I am going to write this post about blog editors or blog clients.
There is a new blog client in town: Windows Live Writer.
I found it the other day searching Internet. I was very surprised because it is really good. You should try it. By now, it is in beta but you can download it here.
Entering blog properties is easy: you only have to enter the URL of your weblog, your username and password and there it is!
For me it has only a defect: you cannot justify text. But it can insert and upload your images to your blog -at least in wordpress.com- and you can customize the posts to a great extent.
I only have to discover how Technorati tags are introduced here… 😉
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nd Qumana has a new version of their blog editor: Qumana 3. All the errors I pointed out here, have disappeared, although I have to prove it with WordPress, something I have not been able to. Now it is really good: you can upload and insert pictures directly to your blog and can change the characteristics of the text you are writing.
And this new version comes also in other languages, in Spanish, for example. 😉
Both are free.
Happy blogging.
NOTA: Qumana, editor para blogs, puede ahora encontrarse en su última versión en español, que desde luego es bastante mejor que las anteriores. Y Windows tiene un nuevo cliente para blogs llamado Windows Live Writer, que también está muy bien, aunque como es un beta -es decir, está en prueba-, sólo puede descargarse en inglés. Ambos son gratuitos.
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This post was made with Windows Live Writer.
Have you try Writely?
Check it out, is awesome.
Welcome Back!!!
Thanks, Cerrajero. I will check it out. But I do not like very much Web 2.0 applications.
Bos’un: Thanks!
How funny, I spent last week trying out desktop writing programs, Windows Live Writer was the last one, Qumana, was before that, w.bloggar, before that, Zempt, and a coupe others. TypePad SUGGESTED I use them, because TypePad is having major technical difficulties. After having major difficulties with the blog editors, another TypePad tech tells me TypePad is NOT COMPATIBLE with any of them. Morons all of them.
My problem with the was, after publishing a post, if I wanted to go back and change/add/correct something, it published the article as an additional post, rather than updating the original. Very troubling.
Also some of them do not send trackbacks.
I did a post similar to yours begging for help, and so many nice people commented. Bloggers are by and large very nice people.
Hello,
This is exactly what I was searching for. Thank you. It’s amazing.
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