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I like it...

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Contributed by: galfridvs Monday, July 12 2004 @ 11:27 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

...but it is still missing features that, I think, would be easy to implement:

1) Allow posting to the iDisk, like iBlog does. I'm not a huge fan of iBlog, but it's the only means for my personal blog, hosted on my .Mac site, to work. If NNW could handle this, I would be more than willing to pay at the end of my trial.

2) Allow an optional note pad. I want to use SubEthaEdit for my notetaking. Someone else might want to use Stickies, BBEdit or MS Word, while another might want to use NNW's built-in pad... let us choose. I like the note pad idea... but not if I have to be tied to something I don't use for notes outside of NNW.

3) Blogger titles. Aside from my personal blog on my .Mac site, I also post frequently to a Blogger site. But I need to be able to use titles for the Blogger postings, and the NNW FAQ page states that the Blogger API doesn't allow for titles on posts, which is false and has been for a while. Perhaps Blogger is doing something weird in the background, but it does, even through its "Blog This!" tool, allow titles.

Granted: for what it does, it works and works well. However, I don't find it to be worth $40 to me until the three items above have been addressed. But, for you, it may be exactly what you are looking for.   

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I like it... - ddelong

1) This would require NetNewsWire to be a complete blogging package that generated all the files for the blog. That's not what NetNewsWire is. It has the capability to act as an external editor for an existing blogging package (MovableType, Wordpress, etc.).

3) It's not false. It's true. They added support for Atom API posting which does have this capability (and is planned for MarsEdit). The Blogger API simply lacks this ability.

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