Friday, February 6, 2009

Blogging add-ons for firefox

Recently I came across these 2 cool add-on's for firefox which helps one blog easily and gives more control over editing a blog.
I am using the one of these add-on's currently to write this blog.

1. ScribeFire

ScribeFire is a add-on which lets you compose/edit your blogs in a separate editor within firefox. Installation and configuration is quiet easy.
Install ScribFire from http://www.scribefire.com/ and restart the firefox.

a. Open Scribe window from firefox from Tools->ScribeFire or press F8.

b. Below is the snapshot of the main Scribe Editor window.



c. To setup you blog account, click on "Add" button under Blogs tag. Enter your blogs URL and click Next.






e. In the next window enter your blooger account username and passowrd and you are ready to go.






Its a full fledged editor. its easy to format text, insert picture, add video into the blog etc.

2. Zemanta - Improve the way you blog & write e-mails

Zemanta is another add-on for Firefox, which helps you add links, photos and hot topics easily into your blog as well as mail !. Zemanta watches for keywords in your text body and presents photos from sites like flickr, info from Wikipedia, headlines from around the world ! It support many blog applications like blogger, wordpress etc and Gmail and Yahoo! Mail are currently supported.

Install zemanta from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/7571/39747




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