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October 13th, 2008

Windows Live Writer - Delayed Publish when Offline

One of the great features of Windows Live Writer that I love is that I can work on a couple of different posts in varying stages without having to be connected to the Internet at all.
This lets me get my ideas down and ready for more intense writing later, or even let’s me insert and […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

September 28th, 2008

Windows Live Writer Beta - Build 14

I’m finally glad to report that Windows Live Writer is finally back in full-effect on my computer and I can’t tell you just how happy that makes me. It’s amazing how much I’ve come to appreciate this piece of free software from Microsoft.
It isn’t so much a question of dependent, as I was able […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

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 -- 2 comments

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

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

February 28th, 2007

New Version of Windows Live Writer

I wrote recently about blogging from within the newest version of Microsoft Word 2007. In that post I had mentioned that the functionality of blogging in Word 2007 was very similar to what had been developed in the Windows Live Writer application. Not surprisingly, it would make sense to test functionality in a small, free […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2007

Word 2007 Blogging

If you weren’t aware already, one of the features in the new Word 2007 interface is the ability to publish a document to a variety of blog engines directly from within Word.
The engines that are supported currently are:

Windows Live Spaces
Blogger
SharePoint blog
Community Server
TypePad
WordPress
and other’s not listed automatically within the interface

If you’d like more information about my […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

August 21st, 2006

Microsoft Live Drive

What do you do when you accidentally announce something wasn’t quite ready for primetime? If you’re AOL, you stay your very angry that some of your employees released some search information. If you’re Microsoft, you just pull the post down off of one of your employee’s blogs real quick. The problem with the latter is […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

August 15th, 2006

More Feedback on Windows Live Writer

I’ve been using Windows Live Writer for a couple of days now and overall I’m very happy with the tool. However two things that are irritating me.

No “tag” support via the plug-ins installed on the blog itself. It would be a great feature for Windows Live Writer to somehow integrate with the plug-ins installed and […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment