I was adding some image to a blog the other day, and as normal, I was using Windows Live Writer to do all my editing for the blog.

I’m starting to see Windows Live Writer age in front of me. The application is fairly young; it’s not mature- it’s really not and you can see this in the various shortcoming of the program, BUT the high side is that it’s still better than most free offerings, so I’m not going to gripe too much. Plug-ins do a lot to pull in the short areas…

My problem was adding a bunch of images to a blog and NOT using Windows LIVE album; I wanted all the images on my blog, hosted with me and presented inline.

But there were some obstacles…

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Windows Live Writer’s best quality is the ability to have plug-ins. If Windows Live Writer didn’t have plug-ins it would be sorely lacking a great many needed functions.

But now it has a new plug-in, one that controls how you put information in to Windows Live Writer when pasting…

Clipboard Live

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I can’t say enough about this plug-in. The author, in just a very short period of time, went from concept to product release in just a few weeks.

SOCIALMAIL is a free option/alternative for XOBNI for Thunderbird. Since the release of XOBNI, it’s been a request of users over and over; tirelessly asking for an option like this and now they’re finally going to have it.

If you’re not  loading it – your missing out…

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As a blogger, trying to get your stuff out there to be seen is an interesting process. You’ve got to be careful of those would be helpers, because they may not be.

When I found ONLYWIRE, I was looking for a way to automatically submit my articles to some of the Internets blog search engines and help drive traffic to my site and ONLY WIRE seemed to fit that bill, but over the last month I just haven’t been that impressed.

It’s not completely automated and it’s not completely consistent either.

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If your using Windows Live Writer, and you copy and paste images [for like taking screenshots], you may be unaware that Windows Live Writer is doing you a disservice by not using an optimized image. Or by not offering a choice when posting images.

When images are pasted in to Windows Live Writer the program inserts them as a PNG file. PNG’s are not as compressed as JPG and therefore resulting in larger images, more storage requirements and more bandwidth; resulting in a slower website.

Take a look at my examples…

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IBM and the Global Intelligent Utility Network

Coalition entrust the governance of the Smart Grid Maturity Model to Carnegie Mellon‘s Software Engineering Institute, whose strengths lie in developing models such as the Capability Maturity Model. …

… “The electric grid is the largest and most complex machine in the world and in places it is now critically overburdened. Impacts of climate change, available technology, and the current economic crisis represent the final tipping point for a much needed overhaul.

The Smart Grid Maturity Model will serve as a strategic framework for utilities, vendors, regulators, and consumers that have a role in smart grid transformation — from technological to regulatory to organizational. ” …

Via IBM: Smart Grid Framework

Green Technology: Smart Grid Maturity Model Governance.

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When you’re working with as many different pieces of software automated basis as I am, you don’t really want to inundate your system with a bunch of orphaned registry entries and ghost software folders that have been tried and partially removed.

What you want to be able to do is load software in a test environment. You want to have the software load onto a temporary system that if any changes are made to the environment they’re not carried over to your personal PC.

The repercussions of testing software on your personal PC can be severe. You never know when someone’s going to create a malicious piece of software or if the software is going to perform in an adverse way.

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With great anticipation, the new version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been released. It’s not a 64-bit application, but it’ll install- and that’s what’s important.

The 64-bit version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking can be downloaded from here. Hopefully, you’re not limited by 5gb cap and can spare some bandwidth, the download is 1.5gb.

Nuance is going to allow you to download the MSI installer for free, but if you want a DVD with the installer, you pay $10. So download the file and burn it your self.

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