Diatribe of Windows Live Writer 2011

Windows Live Writer is one of my favorite programs. I use it to blog and compose, but it’s also a point of ongoing friction. It has great potential, but lacks the soul of enthusiastic developers.
I don’t mean to be so harsh on it. It’s really nothing personal about the comment, but open source vs. a closed source shop; there’s a fairly large difference there. The mentality is completely different on how and where a program goes when it’s released in the wild.

 

Windows Live Writer 2011: Adjust Proxy Usage

imageUsing Windows Live Writer with a proxy shouldn't be required, unless you know definitively that your using one. Windows Live Writer uses the settings from the Windows operating system, Internet Options [Control Panel/ Internet options] for communications.

If your default browser is working fine, and you can access the Internet [getting to Hotmail, Google, Yahoo...], there should be nothing to do/change with Windows Live Writer proxy settings; Windows Live Writer should work as advertised.


Windows Live Writer 2011: How To Add a Blog Account

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It seems like a simple task, but since Windows Live Writer 2011 doesn’t come with an use manual or an uber-helpful help file, it’s kind of a mystery to some about how to do certain things in Windows Live Writer.

Things like Adding an account in Windows Live Writer can be something that some NEW users don’t understand.

Or even maybe adding another blog account. Here’s some information on how to do that…

Windows Live Writer: Insert MORE tag in to BLOGGER post

imageIf you need to be able to break up your posts in Windows Live Writer for a ‘read more’ at the bottom of your post...

Here’s how to do it...

Post BLOGGER PAGES with Windows Live Writer

Blogger, Copy Paste, Ctrl C, Feedback Request, Forums, Html Post, Inserting Images, Issue Question, Lot, Native Abilities, New Version Of Windows, New Wave, New Windows, Reason, Time Windows, V15I visit the forums for Windows Live Writer a lot to attempt to help others where Windows Live Writer lacks some native abilities or if some people are just lost on how to use the application [since theirs no help manual].

But there’s a reoccurring issue/question in the forum about not being able to establish PAGES for BLOGGER from inside Windows Live Writer.

For some reason, the Windows Live Writer team just hasn’t gotten around to that yet, but there was a comment left the other day about how someone else did it, but it didn’t cover the issue of inserting images or other media...

So I offer this...

Windows Live Writer 2011: Setting A Default Image Behavior

If you want to set a default image behavior/action...

In Windows Live Writer, insert the first image...

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