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I remember a few users requested support for custom smilies. With the new Auto Replace feature you have them.

First off all, you need to disable built-in smilies. Click Tools > Preferences… > Editor and clear “Replace smilies with images” check box.

Secondly, upload your smilies to your host.

Finally, click Tools > Auto Replace…, and assign words and HTML codes for your smilies. For example:

Word: :-)
Replace with: <img src=”http://example.com/smile1.gif” alt=”:)” height=”15” width=”15” />

Done! Now enjoy your custom smilies:

See how Auto Replace is poweful?

I remember a few users requested support for user-defined signatures for posts. With the new Auto Replace feature you have them.

Click Tools > Auto Replace… > Add. Then type in a keyword for your signature, then the signature itself:

Click OK, OK. Now when you finish writing your post, just enter the keyword (e.g. “sign1”) and you’ll get your signature.

- Dmitry
BlogJet

OK, seems like I’ve been heard – Blogger’s developers fixed issues with non-English characters. Thanks, guys!

…But titles still don’t work with Cyrillic characters:

Now, could you fix this too, please?

(Thanks to Joakim for letting me know about this.)

A few users asked me what to enter in “Flickr Login” field in BlogJet 1.6. Here’s the answer: use your e-mail (which you use to login to Flickr’s web interface).

I’ve made a few video tutorials for the new Help page.

They cover account creation and editing, configuring FTP settings (this is the most geeky feature), editing recent posts, posting, and using the Auto Replace feature.

Please don’t watch “How to Use Auto Replace” tutorial if you work for Microsoft, OK? 

I’m excited to announce the new release – BlogJet 1.6 “Lime”!
(Lime is a codename ).

NEW FEATURES

• Free Flickr integration plugin (included, no installation required).
• Auto Replace.
• Title and rel attributes for links.
• Ping default URLs.
• Protection for unsaved posts before publishing.
• Zoom icon for generated thumbnails.
• Saving of default layout settings for Insert Image window.
• Group posting (post to multiple blogs at once).
• Confirm when using Ctrl+Enter to publish post.
• Better FTP file upload progress indication.
• New blog providers: Blogzerk and BLOGZY.
• NTLM and Digest proxy authorization support.
• New keyboard shortcut: 
   Ctrl+Y - edit last post
   Ctrl+Shift+E - extended entry
• Ability to abort posting when checking spelling.
• BlogJetThis extension for Firefox 1.5.
• Speed and stability improvements.

BUG FIXES

• Work-around for WordPress and TypePad date/time issue.
• Now BlogJet can work via proxy with authentication.
• Fixed issue with FTP proxy.
• Fixed double trackbacks in TypePad and Movable Type
• FTP password encryption.
• Fixed: Insert Link window didn’t remove automatically http:// when inserting https:// of ftp:// links.
• Fixed “Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window”.
• Fixed: error message when posting with image selected.
• New connection core.
• Lots of other bug fixes… (sorry, I left the history of bug fixes on my old notebook ).

This update is free for customers who bought BlogJet. Also, for those of you who tried previous versions (excluding 1.6 beta), but had problems, please try downloading this version, since it will clean your trial period and you can start your free 30 days of trial all over again.

By the way, if you own a copy and want to upgrade to Family pack, use this coupon code: PGBJ30 to get 45% discount.

Download here: http://www.blogjet.com/download/
Buy here: http://www.blogjet.com/order/

If you don’t know what is BlogJet, read our home page .

Thanks everyone who helped with this release! Now, could you blog about the new version, please?

There’s an update: http://www.blogjet.com/blog/2005/12/13/blogjet-161-released/

I like what Ian McKenzie said: “Dmitry has posted a few of the new features that will be available in BlogJet 1.6. He notes the release date is soon, but doesn’t say whether that is chronological soon or software-development soon.”

OK, here’s the official release date of BlogJet 1.6. Since I planned to release it in November…

Wednesday, November 37

If your calendar doesn’t support software-development dates, mark your calendars on December 7!

I can’t make Blogger work with non-English characters. I tried all encodings and had no luck.

All worked fine before Blogger’s developers changed something. I wrote to bloggerDev newsgroup but received no reply.

I really want to make it work! If anyone from Blogger would like to help me, please write to dmitry-at-blogjet.com (I use Blogger2 API).