I have recently been trying out Kung Log, a Mac OS X client-side blogging app. It solves huge problem for those of us that upload pictures (as I do to my family blog).
The problem with the web is that you can't upload multiple files at the same time. Well, it's not a problem with the "web", according to the RFC 1867, you should be able to upload files with a multipart/mixed mimetype. But evidently only Opera supports this, and because of that, most web server apps are not designed to handle multiple file upload.
So if I want to upload 8 pictures to my blog, I basically had one way to do it. I had to go to the Moveable Type UI for creating blog entries, and upload them one by one, specifying the size, directory, thumbnail, and link type parameters each time. It was an exhausting process.
Only a client-side app can solve this problem. That app can upload pictures and media through the newMediaObject xml-rpc call. Knowing this, I set out in search of a Mac OS X app that can do this. I found only Kung-Log. Trying it out, I can see it does everything I need it to do. But it's not open-source (it's donationware), and the UI is horrible - very confusing and un-Maclike in places. I'm using it currently, but I'm also experiment to see if I can make an open-source version with a reasonable UI. I don't know much about Cocoa and developing for the Mac, so it's slow going right now. Probably my project won't go anywhere. It's fun for the time being, though. If I can get it to do basic functionality, I'll put it on SourceForge.
Posted by ahyatt at June 28, 2003 09:21 AMLast night I discovered your blog and now I see why you're always so tired and preoccupied! I did love reading about all the adventures you have, esp. the Father's Day one and joining the gym. Very funny and entertaining. I even enjoyed Brian's site! Of course, I didn't understand half of them.
Posted by: Ady on June 28, 2003 02:57 PM