{"id":144,"date":"2009-03-02T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-03-02T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T01:25:00","slug":"testing-windows-live-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/testing-windows-live-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Windows Live Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m giving this free Microsoft blogging download<\/a> a spin.<\/p>\n

The good folks at Lifehacker raved about it<\/a>, and it’s been recently updated so  I’m hoping it’s going to be better than faffing around on the Blogger website.<\/p>\n

So far, I’m liking what I’m seeing – it’s a lot more powerful than Blogger, provides nippy previews and has quite a few handy image editing tools too.<\/p>\n

I’ll report back later!<\/p>\n

Five minutes later: OK, it’s starting to piss me off big time. It’s converting apostrophes to question marks for no good reason. I found what looks like a fix here<\/a>, but let’s see if it works….<\/p>\n

Ten minutes later: This is frustrating. I turned off the “Replace” options under Tools | Options | Editing as instructed, but now just some of the apostrophes are coming out as question marks.<\/p>\n

I hope this can be sorted out, because the editor is infinitely faster than using Blogger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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