Agitprop

Agitprop (noun):
  1. political propaganda (especially Communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
  2. a Mac OS X utility application, written using Cocoa by george (ty) tempel, for extracting blog entries from the iBlog blogging software and creating a MovableType import file

Introduction

Agitprop is a Mac OS X application for liberating your blog entries from Lifli Software's iBlog application. iBlog (1.4.x and earlier) does not readily provide any form of export functionality that preserves all of your blog entry information, such as category, posting date, etc. Agitprop was written for the express purpose of migrating all of your blog entry information to the MovableType import file format so it can then be imported into MovableType, Wordpress, etc. Additionally, Agitprop supports the Growl global notification system for Mac OS X, should you have it installed.

Agitprop is free for your use. Granted, it's not something you'd use often--how many times do you extract data from your iBlog dataset?--but it is free for your use. Of course, any donations or nice comments are always welcome. If you wish to redistribute Agitprop you must first contact me (contact info).

This online help contains reference information on the following topics:

Change History:

v1.0.2:
  • re-activated Growl support with the release of Growl v0.6
  • restored Edit menu, allowing for cut/copy/paste operations within the Preferences/Options sheet
  • added two new notifications, one at each end of the scan of the iBlog folder
v1.0.1:
  • no code changes, just a bump in the number due to a bad dmg file having been uploaded
v1.0:
  • initial release

Useful Links:


©2005 george (ty) tempel (ttempel@mac.com)