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Windows Live Writer–A more Efficient Blogging Tool


“Best Things Are Free But They Are Unknown to world”. Microsoft definitely proves it by the wonderful blog editing software – “Windows Live Writer". According to Microsoft best things in life are free so they provide a free best blogging tool name as Windows Live Writer. 
This software is available for Windows Vista and XP and 7 only but it may run on mac as well via VMWare Fusion. It is cool and blogger friendly. Now if you are a Windows Live Writer fan already, let’s explore other thing of it which make it more useful and fast for you. Tools for Windows Live Writer make it more efficient.

Tools for Windows Live Writer -

1.    Backup Windows Live Writer Settings & Drafts – For backup you can use  Live Writer Backup utility. You can also move drafts manually.

2.    Windows Live Writer Dictionary - Today some name of site or terms like Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc. are common jargon, most word processing software (Writer included) are not smart enough yet to recognize them correctly and show red line under such common terms to avoid this red line simply open Live Writer dictionary and copy the words in bulk.

3.    Quickly Spread the Word - To promote you blog on internet  by FeedBurner and Blog Search engines  as you hit publish, go to Tools –> Options –> Ping Servers and copy-paste this list of URLs:
1.    http://ping.feedburner.google.com/
2.    http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
3.    http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
4.    http://www.bloglines.com/ping

4.    Autolinking in Windows Live Writer - autolinks will help you to save your time a lot, If you frequently link to certain web pages from your blog articles.  So the moment you type Live Writer in your blog article, that phrase will automatically link to the homepage of Live Writer.

5.    Insert Screenshot Images – Need to insert a Screenshot Image. You can insert by minimize WLW, press Print Screen and then paste that image from clipboard into WLW using Ctrl+v. You can also rescale and Crop it.

6.    Favorite Windows Live Writer Plugins
1.    Zemanta – This lets you find images related to content that you are currently composing in Live Writer.
2.    Twitter – Notify your twitter followers as soon as you publish a new blog post.
3.    TinyMCE – This a more powerful HTML editor for Windows Live Writer with a WYSIWYG interface.
4.    Source Code – This plugin lets you insert source code with syntax highlighting.

7.    Variables in Windows Live Writer- Using Dymanic Templates, you can do lot of cool stuff in Live Writer like insert the current date in your article with a click, let user input data, convert text selection into HTML and more.

8.    Improve the speed of Live Preview - Live Preview feature in WLW provides a good idea about how the blog look once it gets published online. Here problem is that WLW downloads blog homepage for creating a local preview template and thus you always see more than one post in the preview tab. To solve this problem just change blog default settings to show just one post on the main page, then refresh the theme in WLW and once it’s done, switch to original setting of post on the main page.
9.    Search Your Windows Live Writer Drafts -Some due to some urgent turned up during blogging an the blog is not complete. but after some time or days you want to resume that blog but where’s the draft? luckily by add the wpost filter to Windows Desktop search and finding drafts becomes as simple as searching a text document.

10. Upload files to Amazon S3 - If you are use Amazon S3  for hosting images, the S3 Explorer plugin may come handy. It's an S3 uploading tool with a visual GUI that is invoked from within Live Writer but you may use it to upload any binary file including documents, executable, MP3s or images.

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