I've seen some requests recently to make Blog Navigator run from a flash dongle or any mobile drives in our newsgroups lately. I was not quite comfortable with the inability to change the storage path by the user myself for a while, not to say that the data is stored in a wrong place, on the contrary, this default behavior does not change. But to make it confined to a Local Application Data folder was a bit too harsh. for my taste.

So, for Blog Navigator 1.2, I went ahead and made it totally ...

What we really intend to make for you with Blog Navigator is to create a robust and efficient way to manage all your on-line knowledge. You know how hard it is to actually find something useful on the Internet at times, right? That's where our "Web Search Folders" come to help. You could already organize your knowledge into baskets, but we've decided that it's not enough. While baskets were a great way of organizing your findings and keeping them for later reference, there were a couple of defic...

I really find the "Did you know that..." dialogs showing when an application is running quite hilarious.

They provide no solution or enrichment whatsoever, because some random tip at the program startup is highly unlikely to help me with the task I am about to perform with the software. It also is completely stripped off wider context and random as it is, serves exclusively as an annoyance and the first thing user has to turn off in the application.

That said, user still may find some tip...

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If you have used any mail program supporting HTML there is really not all that much new I can show you here. Writing blogs with Blog Navigator is a breeze. Simply select New Blog Article from the File menu from the main menu or:

from the main toolbar and Blog Navigator will create a new editing windows for you where you can edit your article in a WYSIWYG manner. Let's take a screenshot of this article being written... Ok, the screens...

Stardock Blog Navigator Professional offers a host of keyboard accelerators while you edit your articles.
Here you have a short summary of the most important keystrokes used by the article editor.


FormattingDescription (Command)KeyToggle bold formatting CTRL+BToggle italic formatting CTRL+IToggle underlining CTRL+UIncrease paragraph indent CTRL+TDecrease paragraph indent CTRL+SHIFT+T

Posting and file operationsDescriptionKeySave the edited article into a locally stored fileCTRL+SPost t...

The third part of the article already available here...

Reading blogs is one thing, and alot of programs allows you to do that with better or worse results. What makes Blog Navigator unique is among other features (like search article monitors, baskets and search blogs) its ability to both read and write blogs.

Let's setup Blog Navigator Professional to use an account on JoeUser.

There's not much to show really... I'm not sure it could actually be easier. Let me add my JoeUser accoun...

First of all - the regular version may be just enough for most of the users.

IT'S FREE (as in Free Beer)It will not expire on you, it will not nag you to buy the Proffessionl version,it is spyware free (no mallicious aps or dll's)it won't show any addsand again... IT'S REALLY FREE.So as you see, we do not force you to buy the enhanced version, but you may want to do it if you need any of the following features:

1) BloggingBlogging is thre most obvious difference - the Professional version ...

Preparing to brand Stardock Blog Navigator.Contact sales@stardock.com to obtain your redistributable kit that you will be able to brand. //ToCustomize//Get your affiliate ID which you will be able to put in the purchase link for BlogNavigator Pro and profit from the users buying the Pro version from your branded build //ToCustomize//. Unzip the kit to a folder of your choice.

Branding Blog Navigator splash image.Replace the "splash.bmp" image with the branded one. The image must a bitmap of t...

The Stardock Blog Navigator is a new tool Stardock is about to release. It's already available as a beta download.

The WindowBlinds Visual Style used in the article is Opulence - b0se submitted to GuiOlympics 2004.

Despite multiple RSS readers being already available out there The Stardock Blog Navigator allows for a number of features that are unavailable in the readers I have seen so far or scattered around some of them.

Do not let the program's nomenclature fool you, The Stardock Bl...

The Stardock Blog Navigator is a new tool Stardock is about to release. It's already available as a beta download.
The WindowBlinds Visual Style used in the article is b0se's OpusSmooth - soon to be submitted to GuiOlympics 2004.

You will find the first part of the article here

Today you'll learn that there is more to Blog Navigator than blogs and channels. And even that some things you can do elsewhere, with BlogNavigator you can do them better and faster.
7) Preloading articles - brows...

Blog Navigator is a new tool Stardock is about to release. It's already available as a beta download.
The WindowBlinds Visual Style used in the article is b0se's OpusSmooth - soon to be submitted to GuiOlympics 2004.

Despite multiple RSS readers being already available out there Blog Navigatorallows for a number of features that are unavailable in the readers I have seenso far or scattered around some of them.

Do not let the program's nomenclature fool you, Blog Navigator is a fully equip...