Stories about ‘WindowsLiveWriter’


By Brett Bumeter

I mentioned yesterday that WordPress had issued a new upgrade and they were strongly recommending that people should Upgrade their WordPress Software to 2.3.2 Now.  I was very happy to see that after I updated one of my sites a publishing bug went away completely!

I had repeatedly run into an error on one of my sites that enabled women to write...

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By Brett Bumeter

That was the question that I was asked as I happened up to the booth at Blogworld in Las Vegas last week.  It was a great question and I knew right away what my answer was.  In fact, I had just signed off of Windows Live Writer a few minutes earlier as I blogged an article about the keynote address.

I am a Windows...

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By Brett Bumeter

Here’s a quick tip to setup some servers to ping every time you publish an article with Windows Live Writer.

How to Set up Ping Servers on Windows Live Writer

Go to Tools, and choose Options and then Ping Servers. 

Enter your list of servers to Ping, hit Apply and OK.

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By Brett Bumeter

Joe Cheng from Microsoft dropped by to help show me how to get WindowsLiveWriter running even better.

It seems that to use the function that enables you to add categories on the fly, your WordPress blog must be running WordPress 2.2 or higher.

(I actually thought that I had 2.2 running, but had missed a step and was still running 2.1.  Mental head...

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By Brett Bumeter

I have been looking for waiting for even thinking about becoming a programmer myself just so that I could build and use a simple word count plugin for Windows Live Writer. 

Well someone developed a plugin to do just that and published it the day after Christmas.  So Merry Christmas to me!

Fortunately, plugins are the gift that keeps on giving and I...

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By Brett Bumeter

In this article I have mapped out a number of YouTube Video Download tools in MindManager and then snapped them into a swf file so that the map parts are clickable. I found the original list that I used for my mindmap source over at Mashable.

I then uploaded the swf file to the domain here and then put the basic code...

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By Brett Bumeter

Well following kind of rapidly on the heels of Beta 2, Windows Live Writer Beta 3 is out.  Its possible that the new beta came along so quickly, because the second beta was soooooo buggy.  (I’m writing this with Beta 2, writing before I’ve had a chance to take the Beta 3 for a spin and assuming that the Beta 3 is...

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By Brett Bumeter

For a couple of months now, I have noticed that the new Windows Live Writer Beta 2 eats my paragraphs and links every now and then.  I will write something or embed a link.  Then I will hit save or publish and a couple of the most recent items written will permanently disappear.

I can not undo, and the writing...

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