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What’s new:

  • [New] Added Search function to find specific keyword from Article, Note, Photo or Web page easily.
  • [New] Now WebStory is able to retrieve comments from WordPress and Blogspot automatically.
  • [New] Now WebStory is able to retrieve all blogs (previously only 25) under a Blogspot.com blog account.
  • [Change] Updated dictionaries.
  • [Solved] Word count does not show correct result.
  • [Solved] For blogs that have individual remote publishing URL, refreshing blog account only updates the main blog information.
  • [Solved] Repeated save prompts upon publishing when more than one article is unsaved and if Blog Editor is set to closed after publishing.

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Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

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What’s new:

  • [New] Photos can now be reorganized into desired album by drag and drop.
  • [Change] Spell check will always start from the beginning of article.
  • [Change] If there is only one blog, it will be automatically selected when publishing post.
  • [Solved] There will be an error when trying to upgrade database with microblog accounts.
  • [Solved] Thesaurus options could not be saved.
  • [Solved] Custom dictionary options could not be saved.
  • [Solved] When right click on bold text inside a table cell, the pop out menu does not show remove column and row options.
  • [Solved] After changing text alignment inside a table cell, the Save button is not enabled.
  • [Solved] Pressing Enter key in the insert Tag/Keyword field has no effect.
  • [Solved] Sometimes incrementing the font size of a whole row of text will not update the font size combo.
  • [Solved] When the focus is on one of the system node at main window, saving article may cause error.
  • [Solved] Set Lock and Set Draft mode do not work at Status View and Tag View.
  • [Solved] The selection sequence is incorrect in the Insert Picture Wizard.
  • [Solved] Selecting insert picture From Web option with Enter key, the message dialog could not be dismissed with Enter key again.
  • [Solved] Inserting links from Blog Archive would overwrite the “Text to display” even if it’s not empty.
  • [Solved] Pressing Enter key in Find and Replace dialog when the end of article is reached will not dismiss the message prompt.
  • [Solved] When blog editor is open, refreshing blog account information would make the tags duplicated.
  • [Solved] Deleting post archive that contains comments would cause all local comments of the same blog to be deleted.
  • [Solved] Tweets published to multiple accounts would have multiple records in the Published Status view.
  • [Solved] After removing a blog account, the pending tasks related to the blog are not removed.
  • [Solved] When all post archives of a blog are deleted, WebStory will still show a comment count summary header.
  • [Solved] If the selected account type does not exists in Activation Wizard, proceeding to the next page would cause an error.

You may also follow us on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/webstory for updates on WebStory development.

Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

Chrysanth WebStory Published by WebStory

What’s new:

  • [New] Added a WebStory test drive account for first time users to quickly check out what WebStory has to offer.
  • [New] Added dotted line effect to indicate the border of borderless table.
  • [New] Pressing Tab at the last cell of a table will add a new table row.
  • [Change] New tables will be inserted as borderless table.
  • [Solved] When an inserted image has been edited and reinserted again, Blog Editor would not reflect the edited changes.
  • [Solved] Pressing Tab key inside a table cell does not move to the next cell.
  • [Solved] When article is empty, the table inserted will be removed after switching to HTML Source view.
  • [Solved] When trying to add microblog account, there will be an error.
  • [Solved] Content inside Blog Editor cannot be copied.
  • [Solved] When published content is copied from a blog editor to another and republished, image links are wrong.
  • [Solved] When Twitter follower image is invalid, it would cause an error while retrieving follower information.

You may also follow us on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/webstory for updates on WebStory development.

Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

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What’s new:

  • [Solved] When blog account information is refreshed, WebStory would go back to first page if no additional blog is detected.
  • [Solved] Right click on WebStory’s tray icon to exit application would cause error.
  • [Solved] Alignment button does not show the correct state inside a table cell.
  • [Solved] Photo editor shows inappropriate message in the right hand corner status bar.
  • [Solved] Inside table cells, text does not appear to use Default Font size automatically.
  • [Solved] Inside table cells, if set to align center, there will be extra P tag in the source.
  • [Solved] CSS styles entered in the HTML source would be removed upon saving the article.
  • [Solved] Pressing Enter key in the Find and Replace dialog does not start the search immediately.
  • [Solved] When article editor is resized to a small window, flipping to Archive or Comment sidebar will see some misaligned UI.
  • [Solved] After inserting a new table, entering text in any of the table cells would cause the table column width to change randomly.
  • [Solved] Images from one Blog Editor could not be copied to another Blog Editor.
  • [Solved] WebStory does not follow the option setting and would launch browser each time a hyperlink in the Blog Editor is clicked.

