Making the migration... slowly - help?

[thefannishwaldo]

The bane of the Mac user's LJ life is the number of reasonably decent posting clients that are out there that eventually develop bugs, but are no longer developed. I've been through XJournal, iJournal, Phoenix and DeepestSender. Blurgh

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[kannnichtfranz]

I've been using MacJournal for years for blogging. It has some quirks, but it gets better and better, and the developer is very responsive. I've asked for several livejournal features and he's done most of them. The only ones he hasn't done require changes to the GUI, and he says that he'll do them in the next major version -- specifically, what I've asked for is the ability to choose icons, which you can't do yet with MacJournal. If you're going to try it, use his latest development version, since it has several LJ improvements I'd asked for. It's available here:
http://homepage.mac.com/dschimpf/dev.html

You get a free trial period, but MacJournal isn't free -- it costs $35, I think. If it would be helpful to anyone, I can write up more information about my experiences with it.

Basically, you can have many "journals" in MacJournal, and you can link each of them to a single blog. So I think at this point, you'd have to copy your entry to your second journal and click upload again. I think that if we made the request (especially if more than one of us did), he would definitely consider the feature of posting to multiple blogs at once. Since it would require GUI changes, it would likely take a bit of time, though.

I second the rec for antennapedia's tool, which is awesome! If nothing else, you can upload to one journal and then run her program each time. It's an extra step, but it's quite simple to do.