Gordon's Tech

Google Blogger has been largely forgotten, but   over the past 1-2 years it's been receiving regular updates . Mostly these have been im...

So I learned something today about Google's ancient blogger platform. You can republish old content with new dates without breaking the ...

If you are using Blogger Draft you will find that it works fairly well in Safari.app and Chrome.app for iOS. The new interface is responsive...

I'm now unable to use MarsEdit with Blogger on Mojave or High Sierra. When Google asks me to authenticate instead of getting the usual e...

I’ve been contemplating migration to WordPress for almost a decade, but Google kept Blogger good enough to keep that headache at bay. Alas,...

Visiting Google’s official Blogger blog today I tried viewing comments on a May 2018 post (a list of things removed and a promise of future...

MarsEdit 4 added a new feature — the ability to sync all posts. It didn’t work for my Blogger posts, somewhere around post 3,000-4,000 Goog...

I got a notice from Google yesterday. tech.kateva.org had been quarantined as a phishing vector. Visitors would be warned away. I had a shor...

MarsEdit is a great app — but I wish it were a rental product. Then I’d pay every year and Daniel Jalkut would be incented to add support f...

I wrote about Blogger’s mad formatting 4 years ago  and five years ago . I guess it’s time again. This time I’ll include some screenshots. ...

I tried a search from Blogger’s web view. it returned 19 posts, the oldest from 2009. Using other methods it’s easy to find results back to ...

I decided today to start writing more about ways to use Apple’s defunct Aperture photo management app. I’ll be using it for years while I wa...

Google still hosts the BlogThis! bookmarklet at  https://www.blogger.com/blog-this.g but they've removed all documentation. Google Sear...

Red Sweater’s MarsEdit  (Mac) owns the world of WordPress, Tumbler and Blogger personal publishing. It’s a small world — the major publisher...

Google's Blogger has fought the good fight against spam comments for years, but it's failing now in several   different ways. In th...

This Google web page gives you part of the solution for  Embedding a spreadsheet in a blog or webpage . Unfortunately, they only talk about ...

Despite concerns about too many moving parts , I'm still using Reeder, Pinboard and IFTTT as my core information process workflow. I jus...

I'm used to getting comment spam with embedded links. Often the spam appears benign, but the links go to bad places. This one was dif...

A few months ago I was impressed by how well WordPress.com managed importing a copy of notes.kateva.org . Today I tried an import from my Dr...

I've been expecting Blogger to die, but since Google has been porting it to the "new look" I thought it had a year or two left...