For those of you who blog, this is an update you should look into.
Windows Live Writer Beta Build 145 is a client-side tool that allows you to blog with all the traditional tools of a "FrontPage" or a "Word" without being as "heavy" as those applications. It’s an installable Windows application based on the .NET framework that allows people to post blog entries to Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, and other blogging systems.
- Imagine… no longer having to use the crappy editing systems of most of these blogs.
- Imagine… being able to write your own entries offline on an airplane without an Internet connection.
- Imagine… a WYSIWYG interface that allows drag & drop graphics, left/right/center justification, and all that jazz.
This is a really good tool. And it’s a free download. They’ve updated it to polish the edges of the program so a lot has been adjusted to make it more friendly. The speed is a bit better and they’ve fixed some really annoying things like the automatic "shortening" of cut & pasted URLs. The product team has a blog and they’ve explained what they’ve added/adjusted to the app there.
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