What Ho!» WordPress http://whatho.satpathy.org Ah! To live with a What Ho on my lips and a Gentleman's Gentleman... {sigh}... Such is life... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:47:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Test of Publishing from my BlackBerry http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry-2/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry-2/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:10:41 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/general/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry-2/ Hello World! The traditional greeting of the geek trying out a new way of expressing themselves.

I have found a BlackBerry app that supports WordPress. The app recognised my blog settings based on the URL and my login credentials, imported all settings including my existing categories. This is my first post from my BlackBerry [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Hello World! The traditional greeting of the geek trying out a new way of expressing themselves.

I have found a BlackBerry app that supports WordPress. The app recognised my blog settings based on the URL and my login credentials, imported all settings including my existing categories. This is my first post from my BlackBerry using the new app.

Hello World!

http://blackberry.wordpress.com

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry-2/feed/ 0 Test of Publishing from my BlackBerry http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/general/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/general/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:05:14 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/general/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry/ Hello World! The traditional greeting of the geek trying out a new way of expressing themselves. I have found a BlackBerry app that supports WordPress. The app recognised my blog settings based on the URL and my login credentials, imported all settings including my existing categories. This is my first post from my BlackBerry using [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Hello World! The traditional greeting of the geek trying out a new way of expressing themselves. I have found a BlackBerry app that supports WordPress. The app recognised my blog settings based on the URL and my login credentials, imported all settings including my existing categories. This is my first post from my BlackBerry using the new app.

Hello World!

http://blackberry.wordpress.com

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2010/07/10/general/test-of-publishing-from-my-blackberry/feed/ 0 Lightbox 2 with Auto-Resize in WordPress http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/10/15/software/open-source/wordpress/lightbox-2-with-auto-resize-in-wordpress/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/10/15/software/open-source/wordpress/lightbox-2-with-auto-resize-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:17:42 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/10/15/software/open-source/wordpress/lightbox-2-with-auto-resize-in-wordpress/ I finally found a solution to my WordPress woes with large images and my attempts to use Lightbox 2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Many thanks to Hannes Schmiderer for showing me the way and for sharing the code that he hacked together from other sources.

Please check out his blog and the many interesting articles he [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I finally found a solution to my WordPress woes with large images and my attempts to use Lightbox 2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Many thanks to Hannes Schmiderer for showing me the way and for sharing the code that he hacked together from other sources.

Please check out his blog and the many interesting articles he has there.

This fix is not yet implemented in this blog (http://whatho.satpathy.org) but will be shortly. I have it working on my children’s web site, Mamli & Bablu.

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/10/15/software/open-source/wordpress/lightbox-2-with-auto-resize-in-wordpress/feed/ 9 BlogJet – Blogging Client http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/31/software/open-source/wordpress/blogjet-blogging-client/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/31/software/open-source/wordpress/blogjet-blogging-client/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 06:31:13 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/31/software/open-source/wordpress/blogjet-blogging-client/ The two previous posts were made with BlogJet. I am trying to find the perfect blog client to manage this blog and have looked at three products so far.

Zoundry Raven w.bloggar BlogJet

So far BlogJet looks the most promising. I post a lot of images and good image management support, particularly auto generation of [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The two previous posts were made with BlogJet. I am trying to find the perfect blog client to manage this blog and have looked at three products so far.

  1. Zoundry Raven
  2. w.bloggar
  3. BlogJet

So far BlogJet looks the most promising. I post a lot of images and good image management support, particularly auto generation of thumbnails and uploading without FTP, is a very big deal. The downside is the price :-(

I haven’t played with w.bloggar much yet. The editor with it’s HTML tags in plain view kind of put me off but I am happy to live with that if the image management is good. Lets see how it works out.

 

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/31/software/open-source/wordpress/blogjet-blogging-client/feed/ 0 Zoundry Raven http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/28/software/open-source/wordpress/zoundry-raven/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/28/software/open-source/wordpress/zoundry-raven/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 16:10:42 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/28/wordpress/zoundry-raven/ I came across Zoundry Raven a couple of months ago but hadn’t had the time to download and use it. The web site looked promising and features listed were just what I was looking for. I downloaded the installer today and have just finished configuring it to blog to this blog.

