Comments on: 5 wish list items that would improve Zemanta service and their Windows Live Writer plugin http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:03:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Domen Grabec http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-801160 Domen Grabec Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:42:10 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-801160 Hi TDavid! If you haven't already installed a new version of Zemanta WLW plugin could you check something for me please? (we had some stability issue in one of our plugin versions and I would really like to know if you had the release that was more stable) Could you go into windows registry (Start -> run... -> type: "regedit" + ENTER) and check the value of this key: "My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zemanta\LiveWriter\currVer" thanks in advance Regards, Domen Hi TDavid!

If you haven’t already installed a new version of Zemanta WLW plugin could you check something for me please? (we had some stability issue in one of our plugin versions and I would really like to know if you had the release that was more stable)

Could you go into windows registry (Start -> run… -> type: “regedit” + ENTER)
and check the value of this key: “My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zemanta\LiveWriter\currVer”

thanks in advance

Regards, Domen

]]> By: Anrdaz Tori http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800966 Anrdaz Tori Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:41:10 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800966 Hi, Domen is our main Windows guy. He wrote our whole Live Writer integration (a lot of ingenious engineering was needed for Zemanta to be able to behave in a way we wanted, since WLW plug-in infrastructure is a bit limited.) So I think it is smartest if he talks directly to you and gets the info he needs to analyze the problem. bye Andraz Tori, Zemanta Hi,

Domen is our main Windows guy. He wrote our whole Live Writer integration (a lot of ingenious engineering was needed for Zemanta to be able to behave in a way we wanted, since WLW plug-in infrastructure is a bit limited.)

So I think it is smartest if he talks directly to you and gets the info he needs to analyze the problem.

bye
Andraz Tori, Zemanta

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800963 TDavid Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:08:10 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800963 Hi Domen - thanks for update. Thought maybe Andraz had flown the coup but seems instead he passed off the ball. I was already using IE8 and still am using IE 8 Beta 2 version 8.0.6001.18241co. Will check for new versions of WLW plugin and IE8 but don't think there is a newer IE8 version. Will try new version of WLW plugin and see how that goes. Hi Domen - thanks for update. Thought maybe Andraz had flown the coup but seems instead he passed off the ball.

I was already using IE8 and still am using IE 8 Beta 2 version 8.0.6001.18241co. Will check for new versions of WLW plugin and IE8 but don’t think there is a newer IE8 version. Will try new version of WLW plugin and see how that goes.

]]> By: Domen Grabec http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800959 Domen Grabec Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:36:38 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800959 Hi! We are still trying to sort out the performance issues with WLW. Zemanta plugin GUI is powered by IE browser engine inside WLW. One of the issues is that Internet Explorer 7 is pretty slow at executing java script. If it is possible for you to install Internet Explorer 8 (which is better at java script) our plugin will run much faster in WLW. TDavid - any more information on WLW crashes would be greatly appreciated. From the screenshots I see you are(were) using WLW version 12. We had a big crash issue in that version but that was fixed in the latest plugin version release (released at the end of October). Do you remember, did you always have the latest update of out plugin? I think that if you instal the latest WLW (version 14) and Zemanta plugin those crashed shouldn't appear any more. Regards, Domen Live Writer plugin developer Hi!

We are still trying to sort out the performance issues with WLW. Zemanta plugin GUI is powered by IE browser engine inside WLW. One of the issues is that Internet Explorer 7 is pretty slow at executing java script. If it is possible for you to install Internet Explorer 8 (which is better at java script) our plugin will run much faster in WLW.

TDavid - any more information on WLW crashes would be greatly appreciated. From the screenshots I see you are(were) using WLW version 12. We had a big crash issue in that version but that was fixed in the latest plugin version release (released at the end of October). Do you remember, did you always have the latest update of out plugin?

I think that if you instal the latest WLW (version 14) and Zemanta plugin those crashed shouldn’t appear any more.

