Windows Live Writer Part of Windows Essentials
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Writer is a full set of tools for blogging on Windows Live Spaces and your other favorite blogging sites. Not just for hard-core bloggers, its familiar feel allows anyone to tell great stories online.
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3-click video publishing
Upload videos easily from your PC to Soapbox on MSN Video or YouTube. Load them into your blog in just 3 clicks without ever opening a Web browser or exiting Writer.
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Easy blog publishing
It's easy to publish to most popular blog services, including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, Community Server, and more.
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Familiar look and feel
If you can use Microsoft Word, you’re ready to get started with Writer. The familiar interface lets you format blog entries without wasting time learning how to use new features.
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Scheduling and composing
Schedule blogs to post on a future date so you can plan for new entries even if you won’t be online. Or compose your blog entries offline, and then publish them when you're back online.
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Preview
Writer detects your blog theme and displays it while you compose and edit, so you can see how your blog post will look before you publish it. Inserted photos, video links, maps, tags, and other rich media are automatically published when you post.
Windows Live Writer
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Windows Live Spaces
Use Writer to compose and preview your blog on your computer—online or offline—then post to Windows Live Spaces in a few clicks.
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Windows Live Writer is a handy website editor!
8/24/2009 10:25:39 AM, X-Evolutionist
I use Windows Live Writer as a helpful tool for editing my websites. It is “WYSIWYG”, (what you see is what you get). You can see what the page formatting will look like as you create or edit webpage coding. This is as opposed to how I first learned html ...
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Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)
8/21/2009 8:00:58 AM, mynetx
Talking about Windows Live always means talking about its users—the tech-savvy ones as well as the “normal” users. Today I am talking with Technogran, a ‘geeky grandma trying desperately to keep up with it all’, as she describes herself. She lives in ...
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Here's one reason why I love Windows 7.
9/2/2009 5:02:10 AM, Technogran
Thought I would just let those of you who haven’t yet had the chance to try out Windows 7 just why this user is so in love with using it and wouldn’t go back to using Vista or XP even if someone paid her to! Many of you will be aware of my ‘how-to’ posts ...
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Windows Live Writer and ease of linking
9/5/2009 2:35:05 AM, Ali
It was exactly a year ago when I first started to blog about Windows Live and publish them in my Windows Live Space. And interestingly, the very first post in this blog was about Windows Live Writer. Personally, I enjoy of using Windows Live Writer and I ...
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Clubhouse 101: An Introduction to New Members – How to to Publish Clubhouse Posts
9/9/2009 3:05:56 PM, X-Evolutionist
When I was a Clubhouse newbie, it took me a bit of a learning curve to understand the ins and outs of the Clubhouse. In my travels through the Clubhouse lately, I see there is still a need for a type of Clubhouse 101 post, and I am humbly submitting this ...
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Am I to get one of my wishes?
9/16/2009 10:46:19 AM, Technogran
Today the current buzz (besides the buzz about ZuneHD of course) is a piece of news about Wave 4 posted by LiveSide that Live Writer is to get the ribbon interface. You can read it HERE. As someone who posted about this on the Clubhouse a while back about ...
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Movie Maker
Create beautiful, memorable movies, then publish to the Web with a few clicks.
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Tag and share photos, make slideshows, and let friends and family comment on their favorites.
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Connect and collaborate online with your real-world teams, clubs, family, and other groups.
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