You may also follow us on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/webstory for updates on WebStory development.

Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

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What’s new:

  • [New] Now WebStory allows anyone of the blogs under an account to be activated in order to proceed with the account setup.
  • [Change] Delete an article while the article is being edited would also cause the editor to be closed.
  • [Change] Main form side panels’ font sizes have been properly adjusted.
  • [Solved] Blog editor does not convert emoticon shortcuts to respective emoticon when relevant option is enabled.
  • [Solved] Some emoticon shortcuts are conflicting with each other.
  • [Solved] During backup, when entry has already existed and to be skipped, no reason is displayed in the failed result.
  • [Solved] Switching from “Published” or “Not yet published” node to other nodes in Status view would cause an error.
  • [Solved] Edit and save article in Status View->All Articles would cause the article to disappear from the list.
  • [Solved] Some error messages are not properly displayed when error is encountered during blog publishing.
  • [Solved] Flipping blog group in the Blog view will take quite some time to complete.
  • [Solved] During blog back up, if the main form is not at Blog view, an error would be thrown.
  • [Solved] When a big number is entered into the Last count field in blog back up window, the focus could not be shifted to others.
  • [Solved] Press Enter key twice in the publish dialog would cause WebStory to proceed to next stage regardless of blogs are selected.

You may also follow us on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/webstory for updates on WebStory development.

Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

Chrysanth WebStory What’s your WebStory today?

What’s new:

  • [New] Optimized the speed for saving articles in blog editor.
  • [New] Added Blog Group button to Main window.
  • [Change] Blog Profile has been renamed to Blog Group.
  • [Change] The display order of pending comments has been changed to descending order based on comment time.
  • [Solved] Under certain circumstances, performing back up would not be successful.
  • [Solved] Set Publication Time label is too short to display whole text.
  • [Solved] In Backup window, click at the “Only last:” option, then click at other option, the “Only last:” field is still enabled.
  • [Solved] After saving article in blog editor, the newly saved article does not show up instantly on the correct folder in Main window.
  • [Solved] Adding a new album when trying to insert a photo to local album would cause an error.
  • [Solved] The album list is blank when trying to insert a photo to local album.
  • [Solved] Backing up Pages or Comments from blog servers that do not support such feature is not handled properly.
  • [Solved] Special characters of comment title is not properly decoded after backup.
  • [Solved] Right click to close all the search tab headers will cause article tab header to remain.
  • [Solved] Cancelling backup operation would not completely stop the process.
  • [Solved] During Comment backup, repeated comments do not follow user’s Skip option, but they are overwritten again instead.
  • [Solved] Perform Comment backup for repeatedly would cause the process to halt.
  • [Solved] After a picture’s alignment has been set to any option but Default, it is not able to reset to Default.
  • [Solved] After a comment has been marked as spam, the progress bar on Main form does not stop.

You may also follow us on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/webstory for updates on WebStory development.

Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

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What’s new:

  • [Solved] When posts from WordPress server are backed up, break lines inside JavaScript would be converted to <br> tag.
  • [Solved] Unable to copy the content of Google search results in WebStory.
  • [Solved] After successful activation, the Cancel button is still enabled.
  • [Solved] Clicking at the Google search result in WebStory will cause a new web browser to be launched.
  • [Solved] Microblog’s activation message is shown at the wrong node in the Activation window.
  • [Solved] Edit a page via Blog View, after publishing the page, original focus on the Blog View will be reset to other page record.

You may also follow us on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/webstory for updates on WebStory development.

Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

Chrysanth WebStory What’s your WebStory today?

