InfoFoundry

• Published:November 20th, 2008
• Comments:2 Comments
• Category:Information Architecture, Wordpress, tools

Recently through the magical pipes of RSS there have been quite a few rumblings about offline blogging apps and how they help the process of authoring. SO here’s a quick test run of the new Windows live writer. As you can see the interface has downloaded my theme from the URL I entered, and it hasn’t managed to get the font sizes quite right. I also had to uncheck a whole bunch of crap that Windows tried to bundle at me which kind of annoyed the crap out of me. I only selected to download Windows Live Write, but true to form Microsoft decided that this was probably their only opportunity to cram the latest releases of everything else they have down my throat. I seriously wonder about the monkeys on the typewriters in that company. Its a great idea being able to manage an entire post from the desktop. I’ll have to give Wordpress Gears a go also, as I suspect that it’s probably 10 times more user friendly and won’t try and make install 10 copies of Wordpress MU, Upload a gravatar, Try the 10 top plugins they feel that I must have and send me a complimentary pack of suppositories in the mail – only after I enter all my contact details of course including what flavour of ice cream I like ;).

Here’s a screenshot of the interface from my desktop. You can see that I’m typing in about 6pt font size.