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I am not a patient person. Perhaps you’ve picked that up by now? I’m particularly impatient first thing in the morning, which is when I do most of my blogging.

My mornings used to go something like this:

1. Wake up with great entry idea that will revolutionize blogging and make us all millionaires.
2. Hurry to my desk, flip open my laptop and click on the admin page for one of my blogs.
3. Wait.
4. Drill to the “Write” screen. Click “Write Post”.
5. Wait.
6. Notice that I’m now out of coffee. Run upstairs for refill.
7. Return to laptop and find that I have completely lost my brilliant idea.
8. Curse. A lot.
9. Resign self to living modestly.

Then about four months ago my friend Slobokan at The Alligator Pit created Stuffr, a desktop blogging client that works with WordPress and MovableType as well as Tumblr TumbleLogs. No more waiting for admin pages to load. No more drilling. No more losing my great entry ideas.

Unfortunately, I haven’t actually had a great entry idea that will revolutionize blogging and make us all millionaires since starting to use Stuffr, but I rather like knowing that if I finally do get another one I’ll be able to post it immediately.

One thing to note: if your host has locked down the xmlrpc.php file (and many do for security reasons), you may have problems getting Stuffr setup at first. The solution is rather simple: go into your cPanel and rename your xmlrpc.php file. Use the new file name during the Stuffr installation and — voila! — you’re up and blogging from your desktop.

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4 Comments

Comment by Lincoln

2008-01-31 17:18:32

My personal favorite is BlogDesk. And as hard as it might be to believe, Windows Live Writer has also proven t be one of the most feature rich desktop blogging apps I’ve seen yet.

I’ve never tried Stuffr though, so I may give that a try this weekend. :-D. As good as BlogDesk is, it hasn’t been updated since July, so the developer may have abandoned it now.

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Comment by Kate

2008-02-01 19:10:47

I havent’ checked BlogDesk but will plan on doing it as soon as I’m officially OFF bed rest. (Don’t tell my doctor I answered email today, OK?)

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Comment by Lincoln

2008-02-01 21:51:44

I hope you feel better. I recommend martini mixed with a few drops of Airborne.

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Comment by Kate

2008-02-04 13:26:18

Oddly enough, I wasn’t in the least bit interested in martinis this past week. Too busy coughing, hacking, sweating and praying for a swift death.

Now that I’m feeling all better, though, that’s definitely going to change.

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