Windows Live Writer from Microsoft is a free desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog. It helps you create and format blog posts with rich content like maps, tables, hyperlinks, tags, and categories.

It features What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Authoring, it means that you can exactly see what your blog will look like before you publish it to the Web.

If you have more than one blog, you can use Live Writer to post to any or all of them as you can add multiple blog accounts, and switch easily between them.

Compatible with your blog service
Writer can to publish to Windows Live Spaces, Sharepoint, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, Community Server, and many other weblog services.

WYSIWYG editing
Writer knows your blog’s visual theme. So you can see exactly what your posts will look like as you write them, before you publish. No more wasting time previewing your posts online.

Rich media publishing
Writer makes publishing rich media as easy as sending e-mail. Insert and customize photos, maps, tags, and lots of other cool content—then click the “Publish” button. It’s that easy.

Powerful editing features
Creating compelling blog posts is much easier with the ability to insert and edit tables, check spelling as you type, and format and hyperlink content at your fingertips.

Offline editing
Now you can blog anytime, from anywhere. Writer synchronizes drafts on your blog with changes you make when you’re offline, so you don’t have to worry about reconciling different versions.

Download Windows Live Writer Beta

It also features Inline spell checking, Table editing, Ability to add categories, Page authoring for WordPress and TypePad, Support for excerpts and extended entries, Improved hyperlinking and image insertion, Paste Special (Using Paste Special (Ctrl+Shift+V), you have the option to remove all HTML formatting but preserve hyperlinks and images.  Or you can try the Thinned HTML option which preserve the fonts sizes and text alignments but strips the source text of all extra formatting like CSS styles.)

One of the less obvious features available in Windows Live Writer is the ability to automatically ping (send a signal) to popular blog aggregators every time you publish something to your blog.  This feature actively pings the servers of the blog aggregators you specify and to indicate when there is new material.

Extend the functionality of Windows Live Writer Beta with plugins downloaded from the Windows Live Gallery to customize the types of rich content you can publish to your blog. Download Windows Live Writer Plugins which add extra functionality to Windows Live Writer Beta, such as adding extra options on the insert menu.

Source: Writer Zone

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