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Jun 16

Blogger Buddy 1.0 Gadget

Posted in Development, Gadget Stuff

We have been working on cranking out some new stuff for everyone.  The latest is the Blogger Buddy gadget which allows you to quickly and easily view and post to your blogs on Blogger.com.  It’s still a little basic right now, but it gets the job done and done well.

Features:

  • Easy to use interface
  • Select which blog to post to if you have more than one
  • Multiple sizes
  • HTML help in the form of links and insert buttons
  • Persistent settings have been moved to a more convenient location

Download:

BuildAGadget.com

Widgipedia.com

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27 Responses to “Blogger Buddy 1.0 Gadget”

  1. Ramparter Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:01 am

    You folks keep putting out the coolest stuff. I love this one!

  2. Jeff Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Every time I mouse over it, it throws and error asking me to debug it. Makes most of the functions not work and those that do keep throwing errors.

    I really wanto use it, but it’s a little fresh still.

  3. RD Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    Your download link (not the link display text) for Blogger Buddy from buildagadget has a typo… the link refers to buidagadget, instead of build.

  4. The Staff Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Jeff, That is very interesting. We haven’t seen an error like that on the gadget thus far, does it give any more details like a line number or error type?

    RD, comments are moderated, so don’t worry if it doesn’t take, we’ll see it. Thanks for the heads up, link should be fixed now. :)

  5. The Staff Says:
    June 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Jeff, we added a couple try catch statements to the mix, so if you’re up for it, go ahead and re-download the gadget and let us know if you run into any other difficulties.

    We also fixed the HTML links in the help section, they should work now.

  6. Hambone Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 5:36 am

    I like this gadget but have a suggestion and a bug report.

    Suggestion > After posting, the SUCCESS is good but leaves me twidling my thumbs. You should have links like “View Blog Now” and “Post Again” and “View Blog List” below it.

    Bug > When you use a special character such as an apostrophe in the blog title and then you go to edit it via the Blogger site, it shows the character code. You should fix the interface to interpret these correctly from the start, in html.

  7. The Staff Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Hambone, we’ll look into those.

  8. Jose Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    My Blogger Buddy won’t display my blogs even though I entered in the correct logon info for blogger.com. What gives?

  9. The Staff Says:
    July 20th, 2008 at 2:34 am

    Jose, that’s odd. We’ll have to take a look into that and see if we can replicate the issue.

  10. Age Says:
    July 22nd, 2008 at 8:44 am

    Very slick indeed, I especially like the fast preview. Tag support would be awesome but it’s not a big issue.

    Great work!

  11. Liz Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    i would like support for tags too and a better url tool. gadget is great though.

  12. ProstateCancer Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Hiii …

    my Blogger Buddy is working very well

    Cheers !!

  13. The Blue Buddha Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    I’ve been using Blogger Buddy for at least 10 minutes and I really like it :)

    Quick wishlist:
    - possibility for BB to collapse to its title bar when not used (would save an awful lot of space)
    - tag support

    Thanks

  14. Matt Says:
    August 21st, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    I just downloaded the latest version of blogger buddy. Every time I click on it, I get a message asking me to debug it. It says the following:

    “Error
    A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug?

    Line:9
    Error: Object expected
    ——————————————–

    I have still been able to use it, although I click on it, choose “no” to debug then click on it again and that action works. If I want to post something I just wrote, I have to do it again….click it, say “no” to debug, then click it again. This would be a gadget I would use often, if it gets the kinks out.

  15. The Staff Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Matt, we’re going to look into that bug for the next update. In the meantime, disabling script debugging in Internet Explorer should fix the problem temporarily.

  16. Starians65 Says:
    August 26th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    I’ve been using Blogger Buddy, it’s easy.

    Thanks for cool stuff.

  17. Lewis Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 am

    I love this gadget, but I’m also experiencing the same runtime error as above. I use firefox, how should I disable script debugging? Thanks.

  18. The Staff Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Lewis, go into Internet Explorer. Tools -> Interntet Options -> Advanced -> Browsing -> Make sure Disable Script Debugging is checked for both.

  19. Warga Ngawi Says:
    October 12th, 2008 at 2:06 am

    I’ve been long searching for this stuff, thank you

  20. Debi Says:
    March 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    Maybe I’m just not looking in the right place, but how do you use the view buttons under the blog titles? My blogs show up, I can post, but when I click view, I get page not found and it has a feed address in the address bar. I can find no way to change this or to open the actual blog, even after posting to the blog. If you can’t see your post, it won’t be any good to me – unless I put my blog in my favorites or type in the URL, I can’t even get there becaue google toolbar kills my vista.

  21. serge Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 1:45 am

    Why my big blogger in my blog list is empty?

  22. The Staff Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Serge, try refreshing the list or logging out / in again. Also, some forms of Google accounts have had issues on the gadget, not sure why, but occasionally it causes problems. Character support might be an issue here as well, depends on any special characters in the blog that might have tripped up the script.

  23. Angie Says:
    March 29th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    I have tried to fix the issue with the list not showing up. None of your suggestions have fixed it. Got any other ideas? I use IE for my browser.

  24. Nik Says:
    April 30th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    After being logged in, every time i click on “View” to see my blog, a new window pops up in Firefox saying “Invalid request for blog” Not quite sure what that means. i have disabled script debugging. Can anyone help?

  25. Claudia Says:
    June 16th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    It’s a curious gadget. Would you add a field for categories (tags) under the post body field, please?

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