This post is written in response to Justin Kistner’s group writing project, Favorite tools round up but I thought it would be more fun to learn about your favourite blogging tools rather than your working tools :)
Share a list of your favorite blogging tools that you use blog. You could share why you like the tool or even why it’s better than another popular one. Tools could be desktop and web applications, or they could be a mash up of a few services, or something like a manually maintained Excel spreadsheet.
- Quoted and modified from Justin Kistner
My favourite tools are as follow, in no particular order:
- WordPress — This is undeniably the best and most user-friendly blogging platform I’ve ever used.
- Firefox — Need I say more? Firefox even comes with a host of add-ons!
- StatCounter – The only statistics software I use on my blog because I don’t need any more to confuse myself.
- del.icio.us — I am finding del.icio.us more and more useful. I can bookmark almost anything without leaving the page and get back to them whenever I want. And I get to tag them, which makes sorting remarkably easy.
- Bloglines — I read my favourite blogs and news via Bloglines and it picks feeds up fairly quickly too!
- co.mments — Allows me to track the comments I have left on various blogs without receiving email notifications that flood my mailbox. Nifty!
- Webshot — Download the small (less than 1MB) program and you can take a complete screenshot of your blog (very useful if you’re about to show off your new blog theme/design)!
- Flickr — I get to post lots of pictures and share them with anybody, and I get to post them on my blog. I get to decide who sees what too!
What about you? Are you using the same tools that I am using? Or are you using something more powerful? Share all! :vodka:
4 of the 10 tools used by you is being used by me as well. I thought of using RSS Feed Reader but I am still hopping here and there though and the Google Reader I used only contains 50% of my bookmarked blogs.
After your recommendation, I am also a delicious user now.
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I too am on Wordpress. Firefox is cool for web stuff of all kinds – especially with the Developer’s toolbar, but I don’t use it because it doesn’t support Keychain Access (mac program that saves paswords etc). I used to use StatCounter, but I moved to Google Analytics. I got tired of StatCounter’s user interface (it’s probably improved by now).
Vienna is my favourite RSS reader.
Webshot looks cool – I wonder if there’s one like that for mac. There’s screenshot stuff already installed on mac (Command+Shift+3), but it doesn’t get a full webpage in one like that.
I use most of the tools that you use too. But del.icio.us url is kinda hard to type sometimes. :biggrin:
This is unrelated, but last week I saw a tortoise(or turtle?). I’m not sure what it name is, can you help me out? It has a soft shell, and I believe it’s the type people consume – they call it ’sui yu’(water fish haha).
It crawled in font of me when I was riding my motorbike. Don’t worry though, it made it to the other side to a nearby lake. :-)
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Hi JS, did you know that you can type “delicious” on the address bar and hit ENTER and you will be automatically brought to the del.icio.us website? :)
And, if the turtle that you saw was known locally as “sui yu”, then it was a freshwater softshell turtle. It had a slightly flattened back, and a slightly pointed mouth, right?
I used wbloggar, and Opera. Firefox is just crap :)
Bold statement melvin. I think you’ll find about 35% of internet users disagree with you. Including me, even though I don’t use FF either.
The only two we have in common is WordPress and Firefox. I also use Safari and Opera to surf the web.
I use Google Analytics for my stats as soon as I find something I like more I’ll switch. I tried the co.mments for about a week it kept freezing on me so I ditched it. That was before their update though who knows it might not do that now.
I use Google Reader as my RSS Feed. Aperture 1.5 is my photo editing software. I take a lot of pictures and post many on my Vegan Momma and my photoblog. :-)
For screenshots I use the built in feature. I’m on a Mac so I hit Shift, Apple symbol, 3 to take a full screen shot and Shift, Apple symbol, 4, to chose the area I want to capture. I’m sure there are more I’m just not thinking about them at the moment, lol.
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Thanks for the tip on delicious!
And yes, I think that’s the type of turtle I saw. I hope it doesn’t bite though cause I was going to save it from being attack by ants (the gigantic red ones) when it came to the surface. Luckily it managed to escape.
Btw, I use 3 ver. of firefox – Windows, Portable Firefox that I keep in my USB thumb drive so I can use firefox with all my settings at any computer, and also Ubuntu’s Firefox. Ubuntu is a different OS. My laptop runs 2 OS albeit separately.
JS, softshell turtles don’t bite, they SNAP! I always tell visitors who come to see our terrapins that as a rule of thumb, anything that has a mouth, bites :)
If I go by your list, I’ll score a 4 out of 10. :-)
To me, the best blogging tool will be super fast internet connection speed and super fast CPU. I do alot of graphics. :-)