Bleezer: Free Desktop Blogging Tool

I was looking around the Software for Starving Students website today (which, by the way, is a great collection of useful free apps for anyone, not limited to starving students) when I came across Bleezer, a desktop blogging app.

For those of you who don’t know, a desktop blogging app is an app that allows you to create and edit a blog post on your computer, before uploading it to the internet and publishing it on your blog or webpage. They usually make things like adding images and hyperlinks easier, as well as offering the convenience of being able to write without an internet connection. I’m writing these very words on a Wordpress post-editing page in my web browser, and while Wordpress is lovely and all, I really like being able to write away from the distractions that a web browser offers.

I decided to give Bleezer a try, and here’s what I found: it has some nice features like easy link creation and the ability to drag images right into the post. Unfortunately, my blog is blogger powered and doesn’t even support images unless they’re hosted somewhere else, so that last feature wasn’t too helpful for me.

Bleezer obviously has an OS X version, but it is also available for Windows and Linux, and it shows in the interface. The whole app just felt kind of Windows-ish, and really didn’t fit into my workflow too well. Oh well, you get what you pay for. If you’re dying for a desktop blogging client and looking for something a little more stable and feature-packed, I recommend ecto. If you’re a starving student, or just too cheap to buy ecto, definitely give Bleezer a shot.

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