Updated Windows Live Writer Beta!

The Windows Live Writer team has issued an updated beta that fixes a few issues and provides a flexible new tagging option.  Here is a summary of the changes in the latest beta:

  • Tagging support
  • Support for Blogger Beta
  • Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
  • Improved startup performance
  • Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
  • Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
  • Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
  • Custom date support for Community Server
  • Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
  • Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
  • Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
  • More robust image posting to Live Spaces
  • Improved style detection for blogs
  • Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
  • Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
  • Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts

I’m working on customizing the tagging option for Technorati as shown in the tags below.  You have the ability to edit the HTML code for the tags – looks good so far!

Check out the Windows Live Writer space for more details.

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Of mornings and java

Ah, tis morning again. A time to start the day afresh.  I ‘m starting the day with a good Starbucks coffee and hope to get a shitload of work done.

Oh, and thanks Microsoft for a last-minute critical security patch!

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

OK, one really cool present so far on virtual desktop infrastructure.

The concept is more extensive than I had previously understood. Very cool.

I’ll find and post some tidbits later. Still at the seminar, looking forward to some more topics.

Interesting T-Mobile News

Looks like T-Mobile is miving forward on their VoIP offering, adding the feature to their product mix with specialized phones.

It will be interesting to see how people add this service, or use this service in combination to thier mobile phone.  No exact news on how they will be using the new spectrum they purchased.

Read more at BetaNews.

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