Regards, Domen
Live Writer plugin developer

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]]> By: darkmoon http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800893 darkmoon Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:25:34 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800893 No offense to Andraz, but from a legal standpoint? Regardless of who he is and where he stands with the company or product.... if the current TOS stands with don't do it, then the FAQ would actually violate their own TOS. TOS is a legal document, not the FAQ and thus can be chased down as such. Personal feelings is that I wouldn't touch something based on anyone's word. I can face consequences for violating legal documentation, but someone's word is... just that. There's a lot of good that could come of this. I'd be curious as to how this works out to be free and what the business model is. It's great and all to have free products, but if money isn't made somewhere... you have to wonder what is being given up by the content provision. Is there ad involvement somewhere? Always good to know how a company makes their money when the product is free. In any case... I'll let you test it more, TD. I'm glad I run a Mac and don't have to deal with bad uninstalls. Does the plugin even support Shiretoko? I don't think it does, but I haven't bothered to try it. No offense to Andraz, but from a legal standpoint? Regardless of who he is and where he stands with the company or product…. if the current TOS stands with don’t do it, then the FAQ would actually violate their own TOS. TOS is a legal document, not the FAQ and thus can be chased down as such. Personal feelings is that I wouldn’t touch something based on anyone’s word. I can face consequences for violating legal documentation, but someone’s word is… just that.

There’s a lot of good that could come of this. I’d be curious as to how this works out to be free and what the business model is. It’s great and all to have free products, but if money isn’t made somewhere… you have to wonder what is being given up by the content provision. Is there ad involvement somewhere? Always good to know how a company makes their money when the product is free. In any case… I’ll let you test it more, TD. I’m glad I run a Mac and don’t have to deal with bad uninstalls. Does the plugin even support Shiretoko? I don’t think it does, but I haven’t bothered to try it.

]]> By: Sterling Camden http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800892 Sterling Camden Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:44:29 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800892 OK, I rated it (guess my number) :lol: OK, I rated it (guess my number) :lol:

]]> By: LIP http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800890 LIP Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:37:28 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800890 Great plugin but my core2duo cpu maxes out if I am writing for a long time on live writer with Zemanta enabled. I dont know what its doing because its not updating but Id say i cant write 3 posts without it dulling down my Live writer until the point my letters are coming in way after I type them. If I do need to use Zemanta I only enable it at the end of my writing. Yes its one of the better plugins, but I learned some things from this post that make alot of sense concerning zemanta. Thank you.... and I was first to rate. :p I hate that NO one rates posts anymore. Great plugin but my core2duo cpu maxes out if I am writing for a long time on live writer with Zemanta enabled. I dont know what its doing because its not updating but Id say i cant write 3 posts without it dulling down my Live writer until the point my letters are coming in way after I type them. If I do need to use Zemanta I only enable it at the end of my writing. Yes its one of the better plugins, but I learned some things from this post that make alot of sense concerning zemanta. Thank you…. and I was first to rate. :p I hate that NO one rates posts anymore.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800889 TDavid Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:23 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20081203/5750/#comment-800889 Thanks Sterling. Check this out: here they get a C+ grade and yet are promoting it to all Zemanta users on their <a href="http://popular.zemanta.com/popular/" rel="nofollow">Most Popular page</a>. [img=http://www.makeyougohmm.com/images/2008/zemanta-popular1.jpg] Ok, I've reinstalled the WLW plugin, Andraz. I'll give this another run-through and see if I can detect a pattern in the crashes (despite what I said in comment #2). Seems like you are more than meeting me halfway here which is much appreciated. Thanks Sterling. Check this out: here they get a C+ grade and yet are promoting it to all Zemanta users on their Most Popular page.

zemanta-popular1.jpg

Ok, I’ve reinstalled the WLW plugin, Andraz. I’ll give this another run-through and see if I can detect a pattern in the crashes (despite what I said in comment #2). Seems like you are more than meeting me halfway here which is much appreciated.

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