So friends, this is a post from Windows Live Writer. I have always wanted to test windows live writer, and this was one of the first things that I downloaded after installing windows 7.
As you can see, windows live writer can detect the theme of your blog, and when you start writing, it will show you the page just as it will be when published. I took a screenshot of the screen and then posted it to the draft, very easily, and resizing and placing the image was really easy.
The theme of the blog is detected using a temporary post, which will be deleted as soon as theme is detected on windows writer. You can add tags and set your categories from windows live writer dashboard. Your categories are already imported when you set up the blog.
There are plugins that you can add to your live writer installation, like blog this for firefox, polaroid picture plugin ( which makes your picture look like poladoid ) and flickr plugin etc.
Something that I miss is, the auto tagging plugin, and all in one seo pack plugin which lets me set title tags etc for search engines. There should be some workaround here also, if you know how it is done, please drop me a comment.
So far windows Live writer looks good and works really well. I will be posting more if I find anything interesting …. You can also try this once, its easy and useful. Let me know your thoughts after installing it. Installation and set up is really easy, in case you need help, please drop comments.
Thinking of trying out Windows Live Writer
let me know your thoughts after trying it
There is nothing like Live Writer, I have been using it for a while no. But I don’t like their plugins. Also, I post the blog as a draft to the blog so I can tweek the links a little using Apture. Also there is no way to put in wp tags which is kind of a piss-off. But these small problems aside, I really like the software
PS: Check out my latest post at gamebashing, might be of your interest =P
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you can add tags from live writer.
posting to drafts and then tweaking is good idea ..
@Dinu
Really? May be I have a slightly older version will update and check it out. Are you talking about technorati tags?
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I used Windows Live Writer when my blog was hosted on Blogger. Since I moved to WordPress, I feel a bit liberated using the online WordPress editor, since I don’t have to have WLW on every machine that I use.
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will try out. but not now. after coming back from my holidays. havent had time to play around with Windows 7 itself.
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@ Balu
yes, not the technorati tags, there were tag suggestions too, not sure if it was imported from my blog, but I did see them …. and looking at the post, I see tags that I did not add, manually … so, either live writer added them or the auto tagging feature worked inbetween.
@ Krish
there is a point in what you said, for people who use different computers, at work at home, then laptop etc etc, windows live writer is not the best solution, since you need some time to set up your blog on wlw, provided it is installed already, … thanks for your comment btw …
@ Liju Philip
yep fine
do let me know your thoughts when you finish testing 
Cool
Though i dont have windows 7 as of yet!
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@ sakhi
sorry for not making it clear …. you don’t need windows 7 for this, just windows xp with service pack 2 …
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