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Have you blog with Windows Live Writer?

If you have been reading my blog regularly, you would know that I have been searching for a desktop blog client after a accidental deleted post at Blogger. Well, I settled on Windows Live Writer (WLW).

You can say that this is the Microsoft Word of blog publishing. Once you set up your account (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.) , you will be able to write a blog post in web layout view (WYSIWYG).

I had complain about Blogger’s autosave feature being to helpful, while in WLW, you will be able to set the minutes before it autosave. That gives me a bit of allowance in case I made a mistake.

What I love best about WLW is how easy it can retrieve draft post from my Blogger and also the ability to save draft to Blogger. That is so useful to me as I don’t need to copy/paste from my draft to WLW to start writing. By posting draft to your blog, you will always have a copy online so that you can start blogging anywhere. That’s sweet.

Some of the other features that I like include:

1. Image manipulation - you can add in effects like color pop, B&W, sepia and even your own watermark.
2. Create and edit tables easily
3. Add categories - in Blogger terms = labels
4. Add tags from Technoratic or del.icio.us
5. Use fonts from your own computer - you are not limited to Arial or Times Roman
6. Ping server (eg. Ping-O-matic) when you post
7. Easy hyperlinking using the link glossary
8. 50+ plugins from Live.com

WLW has really simplify my blogging process so much that when I use the Blogger editor, it feels so clunky. As it is still in beta, I wonder how good will it be come full version. Let’s hope it is still free then.

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