A good number of Windows Live Writer plugins come as one or more files. Now what? How do you install a Windows Live Writer plugin without an installer? How do you install it manually?
Locate the Windows Live Writer folder
On most installations Windows Live Writer will be installed in C:\Program Files\Windows Live Writer\ (click to securely open […]
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If you use a kind of WYSIWYG editor like Windows Live Writer, inserting a link is a question of; copy URL, click Insert Link, paste your URL and enter the information.
If you use a plain text editor it is a question of; copy URL, type HTML for the link, paste your URL, enter information.
Insert Links […]
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Users of Internet Explorer and the excellent Windows Live Toolbar have a Blog It button. By default it goes to the Spaced editor but once Windows Live Writer is installed you can set if to use that instead.
With Windows Live Toolbar being an Internet Explorer only addon Firefox users which stumble upon a bloggable page […]
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There is an option for Microsoft Visual Studio which lets you copy source code, syntax highlighting, and line numbers as HTML.
If you did so and were to paste that clipboard contents into Windows Live Writer it will remove all the markup that makes the source code look like source code.
Bryan Likes‘ PasteSourceAsHtml is the Windows […]
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Continuing the completion of Windows Live Writer as a complete blogging tool is the Acronyms Plugin.
When you want to use an acronym you hit the Insert Acronyms… button in the Insert sidebar menu of from the Insert dropdown menu.
Enter your acronym and hit search. The plugin uses two web services to report on the […]
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