FEATURES

• Live preview of Markdown output while writing
• Adjust editor and preview size using shortcuts
• Includes offline markdown syntax help
• Use keyboard shortcuts for frequently used formatting. Includes headings 1~6, strong, italic, list, link and more.
• Anchor Preview to Bottom: Keep the Preview pane anchored to the end of your document so it scrolls with you at the bottom of the window.
• You can sync your documents with Dropbox.com, built into MarkdownNote for iOS and using the desktop client on Mac.

What’s New

• New clean interface. Now you can preview your markdown text in portrait mode too.
• Auto sync support for Dropbox.
• H1~H6 support in extended keyboard.
• Automatically hide extended keyboard row when using hardware keyboard.

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What’s New

• New clean interface for iPhone and iPad.
• Create and manage tasks in task view mode. Task view itself is now a fully featured task management tool. You don’t need to switch to note view to edit or insert tasks.
• Automatic syncing. No need to manually sync.

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What’s New

• Live Preview and Markdown support.

• Shortcut for Post as Draft (Ctrl+Alt+Enter).

• Asking to save draft after publishing or posting as draft problem fixed.

More about preview and Markdown

You can now preview your post while writing. Because preview window supports Markdown filter, you can easily write Markdown-formatted text.

Each blog account has a preview template file, so you can edit preview file to apply different styles to different blogs. Preview template is stored along with accounts file (not Program Files/BlogJet/Data because it need admin account to write it on Windows Vista and 7). Click “Edit Template” button in Preview to open folder with template file.

This preview file is also used in Recent Posts preview.

Note about Markdown preview. When you select Markdown filter, Normal view (WYSIWYG Editor) is disabled because switching between Code editor (Markdown text) and Normal editor would have corrupted your Markdown text. You can set default preview filter option at Manage Accounts (F5) window.

Please note that Markdown-formatted text is not converted to HTML by BlogJet when posting, it requires you to turn on Markdown filter in your blog server. It’s easily done in WordPress and Movable Type — please refer to your blog server software documentation.

Download

As usual, you can download the new version of BlogJet from its product page.

What’s New

• Background networking for posts refresh, posts delete, categories refresh, creating and deleting categories.

• Recent Posts now has slide mode with content preview. You can switch back to column mode (multi selection is only available at column mode).

Get It

As usual, you can download the new version from BlogJet product page on our website.

We’ve just released a new small update for BlogJet, version 2.5.3. It includes a fix for a fundamental problem with post status. Let me explain what the problems was and what the fix does.

BlogJet have three statuses for posts. In older versions, you could see it at the right-hand part of the status bar. In the new version it has been moved to the properties pane under the “Status” label.

Statuses:

• New Post. As you can guess, it means a new post. When you click “Publish” if post status was ‘New Post’, BlogJet makes a request request to your blog service to create a new post. Easy.

• Editing. Editing means that the post has been already published (as a draft or not) to blog. So BlogJet request to update existing content with “Editing” status.

• Draft. When you save your post to a draft file or open the existing draft file, the post status is “Draft”. For such posts, does BlogJet makes a request to create new post or update existing post? Try it. Make a sample post. Publish it. Save it as draft file. Exit BlogJet. Launch BlogJet and open a saved draft file (now “Draft” mode). Publish it. Update or new?

The answer is, new post. Because BlogJet doesn’t save published status in the draft file, it’s always recognized as a new post. Draft file feature exists to save drafts when writing (before publishing) or for content backup, so it isn’t right to manage local copies of published posts.

I’m sure there are some people who don’t like this “always new post” thing for draft. But soon BlogJet will have “save draft” or “auto save” to local database feature, so I don’t want to fight with the above problem for now.

There is another status: for WordPress blogs we have “Page” or “Post”. It coexists with above three statuses. New Post or Page, Editing Post or Page, so on.

Nothing special. Simple. New Post, Editing, and Draft. For WordPress, page or post. Simple.

The problem appears after you publish a post to a certain blog (let’s call it “A blog”). If you switch the blog to “blog B”, what the status of this post will be?

In older version, BlogJet didn’t do anything for this “change blog after publishing” action. So the post still had “Editing” status. So when you clicked “Publish”, it would try to update the non-existing post (a post published to “A blog”). The result depends on your blog server. You might get an error, or nothing happens, or somehow a new post is created.

In 2.5.3, this problem is fixed. Status will be changed to “New Post” when you change a blog to B and back to “Editing” when you change it to A. Even with selected categories. So BlogJet now manages published states properly.

I know this is a small fix but hope it will reduce confusion.

What’s New

• Status bar removed. Normal/Code view buttons and Pings buttons are in the toolbar.
• Post status, word count, and Page/Post choice have been moved to the properties pane.
• Heading 1-6 button in the toolbar. If there is selected text, it makes it the heading. If there’s no selection, it asks you for the heading text.
• Fix for a post status problem. It needs a longer explanation, so please check the upcoming post to learn more.

Release Notes

• Added category support for Blogger.
• Fixed occasional error when posting to Blogger.
• Fixed a bug with uploaded image url fetch with SquareSpace.
• Removed Twitter support.
• Removed music detector feature.

You can download the new version from BlogJet page.

Dear Cathodique customer,

As you might already know, Cathodique (YouTube player for Mac) stopped working due to changes on YouTube side. The first time this happened, we quickly updated the program to make it work. Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t provide H.264 videos via their API, so we had to reverse-engineer changes to their website to get videos, emulating browser behavior. This process required a lot of energy and effort, which we could use to write more useful software instead of rushing to reverse-engineer the website every time there’s a change on YouTube.

That’s why we stopped developing Cathodique, and will be focusing on other projects. But there’s good news too: we arranged a deal with Flavio Tordini, creator of Minitube: he was kind enough to offer every paid Cathodique customer a Minitube license for free.

Basically, Minitube is Cathodique with many more features. Not only you won’t be left without standalone YouTube player, you’ll get a better player. [… information on how to receive license …].

You can download the program from Minitube website.

Thank you for being our customer!

Best regards,
Dmitry Chestnykh
Coding Robots

Even if you haven’t tried Cathodique, I encourage you to take a look at Minitube, an awesome YouTube player for Mac, Linux, and soon Windows.

I want to thank Flavio for this opportunity.

What’s New

• Enabled dragging of images and files out of entries.
• Added button for full screen mode.
• Added entry-related items to File menu.
• Bug fixes.