Things I love about the new Live Writer

I really like live writer.  I love online/offline applications that have both a software and an online component - I get the best of the experience with the best of the reach.  Anyway, I've already talked about that and that's not what this post is about.

I really like some of the new features of Live Writer.

My favorites are spell checking (which was notably missing in the previous version), the new category picker (why can't I create a category though?), the icon next to the weblog (its the little things too) and my personal fav is the "Set publish date" feature.

I tend to post in spurts and its always bothered me that they turn up in a cluster and then I appear to take a holiday from blogging for a week.  Now I can "manage" that better :-) 

The only problem is that with a blogging engine based somewhere in the US and me based here in NZ time zone, there is a bit of guessing as to when the post needs to be set to appear...

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 16, 2007
  You can't create a new category because the MetaWeblog API doesn't support the feature. If you had wordpress you would have had the ability to add a new category

• Anonymous
  June 16, 2007
  Thanks for the explanation Simone! Community Server has good interface for adding tags after posting, so no problems really, just an extra step.

• Anonymous
  June 17, 2007
  With Subtext we are working on the Wordpress API support as well, and thanks to the new WLW Manifest we can say it that we support MetaWeblogAPI + some other methods from other API. I think the WLWManifest is a very good addition the an already great blogging engine. I'll miss it when I'll move to a MacBook later this year