Windows Live - the Microsoft rival of Google, has taken a very fast pace forward. Currently it includes a total of 56 different services available on the Web (check out this link to see this list). Google on the other way are trying to compete with Microsoft Office by providing a free-of-charge word processor and spreadsheet, but in my honest opinion they are decades behind Microsoft. On the other way, Microsoft is pulling away the Office Live initiative (link), which gives you at your ease email, collaboration, Web publishing, etc.
I personally use Microsoft Live Writer (link) for RSS content management. Although still in beta, this program is really great. As you can see, I am using the Blogger service for RSS, but its Web interface is very simple and by no means is user friendly. Besides, it is Web based. It has happened several times that when I am done with the blog entry and I try to publish it, if my Internet connection experience some problems by this time, the whole post is gone - so long 30 minutes or so writing. Would be far away better if there has been something like autosave on every N seconds, correct? Because Windows Live Writer is Desktop based, I don't have this problem. Nevertheless, it provides very useful tools to format the blog entry with whatever styles you want. And here comes the great news - you can insert pictures to your blog although the blogging service (Blogger in my case) does not support publishing pictures. What it does with them - you are just prompted to setup a folder on the FTP where this program will upload the pictures. That's really sweet!
Actually Blogger has support for publishing pictures. Pictures are uploaded automatically to http://photos1.blogger.com. Look here http://szahariev.blogspot.com/2006/07/formatting-source-code-posted-in-blog.html (I noticed that you have post too about this tool).
ReplyDeleteAlthough Microsoft Live Writer does not support publishing pictures, Microsoft Word 2007 can upload pictures to blogger. I wish both teams share some knowledge so we can publish pictures with Live Writer too.
I've already done some posts with pictures using Microsoft Writer (look at my previous two or three post - they all have pictures and they all have been published by Microsoft Live Writer).
ReplyDeleteWord 2007 do have blogging support, but because it is still in beta I am waiting for more a stable release.
Regarding Blogger, so far I haven't found an article how to publish pictures with it. Actually, while configuring Live Writer to use my blogging account at Blogger, it said "your blogging service does not support picture publishing" :).
This is a article about publishing pictures in blogger - http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41641&topic=8915.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link! I will give it a try :) However, I will encourage you to check upon Microsoft Live Writer (if you haven't already), because it is really the easier and nicer way (IMHO) to do blogging.
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