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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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Well, fixed plenty of bugs and added some enhancements:

• [New] Added a function to clear CSS styles for selected text to the text plugin.
• [New] Added a description column to indicate the source of custom dictionary in Options dialog.
• [New] Updated the UI to the latest 2010 Office Ribbon file tab.
• [New] Added new shout box effect to the text plugin.
• [Change] The demo plugin has been renamed to Text Plugin and enabled by default for completely new installation.
• [Change] Added some margin to the bottom of WebStory signature.
• [Change] Now flipping the page from source editor to article editor will position the caret to the beginning of article.
• [Change] Added theme effect to note editor’s progress bar.
• [Change] Article editor’s title font color has been changed to lighter color.
• [Solved] Spell check does not work properly.
• [Solved] For first time installation, when there is no last accessed database detected, trying to sign in would throw an error message.
• [Solved] Publishing blog with more than one editors opened will result in all editors’ blog archive having the same task running.
• [Solved] Closing blog activation dialog while adding blog accounts will throw an error message.
• [Solved] Unable to publish Twitter message that contains special characters.
• [Solved] When horizontal line is inserted, some HTML tags around the horizontal line may be removed.
• [Solved] If anchor text starts with http://, flipping to source editor and back would cause it to be replaced with the hyperlink.
• [Solved] If a new user has not yet created a blog on Self.my, WebStory would show an incorrect message.
• [Solved] When adding new page to Self.my, after selecting the desired blog and click Next, WebStory still prompts to select a blog.
• [Solved] Unable to set the storage provided by blog servers (such as WordPress) as web album.
• [Solved] When the caret is at the end of article, trying to access Thesaurus will not produce any result or message.

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

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After several years of development, we finally shipped the latest version of Chrysanth WebStory on 4th Nov 2010. If you just happened to stumble upon this post, WebStory is a desktop blog management software, which may be a good companion to your blog writing task. You may get WebStory for free here: http://download.webstory.my/webstory.zip.

This release incorporates many changes much more than just facelifts. Besides getting a new look on the entire user interface, we literally rewrote the entire application again. Among the highlights of new changes, the change to business model is the most significant! Starting from version 3.3, WebStory will be available for free for most of the features! Every new user will be able to manage at least one blog or microblog with WebStory, plus unlimited web albums.

New changes to the latest 3.3 version include:

• Streamlined flow of all blog management processes
• Support more blog servers and web sites, especially WordPress blogging server
• Support microblog service like Twitter
• Support web albums like Flickr and Picasa
• Extensible plugin support for more additional features
• More themes to feast your eyes
• Blog post preview before publication
• Back up entire blog to local computer
• Multiple blogs synchronization with one click
• WordPress comment back up and management
• Web search using Google or Wikipedia
• and many more to be discovered…

Upon installation of WebStory, you will need to create a Self.my blog account. This is primarily for WebStory user information validation, such as credits available in your account; and to serve as an online discussion platform for stuff related to WebStory. Once this is done, you are good to go with your first database creation. If you come across any problem during your exploration of WebStory, you may want to join our discussion here: http://self.my/groups/webstory-support/

Hope that you will enjoy using WebStory.

 This is WebStory!