I'm giving this free Microsoft blogging download a spin.

The good folks at Lifehacker raved about it, and it's been recently updated so  I'm hoping it's going to be better than faffing around on the Blogger website.

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.

I'll report back later!

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, but let's see if it works....

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.

I hope this can be sorted out, because the editor is infinitely faster than using Blogger...

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I'm loving this fantastic replacement Explorer program for Windows - check it out!

Directory Opus Features
Basically a super-turbo charged file manager and Windows explorer replacement, Opus lets you set up your workspace exactly how you want it, with options galore letting you set up user-definable file display views, customisable toolbars and menus with tabbed folder views and file trees.

We felt the love for the tabbed folder views immediately - with a neat row of tabbed windows reducing a plethora of open windows on our desktop. The love kept on giving too, with the built in ZIP and RAR clients immediately impressing us with their ability to seamlessly open and view the contents of compressed folders.

It did such a good job of it that we immediately made it our default ZIP client. Nice one.

 Read the full review here

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