Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Windows Live Writer

Penny discovered that Windows Live has a feature that makes blogging easy so I’m testing it out.

It’s supposed to make inserting pictures and videos easy –so let’s see.

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I selected 3 pictures at once and inserted them with no upload delay.

Videos are more complicated.  Essentially you load your video to YouTube  and that takes a while.  The good news is you can write while it  loads.  …but it takes a long time—so I quit trying video.

I found out Penny was also downloading a video back in the bedroom so I was competing with her for bandwidth. I tried again with a short video taken from the cruise ship of a storage tank in Tampa.  This took less time than it took me to write this paragraph. 

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This program checks spelling as you go just as Word does so my poor spelling isn’t a problem. It also accesses the internet on its own—no need to open AOL or windows explorer first. It also saves a recoverable copy as you go .  It also is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get format so what I see while typing is exactly what the post looks like.

Now I will post this and see how well it works.

1 comment:

Karen Feagins said...

Good to know. I figured there had to be a more efficient way to blog.