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AutoHotKey: Windows Live Writer Wave 4 Import AutoLinks

imageIt’s no secret, Windows Live Writer is a great program, but as with every program, it has a few missing spots. And with the Wave 4 beta being just released and seeing what little improvements have actually been made to the program, it can always use a few more.

One of my issues was the ‘autolinking’ in Windows Live Writer and importing links.

To define what that is, Windows Live Writer has a function to allow you to assign a word a hyperlink, and every time you enter/type that word it gets an active link. But there’s no option to import links, so importing/creating a link one at a time via Windows Live Writer is going to be really cumbersome.

I didn’t like that idea… I came up with my own solution.

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Screenshot Tour of Windows Live Writer 2009

Windows Live Writer screenshot tourI was thinking the other day about Windows Live Writer and the fact it’s a great program and it’s surprisingly from Microsoft.

It’s interesting though as you’re making a decision about offline blogging programs you almost always have to download and install the program to see what’s actually being offered and this is [to me] a hassle; it should be easier than that.

So as a favor to you offline bloggers, I’m offering a tour of all the features of Windows Live Writer without having to install it.

 

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Windows Live Writer 2009 is Bad for Blog Site Bandwidth

Copy of image_thumb34If 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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Defeating Windows Live Writer Achilles heel: No indention

image Anyone who’s using Windows Live Writer knows that it’s got the BLOCKQUOTE option, but people like myself really enjoy the option or the feature to INDENT information [to draw attention to it] and BLOCKQUOTE just doesn’t cut it in that area.

The intention is to indent, not quote the text.

If I was a programmer I’d create a plug-in and share it with others so fast, but alas…

So here’s my resolution to this issue.

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