lightBlog Quick Post Blog Widget The lightBlog Widget is a light weight tool for making quick posts to your lightBlog journal. It sits in the background on your desktop, and when you feel like making a quick post, just type the text and hit Post ? no need to log into lightBlog and use the web manager. The widget is free and can be used by all lightBlog members, and will run on both PCs and Macintosh OSX. Download the widget here! (ver. 1.2c - 110K) System Requirements: The lightBlog Widget requires Konfabulator (http://www.konfabulator.com). Konfabulator is shareware. Check out the hundreds of other cool widgets, too. FAQ: How do I set my preferences? If you have a two-button mouse, right click on the widget and choose Widget Preferences... from the menu. One a Mac with one button mouse, use Ctrl-Click to pop the menu. In the preferences enter your user name, password and directory name of your blog. The status line will then show 'Ready'. Does the widget support posting images? Not yet. Likely, the Mac version will support image posting in the next version as the necessary tools are built into OSX. The PC version could support image posting, but it will require additional software to be installed. What about the other message fields, like date and location? Click the more options link in the widget window to expand the widget and add information to these fields. Can the widget edit previous messages? Not at this time. Presently it?s a posting only tool. A future version might support editing if interest is there. Error Messages: Blog not found or configured: This means that likely the value in the widget preferences for the directory is incorrect. The field should have only the directory name. If the URL to your blog is http://www.lightblog.com/member/yourblog/, the correct value to put in the field is yourblog.