One of the [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I came across Zoundry Raven a couple of months ago but hadn’t had the time to download and use it. The web site looked promising and features listed were just what I was looking for. I downloaded the installer today and have just finished configuring it to blog to this blog.

One of the features I have wanted for some time is a good WYSIWYG editor in a light weight package. Advanced table & image handling, with fine control over image alignment, thumbnails and text flow. This seems to be the answer to all those things. I am able to insert an image into the post and Zoundry inserts it at the cursor with the original size. The right click context menu has an image sub menu which lets me control the size of the thumbnail to be used. I can also control the alignment of the image thumbnail as well as the border. I would have liked to be able to give a padding around the image but so far I haven’t found any means of doing so.

The next test is to publish this post and see how Zoundry Raven handles images, categories, pings etc.

The program setup was a smooth affair. During installation I selected the “Portable” installation option. This is supposed to be used with removable media like flash drives. I however installed on my laptop’s hard disk. The advantage here is that all program configuration is stored in the installation folder. No messing about with the registry or application data files in that stupid “Documents And Settings” folder where all the crap normally lives. Or maybe they die as soon as they enter and their rotting bodies and souls lie there forever.

I intend to use this as my primary blogging client if everything goes well. Maybe my search for the “perfect” blog client program is finally over!

Powered by Zoundry Raven

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/05/28/software/open-source/wordpress/zoundry-raven/feed/ 1 Test of blog by email from mobile http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:26:58 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06//test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/ This is the second test of the blog by email feature I just configured. This email is being sent from my mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson P1i. I am using the built in email client which does not support HTML emails. I have attached a big image. This email should end up using the Postie [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is the second test of the blog by email feature I just configured. This email is being sent from my mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson P1i. I am using the built in email client which does not support HTML emails. I have attached a big image.
This email should end up using the Postie plugin.
Lets see what happens this time.

Update:

  • Paragraphs run together. Try giving two empty lines in the email?
  • Categories didn’t work at all. I had used the “-Cat1- -Cat2- Subject” format. Have to try the “[Category] [Category] Subject” format.

Image support worked like a charm. I had attached a fairly large image from my mobile phone and it was added to the bottom of the post as expected. The image was nicely resized too.

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/feed/ 0 Testing Blog-By-Email http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/software/open-source/wordpress/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/software/open-source/wordpress/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:19:57 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/uncategorized/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/ Hello! Hello! Hello!

Earth Calling…

Does post by email work? Did I get all the settings right? That’s a big question because I have read only half way through the manual

Let’s see what WordPress does with this href=”http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email”>email-to-post thingy.

Update:

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Earth Calling…

Does post by email work? Did I get all the settings right? That’s a big
question because I have read only half way through the manual :-)

Let’s see what WordPress does with this
href=”http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email”>email-to-post
thingy.

Update:

Makes a mess of it! The formatting is off rather bad. The one hyper link I put in was massacred. I am leaving the post as is to demonstrate how the blog by email feature works out-of-the-box. I will try Postie next. Uploading the plugin files to the server now… Email was sent from ThunderBird 2.0.0.9 using HTML mail.

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/software/open-source/wordpress/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/feed/ 0 Windows Live Writer http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/01/22/software/open-source/wordpress/windows-live-writer/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/01/22/software/open-source/wordpress/windows-live-writer/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:08:04 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/01/22/blogging/windows-live-writer/ I am writing this on Windows Live Writer, version 2008. Setup was a bit of a pain (see screen shot) but then what do you expect from Microsoft? Anyway, once it had finished “examining” my “system”, it was relatively easy to setup. The older blog settings were retained from the Beta version and I was [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I am writing this on Windows Live Writer, version 2008. Setup was a bit of a pain (see screen shot) but then what do you expect from Microsoft? Anyway, once it had finished “examining” my “system”, it was relatively easy to setup. The older blog settings were retained from the Beta version and I was able to setup my new WordPress based blog quickly.

Windows Live Writer - Installation

Of particular interest to me now is how this thing will treat images. Lets see now…

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