Codality

[noun] - \ko-'da-la-te\ - Code and Effect - solving problems with just enough amount of code - by Adam Najmanowicz

Blog Navigator

Put your Blog Navigator on a stick!

· 5 min read

On how to make Blog Navigator store it’s data on a USB dongle or wherever you want it to be.

Originally posted on Wincustomize.com

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.

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Blog Navigator now with Internet Explorer Favorites and Enhanced Baskets

· 6 min read

Collect, Manage, and utilize the knowledge you’ve acquired with ease and grace.

Originally posted on Wincustomize.com

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 deficiencies of baskets.

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Did you know that...

· 3 min read

A few of Blog Navigator tips

Originally posted on joeuser.com

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.

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Blog Navigator Professional posts again

· 5 min read

Security versus compatibility and functionality. Is removing features a new course for Microsoft?

Originally posted on JoeUser.com

Last week it has been brought to my attention that our Blog Navigator can no longer post web articles. Alas, this was only a symptom of a much worse disease, but first things first…

This month in a noble effort of making the Windows platform more secure for us and our (perhaps future) kids ;) Microsoft rolled out a new set of updates, among which is this one innocently called MS05-013 and located in Microsoft Knowledge Base under a mysterious KB891781.

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Stardock Blog Navigator - Article editor keyboard accelerators

· 3 min read

Article editor shortcut summary

Originally posted on JoeUser.com

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.

Formatting
Description (Command) Key
Toggle bold formatting CtrL+B
Toggle italic formatting CtrL+I
Toggle underlining CtrL+U
Increase paragraph indent CtrL+T
Decrease paragraph indent CtrL+SHIFT+T

Posting and file operations
Description Key
Save the edited article into a locally stored file CtrL+S
Post the edited article to online blog (make it visible for the user butnot to the general public) ALT+S
Publish the edited article to online blog (make it visible for the general public) CtrL+SHIFT+S
Upload a file/image to an associated FTP account for use in the edited article ALT+U
Insert Image CtrL+SHIFT+I
Insert Horizontal line at the end of the edited article CtrL+SHIFT+H
Print edited article CtrL+P

Movement
Description Key
Move one character to the right. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element one pixel to the right. RIGHT ARROW
Move one character to the left. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element one pixel to the left. LEFT ARROW
Move down one line. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element down one pixel. DOWN ARROW
Move up one line. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element up one pixel. UP ARROW
Move right one word CtrL+RIGHT ARROW
Move left one word CtrL+LEFT ARROW
Move to the end of the current line END
Move to the start of the current line HOME
Move down one paragraph CtrL+DOWN ARROW
Move up one paragraph CtrL+UP ARROW
Move down one page PAGE DOWN
Move up one page PAGE UP
Move to the beginning of the document CtrL+HOME
Move to the end of the document CtrL+END
Cycle selection through block-level elements within the control TAB
Reverse-cycle selection through block-level elements within the control SHIFT+TAB

Selection
Description (Command) Key
Extend the selection one character to the right SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
Extend the selection one character to the left SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
Extend the selection right one word CtrL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
Extend the selection left one word CtrL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
Extend the selection up one line SHIFT+UP ARROW
Extend the selection down one line SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
Extend the selection to the end of the current line SHIFT+END
Extend the selection to the start of the current line SHIFT+HOME
Extend the selection down one page SHIFT+PAGE DOWN
Extend the selection up one page SHIFT+PAGE UP
Extend the selection to the end of the document CtrL+SHIFT+END
Extend the selection to the beginning of the document CtrL+SHIFT+HOME
Select all elements in the document CtrL+A

Editing
Description (Command) Key
Delete the selection or, if there is no selection, the character to the left of the insertion point BACKSPACE
Delete all of a word to the left of the insertion pointer, not including the space before CtrL+BACKSPACE
Copy the selection to the Clipboard CtrL+C
Paste the contents of the Clipboard to the current location CtrL+V
Cut the selection to the Clipboard CtrL+X
Delete the selection without placing it on the Clipboard DELETE
Toggle between inserting and overwriting text INSERT
Undo the most recent formatting commands CtrL+Z
Re-do the most recently undone commands CtrL+Y
Find text CtrL+F
Display the Hyperlink dialog box if the insertion point is within an element CtrL+L
Toggle absolute positioning for the selected element CtrL+K

absolute positioning

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The Stardock Blog Navigator - in the eve of an exciting release

· 3 min read

You thought you’ve tried them all already - now it’s time to try the ultimate experience!

Originally posted on JoeUser.com

First of all let me express how excited I am about the release of Blog Navigator. I think we did a good job on it and I am trully amazed at our approach to its release.

Let me explain why.  Mind that Stardock kept a guy :) ) on a payroll for a better part of a year to do this.

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The Stardock Blog Navigator feature tour - Part IV

· 3 min read

Blogging with Blog Navigator Professional - Creating a blog account

Originally posted on JoeUser.com

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.

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