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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Quick Look: Mac OS X Internet Browser Based Blog Authoring Clients

by Earl on July 26, 2007

in Apple Mac, Blogging, Software

I recently published a post looking at three significant Mac OS X desktop blog authoring applications and for balance I thought I would give a brief look at a couple of the existing browser based alternatives.Browser based blog authoring tools for the most part will not have the depth of features of a standalone applications….  ScribeFire features WYSIWYG and HTML editing, live previews, link and image insertion tools, multiple blog support, tag/category support, page listings, notes, and previously posted article editing capability.  It also supports Technorati and del.icio.us tags, trackbacks, pinging, and image/file uploads.A unique tool of ScribeFire is the ability to query Technorati for related or linking blog posts for an article so you can see and consider all related data.ScribeFire is a very capable blog editing tools but there are no image management or editing features built in. You must prepare your images prior to upload with this applications.ScribeFire is free and can be downloaded here.

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Apple post record $818 million net profit quarter

by Earl on July 26, 2007

in Apple Mac, Business

Approximately 64% of the Mac Computers sold during this quarter were laptops, which is where the major sales increase occurred, while the sale of desktops remained inline with past quarters.Apple’s brick-and-mortar store sales was also strong with a 33% growth from last year….  International sales accounted for 40 percent of the quarter’s revenue.Apple shipped 1,764,000 Macintosh(R) computers, representing 33 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous company record for quarterly Mac(R) shipments by over 150,000.  The Company also sold 9,815,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 21 percent growth over the year-ago quarter.”We’re thrilled to report the highest June quarter revenue and profit in Apple’s history, along with the highest quarterly Mac sales ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

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