I was downloading Windows Movie Maker, which is a part of Windows Live, a group of free programs from Microsoft.
The first thing I do not like for the average user, is they have everything checked off, even if you only want one program, and it installs a bunch of junk you don’t need, or necessarily want.
I have not looked at Movie Maker yet, but I took the bait on Live Writer, which is what I am writing this blog post on.
I am testing it out to see how cool this program is, compared to what they “say” it will do. So far, for posting on a blog, I really like it. Nice, compact, and very MS Word like, even has spell check.
I also downloaded the Live Photo Gallery which I will test and review in a later blog post.
I am going to do my usual upload a photo, and see if this Live Writer makes it any easier. I have also had problems on formatting my blogger posts, so we will see how that work also!
I will edit this post, once it is online, and let you know what I think of the upload process into your blog.
UPDATE - after the upload
OK, I uploaded my blog from the Windows Live tool, and I am stunned, shocked and in awe. It was very easy, and worked without a hitch.
It even uploaded my picture right off my computer, and usually it has to be uploaded from Blogger itself. I do see that the screenshot/picture is a bit blurry, and I will look into that, may have been something I did.
UPDATE to the Graphic - Yes, it was my fault, I saved the graphic as a .gif and it was los res. I cannot beleive how well this works, and if you need to update, you do it in live writer and just republish, and it does the updates. Wow.
If you have a Blog, and want to try this, I can say, you will probably never do it any other way. This thing rocks for publishing blogs. If you have not done a blog because you thought it was too much work, this takes a lot of the work out of it!
If you want to explore some of the offerings from Microsoft's Windows Live collection, click here
Remember, you do not have to use Windows Messenger, and you can uncheck any programs you do not want to load. Uncheck the join Windows live if you do not want a Windows Live ID.
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