Friday, May 7, 2010

Windows Live Writer

This freeware is from Microsoft. One of the good software from the company. This makes it very easy to post the blog to any site – Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, etc. I always use this to write all my blogs.

Some good features are, you do not need to login to net or any blog page to write your article. It is very simple like opening Microsoft Word. You will feel you are writing a document in MS Word. Features like inserting an image, hyperlink, table, video are all possible with this WYSIWYG editor. After you are done with drafting, just click ‘Publish’. The software takes your login credentials one time. All posts can be sent to blog server with a single click.

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Another important feature is storing the blogs locally. Many time you may not complete an article in one sitting. Then this software saves as draft.

Windows Liver Writer lets you manage multiple blog accounts from single software. For switching from one blog to another, you just need to select the blog from drop down – right top corner.

Third important feature is the backup of your articles. I realized this feature and its importance recently. Some reason I saw all my articles previously written vanished online (Blogger). Fortunately, I had all articles in my local computer as part of this software.