Bleezer is developed in Java and [...]]]> I’s just struggling to get a good replacement for Word 2007 as my offline blog editor in Ubuntu. I googled and found several alternatives. Finally, I settled down with the Bleezer. I just thought let me write about the same here as the first post from Bleezer.

Bleezer is developed in Java and hence is platform independent. It’s neat and pretty. Though not colourful like MS word xxx, It serves the purpose calmly. It’s available at http://alchemii.net/bleezer/ It supports all the major blog engines – Blogger, WordPress (a special thanks from my side… ), typepad, drupal.

Once you download, you have to run the bleezer.jar in the archive. Make sure to change it’s permission to allow execution as a program. You should have Java already installed in your machine. Just launch it, you are in the new world of blogging in Ubuntu.

Just edit the preferences, add an account in the dialogue as shown below

The features I like in this are

• Enabling me to save the Posts as drafts
• Support for multiple accounts, so that it’s the one point of my blogging
• Gives support for adding tags to the Posts
• It provides a normal view along with the HTML view in tabs
• It provides preview as well – quite easy to see what you post
• Fairly decent WYSIWYG editor.
• Supports editing of published Posts as well

I’d say Bleezer worth a try. Comments welcome