Blogging tools – 2

29 02 2008

I started with ‘blogging tools – 1‘ and now it’s time for part 2.

When you blog and blog frequently at that sometimes you worry about everything getting lost… To remedy that we recommend you to two of the best blog backup services…

Blogbackuponline – BlogBackupOnline offers an easy way to create full blog backup, schedule and store backups online, and restore/export blog from a backup file.

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BlogBackupOnline Features

  • Securely store and backup your blog data online (SSL 128 Secure site…)
  • Schedule automatic backups (daily, weekly, monthly) and backup reports
  • Export: Download and Save backups to your PC
  • Restore Backup: quickly restore or transfer your blog to another location
  • Supported blogging platforms: Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Friendster, LiveJournal, Serendipity, Windows Live Space, Movable Type, Terapad, and Vox
  • Receive up to 50 MB of free backup space (this is more than enough for almost all of you…)
  • Backup blog images (JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP)

[Update: BlogBackupOnline is out of beta and are now offering full range of service. The good news is that they will still have a free account, they call it ‘freemium‘ apart from this they offer professional and enterprise accounts. The freemium offer includes 5MB of space this means for you that subscribers using less than 5 MB of storage space will be upgraded to the newest version automatically. Those users using more than 5MB of storage space will have an extended period of time (6 weeks) to continue to use the service while having the opportunity to decide if they would like to upgrade to a Professional or Enterprise account. After 6 weeks, they will continue to store your backups for one year, however new backups will not run. Techrigy will provide you with a guideline for exporting everything in your account and will continue to provide access to the backed up content.]
Blogbackupr is a web-based backup service for blogs. It takes less then a minute to setup and can automatically backup all blog articles and comments on a daily basis. It also comes with one-click restore functionality. The only problem, it requires your blog login details. And while this may not be a big issue for small personal blogs, for bigger blogs it definitely is an area of concern.

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BlogBackupr – Feature List

  • Automatically backup posted articles, user comments and blog categories.
  • Automatic blog restore option: WordPress.com, Blogger.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs.
  • Works with all blogs that offer RSS-feeds.
  • Backup multiple blogs at the same time.
  • Download (export) backup files as WordPress RSS, standard RSS, Text or HTML.
  • Easily preview backed up articles online.
  • Coming: Ability to backup images and template files.
  • For additional details go to BlogBackupr FAQ page.




Blogging tools – 1

13 02 2008

After the comparison between different blogging domains in one of my previous posts the next logical step would have been to talk about several blogging tools that you can use…

Today we are featuring two of the most basic blogging tools…

JDarkRoomJDarkRoom is a popular, simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand. If you are writing a novel, essay, thesis or just need to be able to concentrate on your writing, then JDarkRoom will definitely help. It comes immensely handy when you are writing a long post, a story, or recounting an experience to the community at large and need to focus on your content. (Download here) Type: Freeware

Windows Live Writer is a desktop blog publishing application. It features What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Authoring, Photo Publishing and Map Publishing. Windows Live Writer is currently compatible with following. (Download here) Type: Freeware