ScribeFire for Firefox
In the quest for blogging tools, yet another free tool has made an entry here.
To quote from their web site:
ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
The good:
- It works on any platform that runs Firefox. Which means if you’re reading this on a platform, it works on that platform. (Blogging from the PDP-11/83 terminals still won’t work. DARN! Oh wait, there’s no IP stack on it either.)
- Installation is a snap. Configuration is just as easy.
- It really makes blogging from web sources easy. Too easy maybe….
- It has all sorts of other features that allow you to digg, facebook, propeller, etc… a particular page.
- All the documentation is on-line and readily accessible.
The bad:
- Figuring your way around the interface is a bit confusing and I inadvertently triple posted an entry while editing in the first 5 minutes.
- It needs a lot of screen space. TONS!!! I’m used to seeing most of a web page while browsing and most of an editor page while blogging. Sharing a screen between these two real-estate intensive applications is uncomfortable at best.
- I keep looking for options I think should be there and they are, but not where you would expect them.
- Some of the options are confusing
- I could only figure out how to add Flickr images. There is a link to instructions on how to “Upload an image and insert it into a post” from th ScribeFire web site, but that link gave the dreaded 404 error.
Summary:
It’s installed. I didn’t pay for it. I probably won’t delete it. I probably won’t use it for general blogging or managing blogs but when I see that cool article or item on the web that I need to comment on *RIGHT NOW*, it’s there, waiting for me.