Zoundry (Beta)
December 9, 2006
Blogging App Still Need Work…
I’ve been, for the last few weeks, trying to get a decent blogging app for use on BlogTAK. There are only a few of them to choose from. For this review, I’m using Zoundry 1.0.29 beta. It seems that they’re all still in beta. I’m burned out on betas. Anyways, it seems that the Zoundry app needs a few serious fixes before it’s ready to be brought out on the market…
Zoundry has quite a few nice little features, such as:
- Full WYSIWYG Editing
- Drag and drop images, text, and hyperlinks
- Tagging for Technorati, Flikr, etc
- Spell Checker support
- Full XHTML save and edit
- Image and Pod cast management
- Publishing to a wide range of blog APIs
One of the main features that I really wanted the app to be my best choice for was in-line full justification. (That’s the setting you use to make the text even on both right and left margins to look more like a newsprint article.)
Unfortunately, there are too many quirks in the application when you’re changing the formatting of the text. When I highlighted a block of text and selected to make it larger type, it switched everything to the smallest type, and every attempt to correct it made matters worse. This is happening so much right now that I truly cannot go on using this thing to do this review. Hopefully Zoundry will fix the bugs I just reported, but for now, stay away from this one…
TaK
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synner | December 9, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Well.. that was a crash and burn. Sounds like they’ve got a great idea, but needs some work. Something to remember when looking at these types of programs though, is how different alot of blogs are set up. In the meantime, with operas in-line spellchecking and wordpress’s ability to allow standard html hard-coding, you know where I’ll be.
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Syn
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TaK | December 10, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Right. One of the major benefits for using WordPress over the old b2evolution is that it has a spell-checker. Both Zoundry and MS Live Writer have a spell checker as well.