SOFTWARE OF THE DAY - IBLOG & QUICKSILVER

Hi All, Key Combination of the Day Ctrl-Click Holding down Ctrl and clicking (Control-Click) brings up a contextual menu with options pertinent to the item you clicked on. Its the equivalent of right-clicking if you don't have a multibutton mouse. Shareware of the Day: iBlog - Desktop Blogging. iBlog is an elegant desktop blogging solution that makes authoring and publishing personal blogs a breeze. Unlike other blogging solutions you don’t have to be an expert database administrator or a perl programmer to setup and use iBlog. You can preview and publish blogs to your iDisk with a single click of a button. Apart from iDisk, iBlog also supports publishing to FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, AFP and Local servers. iBlog is a multi-document application, which means you can have multiple document windows of Blogs, Categories and Entries open at the same time. Simply copy Entries from one blog to the other using Drag and Drop. iBlog indexes the content (Title, Summary and Body) of the entries automatically when you save them so you can quickly find the entry you are looking for by using the Search Field in the main iBlog window. The buttons at the bottom of the Main  Window provide a quick access to the most common tasks in iBlog. You customize the layout and appearance of the blog by using the settings (Theme and Stylesheet) in the Display section of the Blog window. All the options in the Blog are divided into multiple sections and you view each one by clicking the appropriate toolbar icon of the Blog window. The Theme Builder in the Admin menu provides a Finder like column view to navigate the Themes folder. Select the file you want to view and an editor tab in opened in the lower half of the window. You cannot edit the default Theme (Classic) that is included in iBlog. You have to create a duplicate theme theme first by clicking the plus button. The Admin menu also provides options for other functionality like managing the Authors and importing application data from the 1.x version. 2.x version provides the functionality to import all the important data from the previous version of the application. More info and download link here: <http://www.lifli.com/iBlog/index.html> Freeware of the Day: Quicksilver - A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data. Search At first glance, Quicksilver is a launcher. When opened, it will create a catalog of applications and some frequently used folders and documents. Activate it, and you can search for and open anything in its catalog instantly. The search is adaptive, so Quicksilver will recognize which items you are searching for based on previous experience. It also supports abbreviations, so you can type entire words, or just fragments of each. When not in use, Quicksilver vanishes, waiting for the next time you summon it. Command Quicksilver’s greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses. Hitting <tab> takes you to the action field, where you can use the same adaptive search to select what you would like to do. Among other things, files can be emailed, copied, compressed. Text can be modified, transmitted between programs, or searched for on the web. Some actions even support an indirect object, so you can send an item to a person, move files to another folder, or open files with a specific application. Quicksilver can be given the ability to understand the data inside of files, allowing you to work with data in new, faster ways. Plug-ins add both new items and new actions, allowing you to run scripts, send instant messages, dial phone numbers, look up words in a dictionary, queue up songs in iTunes party shuffle, and much, much more. Frequently used commands can be bound to triggers, giving you the ability to execute them immediately by hitting a hot key or using the mouse on a corner or edge of the screen. Wei Wu Wei - Act Without Doing In the end, Quicksilver has one very important effect: the effort of frequent tasks fades into the background and you are able to act without thinking. After an adaptation period, Quicksilver becomes an extension of yourself; the process fades away leaving only the results. More info and download link here: <http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/> Regards... Gordon