The Windows Live team recently released the beta version of the Windows Live Essentials. I’m trying to go through and mine out/examine as much as I can on the best parts of the application and show the improvements in the latest version.

And as much as some people will hate to hear this, this release of Windows Live Movie Maker [WLMM] is outstanding.

They’ve improved a few things and changed things around with the GUI interface. My opinion of the ribbon interface is beyond distain, but with this application, it’s bearable. And my over all experience with the beta is really optimistic.

I plan on using it a lot more now.

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Windows Live Writer keyboard shortcuts.

If you’re not already aware of the shortcuts in Windows Live Writer, using the keyboard while your creating your blog is more productive than clicking all over the place … Or having to stumble through the Ribbon GUI.

Considering that Windows Live Writer doesn’t freely offer this information in a straight forward way – I found this and wanted to repost this for everyone [and for my own reference] the shortcuts for Windows Live Writer [and the new ones for Wave 4].

If you click HELP in Windows Live Writer you get the HELP Center; it’s not really helpful. I’m, being a techie, searching for the manual- the how to… I’d like to read to see what the options are before I’ve to join a forum and ask a question and wait for a response. Because in reading documentation, you can usually find the answers.

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Microsoft released/push out a beta today of Windows Essentials, which includes Windows Live Writer [beta].

Windows Live Writer from Microsoft is considered to be one of the better/premium blogging editors out there, for offline blogging. Windows Live Writer was release in December of 2008. The last official release of Windows Live Writer was in January of 2009.

As an initial release of Windows Live Writer, and as an offline blog editor- it was a very good start, but it was also a residual effort by a group of programmers that were bought by Microsoft and then re-branded as Windows Live Writer; and I also think that helped them a lot.

My goal here is to see what’s new in Windows Live Writer and to point out things that should’ve been addressed or fixed by this time. And here we’re 18+ months later, the second release of Windows Live Writer.

Here’s what we’ve got…

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Microsoft has been less than giving in the world of blogging. And I was less than optimistic earlier this year when the screenshots of Windows Live Writer – wave 4 were ‘leaked’.

http://www.lehsys.com/2010/02/windows-live-writer-2010-just-minor-updates/

And today, I saw this post from Digital Inspiration and it confirmed my fears.

Microsoft hasn’t done anything to Windows Live Writer to make it any better. They’ve made it more cumbersome, and they’ve added the ribbon interface [which I hate] to ‘enhance’ the GUI.

From the post, there’s a screenshots of the new Windows Live Writer – Wave 4.

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With Windows Live Writer 2010 looking like it’s going to be a few more months away from release, it’s looking unimpressive right now.

Windows Live Writer is the best blogging tool out there, but it’s development is so slow; it’s depressing. It’s no wonder Internet Explorer is taking such a beating.

If you were paying attention to the Twitter world this evening you’ll see that some more screenshots of Windows Live Writer 2010 were published and besides the change in the GUI, not much has changed, and there’s no details from the developers to say different.

Everything is hush right now.

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I guess I’m a ‘dummy’… I guess I just don’t get the problem.

The argument is not so much can a car be self-sufficient, but can you really get away from a GAS fuel; I want to say yes- [to coin a phrase] yes we can.

These are some things, technologies and some people that need to sit down and talk and then create something that is absolutely amazing-  a self sufficient car. A car that requires no fuel; it just works.

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eMclient has presented itself as the alternative to Microsoft Outlook and while it has many competitive features, apparently it’s not ready enough to break the finish line ribbon.

Nothing would make me happier than to be able to post an absolutely outrageous and fantastic review about eMclient, but the latest release of this application, after months of waiting, was a little bit of a disappointment to me.

About a week ago the latest revision of eMclient was released, version 2. I had a previous version of eMclient and when I downloaded the next version [v2] I had some difficulties with the upgrade process. I had e-mailed the authors and I didn’t get an immediate response, but I was able to contact them through Twitter. through Twitter I got a quick response from one of the support staff and they gave me the information that needed to be able to clear out the previous installation completely and then start all over. This wasn’t a big deal because I wasn’t using eMclient as my primary e-mail program.

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