ScribeFire is a must-have browser plugin for all travel bloggers out there.
It’s the solution for bloggers who are often without Internet access (like me!) and have to blog offline. You can write up your posts through ScribeFire’s blog editor, save them, then publish them whenever you get Internet access.
I use the Blogger CMS, so I can verify that ScribeFire works with the Blogger platform. It also works for other free platforms like LiveJournal, Drupal, MySpace, WordPress and others. All you have to do is have a compatible browser like Firefox, download the plugin, then run it.
Once installed on your browser, a little notepad icon sits in your browser status bar, waiting for you to click and start writing.
When you click on the notepad icon, the ScribeFire window comes up, occupying the lower half of your browser window. You can set the size of the window by dragging it up and down.
You can add your blogger platform account on the right toolbar, so that you can later on publish your entries easily from the ScribeFire window, without ever visiting your platform’s blog editor. If your platform uses categories, you can also set or add your post’s categories via the ScribeFire window.
The timestamp can be set as well, especially for bloggers who like to write posts for later publishing. ScribeFire can also ping to Technorati, Weblogs, Blo.gs, Blogrolling, Icerocket and other ping services.
It’s been very useful to me, as I don’t like to spend a lot of time writing posts when I’m paying by the hour. So I just write them when I’m offline, then publish when I finally get online. There are probably other blog editors that do the same job, but I don’t think any of them measure up to ScribeFire, especially when it comes to including photos on your blog post.
A little known fact among blog publishers is that they can use ScribeFire’s advertising platform that’s similar to Google’s Adsense. However I haven’t gotten around to making a ScribeFire Quick Ads review yet, so anyone who’s tried it, please feel free to comment.
Download ScribeFire here. (Works only with Firefox, Flock and SeaMonkey. Sorry IE users!)
P.S. If you’re using ScribeFire with the Blogger platform on a custom domain, you may run into some image problems. Solution here.
