Easy Blog Publishing with Microsoft Live Writer

I discovered Live Writer couple of weeks back and have been very pleased with it, as I told my Finnish readers. The app makes the management of multiple blogs so much easier. I can’t understand how I put up with going back and forth with Blogger Dashboard.

Now I can concentrate on the content of my blogs instead of worrying about inserting pics, videos or writing technorati tags in html (!!). I’m also pleased with the possibility to write entries beforehand and kick back for couple of days and let Live Writer do the publishing for me.

I have been using WLW since it’s beta inception and it’s been a blessing from the start. I initially used it to save my blog entries to my computer in an HTML format, but it grew from there.
You can post to muliple blogs from one screen, as well as view your blog entry from multiple views (web format, rich text, or HTML code). Which can come in handy for the novice as well as experienced user if you wanted to add additional code to a formated blog text.
I especially like the ease of use. It’s always a click away. Adding pictures, or video is a simple click away.
I utilize the extensions as well. I abuse the smiley’s extension which offers all smileys from MSN, Yahoo and others. And just recently they upped the anty. Instead of the Digg extension you can add a whole list of social bookmarking tags to each blog entry.
Take a look at my latest blog entries to view a sample.
http://mrsportsmedicine.wordpress.com/

All in all it’s a great packaged deal.

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I’ve been using it for over two months, and I’m absolutely in love with it. It’s one MS Product that I happen to be using the most (next to XP, of course ).

One thing is that it doesn’t come with a spell-checker built in, is there an extension available that checks spellings?

Will it work for Macs?

Indeed, the best blogging application there is. I just wish there was something similar on OSX or Linux.

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I tried Live Writer after reading about it here. I tried it with Blogger, but didn’t care for how Blogger saved it as a draft instead of a post. I haven’t found a work-around for that yet. Also, I tried it with an image, so I had to start an account with Picassa — I guess that’s the default photo storage. When I clicked on the thumbnail, Firefox wouldn’t load it, asking me which photo viewer I wanted to load the image with. So I’ll probably be checking out the plugins to see what other photo storage options there are if I stick with Blogger.

I also tested it with WordPress, and it worked great. Too bad WordPress’s servers are so unstable, but maybe it’s only when a blog is linked from big sites like reddit and digg.

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