I continue to be a huge fan of offline blog editors. My favorite being Windows Live Writer. I found out today from Scobleizer that there was a new version available so I immediately jumped over to the Windows Live Writer site to download the update.

Of late I’ve noticed that some of my complaints with Windows Live Writer is that it does some weird things with renaming files and adding some HTML that I’d rather they wouldn’t. Not surprising from Microsoft, but one of those things I wish they’d really thing about performing their own little cease & desist option. I was wishfully thinking of this as the update file was downloading.

Some of the features and improvements in this update include:

• “Instant photo” border treatment
• Insert multiple photos
• Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
• Insert and publish video to YouTube
• Spell checking in: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
• Server-side tagging (support coming soon to WordPress.com and BlogEngine.NET)
• Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
• Improved blog account setup
• Windows Live Spaces inline preview support
• Support for bidirectional languages
• Updated look and feel

The server-side tagging support will be really great when it happens. But no mention in this list of my wishes and desires mentioned above.

My other request would be for Windows Live Writer to be able to browse through my uploads folder and let me view all the previous images I’ve uploaded as a gallery kind of function. That would be really helpful in finding an image you know you uploaded before without having to upload another copy of it again.

Image: Screen capture from "Help" menu on Windows Live Writer

Post from: EveryJoe

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