Month: July 2015

TypeMetal

Posted on by Bill

From the start of this blog until just recently, we’ve used Windows Live Writer to maintain this blog. It’s a small program, from Microsoft, that boils Word down to a lightweight blog editor. It has good support for WordPress. Naturally it runs on Windows, which was not a problem for us. But in 2012 we switch to using a Mac while traveling (and while not traveling as well.) Until recently we used Parallels to run Windows so we could run Windows Live Writer. (That’s an $80 program to run a free program.)

Recently we discovered TypeMetal from Coherence Labs. It’s a dedicated HTML editor with great support for blogging. It syncs nicely with WordPress. And it’s Mac-native making the whole process a lot easier. We found an issue between TypeMetal and our WordPress hosting company that made complete syncing iffy. Troy from Coherence researched the issue, contacted the hosting company and came up with both a short-term (today) and on-going solution. Thanks Troy! So far so good with TypeMetal!

BTW, we also switch WordPress tempates. This template, Kubrick 2014, is responsive, which means it should look better on your phone than the old template.

Where did 2014 go?

Posted on by Bill

It’s not like we didn’t travel in 2014. We did. Quite a bit actually. We didn’t take a “big trip” last year but we did get to the east coast several times, made it to Indy and Chicago, etc. But for some reason we failed to blog any of it. To paraphrase an old family quote “If nobody blogged it, it didn’t happen.”

So for 2015, back to at lest minimally blogging our bigger trips. Speaking of which, vacation this summer is a five leg tour of all four US timezones. See subsequent posts for details. Happy summer!