Looks like you can do Twitter/Ping integration and have it automatically tell your peeps that you posted something new. Very cool.

If you’re a Mac user and an avid blogger, check out MacUpdate’s limited time, sale price offer of Blogo.

Blogo puts your blogging in one, simple and efficient console. It works with all the major blogging platforms including WordPress, MovableType and Expression Engine, including “miniblog” platforms, such as Tumblr. The software even supports hosted platforms like Blogger and Typepad. They’ve added micro-blogging as well, so now enjoy Twitter and Ping.fm posting right from Blogo.

Blogo allows you to set links, upload images, embed images, preview your post and more. Plus, you can even go back and edit your posts all without logging into your blog platform.

Finally, I’ve taken the plunge. Previously, I just couldn’t justify the price, considering how little I actually post a blog entry, but at $18.75 on sale, it’s a no brainer.

Have you seen Evernote? It’s an integrated, note-taker cum catch-all-database for text, photos, Web clips, etc. It uses a local application and/or a Web page panel. You can send stuff to an email address from your iPhone, other mobile device or computer. The stuff can be organized and tagged in its interface. Then synced via its own sync system via the Web.

There are other systems similar to this. On the Mac, there’s SoHo Notes, Yojimbo and others. I’ve used and purchased a few of these and every time they’ve let me down by lacking one feature or another, being really slow or having issues using .mac’s syncing service. Evernote doesn’t seem to suffer from any of this. The application is quick to load and responds quickly. The syncing works perfectly and the availability of your notes and information from a Web interface means you can get to it from any browser.

Up until now BareBone’s Yojimbo has been my note/storage app of choice, because of its elegance and encryption features. It is great to store passwords and other for-my-eyes-only information. Syncing has been mostly reliable and the tagging features are great if you use them. Also, it stores PDF’s in the app (even encrypts them if you want), and you can print PDF-to-Yojimbo in the print dialogue, which means you have a one-step option.

I moved to Yojimbo from SoHo Notes, which I found feature-rich, but slow.  Plus, I’ve not been impressed with Chronos Software’s upgrade policies or the reliability of syncing. Worth a look, but personally I don’t like it.  Sometimes applications have too many features!

So this takes us back to Evernote.  There are some really special features that no one else has.  Besides the syncing services, the system can also store images you take with your built-in iSight camera or iPhone.  No big deal, right?  Well, once you sync, the image can be translated to text, using advanced text-recognition operated in the cloud, and sent back to your system.  Need to do a quick OCR of a page of text–Evernote can do it and store it in your system!  Very cool, indeed.

Some features I’d like to see added are the aforementioned encryption, as Yojimbo has, and an import function so I could easily migrate away from another application.  It would also be nice to make notes embed-able, so I can share them without uploading to another service like Flickr or Scribd. Other than that, a fantastic application and service.

I’ve got 15 or so beta-invites available.  Just leave your email in the comments, or send me a tweet @psimac and I will send you one.  Works with MacOSX-10.5.x (Leopard) or WindowsXP or newer.