ORACLENERD: Scribefire

Scribefire

Thursday, March 19, 2009

I was reading Jake's post on JotNot and somehow I came across ScribeFire, a FireFox add-on. I'm thinking man, this is very cool. I looked at the version number, 3.2. Hmmm...maybe I'm not really an early adopter here. Google for it and found this post which describes some of the functionality.

The thing I like best about it is the split window. As I'm linking stuff up I have to do either Alt+Tab to switch windows (work) or Ctrl+Tab to shift tabs (home).

Here's what it looks like:

Yes, I still write my posts in the source view. I like ScribeFire so far and will try it out for a few posts.

Labels: tools

¶ 3/19/2009 04:16:00 PM

Comments:

I have ScribeFire installed (h/t Rich), and I used it for a while. It supports multiple blogs, which is nice.

Problem for me, it didn't stick as an everyday blogging tool. Not sure why, I guess I prefer writing in WP directly.

You should check out posterous, just send it email and voila, blogging made simple. It does embed magic for you too on pics, videos, etc.

# posted by

Jake : March 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM

It's already worn out it's welcome because I couldn't preview the post. It pulls up my page, but not with the content I'm currently writing. A tad annoying. Everything else I do like though and this might just be a configuration issue that I missed.

I'll check out posterous as well. gratzi!

# posted by

oraclenerd : March 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM

I took a look at ScribeFire after reading on your blog about it, however I found that, at the moment, Windows Live Writer is a better option. Here is my review: http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2009/03/scribefire-review-comparison-with.html

# posted by

cdman83 : March 25, 2009 at 4:56 AM

I think it very much depends on what you are blogging.
I live for Scribefire when I do shorter posts, just a link and a few sentences.
I wouldn't, for example, use it if I was writing something like a movie review or longer.
I find the preview works to my needs, but there does appear to be something funky about how it handles blockquotes so I invariably have to go into code-view and adjust things.

# posted by

moleboy : March 25, 2009 at 3:10 PM

@moleboy

Good point about the shorter posts. I don't have to abandon it altogether.

chet

# posted by

oraclenerd : March 25, 2009 at 8:38 PM