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BlogJet Love

I thought it was finally time I posted my tribute to BlogJet.

Brendan managed to get all us bloggers at CodeBetter a BlogJet license, with many thanks whoever it was that gave it to us :)

I'd never used it before, and gave it a good workout to see what it's like.

I'm happy. It creates pretty decent HTML behind the scenes, which is the most important bit for me. It's easy to jump to the HTML to do a raw edit if you need to (Ctrl-Tab is a very important feature in many applications, in my book). It has other good important keyboard shortcuts, like Ctrl-Enter to post.

So thankyou to the guys at BlogJet, I'm a very happy camper.

Now, on to some feature requests :)

• I crave screen real estate. Can I please have a version with small toolbar buttons?
• You're spell checker is pretty lame :) Can I replace it with IESpell?
• Ctrl-H to me is a much more meaningful keyboard shortcut (or even Ctrl-L) for Insert Hyperlink than Ctrl-K.
• What's the Properties tab for? I'm guessing that against a .Text blog, I can't use it (all the controls on it are disabled). Can I close that tab so that I can happily Ctrl-Enter between HTML and Normal views without getting lost in the middle please?

And then there's the bugs that are not BlogJet's fault, but .Text's. I can't edit posts and I can't post entries that I don't want syndicated to the main feed. But that's ok, because my time in front of that damn FreeTextBox control has been greatly reduced, which is fantastic.

All in all, I'd give BlogJet a good 4 stars so out of 5. Highly Recommended!

Update: I'm looking at getting the Edit fixed implemented finally. I'll keep you all posted.

Update Two: This edit, and the one above, were both made via BlogJet. Sweeeet! Check my newer posts for what happened.