Zoundry Raven 1.0, blog editing grows big
After several months of development and bug-hunting, the Zoundry programmers have released the first official version of Raven, a client for off-line management of blog contents endowed of several features that make it an interesting option for publishers and micro-publishers as well. First of all, the software usage is free.
Zoundry Raven is a WYSIWYG editor, that is to say it isn’t necessary to write a single line of XHTML code for the proper formatting of contents to publish. In any case, for who would like it or would have the need there’s always available the w.i.p. post source code to modify to one’s liking.
Raven allows to edit more than a post at the same time thanks to its tab-based framework, to manage several blogs from a single central interface and to search among the published contents through its powerful internal indexing feature. With regard to this feature the editor keeps track not only of posts and pages, but even of links, images and used tags.
Another certainly interesting feature is the choice to install the software in a “portable” mode, then copying it on a USB pendrive and working to one’s blog “on the road”, in public Internet access points or anyway sure about not leaveling tracks of one’s work on shared systems. The Raven portability seems to be a point of honor particularly beloved to Zoundry, that proudly announces the release of “the first natively portable blog editor” in a press release.
Zoundry Raven supports many publishing platforms through the XML-RPC protocol, for remote transferring and publishing of contents after the editing phase completion. Among the known and less known CMS implemented in Raven can be cited WordPress (in its “hosted” version on WordPress.com or custom on a private server), Blogger, Drupal, Nucleus, Movable Type, Typepad, Windows Live Spaces.
Version 1.0.375 of Zoundry Raven is the first to be released outside of the betatesting round, and it taked advantage of the rich feedback from the users which have found deformities and inconsistencies in its code as like as in its functionalities. Notwithstanding the supervened maturity some flashy defects remain in the application, listed in the release notes on the developers’ blog. Raven has still problems, among the other things, with the streamed videos embedding, the diacritic marks and the HTTP proxies.
A due extra note must be spent for the company which developed Raven: Zoundry offers its software freely, meanwhile inviting who is interested to be involved into its shared advertising program via the links to commercial products published on blogs. “Everyone has product knowledge that could be helpful to others - can be read on the service information page - especially your friends and family. We want you to write about books, movies, electronics, and other products that you use and enjoy. In return, we allow readers to reward you by purchasing through your blog so you can earn money to cover your hosting costs and more“.
Anyway the service can be excluded pretty simply from one’s blogging stuff by using the options panel. From a personal point of view, using the editor with satisfaction since almost three months by now I can’t help observing as it has improved from version to version, bringing with the last one a big optimisation to the need for system resources. Currently Sir Arthur’s Den is entirely managed off-line with Zoundry Raven, and I’m quite curious to see if the added features of the new WordPress version that I will install soon (the 2.6.1 one) will be enough to notch the steady easiness of my software configuration.
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