Hmm... I've been thinking about the blog angle and the fact that Apple mentions you can save an HTML page out of Pages and post that to your .Mac Homepage how about Blot being a service like Homepage that allows you to post your Pages generated blog to your .Mac account? It sounds like 'blog' and as others have mentioned it ties in nicely with the Pages ink pot icon!Daveway said:Folowing with the blogging frame of mind. I think this "blot" app will most likely be part of an updated .Mac service for blogging. It would make perfect sense if your .Mac homepage had a blog on it. When you think about it, it's so Apple.
bryanc said:I suspect someone did a global find <something_interesting> and replace with <Blot> here.
However, I would also be very interested in an Apple blogging application (.Mac integrated or otherwise).
That being said, what would any/all of you recommend as a really simple blogging set up? My mom, who is semi-computer-literate, is going on an extended (8 month) business trip to Sri Lanka, and I suggested she start a blog so we can see what she's doing. To my surprise, she agreed and asked me how. Unfortunately, I know basically nothing about blogging. She'll have her PowerBook, iPod (with audio recorder), and digital camera (all purchased in the last month, so she's on a challenging learning curve). In principle, she should be able to upload her day's recordings, pictures, type a little text, and press a button to upload it to her .Mac account where we'll all be able to see it and write in the comments section. If she gives us her .Mac password, we'll also be able to upload pictures of her grandson and other things she might want, right?
Any suggestions for software I should look at for her?
Cheers
... but not as suckydiscoteca said:... a Dreamweaver killer based on webkit/safari and was just as quick/easy to use as Pages is for documents
I think you nailed it.Daveway said:Folowing with the blogging frame of mind. I think this "blot" app will most likely be part of an updated .Mac service for blogging. It would make perfect sense if your .Mac homepage had a blog on it. When you think about it, it's so Apple.
That's what I thought myself, who knows, it could be a blogging app, but knowing Apple it would probably be .Mac only, but people will find a way to make it work on their website or with blogger.com, it could be something totally different than that thoughMr. Anderson said:Maybe its a blogging robot of sorts....something that automates bloging?
Blog + Bot = Blot
and it would probably be a .Mac feature - but if its simple to use, I hope they make it work without .Mac
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azdude said:Perfect! This "Blot" application must be the Apple-internal codename for Pages then... you can't tell me they don't know how bad Pages sucks.
BWhaler said:Without a doubt, the Funniest Post of the Day®
If I remember rightly Pages was codenamed Crossbow, so that would rule that one out at least.SFVCyclone said:maybe blot is the code name of an application that is already out.
azdude said:Perfect! This "Blot" application must be the Apple-internal codename for Pages then... you can't tell me they don't know how bad Pages sucks.
iindigo said:I have Blot. It's inclduded with the Tiger developer tools, and has been included with it since the WWDC Tiger build -
Blot is a very simple WYSIWYG HTML editor using WebKit. It has no controls for adding in elements and such; images are added in by dragging them from the Finder. Visual font control also seems to work. It works quite well for what it does do, though.
dolphin842 said:Hmmm... a Cocoa-based WYSIWYG html editor? Even if it's a demonstration app, it shows that WebCore may now have the potential to facilitate a full-featured app that could compete on Dreamweaver's level. (Tho someone's gotta build it first ).
dolphin842 said:Funny, after my post yesterday I found out about this new app today:
http://www.goodpage.info/
From the screenshots it looks rather attracting; I may tinker with the trial. Not as full featured as Dreamweaver by any stretch of the imagination, but it looks better than some of the other no-frills editors out there.
nms said:hmmm.....but does it use this new feature...?
and apple really do need to make a decent webapp. that's NOT only for .mac.....
bah.
iindigo said:As far as I can tell, no it doesn't. It's not a WYSIWYG editor, but merely a source editor.
I'm considering starting an open-source webkit HTML editor once Tiger's released... I wonder how much help I'll get -