Updated Windows Live Writer Beta!

Sep 28, 2006 | blog

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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Windows Live Writer – More Info

Aug 14, 2006 | blog

Hey!  If you blog, I feel you need to try out Windows Live Writer.

Microsoft has IMO, a killer offline blogging tool.  It does everything I wanted in an offline editor, and the tie-in to the Windows Live Toolbar is incredible.

WLW works with WordPress, Blogger, Moveable Type, and LiveJournal in addition to Windows Live Spaces.  The functionality is at the right level, and allows you to preview, create drafts, store drafts online/offline, and work with pictures, maps, fonts, and colors right in the interface.

It also has my most desired feature – a spell checker built right in.  While still in beta, it feels like a shipping product, and I’ve covered only a fraction of the features of this great freebie from MS.

For more information check out the links below.

Posted using Windows Live Writer!

Windows Live Writer

Aug 14, 2006 | blog

Well!  Microsoft comes along and does it again.  This morning on Geekzone, I found a post about Windows Live Writer, an offline blog post editor.  I’ve been looking for something like this for some time.

This post is created using the new tool.  I’ll post more shortly with my thoughts and such.

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