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Pulsed: Blogger vs. Wordpress.com Comparison Chart - 2010 - 0 views

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  • Wordpress.com
  • Themes and customization
  • No template editing.
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  • Blogger has introduced a collection of easy-to-customize templates (more info).
  • can include third party tracker scripts— or any type of script
  • Import from Blogger, Yahoo! 360, Type·Pad, MovabIe·Type, Posterous, Vox.com, Live·JournaI or another WordPress blog.
  • Image storage
  • 1 Gigabyte. There is no interface to browse through the images unless you sign up for Picasa Web Albums.
  • 3 Gigabytes.
  • can also upload .ppt, .doc, .odt and .pdf files
  • Galleries
  • icasa Web Albums.
  • Simply add the tag [gallery] to any post or page (more info).
  • Create posts or 'pages'. Static pages are listed in separate menus.
  • Blogger allows up to 10 static pages to be created
  • Static pages
  • Categories
  • 'Labels'.
  • 'Categories'.
  • Expandable post summaries (more info).
  • Optional excerpts
  • Submit your posts by email. Images can be attached
  • Submit your posts by email.
  • Free domain name mapping
  • can restrict access to invited Google account holders.
  • can restrict access to 35 invited Wordpress account holders
  • lternatively, individual posts can be password protected or Private.
  • Visual confirmation and moderation options, but no editing of comments.
  • Moderation, comment editing and Akismet spam protection.
  • Wordpress.com added follow-ups by email and comment threading options. Wordpress has more comment options than Blogger, but there have been problems with Akismet spam protection.
  • BlogSpot Widgets
  • add up to 10 stand-alone pages.
  • Software applications that do cool things.
  • Show off what you read with a blogroll of your favourite blogs.
  • Blog List
  • Slideshow
  • Video Bar
  • clips from YouTube and Google Video for your readers to watch without leaving the page.
  • Link List
  • Survey your visitors by adding a poll to your blog.
  • Wordpress.com Widgets
  • Category cloud
  • Recent Comments | Recent Posts
  • Tag Cloud
  • Top Clicks | Top Posts | Top Rated
  • Although the Wordpress.com collection of 90+ themes sounds like a lot, options for customization are limited unless you pay for an upgrade that allows stylesheet editing
  • If Wordpress.com allowed stylesheet editing without having to pay, and visitor stats comparable to the tracker scripts you can obtain for free, my choice would have been Wordpress.com for sure
  • One other comparison is the difference of how each handle leaving comments.
  • Wordpress allows a handy comment box with the post
  • annoying feature of Blogger is that it opens another window that does not match the theme of your blog.
  • If you create a new blogspot blog the initial selection of templates is incomplete.
  • To see the complete list you need to go to the template section of the dashboard and click on "Pick New Template".
  • Blogger uses the term "stretch" for variable width templates.
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Blogger Buzz: Blogger Template Designer Now Available To Everyone - 0 views

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shared by LeisHowI on 21 Jul 10 - No Cached
  • Blogger Template Designer
  • available to everyone.
  • Designs are completely defined in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), meaning that any design can be applied to any blog layout, making templates more flexible and unique.
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  • paired up with iStockphoto to offer you hundreds of gorgeous background images at no cost
  • Blogger Template Designer lets you change all the colors in your blog at once, by changing the Main color theme.
  • Pixel-perfect layout manipulation via smooth resizing.
  • real-time preview sits below the design control panel.
  • Under the advanced tab, you can override a design's CSS and enter your own CSS in the editor and see your blog's preview updated in real time.
  • Cross-browser support
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Zoundry Raven - Another Good Alternative to Windows Live Writer - 0 views

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shared by LeisHowI on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Zoundry Raven – Another Good Alternative to Windows Live Writer
  • blogging client that exists on your computer and acts as a normal program.
  • located on your computer’s hard drive, you can write posts even when offline
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  • possible to update multiple blogs through a common interface.
  • Before you can start writing blog posts with Raven you need to set it up for use with your blog.
  • blog wizard.
  • download all of the image and post data from the blog.
  • The account manager lets you browse all tags, images, links and posts that make up your blog.
  • able to enter the title of the post and also enter in any tags that you want to use.
  • t is converted automatically to XHTML format
  • As with the text, all media and tags will be converted into a format compatible with the blog platform you use.
  • Preview tab actually lets you take a look at how the post will look when it is posted to the blog.
  • To enable this functionality, however, you must designate a template.
  • Tools
  • Blog Template Manager.
  • enter the URL of the blog you want to make a template for
  • Media Storage
  • Raven supports the ability to drag-and-drop files into your posts, including not only images but also non-image files, such as PDF files.
  • hese files can then be accessed through links in your blog post.
  • Most blogs have some form of media storage by default, but you may want to use an alternative in some cases.
  • set up your media storage
  • Add Storage button
  • select the type of storage
  • Raven supports custom FTP storage, Flickr, Image Shack, LiveJournal Scrapbook, Picasa Web Album and Ripway FTP.
  • open source,
  • The Media Storage Wizard is a feature that Raven has but Windows Live Writer does not and, as said, is particularly useful when you want to share files both on your blog and through a sharing or social media website.
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Data Crow - FAQ - 0 views

