When I was trying to search some blogging desktop client, I didn’t know that there were so many blogging softwares available and after writing reviews about many free blogging softwares and just one shareware blogging software, I decided to write more and more reviews of blogging clients so that I can help you choose the best blogging software. Well, today I reviewed BlogJet and found it simple but powerful. Let’s look at the some of the features and lets find out where it needs improvement.
PROS of BlogJet :
1. Simple and easy to use interface : BlogJet has a very simple and good looking interface and on top of it, it is quite simple to use as well. Most of the features are available in one click only and thus blogging becomes quite simple.
2. Support for blogging platforms : BlogJet supports most of the blogging softwares and auto discovery of blogging platform ensures that those who are new to blogging, don’t get confused a lot and that they can setup the blog quite easily.
3. Stable software : Absolutely no problems of crashing or anything like that. Also, they seem to update the software quite regularly and thus in case you do experience any problem, you can expect that you’ll not have that problem for long.
4. WYSIWYG & XHTML Editor : It has got WYSIWYG and XHTML editor and thus allows basic and pros to easily make the changes in the posts. This ensures that the software covers all the type of bloggers.
5. Audio recording & easy YouTube integration : The software has the capabilities of recording the voice and saves the audio file in WAV format and the file is not big either (15 sec audio was somewhat near about 80 KB) and lets people integrate the YouTube video quite easily. One has to just insert the URL of the video and that automatically inserts the video.
6. Lets you save posts in specified location : With blogjet you can save all your posts anywhere on the hard drive and thus you always have a peace of mind as you have a back up of all those posts which you’ve written with so much hard work.
7. Small but useful features : BlogJet has very useful features like Tagging and good thing is that one can customize the tagging service (by default, its Technorati), Pinging (again configurable), Auto complete is one of the feature which I liked the most what it does is that if you repeating a certain text or link again and again then you can simply create a shortcut for it and BlogJet will automatically complete it for you, Spell checker and one more good feature was that it shows you stats of your blogging habits. It also lets you to insert the images directly from your Flickr account.
8. Excellent Support : They’ve got an excellent support team. They respond to your request in almost 24 hrs. only where as I’ve experienced myself with other software companies that there turn around time is quite late. Some of them didn’t even respond. So, I think that pre & after sales service also matters and they are good at that.
CONS of BlogJet :
1. No Auto save : This is one feature, which I look in each and every software because this can be your life saver. I think Blogjet will need to improve here and will need to include this feature in their next release.
2. Inbuilt FTP Client : It can be certainly handy if at all, a blogging software can have uploading facility to FTP. No I’m not looking for a full feature FTP software component along with it but at least a simple FTP uploading component will certainly help.
Overall Rating & Views :
BlogJet is certainly feature packed and easy to use blogging desktop client. It has nice list of features and very less negatives. I’m sure that it will be choice of blogging client software for each and everyone. However, I think that a price tag of $ 39.95 is a slightly more than what I expected but that is really not much of a concern considering the fact that what peace of mind it gives you after that.
LINKS : BlogJet Homepage | BlogJet Download (Trial) (3.10 Mb)