What’s new:

  • [New] Add the option to skip post backup in the backup wizard.
  • [New] Added page and comment backup option in the backup wizard.
  • [Change] Current version number shown in Check For Update is now consistent with the latest released version number.
  • [Solved] Clicking at the bookmark hyperlink within the same article at post preview will result in a new browser window being opened.
  • [Solved] The progress bar in the window for refresh follower list is not following theme color.
  • [Solved] Pressing Backspace to delete prevous character in the Insert Bookmark window has no effect.
  • [Solved] Clicking at “Insert [Picture] From Web” menu will cause an error message to be thrown.
  • [Solved] Article deletion confirmation message is cut off at the end.
  • [Solved] Publishing post with pictures to Self.my would not succeed.
  • [Solved] Entering Twitter verification code that comes with additional spaces, WebStory would not be able to pass the verification.
  • [Solved] When an article is saved and reopened for edit, the source of pictures inside the article would be changed to wrong source.
  • [Solved] Cancel selected tasks would cause selected tasks to be resumed instead.
  • [Solved] Trying to add blogspot.com blog account would cause an error message to be thrown.

You may also follow us on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/webstory for updates on WebStory development.

Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

Chrysanth WebStory What’s your WebStory today?

What’s new:

  • [New] Added a right click Copy menu to search result page.
  • [Change] When blog or microblog is added, the activation window still shows account type filter.
  • [Solved] Modifying a saved article properties without changing the content in editor will not be able to save the modified properties.
  • [Solved] Trying to upgrade database that contains both blogs and microblogs would encountered an error.
  • [Solved] When image is copied from web page and pasted into editor, it will be saved as BMP format, instead of converted to PNG format.
  • [Solved] Under some circumstances, WebStory is not able to read IE proxy settings.
  • [Solved] Word count shows incorrect result.
  • [Solved] Text plugin UI not properly aligned for systems with large font setting.
  • [Solved] Publishing articles with JavaScript at the beginning of content, or articles with JS only will result in JS being removed.
  • [Solved] In the backup window, after backup is complete, it will flip to blank result page.
  • [Solved] Double click at web album photo (via account node) does not launch web browser to visit the online photo page.
  • [Solved] Double click at the page list in Blog View does not launch web browser to visit the online page.
  • [Solved] Flipping to Application Menu in the photo editor back to normal menu tab will cause the editor window to enlarge.
  • [Solved] In the “Insert [Picture] From Local Album” window, blank thumbnails are shown.
  • [Solved] For WordPress, after publishing a new article without slug, WebStory does not retrieve the slug assigned by blog server.
  • [Solved] Clicking at emoticon will cause photo editing ribbon context to be displayed.
  • [Solved] When a few tasks are selected to be cancelled, only the last clicked task will be cancelled.
  • [Solved] Trying to remove hyperlink of an image copied from a web page through Properties->Hyperlink->No Link will cause error.
  • [Solved] Closing WebStory when Application Menu is displayed would cause error.
  • [Solved] Update an existing post with “Use last published time” option will cause the post time to be different than the original time.
  • [Solved] After closing all search results in article editor, the last page header is still visible and closing it will cause error.
  • [Solved] WordPress Page Properties window tab order is incorrect.
  • [Solved] Note deletion confirmation message is cut off at the bottom.

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Grab your latest version here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip

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Microsoft has recently announced that they were going to shut down Windows Live Spaces blog soon. They have also offered to migrate existing users to WordPress.com blogging platform. If you have not yet decided whether you want to migrate to WordPress.com or set up your own blog server and host you blogs from Windows Live Spaces, you may use WebStory to back up and safekeep all your blog posts on your local computer hard disk first. Later on you may publish all previous blog posts to new blogging service of your choice at any time. Having a local back up of your blog posts will always give you extra edge when unfavourable incidents happen.

To do so, you have to set up your Windows Live Spaces blog account with WebStory. First, follow the steps outlined below to set up your Windows Live Spaces blog Name:

1. Go to Options->Space Settings

Access Windows Live Spaces settings

2. Access Contact Card Settings->Personalize your web address, and set up your Windows Live Spaces blog Name

Set up your Windows Live Spaces blog Name

3. Determine your Windows Live Spaces blog name

Determine your Windows Live Spaces blog name 


4. Then follow the steps outlined below to set up your Windows Live Spaces account Secret Word, go to Options->E-mail Publishing

Access E-mail Publishing settings

5. Turn on E-mail Publishing  

Turn on E-mail Publishing

6. Choose a secret word  

Choose a secret word

7. Keep the information in a safe place

Keep the information in a safe place 


The Windows Live Spaces name and secret word are used as your user name and password when you set up your Windows Live Spaces account with WebStory. For example, if the URL for a Windows Live Spaces account is http://cswebstory.spaces.live.com, the user name for the blog account is cswebstory. The password is the secret word that is provided during the steps above.

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