Culturegeeks

I started reading about MarsEdit today, a blogging client for the Mac. I figured there must be something along the same lines for PC, and in the process I found out about two different solutions, one of which would probably work for everyone here.

1. Windows Live Writer - It’s a free downloadable application from Microsoft. Enter in your blog address, it determines if it’s common enough for it to know the API (textpattern, wordpress, blogger, etc. are supported), then enter your login information and you’re posting away. Here’s the UI:

2. ScribeFire - It’s a Mozilla plugin, which means it’ll work for 90% of the people here. It’s what I’m using to compose this post right now. I’m thinking it’s actually clunkier than I’d like. Little things are off…Ctrl-B doesn’t work to bold (Even the Wordpress online editor does that), and the image utility allows me to upload images nicely, but not to resize/set up thumbnails. So, hopefully by the time you read this the screenshot above won’t be actual size. It is as I’m writing this. Below is the screenshot from ScribeFire.

Again, I’m going to have to go back in and edit this some more to get it front page worthy before I actually publish this.

Both options seem to handle categories really well (even though they call them tags), and ScribeFire lets you save your progress, but in a clunkier way…you save it as a “note” which you then publish. Live Writer appears to save on your computer. So, you pick your thick or thin client, apparently, and go from there. My next post will be with Live Writer to see a) how the image handling works and b) how the WSYWIG editor is, and especially the html that it generates from there.

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