Blogo is a full fledged WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla and Expression Engine client with a lot of mac piazzaz built into an elegant interface with a unique Mac feel. It is created by the independent developer Brainjuice. With Blogo you can write, publish, edit and maintain your blog. It has many great features including an awesome full screen mode.

When I opened Blogo initially I noticed the long splash screen, for a small blog posting app a splash screen does not seem necessary. Despite this, the user interface is modern and unique. In addition it comes in two colors, blue and grey. The user interface is made up of a lot of images instead of text buttons which can be confusing to the new user, it took me about 10 minutes to figure out each button by hovering my mouse over them to activate the tool tip, although once you get the hang of it, it’s much easier to use.

On the main page of Blogo you are presented with two options New and Edit. In the New panel you can write a new post. When you click the Edit button a tab slides out of the right site of the window with your recent drafts & posts. You can search recent drafts and sort by various categories. In addition you can clear your editor quickly with the trash icon in the bottom right corner of the Edit tab. I’m a little bit of a geek so when I found the little tab in the corner labeled HTML I was overjoyed, I could edit the raw code of my post and quickly switch to the rich text editor so see if my modifications worked.

You can quickly add tags to your post with the small text field below the body, similar to twitter hashtags, you add a # before the tag. To upload a photo to your post simply drag the image file into the “dropbox”, it was super easy to add screenshots to this post and scale them to a desirable size, apply color effects and link them wherever you want. Everything is presented elegantly, the UI provides a lot of focus on the body of the post while also allowing for quick image uploads, post tagging, and styling of the text. When you are done you can preview your post with your theme rendered locally (so you don’t need the internet to preview your post).

I love streamlining my productivity, so when I figured out how to make the Blogo editor fullscreen (which took 5 minutes) I loved it. With the fullscreen view mode I can focus on writing the blog post and ignore the constant AIM messages and Facebook status updates.

Oh no, when I was saving this post something horrible happened, could my work be saved!?

Oh joy, it’s always nice when developers add a crash safety feature to their apps. Thanks brainjuice for saving my post.

Blogo can be a an asset to your blog if you hate the clunky online interface wordpress provides when you create your site. If you don’t mind the web based posting client then don’t get it, if you can afford it then you should get it to streamline your blog posting work flow. It takes a little while to figure out, but once you do it can create an awesome productive work environment for your blog.