file in Word – or QumanaLE – later."
Arieanna, who evangelizes Qumana over at their blog, wrote me yesterday to mention the benefits of Qumana over Blogjet. Here are some of them:
1. Qumana has a cool little "drop pad" that allows you to highlight and drop stuff into it. Stuff like graphics, links and entire portions of text. Pretty much anything you can find on your screen is fair game to drop in the drop pad for later posting. Very cool.
2. I also like that Qumana will insert Technorati tags into your post. Simply chose your tags and click the Technorati Tags button.
3. Ted asked previously about spell checker and grammar checker. Both Qumana and Blogjet provide spell checker and a thesaurus, but no grammar checker.
For now, Qumana is a free download. I don’t recall seeing if it’s on a free trial basis or free forever. Definitely worth giving a spin.
A few things I’d like to see added:
1. Ability to do trackback pings (Blogjet offers this). Very important feature.
2. Del.icio.us tags. Nice to have.
3. A one button click for beginning and ending quotes. Nice to have.
4. Access to the HTML for the post (Blogjet offers this). Nice to have.
5. Post continuation. Very important feature.
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