Posting With ScribeFire
You might've noticed the "Powered by ScribeFire" link in my last post. It's there because I just downloaded and installed the ScribeFire blog editing extension for Firefox.
Which means when I visit a page I want to blog about, I can right-click and select "Blog this page" from the Scribefire contextual menu, and the the browser window is split, so that I can type my blog post in the bottom half, and still see the page I'm blogging about in the top half. Very handy!
In addition to a blog post editor, there's also some pretty cool tools instantly available at the click of a button. "Page Tools" gives you Technorati-related info about the page you're blogging (like which other blogs have linked to the page, etc.), and "Bookmarks" lets you add del.icio.us tags. And clicking on "Publishing Options" lets you do a bunch of different things -- post as a draft, add Technorati tags, bookmark the post at del.icio.us using the same tags, and adding any TrackBack URLs you want to ping. Oh, and you don't even have to use it to create a blog post; you can also use it to take notes, which is great if you see something that you want to blog about later.
Setting it up to work with Blogger was no problem, and it says it also works with Wordpress, Drupal, MoveableType, TextPattern, Roller, LiveJournal, Windows Live Spaces, Performancing and Jeeran. Or it can be manually configured to work with other blog platforms.
They got a bit more work to do on it, but so far I'm liking it a lot.
If you want to try it, you can download it from Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons site.
Which means when I visit a page I want to blog about, I can right-click and select "Blog this page" from the Scribefire contextual menu, and the the browser window is split, so that I can type my blog post in the bottom half, and still see the page I'm blogging about in the top half. Very handy!
In addition to a blog post editor, there's also some pretty cool tools instantly available at the click of a button. "Page Tools" gives you Technorati-related info about the page you're blogging (like which other blogs have linked to the page, etc.), and "Bookmarks" lets you add del.icio.us tags. And clicking on "Publishing Options" lets you do a bunch of different things -- post as a draft, add Technorati tags, bookmark the post at del.icio.us using the same tags, and adding any TrackBack URLs you want to ping. Oh, and you don't even have to use it to create a blog post; you can also use it to take notes, which is great if you see something that you want to blog about later.
Setting it up to work with Blogger was no problem, and it says it also works with Wordpress, Drupal, MoveableType, TextPattern, Roller, LiveJournal, Windows Live Spaces, Performancing and Jeeran. Or it can be manually configured to work with other blog platforms.
They got a bit more work to do on it, but so far I'm liking it a lot.
If you want to try it, you can download it from Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons site.
Powered by ScribeFire.
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