Dear BlogJet users, Happy New Year! I wish you luck, and hope you’ll be with us in 2005 year. Thank you!

In response to the disaster in Asia, all revenues earned this week from our products will be donated to the Red Cross.

You can also donate yourself.

We’re almost ready to release the new version of BlogJet. I decided to change the upcoming version number from 1.2 to 1.5 since it has a lot of improvements over 1.1 (and to match FeedDemon’s version  ).

I also decided to raise the price, so if you’re evaluating the trial version, don’t wait until it expired, buy now for a low price.

Update: BlogJet 1.5 is the free update for registered users.

The sexiest users of BlogJet – http://girl2.com/ 

Meet the new build of BlogJet – it’s now release candidate. This build brings new level of security for blog clients – it can use secure (SSL) protocol to communicate with servers (if you don’t use it, your password can be sniffed, since it’s being transmitted as plain text).

Most popular services support SSL (e.g. TypePad), so if you have an account in BlogJet, edit it and tick “Use SSL” checkbox.

This feature will also enable MSN Spaces support as soon as they implement an API via SSL.

BlogJet 1.2 build 33 Release Candidate (Release Notes)

FEATURES

• SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support.
• Added BlogHarbor and PUSHlogs to providers list.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed: BlogJet doesn’t use FTP proxy at all.
• Fixed inserting apostrophes when pressing NumPad keys.
• Minor fixes.

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

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The new beta of BlogJet 1.2 build 31 has been uploaded. This build is primarily the bug-fix release.

BlogJet 1.2 build 31 BETA Release Notes

FEATURES

• Added caption to Generate Excerpt button.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed keyboard shortcuts bug.
• Fixed: BlogJet uploads only first picture of post.
• Fixed: pictures inserted from the Web (http://) have zero sizes.
• Fixed: errors with converting local file names of pictures.
• Fixed: BlogJet fails to delete and edit LiveJournal posts.
• Fixed: Generate Excerpt button is enabled for services, which don’t support excerpts.
• Fixed: spell checker doesn’t treat typographic apostrophe (’) as apostrophe.
• Minor fixes.

Download BlogJet 1.2.0.31 beta from Download section (second link).

Microsoft announced the launch of their own free hosted blogging service – MSN Spaces. They do not offer API at this moment, so you can’t use BlogJet to post to Spaces.