I’ve been using Drivel for the longest time but I’ve realized that there are other tools I could use for blogging. And here’s a short comparison of the three tools I’ve used.
Drivel
I’ve heard about Drivel through friends who have been using LiveJournal and they use Drivel as their blogging client. It’s a really awesome client for LiveJournal because you could really choose which user icon to use, as well as select your privacy filter. Your custom filters are actually reflected in the choices. Aside from that you could choose which blog you’d be posting to. It …read more

Posting to your blog: Funkiness with special characters and no link texts

So I was using Tomboy the other day when I realized how weird it was. All of a sudden it was not posting to my blog and it just quit each time I tried to post a particular note. I tried so hard to figure out what the culprit was. It was “>” (or the greater than symbol) I used that character to draw an arrow of sorts on my blog entry.
Apparently it won’t post a note with that character. I am not sure …read more

I’ve been using Drivel for the longest time as my blogging client. It has always been quick and easy for me to select my the blog I was going to write to. BloGtk was giving me problems the last time I tried but I need to try it out again.
Earlier I tried to write a blog entry using BloGtk but it was difficult for me to select a category. Anyhow, it seems to be working fine now. So yes, how does one use BloGtk?

Set your blog information through the Edit menu where you could add accounts …read more

Recently, I wrote And yes, one could be OS agnostic. Turns out that there’s already a blog of the same name. OS Agnostic. The blogger is Karin Dalziel who is an LIS student and she has her musings on her field of expertise in . Aside from that, she her artworks too.
The great thing about reading Karin’s blog is that she talks about her experiences with OSes, Ubuntu in particular, as well as her passion for spreading more knowledge about the Creative Commons. There are times that she’s been having some OS woes and yet she …read more