I don’t normally write reviews, but anything that accelerates my productivity has to get props. As I’m primary a coder, I’ve not done a great deal of blogging so using the web interface for my blog (WordPress’s wp-admin page) was enough to get me by. Now that I’m writing significantly more, the web interface has gotten seriously painful to use. Enter ScribeFire Deepest Sender.
Deepest Sender (http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/) and ScribeFire (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730) are plug-in for Firefox that allows you to create and edit posts on your local machine in a simple editor and post them to your site via XML-RPC. Neither are limited to WordPress and works out-of-the box with most common blogs.
There are several other Blogging clients out there but these have to be the easiest to use. Platform independance was the most important factor for me as I work on Windows, Linux, and primarly OS X systems.
I honestly felt ScribeFire more ready for prime time than Deepest Sender. The version of Deepest Sender I tried 0.9.1 had several nasty bugs with WordPress, specifically it mangled published date of post I edited and it also would add duplicate text to posts edited. ScribeFire also has a richer WYSIWYG editor and more comprehesive configuration options.
Check it out either and you’ll never write directly to on website again!
