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Back end tools

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Behind the scenes:

Back end tools to help speed up and streamline your blogging.

 

 

Type your posts faster with shortcuts

  • TextExpander and Texter - easy text expansion for common blogging markup, like href's and blockquotes (Self-promotion alert: we developed Texter in-house at Lifehacker)
  • AutoCopy for Firefox (never Ctrl+C again!)
  • CoLT Firefox extension (copy entire formatted links with text AND HTML)
  • Custom post template markup generators, like a "roundup maker"
  • "Droplets" like Transmit auto FTP or ImageReady image processing (resize, sharpen, etc)

 

Markdown

Markdown is a text-to-html conversion tool that works similarly to TextExpander and Texter (and can be used in conjunction with these tools). It allows you to write more naturally and later convert your text to properly-formatted HTML.

 

Browser-based image tools

  • Resizr -- lets you quickly resize and rotate JPG images from a file or a URL
  • Picnik -- much more full-featured web-based photo editor. Can resize and rotate, crop, add effects, and more.

 

Blogging from Firefox with Scribefire

 

Blogging desktop client: Ecto

  • Ecto is a full-featured blogging desktop client for Mac and Windows. It makes posting to multiple blogs incredibly easy, among other great functions.
  • compatible with Wordpress, Movable Type, Typepad, Blogger, Drupal and more
  • great way to compose blog posts while offline for easy upload later
  • here's the Ecto documentation.

 

Get Your FTP On

 

maybe?

 

  • markdown
  • images that don't suck anyone's bandwidth
  • blogging with Flock
  • multiple blog pinging service tools: http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/09/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging (pingomatic etc.)
  • tagging plug-in to add tags (jerome's keywords)
  • firefox search plug-ins: dictionary search, etc.
  • post page bookmarklet -- highlight text and start a blog post
  • blog from phone via Flickr
  • google notebook
  • Collaborating with guest bloggers using Google Docs, Zoho or Approver?

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