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Cerberus (Blogsy 4.1) can now be found in the App Store.

August 17th, 2012 | Posted by Sean in Blogsy | Bugs | Features | Fomola | Improve | iPad | MetaWeblog | SquareSpace | Update | User Requests - (1 Comments)

 

Cerberus (Blogsy 4.1) brings three big new features.

[Features]

1) Offline/Direct adding of photos from the iPad photo library – Yep, we finally figured out how to make it possible to add photos from the iPad Photo library to a post without having to upload the images first. This also means that you will be able to add photos to a post when you are offline. We will have a how-to video up later today showing how this new feature works.

2) Facebook integration – That’s right, now you can drag in photos from your Facebook account to your blog posts. This means you can easily blog about photos on your Facebook account and also photos you have been tagged in. Also, Blogsy now give you the ability to upload photos to your Facebook account with. This way you wont have to have the same photo on Facebook and also in your blog media library. Photos that you upload with Blogsy to your Facebook account will not be added to your timeline. If you want them to be added to your timeline then you can go to your Facebook account in a desktop browser and add them to your timeline.

If you are a current Blogsy user and want to add Facebook go to the Settings menu -> Service Settings -> Manage Dock Items -> Add A New Item -> Then tap on Facebook. This will add it to the dock in Blogsy and you can set up your Facebook account.

3) Featured Image – Yes, Blogsy already had Featured Image support. But that required you to make some changes to the PHP files on your server. Now, if you are running WordPress 3.4 or later then Blogsy will detect that and you won’t have to make those PHP file changes. This also means that WordPress.com users will now be able to set the Featured Image with Blogsy.

[Bugs Fixed]

1) If users tried to post with custom fields that included location data the user manually put in, Blogsy would crash.

2) Metaweblog conflict – If a user had a TypePad, Joomla or SquareSpace blog set up then would try to set up a metaweblog blog Blogsy would crash.

3) In certain circumstances Blogsy would crash when uploading images to a Drupal media library.

4) Metaweblog blogs – incorrect date type problem when trying to post or update.

5) Joomla blogs – some servers required a specific URL to the xmlrpc file.

5) XMLRPC blogs – Blogsy won’t clear a post if an error occurs while posting or updating a post.

6) NAVER blogs – Blogsy would always publish the post as private.

7) Browser button – Infrequently, Blogsy would crash when tappong the browser button in the dock.


 

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Something to blog about later?

March 9th, 2012 | Posted by Lance in Blogsy | How-To - (5 Comments)

Like most of my posts this one is due to a user emailing me and asking how they could do something.

Dan asked if there was some way to send something that he’d found on the internet to Blogsy so he could write about it later. He knew about the Blogsy bookmarklet and had it set up and was using it. If you don’t already know, if you have the bookmarklet set up and you find something you want to blog about then all you have to do is tap on the bookmarklet and it will launch Blogsy and open that page in Blogsy’s built-in browser. If you are not ready to blog about it at that time you could tap the plus button at the bottom of the browser in Blogsy to bookmark it. But Dan wanted to know how he could get something to Blogsy if he found something while surfing the net on his computer or phone.

This got me to thinking and prompted me to look for a solution. What I came up with is Readability. (I assume Instapaper and Read it Later will work the same but I came across Readability first. If you know whether Instapaper, Read it Later or another such service works or not please leave your knowledge in the comments below.) Readability works across all kinds of devices and browsers. And Readability has easy instructions on how to set up bookmarklets on all the different platforms and browsers. Once it is set up and you come across an article you want to blog about later all you have to do is tap on the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your account. Now in Blogsy’s built-in browser you can sign into your Readability account and you will have the list of articles you have saved. (You could set up a bookmark in Blogsy so it is easy to go to your account each time.) There are a couple of things to be aware of. First, if you pinch on the article in Blogsy’s built-in browser it will adjust to the width of the browser. Second, if you do it this way instead of the Blogsy Bookmarklet way then you should not use this URL to create a link as it does not link to the original article.

Hopefully this makes it easier for you to blog. Now that I have figured this out I think I will get some use out of it myself.

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Blogsy 2.3.1 has been released and can now be found in the App Store.

August 25th, 2011 | Posted by Lance in Blogsy | Bugs | Features | Improve | Posterous | User Requests - (4 Comments)

The Cyclops’s horn has been mended. Okay, that may be a little too cryptic. To be more clear – we just released Blogsy 2.3.1 which was put out to address a couple of bugs. And at the same time we threw in a few features. With the release of this we turn our attention to Sasquatch. Sasquatch is all about getting Blogsy to work properly with iOS 5.

What’s in Blogsy 2.3.1 (The Cyclops mended)

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WARNING! Before updating to 1.0.2 save what you are currently working on.

May 1st, 2011 | Posted by Lance in Improve - (6 Comments)
I just wanted to let everyone know that you should save any post you are currently working on before you update!
The easiest way is to just tap on the plus button (+) so what you are currently working on is listed in the ‘local’ drafts section.
It is not necessary but if you want to be super careful you can save all the local drafts as online drafts. This will clear them from Blogsy and after upgrading you will need to go to the ‘published’ listing and open them in Blogsy once again to continue editing them. As a reminder they won’t save locally again unless you make a change to the post/draft.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.
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