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izmeinaIzzie was slinking in a newsagent in search of the latest edition of a new calligraphy magazine. Like usual - the first few editions are loss leaders with all sorts of freebies - just to get folks hooked. A magazine plus a pen holder, nib and bottle of ink for a mere $$2.95 when you can't even get a bottle of ink for that price. Got two of those which is just as well as we managed to snap the nib the other day when it got entangled in the Rat Bag.
The latest editions have gone up to $$4.95 but are still good value. But while unable to find this particular magazine, did bump across a mad Mac mag. Izzie always goes for the freebies. It was a rather decadent $$17.95 in price (imported from the UK) but the DVD had lots of tasty temptations - NeoOffice and OpenOffice which we've already got but also GIMP. The Queen of Cats is a great fan of this program and the Izzie has always found her opinion on geekish matters to be most valuable indeed.
Not sure if we ever tried to download the thing but on dinosaur dial up - not a most attractive prospect.
Amongst the other tasty morsels is a little critter called MacJournal which you can apparently use to organize all your squiggles offline but post to Livejournal or Blogger or a zillion other online journals.
The magazine does say that it has the strictest quality control but cannot guarantee that the enclosed DVD is kosher so recommends running antivirus software and doing a back up before installing - just in case. So - a couple of days before our grand departure, decides that experimenting with this new toy for the Precioussss can wait but was wondering what use all the various LJ thingies such as Deepest Sender or Semagic are. Like - what advantages do they have over just going to the LJ page and squiggling straight into your journal?
So which ones do the Izzie friendses use and how do you all find them? Or more to the point - what makes them better than doing stuff at the LJ website?
The latest editions have gone up to $$4.95 but are still good value. But while unable to find this particular magazine, did bump across a mad Mac mag. Izzie always goes for the freebies. It was a rather decadent $$17.95 in price (imported from the UK) but the DVD had lots of tasty temptations - NeoOffice and OpenOffice which we've already got but also GIMP. The Queen of Cats is a great fan of this program and the Izzie has always found her opinion on geekish matters to be most valuable indeed.
Not sure if we ever tried to download the thing but on dinosaur dial up - not a most attractive prospect.
Amongst the other tasty morsels is a little critter called MacJournal which you can apparently use to organize all your squiggles offline but post to Livejournal or Blogger or a zillion other online journals.
The magazine does say that it has the strictest quality control but cannot guarantee that the enclosed DVD is kosher so recommends running antivirus software and doing a back up before installing - just in case. So - a couple of days before our grand departure, decides that experimenting with this new toy for the Precioussss can wait but was wondering what use all the various LJ thingies such as Deepest Sender or Semagic are. Like - what advantages do they have over just going to the LJ page and squiggling straight into your journal?
So which ones do the Izzie friendses use and how do you all find them? Or more to the point - what makes them better than doing stuff at the LJ website?
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LJ clients
Date: 2006-09-17 04:11 pm (UTC)- It's faster than to navigate to the LJ update page, including the time of looking for the LJ bookmark ;) (the local client can be loaded by simply typing its name on the command prompt, which is much faster than all this mousing and clicking). I know it's not really a significant difference. Preview also works faster, because it doesn't require a request to server.
- The LogJam entry form is limited only by the size of the screen (currenty I have about 45 lines), it's annoying that the web interface entry form is just 20 lines, the width is smaller too, and as far as I understand is not enlargeable.
- LogJam never crashes. Web browsers crash a lot.
- LogJam allows to post the same post to all the LJ clones (well, not directly, but via a simple workaround), though now it's not of any importance to me (it was, when I was playing with TheGreatestJournal).
- It's slightly more convenient to edit the last post(s) when you have this "oops" moment - you don't have to spend an extra few seconds to go to your journal and click "edit", the "load last post" option works faster.
- The screen is more aesthetically pleasing because the layout is simpler, and the color scheme is the same as my chosen color scheme of my desktop environment.
- There are menus to insert LJ-specific tags, if you forget some.
- There are more options I usually don't care for, such as :
- auto-inserting the music currently playing
- LJ console
- auto-monitoring your friends pages for updates