É uma funcionalidade interessante, podemos escrever em um ambiente bem próximo do que será o post final, traz maneiras bem mais intuitivas de se editar os textos… Além disso, é possível postar diretamente do programa para o Blog.

Eu gostei!!

Now that I’m back to blogging after my single day of “retirement,” I thought I’d blab about a nifty blogging tool I came across accidentally while going through my e-mail.

Windows Writer is part of the Windows Live suite of tools by Microsoft, a suite which the Redmond-based software giant wants you to believe will make your life easier. And while I haven’t given all of these tools a full test-run, I have been tinkering with Writer a little bit today and let me tell you, it’s pretty cool. In fact, I’m using it to write this post and will probably continue to use it because I like it so much.

Why? Well, say you want to create and post a spiffy album of pictures from your computer. It’s as simple—and visually appealing—as this:

View Full Album

(Note: When creating an album, they will be uploaded to SkyDrive, Microsoft’s online storage solution. Also, I’ve yet to figure out how to disable downloading the images, so in order to prevent people from downloading your the full-size images, consider making them lo-res.)

Or if you want to spice up your pictures with cool Polaroid-esque borders, you can do that with an available plug-in:

(Note: Images are directly uploaded to your blog host and the plug-in’s name of “Polaroid” is a bit of a misnomer as the images just appear to have white borders and look nothing like Polaroids.)

And if you have a Flickr account, a plug-in is available that allows you to grab your public pictures them and post them to your blog, like this:

Want to post a quick map image of where you had lunch today? It’s as simple as this:

YouTube video? Easy:

(Note: You can only link to YouTube videos from your library.)

How cool is all this?

When you sign up for this, you also get SkyDrive which serves up 25GB of free online storage, which can come in handy in case you’re near your (free) limit with WordPress.com’s 3GB.

Speaking of which, Writer is also compatible with a myriad of blog hosts including WordPress (web-based only as far as I know). Once it retrieves your WordPress account information, the Writer interface allows you to do just about everything you can from the standard WordPress Dashboard, save for some of their proprietary features such as templates and Soundcloud clips.

In short, Writer looks like a stripped-down version of Word and is fantastic for posting blog entries, which is exactly what it is designed to do. Editing of existing entries, template changes, etc. must still be done through your blog host. But for the functionality it offers, I’m willing to forego the shortcomings.

So instead of me singing its praises, download it and see for yourself how it works.

Oh, and despite me saying I’ll spend less time on Facebook, I went through the trouble to create my own Fan Page for this here blog. If you want to become one, here’s the link:

So show your allegiance and do it—NOW!

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och det funkar…

Windows writer

Nu testar jag via windows writer. testar hur det är!
Då behöver jag inte ens gå in på sidan haha det funkar najs!

Una herramienta muy útil para poder actualizar tu blog desde el escritorio es Windows Writer.

Herramienta gratuita y de calidad hecha por Microsoft, lo que demuestra que cuando quieren son capaces de desarrollar productos de calidad que pertenece a la serie Windows Live.

Se puede descargar de modo gratuito aquí:

He leído muy buenas críticas del producto y le voy a dar una oportunidad.

Mi primera impresión es positiva, pero ya les contaré.

Un saludo,

I just started using Windows Live Writer for blogging, I LOVE it.

If you haven’t tried it, you should give it a go. It is so nice and convenient to use with wordpress.

I am also super excited, I have started a PMDD book. LOL, I don’t know if anyone will be overly excited to read it, but anyone who has PMDD knows it is super hard to find anything online about PMDD.

It is also going to have a section for spouses/partners, mine has definitely dealt with it for a long time.

It will have my personal story, even more detailed than my blog, because with a book it’s easier, or so I think. Like I said before, it will have a spouses’ section.

I am including a section on taking care of ourselves and a ton of other important things anyone with PMDD needs to know.

I am excited, I have a lot of work to do, but am trying to stay very focused. For me, that takes a lot.

What do you think? I would love to know what you guys think about a PMDD book. Is it something that you would find important, helpful, interesting?

I suppose it’s also going to be a big learning experience too, going through PMDD step by step from the beginning again… We shall see…

Anyway, again, try Windows Live Writer if you haven’t. The great thing is if you aren’t online you can do your blog for as long as you would like and then when you go online you can just publish all of them to your blog site.

I have wireless so I am always online, but I have found that some of the other ‘tools’ are more convenient too.

Enjoy,

The following is a summary of the changes in the Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update:

• 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

Welcome to the Windows Live Writer blog! This blog was made to post news about the Windows Live Writer and plugins!

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts!

Please download this Software it is great!