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A FREE Machiest Bundle! No Way! I love free so I would not pass this up but I must say that honestly I really only found 2 useful apps in this bundle. I will spare you my talking about the others so here it is.
ShoveBox and Twitteriffic are the only apps worth Mentioning and here is why.
ShoveBox:
Give you and easy menubar way to create and organize information snippets on your computer. I find this to be far superior to using Stickies because it is alway in my upper right hand corner and I can assign quick keys to it. It is also light weight and fast
Twitteriffic:
Simple easy to use menubar interface that keeps me from using a web browser to tweet.
Now for my random rant
My biggest friction point with the web is the browser. I hate it!!! Any desktop app that reaches out to the web for one single purpose already has one points with me.
Today IDCA is at the PayPal X conference in SF and will be live blogging about what is seen here today.
The big announcement today is that Paypal is opening their platform to developers at www.x.com . They seem to have taken a note from The open source community and FaceBook. The people at PayPal realize that they can not innovate as fast as the world is moving, so why not get the world to work for you for free. This idea of crowd sourcing is not new but we will see how well this concept works around making money. People don’t seem to have a problem working for the man if they are able to make their own income and determine their own destiny, so it seems. Apple, Google, Sun and others have all caught on to this and created platforms that they really control but still give the feeling of openness.
Here are some photos from the expo.
I must ask for a moment of silence as we morn the death of GeoCities.
When I was young and ruff around the edges, my first web building memories were with GeoCities. I remember how free and how open Mr. Cities was with everyone . The internet was a different place then with its
under construction signs, visitor counters and animated gifs. I say with a heavy heart that I will sincerely miss your file by file uploading system and you unicorn riddled sites. With that said we will miss you Mr. Cities or as your friends so dearly called Geo.
I know from personal experience this is painful to set up and hopefully this tutorial will help you get up and running with Drupal and Mac journal. Setting up remote clients with Mac Journal made my purchase worth it’s weight in gold.
Drupal Set Up
Log in: to your Drupal Site
Goto: Administer >Site building > Modules
Click: Enable the Blog and Blog API
Click: Save Configuration
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Goto: Administer › Site configuration > BlogAPI
Click: Blog Entry
Click: Save Configuration
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Mac Journal Set Up
Go to Journal: Edit Blog Server
Name your Blog and Set up
Click: “Manual Setup”
The next page should auto complete.
Select: Type: “Movable Type” or “Meta WebLog”
Click: “Reload”
Click: The Drop-down arrow next to “reload” and select “blog” for the Blog ID
Click: “OK”
When you are ready to share and entry
Goto Share: Send to: “Your Blog
As soon as I bought Mac Journal I wanted to figure out how to do this. I could not find enough documentation on the Mariner Software site to do this so I figured I would help people out by making this tutorial.
If there is anything unclear pleas contact me by leaving a comment on my blog.
Word Press Set Up
- Log in to your word press blog
- Scroll down to the Menu: Settings – Writing
- Click: Enable the Atom Publishing Protocol.
- Click: Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.
Mac Journal Set Up
Go to Journal: Edit Blog Server
Name your Blog and Set up
A valid blog should be found
The next page should auto complete. Then click “Ok”
When you are ready to share and entry
Goto Share: Send to: “Your Blog”
I am a sucker for a good deal. I am also a sucker for something that is a good deal and improves my life. I have been looking for a way to chronicle my thoughts on and offline. Because I participated in the Mac Heist earlier this year and got MarinerSoftwares Paperless I go and additional deal on MacJournal. Online I have used WordPress, Drupal. Offline I have use Word, Pages, TextEdit, Stickies and Text mate. I loose the motivation to write easily dealing with online software though I will spend allot of time figuring them out. Offline I love how useful and easy to use Pages and Word can be but it looses its charm in the cut and paste to the blog or website. Enter Mac Journal! Out of the box I started to write my ideas even before I figured out how to put them online. Dragging and dropping images was just as easy as word or pages. I also love the fact that I can have multiple journals and have a different set up for each, in one easy to use window.
After I got over the initial charm of a really focused software package I started to want to use it for what I bought it for, Blogging. This is where the learning curve got really steep and I found the limitations of the documentation and information. To be clear this software is capable of uploading its content to WordPress, Drupal, Blogger, BlogSpot or any where that uses the Atom, MoveableType, Live Journal or MetaWebLog Protocols but is not an easy endeavor to say the least. Of course I started with the hardest of them all posting to my drupal blog and I got it to work: Drupal MacJournal Tutorial. I don’t like how MacJournal sets up and edits servers because there is there really no intuitive way to edit the list. They should take a note from Coda, Dreamweaver or Transmit on easy of use as MJ uses terms hard for web people to decipher what they mean. Over all I like MJ and would will offer some online training for it soon as there is a lack of know how on the blogging portion of it
One of MJ Strengths is its ability to record audio. Example Below
BTW this post was written in Mac Journal
http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85