ScribeFire is a handy blog publishing too available for those of us who use Firefox for browsing. This Firefox Add-on supports the following blogging platforms:

  • Wordpress
  • Movable Type
  • Drupal
  • Textpattern
  • Roller
  • Meta Weblog API
  • Blogger

With Scribefire, you can create new blog posts (and even edit existing posts) without ever logging into your blog. This is particularly useful if you need to incorporate images or text from multiple web pages into your post.

For example, let’s say you want to write a post about Coffee chains and you have multiple tabs open (one for Starbucks, Tully’s, MoxieJava, and Seattle’s Best). With Scribefire you can switch between the tabs for each coffee company, copy text and images directly into the Scribefire editor, format, edit, and publish the post - all without ever logging into your blog.

To put it another way, if you’re an “alt-tabber” like I used to be, you probably open your blog in one Firefox window, and open the web pages you’re using for your topic research in other Firefox windows. That way you can quickly switch between the research pages you have open and the blog post you are writing using alt-tab. With Scribefire you don’t have to do that anymore.

You can setup Scribefire so it opens in a new window, new tab, or perhaps most useful - in a split screen mode with the editor located at the bottom of your browser window.

You can drag in photos, copy and paste text, and even insert Youtube video quickly and easily.

Another nice perk you’ll find with using Scribefire is the fact that you can use it to ping some or all of the following sites:

  • Technorati
  • Weblogs
  • Blo.gs
  • Blogrolling
  • Icerocket

This ensures that each of these sites know right away that you’ve posted new content to your blog.

One final interesting feature of Scribefire is the “blog this page” option that allows you to highlight content, right click, and select “blog this page”. Doing so pasts the content directly into your Scribefire window where you can quickly tweek the content and post it. Pretty slick!

If you’re using Scribefire already, leave a comment about some of the features you find most useful. Since I’m a new user, I’m sure there are plenty of features that I’ve yet to discover.

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