A lot of Content Management Systems (CMS) like Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal have quite complicated built-in article publishing tools. But there are other ways to post news to your blog or CMS. Below you will find some really nice tools which you might want to give a try:

BlogMailr

Just send an Email and it will be posted to your blog. Free for non commercial use!

link: http://www.blogmailr.com

Scribefire

A great plugin which enables you to post to your blog from your browser. Currently supported are Firefox and Flock.

link: http://www.scribefire.com

Deepest Sender

Deepest Sender is a blogging client that runs inside Firefox, SeaMonkey, and XULRunner.

link: http://deepestsender.mozdev.org

ecto

ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, SquareSpace, TypePad, WordPress, and more.

link: http://infinite-sushi.com/software/ecto

marsEdit 2

Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac.Write, preview, and publish without a web browser. 

link: http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit

w.bloggar

w.bloggar brings a great new feature: the File Upload to upload your images without configuring FTP access. Currently the following tools and services supports this feature: Wordpress, MovableType, TypePad, Drupal, b2evolution, Nucleus CMS, Squarespace, Community Server, BlogEngine.NET

link: http://wbloggar.com

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is a fully featured Windows blogging client with support for spell checking, WYSIWYG editing, picture uploading and custom plug-ins (with a full SDK).

link: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com

If you have trouble installing the document management and download component DOCman on Joomla 1.5, this solution might help. It seems that DOCman does not work with PHP 4. It always gives you an installation error saying: Unwriteable <joomla root>/

So here is what you can do about it. If you run your installation on a shared server try to enable PHP 5 with the help of your .htaccess file. Some hostersallow this by adding the following line:

AddHandler php5-cgi .php

After adding this line to your .htaccess file you can have a look at your Joomla backend "Help - System" and see if the PHPversion changed. If everything went well, you can install now DOCman 1.40 without any problems.

PS: If you need to remove the double entriesin the DOCman backend that were created by the erroreous installations, you need to go to the Modules Manager - Administrator. You will find them there.

Do you have more than one website to take care of? Are you running Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, or any other blog / content management system? Then you might know this problem: How to update multiple sites at once when an update of your blog or cms software comes out?
If you just have your ftp client you will probably log in to every ftp server and transfer the files to each of your sites. Now let's assume you have like ten or twenty sites, this can take quite some time. I had this problem before, so I decided to look for an automated way to update multiple websites with just one click.

These tools can make your life much easier when you need to update multiple ftp sites at once:

Wordpress FTP Update Tool

This is a very handy tool for uploading a set of files to multiple FTP sites. It was made for Wordpress updates, but it can actually be used for all multi site transfers. So you can use it for updating your favorite content management system, like Joomla, Drupal or whatever... 
It works for Windows XP/Vista.

Download: http://www.seo-vault.de/wordpress-ftp-update-tool/

 

WS_FTP

With the help of its scripting opportunities, you can automate your file upload to multiple sites.
It works for Windows XP/Vista.

Download: http://www.ipswitch.com/

RSync

RSync is a syncronization tool for Linux, once configured it can upload your files to as much sites as you want. One feature is that it just replaces newer files, so non changed files  will not be re-uploaded again.

Download: http://rsync.samba.org/

GAdmin RSync

Based on RSync this tool for linux gives you a nice graphical user interface for your multi site transfer.

Download: http://85.214.17.244/gadmintools/