Comments on: Qumana – First Impression Review

By: Introduction to Desktop Blog Editors

Introduction to Desktop Blog Editors — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:47:13 +0000

[...] LifeHacker ran a reader poll last week on what desktop blog editors bloggers are using. The results showed that just over 60% don’t use any. It was a close race after that with Performancing’s Firefox extension winning out with 11.7% and w.bloggar coming in second at 10.2%. Ecto, Qumana (I reviewed an early version of Qumana here) and Zoundry were the others but got only between 8.4% and 3.2%. [...]

By: Tris

Tris — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:46:06 +0000

That’s great. I do have an e-mail in with Google to see what happened.

By: Khong Co Ai

Khong Co Ai — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:20:28 +0000

Tris, Darren,

Thanks for help, my blog has been reviewed, verified, and whitelisted!!! Everything is normal.

Tris: I will post again with Qumana again and see what happens.

By: Tris

Tris — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:34:15 +0000

Khong Co Ai,

Thank you for alerting us to this potential problem. This is the first time we’ve heard of this kind of thing happening and we will be looking into it ASAP.

By: Khong Co Ai

Khong Co Ai — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:44:10 +0000

Darren, I just post my comment a 8:21, and you answered at 8:26…Jeezzz!!!!
With regards to your busy days I was not expected any answer from you…
Many thanks for your quick reaction, and also for your help!!!

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:26:50 +0000

Khong Co Ai – I would email Qumana ASAP and get them to look into this.

I’d also respond to Blogger and assure them that your blog is being updated by you personally and not automatically as a splog.

I do notice that you have some largish quotes on your blog – perhaps this is one of the reasons? I’d ask Blogger for more information but definately let Qumana know.

By: Khong Co Ai

Khong Co Ai — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:21:20 +0000

Sorry for my english!

By: Khong Co Ai

Khong Co Ai — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:20:42 +0000

Hi Darren,

After reading your post about, i decided to give a shot and try this freeware.

During my trial, every time i post to my blogger account, one message said that my post was saved because of the spam firewall of Blogger… So every time i needed to go to Blogger dashnoard in order to publish the draft post.

Today i had a great surprise on my dashboard:

“Blogger’s spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. [...] You won’t be able to publish posts to your blog until one of our humans reviews it and verifies that it is not a spam blog. [...] If we don’t hear from you, though, we will remove your blog from Blog*Spot within 10 days.”

I don t know if Qumana have any part of responsability in this, but i really consider to not use it until I have some feedback from some others users… May Blogger don’t remove my blog.
:(

By: Kashif

Kashif — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:51:33 +0000

Thanks for the update Tris. I will give it a try and do a review in my blog about it.

By: Tris

Tris — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:01:30 +0000

Kashif,

Your comment is valid … which is why in v3 our output is XHTML compliant. Looks great in WP and old platforms.

By: Kashif Aziz

Kashif Aziz — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:17:34 +0000

I have one reservation against these editors, they generate html (that is if I preview the post from my WP editor, it will show the html markup) which is rather fuzzy to edit from the WP editor.

By: Raymond Jenkins

Raymond Jenkins — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:40:44 +0000

Unless you use WP2.0.1 you will get and error when uploading pictures. However when uploading pics in 2.0.1 it is smooth as silk. Unfortunately I have both versions running, because I really like the convenience and feel of Quamana.

By: Jon Heizer

Jon Heizer — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:24:15 +0000

Looks like a useful program. I have been looking for an app to run under Windows, but I keep getting incorrect user/pass when I go to log in.

By: Robb D

Robb D — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:29:33 +0000

I too had a problem uploading pictures. It would be nice if you just had the option to ftp images to whatever location you like kind of like you can with w.bloggar.

By: John Hamman

John Hamman — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:26:26 +0000

A couple of other nice features to have would be a Flickr interface, excerpt and category selecting. Also, even though my blog software works fine with this (communityserver.org – uses metablog api), it would be nice to see it under the list of supported.
Another feature would be to have scheduled post.
John

By: Tris

Tris — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:26:01 +0000

Yeah Darren, that might be it. If you’re still having a problem … ping Ianiv and we’ll give you a hand.

By: Rich Ottum

Rich Ottum — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:46:29 +0000

Darren: I used the earlier version of Qumana and found it too clunky--especially with images. I switched to a trial of BlogJet for awhile. At present, however, I am using Post2Blog with both a TypePad and WordPress.com blog. My Post2Blog experience is far superior to either Qumana or BlogJet. My blogs are The eStrategyOne Buzz and Business Blog Consulting. Rich Ottum eStrategyOne

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:29:18 +0000

Tris – I’m definately using the b2 version but am using WP 1.5.1.3 still so that could be the issue.

By: Tris

Tris — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:22:19 +0000

Darren, Thanks for the review mate. On the XML-RPC error, just double-check two things. One, that you’re using WP 2.01 (that makes a difference with the uploads) and the you’re using the b2 beta (which I think you are). Then try removing problogger and re-adding it. If this doesn’t help … ping me.

Your suggestions are also spot on. I’ve asked Ianiv to put auto-save in as well (I’ve lost my fair share of posts too).

Keep the suggestions coming!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:04 +0000

Darren–

In the windows version, you can go into preferences and have the Powered by tagline not included by default.