Blog Navigator 1.0 Released

Published on October 28, 2004 By Stardock Central In WinCustomize News

LIVONIA, MI (October 29, 2004) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released Blog Navigator 1.0 today. Blog Navigator is a program designed to make it easy for users who enjoy reading blogs (short for “web logs”) to read and organize them. Blog Navigator works by reading RSS feeds and displaying them in a clean, easy to understand way. It includes a host of different news and blog sites for users to read through.

Blog Navigator is arguably the most advanced program of its kind and it’s free. For example, Blog Navigator has the ability to pre-load all the articles on a given blog site to speed up reading. It also has a host of off-line reading features in which a blog site can be exported into a magazine-like format.

Notable features of Blog Navigator include:

• It’s free! (as in really free, no “ads”, no spyware, no nonsense)
• Can pre-load an entire blog site to make reading much faster
• Included Tabbed browser makes it easy to switch between multiple blog sites
• Blog sites can be exported to a magazine-like format for off-line reading
• Built in tools for searching the entire blogsphere
• Different blog sites can be grouped together to create virtual web magazines
• Interesting articles can be dragged and dropped into a basket for safe keeping
• Auto-RSS detection. Websites that have RSS feeds on them can be automatically detected in many cases
• Can import OPML and other common files (makes it easy to share settings between various RSS readers)

Stardock sell’s an upgrade called Blog Navigator Pro for $19.95 that is designed for bloggers. With the Pro version, users can manage their Blog accounts and write/edit articles.

Blog Navigator can be downloaded at http://www.blognavigator.com.

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Blog Navigator 1.0
$19.95
Home Page: http://www.blognavigator.com

Stardock Corp. (www.stardock.com)
17292 Farmington Rd.
Livonia MI 48152
Phn: (734) 762-0687
Fax: (734) 762-0690

Comments

joetheblow

on Oct 28, 2004

Hey, I should know this but, where exactly do you get upgrades to Blog navagator Pro? I bought it aready and I know I get a year of upgrades but where do you get these uploads?

By the way:
Anybody thinking about blogging or those who do now, get this software. Its really good. To me, the biggest and bestest feature is the blog archiving of blogs and webpages you view. If your into creating your own knowledge base for looking for stuff, this is it people!!!

The future WILL be those who can show they can look for data and information and get the job done even if they don't know the topic fully. I'm telling you guys, knowledge workers is the future. Just look at your job description... just keeps getting bigger doesn't it? You better be able to ask the right questions and research the right places. Why not start on your own hard drive?

If you have Google Desktop it gets even better when looking for things.

joetheblow

on Oct 28, 2004

I have a blog on Blog Navigator (free version) on JoeUser if anyone would like to see it. I think I will update it in a few days because I noticed some more free features (I'm going to try to make a mini-user manual)

Blog Navigator and Pluck:
How to use both to your advantage
http://jtb-development.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=25221

Also take a look at SkinStudio's Blog Navigator Feature Tour:
Part I
http://adam.joeuser.com/articles.asp?AID=12603
(One of 4 parts)

Adam Najmanowicz

on Oct 28, 2004

joe, you should be able to enter the serial into SDC. It is listed with the "Misc" components.
Also entering the email you registered under in the form on this page:

https://www.stardock.com/support.asp

should result with a mail being sent to you with a serial and the latest update to BN.

Great about the mini manual! Let me know if you need any help with it.

kongit

on Oct 28, 2004

really nice looking program. not just for blogs, but also for rss news feeds.

WolfwoodX

on Oct 29, 2004

Stardock products are overpriced...

Carlos287

on Oct 29, 2004

Blog Navigator could be so good. Sorry, guys, but I think version 1.0 isn't ready yet. I installed it today. First run, it froze up. Didn't even appear in Task Manager, had to end process. Restart, ok. Then, crash. Tried it again a little later, another crash. Now uninstalled. I'll stay with Feed Demon, thanks.

Adam Najmanowicz

on Oct 30, 2004

WolfwoodX, how can it be overpriced if it's free?
It offers all that Feed Demon does but at no expense. the only feature that costs anything is writing andf managing your own blogs.

Adam Najmanowicz

on Oct 30, 2004

Carlos, what system do you use? what graphic card? Please mail me: adam AT stardock DOT com . I'm really eager to fix the issues with it for you.

Carlos287

on Oct 30, 2004

Thanks, Adam, I'll email you. I'd like to try it out, really, but not a good start experience. I installed on a ThinkPad T30 with Win XP Pro with SP2.

laurentfr

on Nov 04, 2004

I really wanted to like it, but it has weird encoding problems with international characters in both Item display and newspaper display. Other than this, it is very great for a 1.0 version.

Adam Najmanowicz

on Nov 05, 2004

laurentfr, it's not unicode aware yet.

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