Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application

With Thingamablog authoring and publishing your weblogs is almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.

Thingamablog allows you to:

Set up a blog in minutes via an intuitive wizard
Maintain multiple blogs
Effortlessly manage thousands of entries
Dynamically update blog content
Write entries offline (Dialup users)
Publish your blog with a single click
Publish remotely to your blog via email
Read news with an integrated feed reader
Make posts from your favorite feeds
Create a unique layout with customizable templates
Import entries from RSS/Atom feeds
Set up flexible archiving options
Organize your entries by category or date
Save entries as drafts
Define your own custom template tags
Syndicate your blog via an RSS or Atom feed
Ping services like weblogs.com, BlogRolling, and Blo.gs
And much more...

Screen Shots

The Main Window

Thingamablog blogs are extremely configurable

The Configuration Dialog

The Template Editor

Managing weblog tasks with the task pane

Tasks Pane

The Blog Wizard

Blog Management

Downloads

Windows Installer - 11 MB

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Linux RPM package - 11 MB

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Linux DEB package - 11 MB

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ZIP File - 11 MB

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Add-on spellcheck dictionaries

Thingamablog ships with an English dictionary only. However, you can download a dictionary for whichever language you need from OpenOffice extensions.

First, go to the OpenOffice dictionary page and download the dictionary zip file appropriate for your language. Next, simply copy the downloaded zip file to <INSTALL_DIR>/dictionaries, where <INSTALL_DIR> is the location where you installed Thingamablog. After the file is copied, restart Thingamablog and go to Configure/Options and select the dictionary from the drop-down list.

The spell checker should now be able to spell check your language.

System requirements

Thingamablog requires Java 1.6 or higher. Java can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.java.com

Note that Java is cross-platform so Thingamablog will run on any platform on which Java can run.

Installing from the Windows Installer

Download the installer
Double click the file thinga-setup.exe to start the install.
Follow the instructions

After the installer completes, it will place a shortcut on your desktop and start menu from which you can launch Thingamablog.

Installing from the ZIP file

Download the izip file
Save it to the folder where you want to install Thingamablog.
Run the unzip command or use an appropriate unzip-program to extract Thingamablog.
To start Thingamablog, use the run.bat (under Windows) or run.sh (under Unixes)