The other day the
Pirate pondered a long lost feature of Xanga: eMail blogging. Some of you may remember the days when you could send an email to your blog to update. It made me reminisce about the ways I used to write blogs. I did use the email feature once or twice, and tried other add ons. Once upon a time there was the xtools button and I seem to remember the xanga toolbar. For the longest time, xtools wouldn't work properly in Netscape or Firefox.
I've always preferred to use an alternative to Internet Explorer. For me, most software written by Microsoft is repulsive. Microsoft assumes that a) every user needs every feature and b) every user is dumb. In the beginning I used Netscape and then Opera, and finally ended up - and swear by - Firefox. The neat thing about Firefox has always been the dozens of add-ons you can use to customize your browser to exactly do what you want it to.
For example, I've got an add-on called
iMacros (which is also now available for IE), which allows me to record the most common mouse clicks and keystrokes in my browser. It's a god-sent when I need to set up machines via a web interface. I used to spend a lot of time going through menues and clicking items. Now I run a macro and have a cup of coffee instead.
One thing I always wanted was an add-on that let me blog on Xanga. Preferably one that allowed me to change my username right there without having to log in or out and do all the stuff I normally need xtools for.
The other night when I read the Pirate's entry, I started hunting again, and happened to come upon an entry by the
Xanga Team. In it they show how to setup live-writer and scribefire. So, here I am tonight, typing happily away in
ScribeFire before I need to decide on which site or blog to post it.
So, if you do have multiple blogs, possibly on multiple sites and are sick and tired of the different user interfaces and the log ins and offs... try this: Install Firefox 3.0, install the ScribeFire add-on, and set it up according to the instructions on the
Xanga Team's blog. It will take you less than 30 minutes and is very very easy to do, and you'll have a better browser, and an awesome way to enter your blogs from now on.
Of course, if you want to, you could give up on Windows completely, and install Ubuntu 8.04 --- but that's a blog for another time.
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