Kung-Log
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Kung-Log is an application for Mac OS X that lets you post to MT sites without having to go through the browser. I’m using it to post this.
Features abound. You can view & edit existing entries, of course, and preview the one you’re writing. It also supplies a pull-down menu of frequently-used HTML tags which you can customise (and to which you can assign key commands – so I can type Cmd-Shift-7 to insert “&” for ampersands, for example). It can handle multiple sites, allowing you create ‘personalities’ associated with each of them, and it has built-in spell-checking for anal-retentive spellers like me. You can also assign multiple categories to entries and the “Allow comments,” “Allow pings,” & “Convert line breaks” switches are available if they’re the kind of thing you find yourself playing with often. Oh, it also supports basic syntax colouring to separate code from copy.
It would be nice to have some indication in the main editing screen of which categories have been applied to an entry, and it would be really nice to be able to upload images (or other files) but I suspect these are already familiar blips on the author’s feature radar. It would also be good (and here I show my true niggling colours) to be able to change the font used in the Preview pane. (A recent post to Lazyweb.org floated an idea, not specific to Kung-Log, of previews to which you could attach your site’s template and CSS in order to preview posts exactly as they will look when posted. Now that’s niggling.)
There seems to be one little bug with the spelling check routine where some (but not all) tagged words are marked incorrect because the closing angle bracket of the opening tag is considered part of the word (“>There” is flagged in this paragraph, for example), but this is by no means serious.
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Posted to Computers • 2003.01.20 (Mon) • 22:40
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Posted by Xian 2003.01.21, 15:02
As near as I can tell the angle bracket spelling bug is becuase kung log is using apple’s built in spell checker. I usually write the whole post first and then add the mark up. which avoids this problem…
Posted by Sam 2003.01.24, 03:29
Damn, seems that the whole Mac/MT blogging community (which seems pretty damn large, all things considered) is raving about Kung-Log. I posted about it, here is your post on it. It feels like I can’t visit a freeking blog without someone raving about Kunglog. I need to give that boy some money, he dun write a good bit ‘a application. My current ‘gripe’ such as it may be, is that I would like a field to input URLs to ping. I’ve been trying to use trackback more, as I think its a great idea, and underutilized at the moment, but the lack of a trackback pings field means I have even less impetus to actually use the feature. Hmm…
btw, on a totally unrelated note, i LOVE your comments area, and, after reading the huge post where you and some people designed it, I pilfered some of the code, and added a link to you along with it. If you mind, tell me, but I gathered from the post that you didn’t mind people using it.
Posted by Practical Pete 2003.01.24, 15:27
Perhaps a previewer function will be doable once Apple is a little further along in developing WebCore (aka Safari’s HTML/CSS rendering engine-as-Cocoa framework)…
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