Writing blogs? this might help 

If you have an Apple, then use Daniel Jalkut’s MarsEdit to edit your posts in a blog. It’s a sweet little program that works with Blogger, Wordpress, Movable Type, and most other blogging platforms. It allows offline editing, and greatly simplifies posting images from Flickr and so forth. You have also Ecto - it’s still around and works on Windows and Mac - but MarsEdit 2 is better for a Mac.

A number of friends have been raving to me about the free Windows Live Writer (WLW), though, so I decided to try it this evening. Wow!

For all the things Microsoft has done wrong (cough Vista cough), Windows Live Writer really is done right. It’s designed for Microsoft’s own blogging platforms, of course, but it also supports Wordpress, Blogger, and the usual suspects.

WLW gives you a live preview based on the actual blog style sheets - impressive - supports embedding of pictures, video, maps, and more, and best of all supports plug-ins so other blogger/programmers can extend it (with Flickr support, for example).

The picture embedding interface is an example of how rich this program is. It doesn’t just upload an image and insert the relevant HTML, it has built-in picture editing tools, too. You can add a drop shadow or photo frame, resize, rotate, and adjust contrast. Or add special effects like sepia toning, watermarks, and more. All without leaving WLW.

(from leo laporte's blog)

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