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Windows Live Write is an excellent tool for editing, managing and publishing blog posts effectively. It includes a nice WYSIWYG editor for editing posts which can work off your blog's CSS styling. Unfortunately Live Writer does not use CSS3 or HTML5 as it's stuck using the IE 7 engine for rendering its live preview and editing mode. Here's a workaround to get Live Writer to render your blog theme using HTML5 and CSS3.

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I've updated my Live Writer SnagIt plugIn that provides screen captures to LiveWriter if you have TechSmith's SnagIt installed for professional looking screenshots directly from SnagIt into your Live Writer posts.

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I've been using Live Writer for writing blog posts for some time and I'mvery happy with the way I can post entries to my Web Log. The process is pretty damn painless compared to what I went through with using Word and uploading images separately at the time. Plug In Creation Over the last couple of...

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I spent a few hours a couple of days ago creating a plugin for Windows Live Writer that allows for easy screen captures. I've long been a huge fan of SnagIt from Techsmith and since SnagIt's capture functionality is available as a COM interface it's quite easy to expose the functionality in other...

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I'm working on a plug in for LiveWriter that does screen captures with SnagIt and embeds the content directly into the post. Works great, but now I'm to the point that I want to set up some configuration options and serialize them. I use a few simplified serialization functions in my utility...

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