Buat Anda suka nge-blog mungkin Anda biasa blogging dengan langsung online ke blog provider Anda.
Tahukah Anda bahwa selain edit blog Anda secara online, Anda juga bisa menggunakan aplikasi yang memungkinkan Anda lakukan blogging secara offline? Bila Anda sudah selesai dengan rancangan posting Anda maka anda bisa lakukan publish artikel Anda lewat aplikasi blog clients tsb.
Di bawah ini ada beberapa aplikasi blog clients terbaik yang mungkin bisa Anda pertimbangkan untuk Anda pakai.
Semagic
Semagic is a blog client made first of all to use with a blogs based on LiveJournal engine. It supports all blogs based on MetaweblogAPI as well. Besides all actions that are supported by LiveJournal client-server protocol. view history and edit existing entries, the client offers additional editing operations including WYSIWYG editing, macro shortcuts, autoreplace, spellchecking in different languages using either MS Word ( or OpenOffice) or internal spellchecker, saving and loading entries to/from files including preformatted drafts and autosave.
Blog client Semagic
Pros:
* posting to multiple journals
* 3 view in tabs for post edit: WYSIWYG, html and web (your real blog preview)
* rich text and tables formatting options
* automatic music detection
* statistics: words and characters
* images: option to choose from 5 external sites to host your pictures (Fotki.com, Imageshack.us, Photobucket.com, Tynipic.com)
Cons:
* no autodiscvovery of blog settings, you need to specify them manually
* problem with uploading pictures via MetaweblogAPI to Wordpress.com
* only some options for work with pictures
* unattractive interface
Score: 7/10
Summary: while it could be good choice for Livejournal users, there are much more handy clients for Wordpress and other blog platforms.
BlogJet
BlogJet is a blog client developed by Coding Robots for managing multiple blogs. BlogJet supports all leading Blog Services: WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, MSN Live Spaces, Blogware, BlogHarbor, Squarespace, Drupal, Community Server.There is choice to use WYSIWYG Editor producing clean html code or edit html tags manually in html view. Easy and quick work with pictures implemented as well. Since BlogJet stores posts in the cache, there is access to all of your posts even with no internet connection. I was impressed by BlogJet autodiscovery feature, after installing I need to enter only blog address and password; the rest of configuring BlogJet did itself.
Blog client BlogJet
Pros:
* Integration with browsers and RSS readers
* nice, userfriendly interface with different themes
* file attachments
* adding tags option
* quite rich image formatting options
* Youtube video embedding support
Cons:
* paid 29.95 euro
Score: 9/10
Summary: it could be ideal blog client if it would be free.
w.bloggar
w.bloggar is a blog client compatible with most of the weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems. Currently, w.bloggar is compatible with all tools that implements Blogger API, metaWeblog API, MovableType API and b2 API. w.bloggar is blog client with rich html formatting capabilities mostly for advanced users since it has no WYSIWYG editor. But w.bloggar has preview tab and you can using hotkeys to switch between tabs.
