May 1st, 2010
In March, I purchased the MacHeist Nano Bundle. The application that piqued my interest the most? Mac Journal. I’m using it right to compose this blog entry.
(This is a test to see if I can use this to write posts for Moms Gone Geek and publish them to the WordPress blog. It would be so awesome if I could do this. Let’s see what happens. If it works, I think I’ll be too darn excited to sleep!)
Result:
Oh wow!
I am absolutely giddy right now. I can not believe how incredible this application is. I could just kick myself for not using it sooner. I don’t think I’m going to get much sleep this weekend because I’m going to be playing with this application!
It’s hard to believe Keagan will be six months old tomorrow! I also can not believe it has been over six months since I’ve produced a podcast for Moms Gone Geek. I’m really looking forward to getting back into recording. I’m currently reviewing some hardware and software and soon I’ll be posting the results of these reviews. I also have some product to give away as well.
My goal is to get this show back in motion for Mother’s Day. We’ll see what happens. If I can implement this Mac Journal application into my workflow, I might just be able to blog more often because it seems like a much more efficient blogging method than the built-in wordpress editor I have been struggling with.
I am so excited to start using this software to blog in this space as well as my other blog, TheMacMommy.
There is also a Mac Journal app for the iPhone and I’m planning on checking it out soon. The reviews that came out when it launched were less than stellar, but updates have been released since then.
This is the first blog post I’m composing using Mac Journal and I am really impressed so far. It’s very intuitive. The only thing I can’t seem to figure out is how to work with inserting images. There seems to be a lack of formatting for being able to have text flow around the image. I suppose that comes from my graphic and publishing background. Ideally, I’d love to have blogging software look and feel like page layout software. Mac Journal so far is coming pretty close!
I’m excited to see what happens when I try to import the previous blog entries from the wordpress site. Since we moved our blog back to being hosted and using wordpress, many of the image links are still broken. I can see when people visit the blog, or when spiders do their crawling, that there are a lot of “page not found” results. I’m trying to see where they are coming from, but with the amount of networking I’ve done for this blog, who knows where the source is right now since different sites pull from the RSS feed. There are probably feed readers out there that have yet to be updated.
Growing pains, I suppose.
I try to take it all in stride because I look at it as a learning experience. I’m having a lot of fun experiencing new technologies — which is really what Moms Gone Geek is all about!
Well, I’m going to post this entry and see how it looks on the blog. I posted a quick intro earlier, so I’ll also be looking to see how the RSS feed updates and where. Tomorrow perhaps I’ll try out the voice recording portion of this app and see how that could be integrated into the site.
Until then, thanks for geeking out with me!
