Blog Navigator is a user-friendly and efficient software that allows users to browse and read blogs effortlessly. Its offline reading feature and ability to personalize blog preferences make it a great tool for blog enthusiasts.
Blog Navigator is widely acclaimed as the most advanced program of its kind amongst free software, with a range of options available to users. For instance, the program’s capability to preload all articles on a particular blog site, and its host of offline reading features, makes reading vastly more efficient. Additionally, the program is free from advertisements, spyware, and other nuisances.
One of the primary features of Blog Navigator is its tabbed browser, which enables easy switching between multiple blog sites. Users can export individual blog sites into a magazine-like format for offline reading. The program makes available built-in tools for searching through the blogsphere, and users can group different blog sites together in order to create virtual web magazines.
Impressively, Blog Navigator allows users to drag and drop interesting articles so they can save them for future reference. The program has auto-RSS detection; sites that come with RSS feeds can be automatically recognized in many cases. In addition, it can import OPML and other common files, making it easy for users to import settings from other RSS readers.
Version 1.2 of the software adds many useful features: blog editing can now be done offline, with postponed article sending. “Print”, “Print preview", and "Page setup" options have been added to the "File" menu. The system now supports live enclosures (podcasting). Menus for selection of style of article or newspaper/group displaying now indicate which style is selected. Users can now flag favorites as important, and an option has been added for creating a favorites folder. Finally, “Save as” has been added to Article editor.
Version 1.2:
Version 1.2 adds/changes/fixes:
- Activation and deactivation of channels and whole groups.
- Added support blog editing in offline mode with postponed article sending.
- Blog Navigator will no longer fetch blog article details in offline mode.
- Added category caching so this time BlogNavigator will no longer ask the server for categories before editing but rather cache them between sessions (for possible offline editing). This also speeds up day-to day blog writing.
- Added "Print", "Print preview" and "Page setup" to "File" menu.
- Significantly improved user experience for offline mode, Blog Navigator will no longer ask user to go online every time user tries to browse an article from the list in offline mode, but will rather check the offline availability of the article and display article description for offline mode + an appropriate warning.
- Added offline mode switch to article editor.
- Added support for enclosures - a.k.a. podcasting. Users can now download any files attached to their RSS feeds.
- The "Forward" and "Back" buttons on the browser toolbars have added dropdowns with browsing history for better browsing experience.
- Favorites are now displayed as another branch.
- Favorites addition and manipulation throughout the favorites branch.
- Favorites folder dragging and dropping to reorganize the favorites tree.
- Menus for selection of style of article or newspaper/group displaying now indicates what style is selected.
- Added ability to mark a Favorite as important (flag it).
- Added support for storing BN in "All users application data folder" a few other system folders or anywhere on the disk.
- Ability to drop a drag from the browser list or the address list on the article list if the selected folder is a basket or a favorites folder.
- Added an option to auto-activate channels.
- Added a fistful of channels and podcasts.
- Added an option to create favorites folders just like any other BN folders.
- File -> Save as added to Article editor.