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iBlog - 2.0 RC3

desktop blogging app with iLife integration

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Current Version: 2.0 RC3
Release Date: 2007-08-02
License: Beta
Downloads (this version): 4,069
Downloads (all versions): 188
Price: $29.95

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Product Description:

iBlog is an elegant desktop blogging solution that makes authoring and publishing personal blogs a breeze. Unlike other blogging solutions you don't have to be an expert database administrator or a perl programmer to setup and use iBlog. You can preview and publish blogs to your iDisk with a single click of a button.

Apart from iDisk, iBlog also supports publishing to FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, AFP and Local servers. iBlog is a multi-document application, which means you can have multiple document windows of Blogs, Categories and Entries open at the same time. Simply copy Entries from one blog to the other using Drag and Drop.

iBlog indexes the content (Title, Summary and Body) of the entries automatically when you save them so you can quickly find the entry you are looking for by using the Search Field in the main iBlog window. The buttons at the bottom of the Main Window provide a quick access to the most common tasks in iBlog.

You customize the layout and appearance of the blog by using the settings (Theme and Stylesheet) in the Display section of the Blog window. All the options in the Blog are divided into multiple sections and you view each one by clicking the appropriate toolbar icon of the Blog window.

The Theme Builder in the Admin menu provides a Finder like column view to navigate the Themes folder. Select the file you want to view and an editor tab in opened in the lower half of the window. You cannot edit the default Theme (Classic) that is included in iBlog. You have to create a duplicate theme theme first by clicking the plus button.

The Admin menu also provides options for other functionality like managing the Authors and importing application data from the 1.x version. 2.x version provides the functionality to import all the important data from the previous version of the application.

What's new in this version:

  • Images and other attachments in the Entry can have accents and double byte characters.
  • Added support for resizing the Blog banner image.
  • Stripped HTML tags in the RSS feed, newlines are preserved.
  • Added support for resizing the Category image.
  • Added a checkbox to select/deselect the files list in the publish panel.
  • The Entry window has a Link toolbar button.
  • Updated FTP and SFTP publishing implementation. No need to install Ncftp client anymore.
  • Updated Publish state per publish location.
  • Added support for resizing the images in the Entry window. You have to re-save the existing entries to resize the images.
  • Added a preference to set the default image width in the "Text Editing" section of the preferences window.
  • Updated the iBlog product page URLs in the template files.
  • Fixed the launch time issue. Now iBlog 2.0 launches in a couple of seconds no matter how many entries you have.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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iBlog CommentaryAppears to have been abandoned - Version: 2.0 RC3, 2/12/2009 04:50AM PST

teejayeff_dotmac
The developer appears to have abandoned this product completely, the ibloggers forum has been taken down (losing a huge amount of information) and support tickets on the Lifli site go unanswered. I've used v1 for years and it still works on 10.5.6 on Intel, but v2 was never properly sorted. Don't risk your money.
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iBlog CommentaryWill not launch since upgrade to Leopard - Version: 2.0 RC3, 5/15/2008 02:09PM PST

JKennedy60
I just updated to Leopard and when I try to open iBlog, it completely locks up my Mac. It bounces on the doc, then stops bouncing, and all I get is a spinning ball. I can't even force quit and have to turn off the power and restart. I've opened a problem ticket with Lifli, but gotten no response.

This product hasn't been updated since 08/2007. It might be time to give up and move on to an actively supported product.


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iBlog Developer NoteRegistration - Version: 2.0 RC2, 4/17/2007 08:35PM PST

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Sarat_Kongara_932
Please download the latest build of iBlog 2.0 RC2 from http://www.lifli.com

As noted in this post on iBloggers.net: http://www.ibloggers.net/C1970894105/E20070417150850/index.html , There are a couple of critical bug fixes in this new build. You should be able to register the new build.

Use the "E-mail Bug Report" option in the "Help" menu to report bugs.
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