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Welcome to the BlogBridge Community Wiki
What is BlogBridge? BlogBridge is a full featured Java based RSS news reader for info junkies. See some praises. Oh, and it’s free, and open source, and runs on all computer platforms. More ...
BlogBridge Flavors BlogBridge comes in three flavors: BlogBridge Stable, BlogBridge Final and BlogBridge Weekly. Check out: Overview of Releases: Stable, Weekly (and Final)
BlogBridge Installation: Getting Started With BlogBridge Guide and the How-To section - Tip: Do it in the background while hanging around here.
We hope this BlogBridge wiki will become a repository of community knowledge and wisdom about the BlogBridge empire. We've always sadly had to admit that we didn't have the bandwidth nor the talent to create the BlogBridge documentation that our users deserve. So now, turning the tables, let's go for community production and see how that will go.
BlogBridge Almanac
BlogBridge Links
Resources: BlogBridge Homepage, BlogBridge Download, BlogBridge Forum (bugs, feature requests, ...)
History: BlogBridge Recent Changes, BlogBridge Product Announcements (version details, ...)
Search: BlogBridge Forum Search, del.icio.us, Google (check the different tabs), Technorati
Microblogging search: Twingly finds BlogBridge on several microblogging services.
Tour of the BlogBridge main window
Here are all the things you see from top to bottom in the BlogBridge main window. Use them as a guide to the rest of the information in the BlogBridge Almanac.
- BlogBridge Menu bar (see below). On Windows and Linux, this is the first element of the BlogBridge window, at the top. On Mac OS X, the BlogBridge menu appears at the top of the main screen, detached from the main window (go figure!)
- BlogBridge Toolbar, with shortcuts to the most common commands
- Guide Pane, The left vertical pane in BlogBridge, which contains a list of Guides. At the bottom of the pane there are vertical scroll up and down buttons.
- Feed Pane The middle vertical pane in BlogBridge, which contains a list of all the Feeds in the currently selected Guide. At the top of the feeds pane is the BlogStarz filter selector with which you can filter out lower rated feeds.
- Article Pane The rightmost BlogBridge pane, which displays the articles of the currently selected Feed. There are icons in the header of this BlogBridge pane to toggle between Standard and Photo album layout, as well as icons to toggle between full, brief and minimal views.
- Status bar, at the very bottom of the BlogBridge window, includes a message area and two status icons on the far right.
Each BlogBridge pane can be resized and the toolbar can be hidden.
BlogBridge Interactions
BlogBridge supports the usual click, double click, drag operations.
- Clicking
- Double Clicking
- Right Click (or control-Click on Mac) - raises the context or right click menu with commands that apply to the current selections.
BlogBridge Menu Bar
The BlogBridge Menu bar is where you can find a path to all the functionality (and there's a lot!) of BlogBridge.
BlogBridge How-To
The BlogBridge How-To section is dedicated to links or articles explaining how different goals can be achieved with BlogBridge (which will obviously not directly fit to one of the menu items).
BlogBridge Plug-ins
Since version 5.1 BlogBridge has plug-in architecture allowing users to extend their installations with new functionality, to customize visual themes, keys and sounds. It's powerful and flexible.
