No time to be offline!
Hey Let’s face it, I am more and more wanting to blog. It is however quite hard to do that while traveling or when I have family. So I been curious as to how to do that. As you know I’ve been using Linux more and more. I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The only problem sometimes is I didn’t have a internet connection and I know myself, that can be quite hard to write blog post. So I went searching around to see if I can blog offline. I found some great little programs that will do it easily in Linux.
Blogging Offline, Didn’t know you could do that?
If your like me, you probably think you have to be online all the time. I am just glad that I found a program that will do me everything that I wanted to do with blogging and publishing my posts. I hate those times when I do not have access to an internet connection and I have something that I want to write. I didn’t know you could blog offline either, but as I was wanting to delve more and more into Linux, I am steadily making Kubuntu my home away from Windows. I’ve always been fascinated with writing and Linux in general so that is why I am leaning more and more on teaching others about the Operating System.
Some programs that you should check out:
- Blogilo — This is the one that I am using with WordPress right now and it seems to work really well. I’m really impressed with the software and I think they are making some great strides with offline blogging.
- blogGtk — Looks good but have not actually tested this one out. I will install it later on but the screen shots don’t look anything like Blogilo and even then It looks somewhat the same. I guess I could live with any blogging software but right now I am loving Blogilo.
- Gnome blog editor — This one looks to be for Gnome projects but does look promising even though I am using KDE. I don’t know anything more than that, I might also try that one out just for kicks.
As you can see these are just a Few of blogging tools that the Open source community has created to better fasciliate and make blogging just that much easier!
How do I add links?
There are definately several ways to add links. I will give you a few ideas and let you come up with your own way to help you blog offline.
- Automatic Seo Links plugin — Great little plugin for the simplest of things. The little plugin will allow you to automatically associate any keyword with an URL. So if I were to tell you about Linux, it would automatically link to a website. This is quite handy and have it used it in the past. You should look into it if you have a wordpress blog.
- Blogilo — Download you most recent blog post and you will already have links available to keep your readers on your site longer and encourage them to stay on your site.
- Put the links in when your online — This is also something that is very useful because if your like me, you sometimes can’t think of the links but know that if you had internet access you could easily find them. So before you post with Blogilo, just go through the post and put those link in there when your ready.
I hope these help you create even better blog and allow yourself time to be offline. I really am enjoying Linux and how open the community is. Hope to see you soon!!
