Wow. As I said in an earlier post I am testing desktop blogging tools today. Since I can not use the firefox only Scribefire plugin because of an apparently unsolvable problem with firefox, I first tried out Qumana and now Windows Live Writer. So far, all I can say is wow…it downloads your theme so you can type directly in a true WYSIWYG – So, far, I’m truly impressed. The preview is a real preview. All the features are here and more. Here is the break – much more after it.
Let me list my first impressions as I am using it for this first time…
- Easy to install, unlike a lot of blogging tools that had to be handheld to the remote blogging API, this one found it right way. all I needed was my url and username and password.
- It downloaded the theme…..awesome.
- Great usability – the features are labeled well, and easy to find.
- Looking around now for more…what is this “colorizeâ€..oh…it changes the color of the application….not very interesting, they could have hid that under a menu….
- Spellcheck works
- Preview is awesome…
- Nice category tool
- Easy to set the date
- Plugins….what’s this….105 plugins….one to integrate with Firefox…created by microsoft (!) . Lots of interesting plugins. Seems to be an active community.
- Easy to link to earlier posts…wow.
- Inserting images…wow, adds nice like drop shadow… automaticlly created a thumbnail
I think we might have a winner here.
well, its a free gift from Microsoft, trust me .. its a very useful and handy tool indeed. I simply love that.
hmmm…i downloaded live writer quite a few days ago, but as since i am studying for my IELTS, didn't got time to use the tool….
nyways will try this one as well…..
thanks