(OH NO! I think I reinstalled the wronng version now that I'm looking at the time of this post! Oops!) A change in dasBlog pointed out a small problem with the Blink! off-line blogging tool I wrote two years ago. I originally wrote the app as an experiment in trying to make it fun to use on a TabletPC...

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Neil recieved his first copy a few weeks ago and shows us the flyer for the book here . Posted from BLInk!...

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Since Movable Type supports the blogger and metaweblog apis, has anyone tested BLInk! against an MT blog? I would love to know the results. Posted from BLInk!

I just updated the installer for BLInk! to include the new "get categories" feature. Below is what the page looks like. This post explains how it works. Posted from BLInk!...

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A few people asked for a "get categories" feature for BLInk!. I have this implemented (not yet deployed) but have found something odd. I am testing against dasBlog and dotText. With dasBlog, I can GetCategories from MetaWeblog and Blogger APIs. With dotText, it fails with the Blogger API. Further research...

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Scott Reynolds is playing with BLInk! and came up with a few things none of us had ever done. One I need to fix quickly which is related to not entering your credentials in properly in the settings. The others are just to feed his habits and make it the perfect blogging application. All great ideas for...

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Well, I have uploaded BLInk! to my website. Try it out. It's free. It's NOT just for tablets. It's not perfect but I think it's pretty good and Bliz and Softwaremaker have been using it for a while. www.thedatafarm.com/blink.aspx I have been using it for a while. It works with blogger api and metaweblog...

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Jim Blizzard is an organized guy . I would never have thought of enabling Bulleted Lists or Numbered Lists in BLInk! without him. Posted from BLInk!...

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Bliz has kindly agreed to play around with BLInk for a bit. Hmm - spell checking hadn't thought of it! :-) I appreciated all of his nice comments but just wanted to clarify something. One thing he misunderstood was about the API limitation on categories and titles. That is only for the Blogger API. I...

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I really like posting from my little off-line blogging application so I have installed it on my desktop. Even without using the ink features, it is way better than posting online. That is a big win for me, since I kept working on the program until there was nothing in it that bugged me anymore and now...

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