Windows Live Writer

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Ed Bott loves it. I read about it and downloaded it. I opened it, I configured it to login to this blog. I saw some very interesting things. I saw some definite promise. Unfortunately, I also saw a tool that needs some more work before I can depend on it full time. Seems like they’ve left plenty of room for improvements through plugins with the SDK, but when you go to all the trouble to do WYSIWYG editing, photo and map publishing, and spell checking couldn’t you just go ahead and add a tagging platform or access the Flickr API? Maybe once some folks get ahold of the SDK and develop these sorts of plugins, I’ll be more likely to use it.

Tags: WindowsLiveWriter, EdBott
Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • |

    FriendFeed

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I’ve seen numerous people talk about using FriendFeed of late, a few who even talked about using it instead of an RSS aggregator because you can put everything you’re doing online in one feed and give it to people who really want to know what you’re doing that much. Tonight, I took a quick look…

  • I’m not trying to pick on anyone

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    But all those folks who’ve been running to complain about Microsoft’s “new” policy regarding Windows Product Activation, please go read Ed Bott’s post about this and understand the news story might not have it exactly right, ok? Now, if you have personally tried to reinstall a valid OEM version of XP onto the exact machine…

  • Thanks!

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Thanks go out to Shannon who had the answer to my IE title bar question. As soon as I read the solution I thought to myself, “Group Policy Editor! I knew there was a simple place to set that!” Thanks Shannon! Follow these topics: Uncategorized

  • Google Still Thinking Wrongly With Plus

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    I know by now that you’ve probably seen a whole bunch of talk about Google’s newest attempt at cracking the social networking market, GooglePlus. I was lucky enough to have a friend send me an invite last night and signed up for the service, and have a few thoughts that I want to talk about…

  • Where are we headed?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Here’s a few thoughts on the current legal and tech scene: What is the best thing about the internet for us, and the worst for Big Media? There are very few barriers to entry when it comes to publishing online. You can do it for very little $$, it doesn’t take special equipment, or licenses….

  • Important IT lessons

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I re-learned two important IT lessons today. One occurred after we got up this morning to take a trip to the Zoo. I had gotten a new camera bag for my birthday, and spent a fair amount of time fitting the Nikon D50 into the bag, along with the extra zoom lens, and a few…

One Comment

  1. My question is… when will the firefox plugin be available to launch live writer? 😉

    Reply

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)