From the time that Windows Live Writer was released, in December of 2008, there’s been a consistent request that Windows Live Writer be a portable application so that you can use it on just about any USB device.

The request was made over and over to the Windows Live Writer development team, but 20 months after the release of Windows Live Writer diehard bloggers still not have been provided with an answer to their requests.

Instead an independent person decided to create a workaround that would allow Windows Live Writer to be placed onto a USB drive/jumpdrive; essentially making it portable. The workaround solution launches Windows Live Writer in a encapsulated environment, it captures the registry, data directories in various other settings that would normally be written to the local PC, captures that and stores it locally on the USB drive.

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I’m not saying that I need to, or that it’s an issue, but in the case that you decide you’re going to move to something more elaborate, or if you just need to be able to completely reinstall Windows Live Writer, I collected enough information here to attempt to help out the average Windows Live Writer [desperate user].

I’m not stating that you can’t go to the the Windows Live Writer support forum and look it up, but this is more for general purpose and personal use; it’s also more than you’re going to get ‘stock’ from the support team from Microsoft.

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When I was going through the new Wave 4 beta stuff I downloaded the Microsoft Outlook Connector and installed [actually] by mistake.

I didn’t actually realize what it was until I restarted Microsoft Outlook. It’s Microsoft’s attempt to generate a Xobni clone straight from the clanging bowels of Microsoft.

It’s an initial offering to attempt to keep the non-Xobni users of the world quasi-happy with Microsoft Outlook. The problem is that it’s got a cheapness about it and not well thought out.

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Since I downloaded the Windows Live Writer beta, I

have been in almost complete disgust with the lack of attention it received in the 18+ month vacation from development.

While I think Windows Live Writer is the best offline blogging application on the Internet, it seems to be missing it’s market; it’s missing that die hard blogger spirit that sparked the development of the application in the first place.

It’s almost like the people who write Windows Live Writer don’t understand what they’re doing, or don’t care, or don’t understand the drive, inspiration and needs of the bloggers anymore…

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I really enjoy Working with AutoHotKey; It’s an awesome tool.

The beauty of the application/scripting language is to find things that are repetitive and then if it’s something that can be scripted- do it.

So if you’ve got to use Microsoft Communicator at work to set your status in and out of the office every time you leave, or are unavailable; this AutoHotKey script is going to help you…

…it helps me- and I’m sharing.

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I just don’t know how anyone finds anything on Bing. If Bing were a paddle it couldn’t find water. I do very simple searches and it never finds anything I’m searching for.

I see the commercials on TV about Bing is supposed to be a solution engine; BAH! Perhaps in Bizarro world- not in this universe.

This is my example, another one, of why Bing is horrible, and it’s also an example why Microsoft is a fool to continue using it.
Hell, I don’t why anyone would use it… but moving forward…

I like to help out the users in the Windows Live Writer forums, just to attempt to be helpful and point people in the right direction.

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As the fight wages on in the world of Smartphones and applications, Google seems to have hit the nail on the head with the Google App Inventor.

So you can imagine what Google was thinking a year ago when they released this a select few to play around with and inject a spark of innovation to the world of Android. You need something to make it fun and it has to be easy.

Now, some are arguing it’s not powerful enough to get anything done that’s powerful, but is it enough o do simple tasks and provide a basic service – apparently.

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June 30th, Microsoft announced that the their latest release, KIN, had a main stream market coronary. Only 2 months ago the youngling was released to the market; to the wild. The young device just wasn’t able to survive.

I found a bit of entertainment; I was seeing commercials for Microsoft KIN on TV and radio spots- knowing that Microsoft had decided to pull the KIN from the market only 2 months after releasing it to the wild.

At this point, it’s common knowledge that Microsoft is failing/falling in the smartphone market. It’s almost a given that if the new Windows 7 mobile operating system doesn’t have a killer application/use when it releases- it’s not going anywhere.

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