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Archive for the ‘Windows Live Writer’ Category

July 11th, 2008

Windows Live Categories Problem Fixed

One thing I failed to mention in my new review of the Windows Live Writer Technical Preview build was that whatever they’ve done, the update fixed the issues I was having with random categories being cut-off.
It wouldn’t seem that big of a deal at first, but when you’ve got similar categories with the first […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

July 10th, 2008

Windows Live Writer Update Thoughts

I wrote about updating my installation of Windows Live Writer to the newest tech preview and now it’s time to share some thoughts and images.

Let’s work through the image above to see some updates and improvements:

Quick Color Formatting: Not sure if this is new or not but didn’t remember it in the old […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

July 7th, 2008

New Technical Preview Available for Windows Live Writer

One of the tools that has become invaluable to me in publishing posts to my variety of blogs is the Windows Live Writer software that works so brilliantly with WordPress.
There’s a new Technical Preview release available for the software that includes the following features:

Uploading videos to Soapbox
new ways to crop images, including tilting and new […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 17th, 2008

Impending Total IE Crash: How Do You Recover From This

I was working on a blog post the other day about whether or not the Google Toolbar was a trojan horse for online advertising targeting. I was referencing a post on TechCrunch that talked about it and in their post they had a video of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer talking about the issue.
The video […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

April 21st, 2008

What’s In Your Start Menu?

The b5 Tech Channel is having a little them post series and I thought of something that might be pretty interesting to share with everyone and we’ll get some responses back in the comments as well.
What’s in your Start Menu?
You’ve got the ability to pin a program you use frequently to your Start Menu […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

March 26th, 2008

Make WP Keywords a Tag Provider Option in Windows Live Writer

One thing I wish Windows Live Writer would do is make the keywords functionality available from the “Properties” window a Tag Provider option along with the other tag providers like: flickr, BuzzNet, Technorati, IceRocket, etc.
I’ll say it again as well, you really need to provide a function for me to browse through my uploads […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

January 30th, 2008

I couldn’t live without….

The question was presented to me by my channel editor at b5 for an upcoming theme across the channel.
My immediate thought was that I couldn’t live without Windows Live Writer now. I’ve become so used to the application that my productivity around blogging and expressing my thoughts and creativity are enmeshed through-out the app. As […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

January 26th, 2008

Windows 7 in 2009?

Lots of articles and posts lately about Microsoft gearing to launch Windows 7 in late 2009. We know that will more than likely end up being 2010, but that’s not the important part.
An article by Mary Jo Foley at All About Microsoft on ZDNet says that Windows 7 and Windows Live are going to be […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

December 18th, 2007

Windows LiveWriter Cutting Off Category Labels

I absolutely love using Windows Live Writer to do all my blogging work. I think it’s a great tool, with loads of features and flexibility. After finding and downloading a number of additional plug-ins, I like it even more.
I’ve got a small little issue though. Something happened recently where the labels on my categories […]

By Jason Bean -- 7 comments

December 4th, 2007

Windows Live Writer Plug-ins Goldmine

Why in the world it’s taken me this long to search for, download and install some additional plug-ins for LiveWriter; I have no clue.
As you can see from the images above, I downloaded quite a few files that I’ve now installed and can use with Windows Live Writer.
I’m sure you’ll be seeing the results […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

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