First post using Windows Live Writer

I’m experimenting with using Windows Live Writer to publish to my blog from my Vista notebook (yes, I have a PC). This is my first post. Interestingly enough, despite coming from Microsoft, it works with a variety of blogging services and installations.

In this case, I’m wrote this to publish to my personal installation of WordPress. Kinda cool.

The nice thing about it is I can write and delay publishing until I have a network connection. Yeah, I know, I could always write it in a text editor or MS Word or something. This is nice because it’s kind of light weight and does everything I might want to do!

What’s kind of nice is that it allows you to import photos and apply different types of treatments and effects. The image below has a photo border with a dropshadow, all compliments of Live Writer.

The cool part is that it supports multiple blogs! The only word of caution is to be certain that the correct blog is selected prior to publishing. I might be using this application more!

To learn more about it, visit the Windows Live Writer site.

Snapshot of Windows Live Writer