BlogBridge 2.15 (Weekly Development Release) shipped!
We give and we take away.
With this release BlogBridge gets a really cool search capability.
I didn’t realize how much I missed it until now that I have it, I use it all the time. Check out the screenshot to the left, and of course download BlogBridge and play with it (see the instructions below.)
We modeled our search somewhat after Mac OS X Spotlight Search. As you can see in the shot on the left, you type in text in the box and as you type the results are displayed.
There are a bunch of controls for the display and filtering of the search. There is also a simple pattern language allowing more than straight text. As I said, instead of reading about it, go try it: Tools/Search.
So that’ what we gave. What did we take away?
Two things, both of which we hope you will agree are improvements. First of all, the discovery feature has been greatly simplified. No more menu commands, dialog boxes or preferences. There is a single setting on a Guide: “Scan new articles for links to other Feeds.”
When it’s on, BlogBridge will highlight links in an article: greenish if they are to a blog you are already subscribed to and reddish to a blog you haven’t seen before. Hover over the link for more info. Right click and “Subscribe to Feed”; if you want. A really handy way to see what your favorite bloggers are reading. Short and sweet.
Second thing: instead of 5 inscrutable little blinking icons at the bottom right of the screen, we have two icons: one indicating disk activity and one indicating network activity (as well as online/offline status.) Both have really nice tooltips to give further details.
There are of course lots and lots of other little fixes and goodies in this release. For that please refer to the edit history.
For the first time with this weekly development release we are giving you platform specific installers in addition to the standard Java Web Start.
Here is where to get the latest Weekly Development release:
Java Web Start (works on all platforms)
Enjoy and let us know what you like, and, what you dislike!
Permissions on the Mac installer file on your webserver appear to be wonky. I get:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /install/releases/blogbridge-2.15.dmg on this server.
I did grab the .zip ok, though.
Comment by D'Arcy Norman — March 24, 2006 @ 12:10 pm
It is GREAT!
The Spotlight-like search functionality is REALLY an improvement.
Comment by Fred Zelders — March 24, 2006 @ 4:10 pm
Yeah. The Spotlight-inspired search is really nice! Great job. Now to figure out how to have it keep posts on feeds rated 3+ stars for 1 year…
Comment by D'Arcy Norman — March 24, 2006 @ 7:02 pm
Where are the weekly releases downloads?? Only JNLP is available.
Comment by Blogbridgeuser — March 30, 2006 @ 8:39 am
Are you upgrading from another version of BlogBridge? If so which one? Please send me an email and I will point you to the installer.
Comment by Pito Salas — March 30, 2006 @ 9:33 am
Ok. Got installed to new 2.15 by searching google. BTW I was using 2.13 previously. But two features that I miss the most is Hierachiecal Guides for instance I have
Daily Dose
|
|_Feeds+
|_Mozilla
|_Mozilla Releated Feeds here
|_Some Site
|
|_Lots of different feeds from Some Site here.
I can’t do this in Blogbridge even in new version since Guides cannot be nested.
Second is new feed notification. Without these I am dependent on other readers.
Good job anyways.
Comment by Blogbridgeuser — April 6, 2006 @ 3:13 am
I’m running WinMe. Loaded 2.16. I Start program and Blogbridge splash screen appears, goes away, then nothing. I rebooted and reloaded the program, still the same. I was running the previous stable release just fine.
Mike W.
Comment by Mike — April 7, 2006 @ 10:52 am