Early version of Pebble deskblog

I've been tidying up Pebble deskblog recently and you can find an early version of it available to download from here. Just unzip it and double-click the pebble-deskblog.jar file. If that doesn't work, open a command prompt and run java -jar pebble-deskblog.jar. By default, blog entries are saved in ${user.home}/blog/ although you can change this by passing a directory name as an argument by using (for example) java -jar pebble-deskblog.jar c:\blog\.

As far as functionality goes, it's (currently) limited to the following.

  • Add new blog entry (via the menu option)
  • Edit existing blog entry (double click on a row in the table)
  • Search for blog entries
  • View recent entries (by clicking on the root node in the tree)
  • View all entries for a selected month (via the tree)
If you have an existing Pebble weblog, deskblog makes a nice offline viewer. Just export your blog as a ZIP file, unextract it and point deskblog to that directory. Take a look and let us know what you think of the application and also whether an offline/desktop blogging tool is useful.

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Posted by Simon Brown on 13 August 2004 12:02:53 BST #


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Re: Early version of Pebble deskblog

Comment from Anonymous on 31 January 2005 23:35:29 GMT #
I am a user of deskblog and find it very useful to keep a work journal. Keep up the good work. I have one problem for which I didn't find a bug report, so this might be a new one: Previous month entries are archived or filed under the wrong month in the tree. For example, entries entered during the month of December 2004 are filed under November 2004. Entries entered in January 2005 are filed under December 2005. Not exactly the previous month but close. Note that I only use deskblog (version 1.6.1)

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