Qumana as a blog editor and "STUDENT VERSION"
I’m sitting here at the Mac. I would be at the PC right now but a hacked version of a ‘certain software’ installed on my PC allows my significant other to print out professional looking documents for less than the $2000 price tag of a full version.
It’s kind of lame really. She prints 5 times a year and just wants her fully-licensed student version to not paste a giant “STUDENT VERSION” banner on everything she prints. There must be some other way to entice users to take a class in your software without forcing them to shell out thousands of dollars.
But, I digress.
The problem is that my 30 day trial of Red Sweaters MarsEdit 2 expired. I tried Ecto and it just didn’t work right for me. MarsEdit is a great piece of software but before I spend the $29.00, I want to look around and make sure I know what all my options are.
A quick web search revealed…
Qumana. So far, a decent interface. Price is free. I tend to rate software based on whether or not I can figure out how to use it for the purpose I intended in under 5 minutes. Qumana passed with flying colors in that regard. Initial configuration was easier than any other blogging software I’ve tried. It pales compared to Live Writer when it comes to being able to see what your blog entry will look like when posted. Qumana does offer integration with their “Q Ads” product. I haven’t tried it but according to the documentation, it looks like a truly valuable asset if you are trying to maintain content related advertising on your blog.
And… This was posted using it. So, it works. 