Six Apart, makers of Movable Type and TypePad, bought LiveJournal. Great news, guys. I hope that they will enhance LiveJournal’s support for blogging APIs.

Winners of the Weblog Awards 2005 in the following categories:

• Best photography of a weblog
• Best computers or technology weblog
• Best writing of a weblog

will receive a copy of BlogJet. Go nominate!

As I mentioned in the previous post, we’re contributing to the Weblog Awards for the second year.

BlogJet sponsors IndiBlog Awards: winners of IndiBlog of the year, IndiBlog with the best tagline and Best IndiPhotoBlog will receive a copy of BlogJet.

With this Awards, I continue my support for different competitions among bloggers – the first one was Weblog Awards 2004 last year.

Dear BlogJet users, Happy New Year! I wish you luck, and hope you’ll be with us in 2005 year. Thank you!

In response to the disaster in Asia, all revenues earned this week from our products will be donated to the Red Cross.

You can also donate yourself.

We’re almost ready to release the new version of BlogJet. I decided to change the upcoming version number from 1.2 to 1.5 since it has a lot of improvements over 1.1 (and to match FeedDemon’s version  ).

I also decided to raise the price, so if you’re evaluating the trial version, don’t wait until it expired, buy now for a low price.

Update: BlogJet 1.5 is the free update for registered users.

The sexiest users of BlogJet – http://girl2.com/ 

Meet the new build of BlogJet – it’s now release candidate. This build brings new level of security for blog clients – it can use secure (SSL) protocol to communicate with servers (if you don’t use it, your password can be sniffed, since it’s being transmitted as plain text).

Most popular services support SSL (e.g. TypePad), so if you have an account in BlogJet, edit it and tick “Use SSL” checkbox.

This feature will also enable MSN Spaces support as soon as they implement an API via SSL.

BlogJet 1.2 build 33 Release Candidate (Release Notes)

FEATURES

• SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support.
• Added BlogHarbor and PUSHlogs to providers list.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed: BlogJet doesn’t use FTP proxy at all.
• Fixed inserting apostrophes when pressing NumPad keys.
• Minor fixes.

Download it here: http://blogjet.com/download/