Chio,

when will p2pbuilder launch?

:)

Hi there, crockett. Thanks for your suggestion. Are you talking about an AUTOMATIC thumb cropper, i.e., something that tries to homogenize all of your thumb sizes, or something MANUAL?

Just to clarify. :)

manual. but you need to beable to set the thumb size.

It's unlikely we'll add anything into Autoblogger Pro that will require MANUAL manipulation -- everything should work in a "fire and forget" environment, where you set it up, and let 'er rip.

You can certainly download the thumbs from the /media/ directory (both versions) and resize them as you'd like (there are a lot of great utilities that already exist for that), but that strikes me as defeating the purpose of "auto"blogger. :winkwink:

ahh.. I didn't think it was just for auto blogs.. thought you could use it for posting stuff manually.

Sure, people do, but it's intended to be run automatically. Any new features would certainly be geared towards this end.

I love that the gears are turning in your head regarding Autoblogger Pro, though! Keep those suggestions coming!

:thumbsup

if only i can get it on a much cheaper price :)

those pics rocks

Unfortunately, I don't think the price will be dropping any time soon. We've actually had a few users ask us to RAISE it after seeing what it can do -- they want less competition, I suppose. :winkwink:

Did you submit a ticket asking to get it free? I saw a bunch of those yesterday.

I want to ask a few new questions. Has anyone been using it in production, so that I can ask for tips on managing the feeds? One of my concerns is getting too much filler. For example I could enter a keyword in Google News and end up with a lot of unrelated items because the word used may have other meanings. If I wanted to feed to a "horror" blog, the word is used in all sorts of contexts. I wouldn't want a lot of crime or war entries in my blog. How would you manage it?

The new, stand alone ABP is SICK! If anybody's using anything else to do their blogs, they're wasting time and losing money.

Big :thumbsup to ABP, edgeprod and Chio!

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Thanks! Very much appreciated. :thumbsup

I don't understand how this thing work

LoL

If I know I will Buy it :)

A few things I learned so far.

Installing it, be sure your ABPSA directory is writable until the installation is finished.

If you use the locally hosted media option, be sure you have the bandwidth available where you install the program since they will be hotlinked from your server. It seems to be able to locate this media directory anywhere on the server, so I assume it doesn't have to be located in your ABP install directory either which is good if you want to hide it's location for security reasons.

I know a lot of you like to use Epassporte to pay for things. I was able to use my Epass Virtual Visa # and it went through flawlessly.

Was hoping it would support more, but .. "Currently, ABPSA supports Blogger, BlogSome.com, WordPress, and WordPress.com". I've already suggested the RSS option so if that's included it will work for a lot of the software I use that has importing built-in.

I setup what I could for testing. Then I went to "Run ABP" to pull the feeds. It said wait until the browser reports "done" with no more activity. This just means wait until the browser indicates the page is finished loading.. ie.. no hourglass or whatever your browser usually indicates to you that it's completed the task. For the sake of convenience, it might be cool to add the Download Images, and Post campaigns buttons on these pages also. Otherwise, you just need to click the Run ABP tab again for each step.

I think I would switch the Categories and Blogs tabs. Natural workflow would likely be entering the blogs you'll be populating first. Then add your categories next, which will be needed when you start adding feeds. Then you would work with the Rewriter, adding any source header, footer, and other rules. Lastly, the Campaigns which is where you match up the categories and rules to be implemented for each blog. This allows for a large number of variations and cross posting, if I'm not mistaken.

It was very quick pulling the feeds and downloading the images for this test.
Posting to a blog went fairly well, and I verified all the feed items were posted. However, the browser didn't indicate it was finished even though apparently it was.

It's pretty intuitive overall and seems to have everything covered well.

Well, technically, everything based ON Wordpress.com (which is hundreds of sites) should be supported, unless they've screwed with the code.

We're working right now, as a matter of fact, on a new status page, which we will release (for free, as always) to all ABP Stand Alone users. :)

Heya Brujah. Nice writeup. I agree completely with the progress/status stuff. I have already started templating out a page for it last night, and we are testing it now. As for the category/blog workflow it's an easy change and makes sense.

Fuck that shit! Check out the new interface! :)

http://www.edgeprod.com/dom/gfy/abpsa-run-screen.jpg

Obviously, we intentionally fucked up the password for "your brother" so that it'd cause an error so that you could see it.

Like it?

Looks Sweet!!! Hey what about the pic of Scarlett Johannson tho? Can you throw that in too? ;)

100.......,..

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She got some big ass titties:

http://www.egotastics.com/gallery/d/...-allure-03.jpg

Sure. A little boobies never hurt anyone.

Okay, back to coding the REST of the pages *cracks the whip* ...

No more boobies? What gives?

UPDATE:

The interface has undergone the changes we were talking about earlier. These may or may not be the "final" version, but they are "live" on the Relink server if anyone wants to update their copy of Autoblogger Pro.

http://www.edgeprod.com/dom/gfy/abpsa-pull.jpg

http://www.edgeprod.com/dom/gfy/abpsa-imgdl.jpg

http://www.edgeprod.com/dom/gfy/abpsa-post.jpg

A .tar.gz archive would be awesome. :)

That's my preference as well, but the problem is -- so many people want to download it first, then upload it (whereas I wget), and they get scared of .tar.gz as opposed to .zip. But --- I agree.

How about both? It's a hassle to download and then ftp for each upgrade.

Nice. Too bad it's priced out of my range.

That's not a bad idea, actually.

For now, I just installed the zip package under FreeBSD. I wget the file, and unzip it on the server.

Although it's not high on the list of features that need to get implemented, if I have a spare few moments where I'm twiddling my thumbs, I can see what I can do. You've been helping in tracking down ABPSA bugs, and I appreciate it. :)

Can you afford NOT to buy it?

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2hp

I just bought the standalone version and...

The admin interface looks very professional and clean, usability is great. You won't need longer than 10 minutes to understand everything you can do there...

It does exactly what it's supposed to do, but I missed a few options:

- Edit/Manipulate the rss feeds
- it doesn't mix the rss feed entries (randomly) before posting them out
- i'm not able to post the entries to a category i have on my blog (or did I miss something?)

I this will be added in future versions :-)

Sounds good. Thanks for all the quick support too. :)

I don't know if it's worth the investment... I'll wait til it debuts on Demonoid.

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Is there any demo available if I need it?

We've done some "live" demos for people. I basically set up an installation of Autoblogger Pro (or let you run through the install on my server), and let you play around with it a bit, guiding you through the process.

I can't get this last screen to come up in Opera. I'm going to try it in Firefox, and will let you know.

http://www.edgeprod.com/dom/gfy/abpsa-post.jpg