I have tinkered with every blog posting tool you can think of; from w.bloggar to ecto and not a single one of them has held my attention for any great length of time.
Until I met Sauce Reader. Sauce Reader, by Synop, is a bloggers best friend. It met all of my requirements.
- Free or low cost. (Sauce Reader is free for personal use, and at $24.95 even the pros might cast an eye toward Sauce Reader.
- WYSIWYG. This is one place where I just would not budge. Being an HTML guru is cool and all but I’d much rather spend time shoving my ill-concieved notions down your gullet than fibberting with HTML.
- Spell checker. What the hell is fibberting anyway? You don’t know; neither did Sauce Reader’s spell check function. This little do-dad has a spell checker that would make Tom Wolfe take the straight-and-narrow.
- Support for multiple blog APIs. Who knows when Google will piss off their users again by suffering a week long outage? I need to know that I can post to any of the blogs I frequent.
- Category support. Very important for Wordpress blogs.
And that ain’t all. Not long ago I posted an article on Zempt, saying:
“Zempt might be the best tool for Wordpress blogs.”
boy was I wrong. Zempt is a good client for posting to blogs, but Sauce Reader is so much more. With an integrated rss feed reader and all the nifty text formatting buttons; I might just start posting more.