Congratulations to the winners of Indibloggies 2004. Three of them received their copies of BlogJet as prizes yesterday.

Al Nye has a review of BlogJet in his blog. Thanks!

Google implemented the way to prevent comments from spamming. Yahoo! and MSN followed.

BlogJet today received “100% clean” award from Softpedia:

This software product was tested in the Softpedia labs on: 09 January 2005

Softpedia guarantees that BlogJet 1.5 is 100% CLEAN, which means is does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

Please, if you made, make or going to make software which works with dates in ISO 8601 format, remember this:

1. YYYYMMDDThh:mm:ssTZD
2. If it has Z in the end: 20050109T01:44:10Z then the time is UTC.
3. If it has a timezone in the end: 20050109T04:44:10+03:00 then the time is local time.
4. The time on your server is not necessary the UTC time.
5. Test it with different time zones!

Thanks for your attention. Have a nice rewriting.

Sorry everybody, I forgot to update release notes – they were for the previous version. Now they’re updated.

Terry Whalin has a great article “Chase Better Not New”:

…I want to work smarter and more effective. Some times, that means using a proven tool to become better. For example, I’m using BlogJet to write this post to my blog. It’s a proven tool which has been around and gives me flexibility to not write my post online…

Read it here.

Great news – BlogJet 1.5 is available now. It’s a huge improvement over previous versions – it has slightly better user interface, more features, support for more blog services and CMS and it’s more stable.

BlogJet 1.5 is the free update for registered users.

Download it now!

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Full release notes are here. The following is what’s new in BlogJet 1.5 since the latest release candidate:

BlogJet 1.5 build 37 Release Notes
(Changes from 1.2.0.33)

FEATURES

• Support for Drupal, Manila, ModBlog and b2evolution.
• Better support for HTML entities (pound, euro signs, etc.)
• Improved Categories selection and Properties tab appearance and usability.
• Saving of toolbar sizes and lock state.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed: extra <br /> tags when posting to Blogger.
• Fixed removing line breaks for some services.
• Fixed: BlogJet doesn’t receive allow comments and allow pings values properly.
• Fixed: BlogJet doesn’t receive categories for b2 (now b2evolution).
• Fixed showing “T” instead of message in “Draft for Other Blog” window.
• Fixed asking for file name when saving opened draft.
• Fixed incorrect support for full URLs in metaWeblog.newMediaObject.
• Minor bug fixes.

Six Apart, makers of Movable Type and TypePad, bought LiveJournal. Great news, guys. I hope that they will enhance LiveJournal’s support for blogging APIs.

Winners of the Weblog Awards 2005 in the following categories:

• Best photography of a weblog
• Best computers or technology weblog
• Best writing of a weblog

will receive a copy of BlogJet. Go nominate!

As I mentioned in the previous post, we’re contributing to the Weblog Awards for the second year.

BlogJet sponsors IndiBlog Awards: winners of IndiBlog of the year, IndiBlog with the best tagline and Best IndiPhotoBlog will receive a copy of BlogJet.

With this Awards, I continue my support for different competitions among bloggers – the first one was Weblog Awards 2004 last year.