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Using offline blog writer is always my favorite way to write my blog post because of the Internet connection in Malaysia and the functionalities offline blog editor gave me such as saving the draft, speed and plugins.. In Microsoft Windows, IMHO there are no better blog post editor than provide greater features as Windows Live Writer that support almost every Blogging API on the Earth yet extensible through various plugins. Check out Windows Live Writer Official Page here and try it out.

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But half of the time when I am in front of my PC, I am not in Microsoft Windows. I dualboot my workstation with Ubuntu Karmic Koala while my on-the-go notebook is OSX. Eventually I am having a hard time finding a good replacement for Windows Live Writer on both Ubuntu and OSX. As I am testing few offline blog editor, only BloGTK that caught my eyes. It does not packed with features but I think it can replace Windows Live Writer as the Open Source counter part for writing simple post. BloGTK works with Blogger, Movable Type and MetaWeblog API blogging system where these 3 are the most famous blogging system adopted by the blogs. Anyway WordPress is using XMLRPC by Movable Type, don’t worry..

To install BloGTK on Ubuntu, open your terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install blogtk

To configure BloGTK for WordPress:

Go to Edit >> Accounts and Settings, then

1. Server URL: put your domain name with xmlrpc.php e.g. http://blog.shernshiou.com/xmlrpc.php
2. Username and Password: put your login information for your blog
3. Blogging System: select Movable Type

Press save and connect after that. Then, you are good to go.

For other blogging system and more information on BloGTK, please go to the BloGTK official website.