As I promised, since Firefox 2.0 has been released earlier than BlogJet 2.0 (which will be released soon), I’m giving away the new version of BlogJet This! extension which works with it.

Install BlogJet This! 2.0

(Firefox will tell you that it has prevented this website from installing extensions. Click Edit and add blogjet.com to your trusted sites, then try to install again.)

Since version 1.1 has the following feature: you can type a special command-line parameter plus account’s name and BlogJet will open this account automatically.

The parameter is:

-acc “Account name”

For example, if you have an account that is called Mike’s Blog, then you can create a shortcut on your Desktop with this command:

“C:\Program Files\BlogJet\BlogJet.exe” -acc “Mike’s Blog”

and call it something like Post to Mike’s blog. Then you can just double-click the icon and it will launch BlogJet with Mike’s Blog account opened. This is very useful when you have a lot of accounts and don’t want to use the login window.

P.S. This is the reposting from the old blog.

I’m introducing the series of video (flash) demos that will highlight the new cool features of BlogJet 2.0. The first one is about instant search of your posts:

(Click to play…)

Nice voice, isn’t it?

By the way, all the posts in Recent Posts window are now cached locally, so it takes less than a second to load them when you click “Get Recent Posts”.

I’m in process of finishing coding of the first beta version of BlogJet 2.0. While I’m working, here’s something to look at (click to zoom):

BlogJet is mentioned in Law Practice magazine (Volume 32 Number 3, Page 42):

“This free (for 30 days, I guess? – D.C.) utility allows you to draft your blog posts without opening a browser. Just download it to your laptop and you can blog while you’re on the road.”

A few days ago guys from Textpattern announced the XML-RPC API for this excellent content management system, so now you can post to your Textpattern blogs (or sections) from BlogJet.

1. Download and install XML-RPC “plug in”.

2. In BlogJet create new account with the following settings:

Provider: WordPress (yes, you read it right)
Host: your blog’s domain
Page: /rpc

Specify your TextPattern login and password, select a blog and that’s it!

They currently don’t support direct image upload, so you also have to specify your FTP settings if you want to upload pictures.

The next version of BlogJet will have native “TextPattern” selection in providers list.

(BTW, the new version of our website, which will be available soon, uses TextPattern as CMS).

Paul Witschey kindly created BlogJet This plugin for Maxthon. It allows you to blog about highlighted text by simply pressing the button on the toolbar.

Get it here: http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=39730

Thank you, Paul!

Forum member boltyboy reported that TypePad fixed “Post as draft” issue:

“Yeah, that only took 6 months! As far as I can see both the post as draft AND the post and publish with delayed time (set in the Blogjet properties tab) are now working properly! YEAH! This has taken way too long, but it now makes Blogjet and Typepad totally in synch!”

Thanks, boltyboy. Thanks, TypePad!