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DataCrow FAQ

shared by LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • merge the items from several installations
  • downloaded the installation and now I got myself a jar file .. ?
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      LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
       
      Needs to have Java installed
  • I get a message saying Data Crow can't determine its installation folder
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  • possible by using the Item Export and the Item Import wizard
  • XML file
  • As Data Crow does not maintain its location in the registry or in any other platform dependent way it has to find the installation folder all by itself.. In case this fails you can use the following parameter: java -Xmx256m -jar datacrow.jar -dir:<installation directory> or (when using the datacrow.exe) datacrow.exe -dir:<installation directory>
  • Data Crow does not rely on the registry and only writes files to the sub folders of the Data Crow installation directory.
  • reports in Data Crow are based on templates which are easily modified.
  • short manual on this which can be found in the download section under documentation.
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InfoLister :: Extension List Dumper - Listing extensions in Firefox - 0 views

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shared by LeisHowI on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • biggest difference between these 2 extensions is that ELD works in the extensions (add-ons) window and generates an output file, and IL sits on the Tools menu (by default, this is configurable) and displays a list any ordinary FF window.
  • ELD works in the extensions (add-ons) window and generates an output file,
  • IL sits on the Tools menu (by default, this is configurable) and displays a list any ordinary FF window
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  • IL allows you to specify extensions, themes, plugins.
  • ELD allows you to specify all, enabled, disabled, incompatible.
  • Both can save in various formats ... txt, html, BBCode.
  • IF offers xml, xpi list, XML, XML+XSLT. IL allows for use of custom templates.
  • ELD offers csv,
  • Both highlight disabled extensions
  • IL does this in a more visible way, with "[Disabled]" appearing to the right enough to stand out nicely.
  • HTML in ELD, then both provide links, where available.
  • . ELD enables inclusion of the extension description.
  • IL provides the ability to upload via ftp, http, https, and to do so automatically on exit (presumably from FF, I did not test this feature.)
  • ELD offers buttons to print and copy to clipboard.
  • LeisHowI on 20 Jul 10
     
    Comparison made by someone on InfoLister & Extension List Dumper.
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Zoundry Raven vs Live Writer: Fight! « Scott's Windows Live Ramblings - 0 views

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features guide comparison blogging blog client Windows Live Writer Zoundry Raven

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  • in Live Writer, if you omit the http:// from your blog address, it will add that for you, ZR doesn’t. ZR also detects this blog incorrectly as being “Wordpress (ver 2.1 or ealier [sic])” whereas this blog is actually Wordpress 2.9.2, so almost there, but not quite.
  • Live Writer also downloads the blog’s theme so that you can edit your post as it would appear in your blog (ZR offers this, but in a slightly different way, see later).
  • there is a difference in how much is offered to each blog. Live Writer pips this due to the extra XHTML, Right To Left support, plug-in support, turning on script and embedding support
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  • Live Writer, it downloads the blog’s theme automatically and offers this as default, so straight away as soon as you start writing your blog post, you’re already looking at the style your blog has:
  • ive Writer’s theme detection has, since the very beginning, been very good at grabbing the theme and formatting it [almost] perfectly within the editor window.
  • where things start to fall down for ZR, when it started to get my theme it ultimately failed with an error:
  • the big difference comes in and swings this more towards Live Writer. As noted above with the themes, Live Writer lets you actually write your blog post as if you were writing in your actual blog, this means you can get the layout just how you want it.
  • ZR does offer WYSIWYG editing, it’s not quite up to that same standard of “cool.”
  • One thing that ZR does have for post editing that has been requested for Live Writer is tabbed support.
  • both editors let you insert images into your blog post and arrange the post where you want them to go, you can create thumbnails of the images.
  • However, Live Writer does come into its own when it comes to editing the image. ZR offers your basic properties of an image, adding alt tags, etc:
  • although at least ZR will let you [in a roundabout way] edit the name of a pasted image, rather than just having Imagex.png. You also can’t insert a web image easily in ZR, although for Wave 3 on Windows 7, neither can Live Writer, not without a plug-in.
  • Live Writer on the other hand has a multitude of different things you can do with the image:
  • crop the image, rotate, tilt, add effects, etc.
  • plug-in architecture in Live Writer for 3rd party developers to write enhancements for it, adding further functionality so that you can do a whole multitude of things. This just simply doesn’t exist in ZR.
  • With ZR, even having done added a blog template, it still doesn’t actually let you write your blog post using that theme, it only lets you preview it using that theme:
  • Another nice feature that ZR has over Live Writer (although quite why this isn’t in Live Writer is beyond me) is search and replace!
  • , there is already one feature that rocks for Live Writer, and that is the split post feature.
  • insert a split into your post, it means anything above it will appear on your front page, and everything else will appear once you’ve gone to the full article.
  • providers are now supporting it (wordpress, Community Server, blogger, to name a few).
  • Save as draft
  • acking in ZR,
  • Through its plug-in architecture, developers have been able to add extra functionality to Live Writer, like Flickr support, ImageShack (of sorts), uploading non image files, and various other services.
  • ZR, however, does this out the box, this is quite cool, especially if you want to keep all your images (blog or otherwise) in one central place, rather than split across different services.
  • Live Writer offers video support for YouTube, both the browsing, and uploading, of videos, right from within Live Writer
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