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Since I started blogging I have used many tools to create and publish blog posts.  I have blogged from Writely (now Google Docs), Zoho Writer, Flock, Sun’s Weblog Publisher for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org, and OOoBlogger.  Several days ago I discovered a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire and used it to create my last post on Netbeans and the GPL. 

After installation an orange notepad icon sits on the bottom of your web browser.  Clicking on the icon brings up the ScribeFire interface.  As most, if not all, utilities for creating blog entries it has the normal set of formating features and allows you to view the post in either Rich Editing Mode, Source Editing Mode, or Live Preview Mode. 

You can select the Tags for your post but there does not appear to be a way to add new Tags from ScribeFire.  One nice feature is that it allows you to save notes without publishing them to your blog.  A feature I like if I have a quick thought and want to take a quick note.  You can then edit and/or publish the notes at any time.  Another nice feature is that it allows you to edit any of your older published blog posts as well.  I have tested editing older posts and it seems to work well.  I tried the same functionality with Sun’s Weblog Publisher and it screwed up the formatting both times I tried it.   Which leads me to another item, it usually seems to provide me with the results that I expect.  Too many times with the other tools above I had to log into my blog and edit all of the formatting mistakes that would regularly occur.  If you end up logging into your blog to fix mistakes you might as well just create the entire post from there. 

So far I really like ScribeFire and I am hoping that over time and more use it won’t disappoint me.  I haven’t tried Flock’s blogging capabilities since their initial release so I may give that a try again in the near future, but since I primarily use Firefox it looks like ScribeFire will be my blogging tool of choice.

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