LiveWriter Envy

Posted on February 19, 2008
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I don’t have any experience with LiveWriter but I trust Dennis’ judgement on these matters and I have yet to hear someone speak ill of LiveWriter. It is somewhat surprising that there is a dearth of innovation in blogging tools, just a lot of incrementalism. If Microsoft included a version of LiveWriter in MacOffice, well that $300 upgrade would be a lot more appealing.

More by accident than design I’m back using Windows LiveWriter. I got here via the need to upgrade my Nokia N95 firmware the installer for which only runs on Windows. As a Mac user that meant installing Parallels and then XP. I cannot for the life of me get Vista to run in Parallels, despite having 2GB physical memory.

Running LiveWriter on a Mac may seem heresy in the eyes of some but a necessity nonetheless. ecto, my preferred blog writer is too long in the tooth and doesn’t give me the WYSIWYG control I need. The new version is not that much better and I’m not a fan of MarsEdit which seems to have gone into development hybernation. The online Wordpress default editor is functional but temperamental, although it does have some nifty plug-ins like All-in-one SEO.

LiveWriter has come on in leaps and bounds since I last tried it with 79 plug-in additions in the portfolio, most of which are useful to different users. The Digg plug-in is a washout. It doesn’t work or at least causes errors when I try to use it.

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