I don’t like the way Microsoft and it’s softwares work, but that shouldn’t stop me from appreciating Windows Live Writer (beta). It’s a pretty neat product from Microsoft, which is a surprise. It’s simple, easy to use with quite a good number of useful features especially for handling images. I’m using this to post my blogs for last few weeks. I really like it. I didn’t see any alternative blogging tool that is as good as Windows Live Writer. What makes me sad is, I didn’t come across any good blogging tool similar to Windows Live Writer, for Linux.
I came across a blogging tool named Bleezer, which is platform independent (available for all platforms including Linux), thanks to Deflexion. Some of the highlights of Bleezer are:
- Works with Windows, OS X, Linux
- Works with many blogging service
- Tags
- Spell Check
- Ping Technorati, weblogs.com, ping-o-matic etc
- Work offline or online
- It’s free
The disadvantages (keeping me from using Bleezer) are, as mentioned in Deflexion:
It doesn’t let you edit the entire HTML source of the blog posting and powered by Bleezer tag at the bottom of each post.
I found the following 2 extensions that might do the same job, though I don’t have them installed.
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/copyimage
http://www.cusser.net/extensions/imagetoolbar/
I tried performancing and it’s pretty good. I liked it. The problem now is, I want something that auto resize the images like how Windows Live Writer does. I don’t want to create a small thumbnail. It should be a decent size as you see in my blog.
As far as copy image, I don’t know which extension installed it since I’m using it for a long time. I have the following extensions installed:
Nightly tester tools
Cute Menus – Crystal SVG
Dictionary Tooltips
Forecast fox enhanced
minimize to tray
IE tab
undoclosetab
all-in-one gestures
image zoomer
spoof stick
google safe browsing
google suggest
Gmail manager
Adblock plus
I don’t know which one installed that option.
It would be great to have a similar tool as windows live writer for linux, but Performancing does a pretty good job. As Krish said, you can’t really compare them.
How can you copy the image in firefox? I can only copy the image location
Performancing doesn’t compare with Windows Live Writer. It is more of a Firefox Plugin. But it is a very handy tool.
BTW, Windows Live Writer may be user friendly. As it with any other Microsoft product like Frontpage, it introduces lot of crap in the html code.
I didn’t try that. Does it allow copy & paste of images from Firefox directly? I can right click, copy image and paste it in Windows Live Writer, which then automatically adjusts the image size with a link to original size. Does performancing have this feature?
Have you already tried Performancing? http://ralph.n3rds.net/index.php?/archives/132-New-Blog-editor-Performancing-for-Firefox.html
I too don’t like Breezer. Not only about the powered by stuff but also that it doesn’t show you the history of your blog.