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Zempt :: Multi-platform posting for Movable Type :: Zempt: I'm writing this from Zempt, so if you see it on the blog, then it worked. Zempt is a desktop client for Movable Type. It's not WYSIWYG, but it still seems very competent. HTML edit buttons, spellcheck, tabbed preview, etc. The ...

Testing Blog Clients: A nice little wrap-up of blog posting clients. Bummer about Zempt though: Unfortunately, while the Zempt website is still around, I haven't been able to get any of the download links to work for over a week, and there haven't been any updates or news for months. ...

Registering an Application to a URL Protocol: Here's a handy note on how to register a new URL protocol to an application in Windows. Adam did it with Zempt a URL starting with "zempt://" will start that app and pass it a bunch of information. I always wondered how ...

From the "Let's Jump To Conclusions" Department with my acquisition of Zempt, and my continued use of NewsGator, I can produce and consume content without ever using a browser. I get information in Outlook via NewsGator, and I can turn it around (or create it from scratch) in Zempt. ...

Subscriptions with feed://: There's a movement afoot to add a "standard" protocol of "feed://" for subscribing to RSS feeds. This item includes a link to the Microsoft MSDN article that explains how to link an application to a URL protocol, which neatly explains how Zempt and Skype did it.

Blogathon 2003: I say pre-write them, queue them up, then schedule a script. "Now, remember when you were in school and you would bowl for charity? And for every pin you knocked down you got, say, ten cents? Or run for a dollar a mile? During the Blogathon, people update ...

Gates' Corbis sues Amazon over copyrights: Two of the richest men in the world are suing each other. Add this to our list of soap operas: "The suit contends the defendants, through Amazon's Web site, have been selling celebrity posters and photos that are illegal reproductions of photos copyrighted by ...

I'm writing this entry from my new Red Hat Fedora Core 1 machine. It's very nice. Install was as simple as Windows (simpler, probably), and it's very functional right out of the box. It had network connectivity right away, and I can browse all my Windows shares without a problem. ...

Content Tools Expanded: Interwoven is doing something with TeamSite 6.0 that has been on my mind for a while now. "...allows content management features, such as workflow and versioning, to be accessed from within Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Corp. .Net-based applications as WSDL (Web Services Description Language) ...

Movable Type is great software, but there's one aspect of it that makes a site get more and more inefficient as more and more entries get added: index pages. Whenever an entry is modified added, edited, or commented MT rebuilds every index page on the site. The longer ...