As promised before…

BlogJet 1.2 build 30 BETA Release Notes

FEATURES

• Image resizing and thumbnail generation.
• Support for GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and 10 other image formats.
• Extended entries.
• Date/time, excerpts and keywords for posts.
• Pings.
• File attachments.
• Text statistics (words, characters, paragraph count).
• Typographic characters (with auto-replace).
• Auto-replacement of text smilies with images.
• “Edit last post” feature.
• XML-based draft files.
• New Code editor: improved code completion, highlighting, …
• Full XHTML standard compliance.
• BlogJetThis! for Mozilla Firefox.
• Better account switching.
• Drag-and-drop in Normal editor.
• New application icon.
• DearDiary support.

BUG FIXES

• Clicking Cancel when closing BlogJet in Save As window closed application.
• Fixed Access Violation when using Code editor (again).
• Fixed "Interface not supported" when trying to spell check pictures.
• Fixed issues with dates and not publishing entries to WordPress.
• Fixed strange characters instead of apostrophes and dashes in Blogger.
• Images now correctly uploads from Code editor.
• A lot of other bug fixes.

Download here: http://blogjet.com/download/

Anyone asked for the statistics feature? Try Tools > Statistics in BlogJet 1.2 beta.

I’m glad to announce the availability of BlogJet 1.2 beta. You can download it from our Download page (click the second link).

This version includes long-awaited image resizing, file attachments, extended entries, excerpts and keywords, a brand new code editor with syntax highlighting and better code completion, easier account switching, XML-based drafts, typographic characters and autoreplacement of smilies, full XHTML support. Detailed release notes will be posted shortly.

Please report bug, if any, in our forum.

Update: forgot to mention that BlogJet 1.2 is the free update for our customers.

Update 2: for those who changed templates in Data folder – before installing this version, backup your templates, since the installation replaces them.

I really love such words from users:

“I've been slacking in the blog department lately, but not because I don't have anything to say, complain about, or brag about.  There's plenty of that - I just haven't had one critical piece of software, BlogJet.

Do you miss those SAT-style analogies?  Here's one for you... BlogJet : Blogging :: Word Processing : Letters.  Blogging without BlogJet? Just not worth it. Ok, enough of that and onto the meaty stuff...”

Thanks, Paul!

The plugin I posted yesterday is also compatible with NewsGator and other aggregators that support IBlogExtension interface.

Details here.

Finally, I did it – a plugin to integrate RSS Bandit and BlogJet. If you’re using RSS Bandit to read feeds and BlogJet to post to your blog, this plugin is a must-have. It adds a new item to Bandit’s right-click menu – “BlogJet This!”. Click it and it will lanch BlogJet with the content of selected item.

Installation instructions and download.