Windows Live Writer : Blogger’s life made easy

Windows says, "Windows Live Writer Beta is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog". Really that. I have been using it recently and found it as an exclusive tool for blogging. But remember, a blogger can use windows live writer only when his blog is build on an organized blog system like WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, Community Server, and many other weblog services.

Windows Live focus themselves on five feature of this writer. They are:

1. Compatible with your blog service
2. WYSIWYG editing
3. Rich media publishing
4. Powerful editing features and
5. Offline editing

Ok. Now I am going to tell you what features of this software impressed me most. First I should mention that, before using Windows Live Writer, I have been using WordPress and I was satisfied on It’s editing options. But now, I get the powerful yet easiest application for writing blog and I’m going to stay on it. Here goes my share of the praise:

1. Offline control on everything: It has powerful editor to write/edit blogs, manage my categories etc on offline. So, it’s fast and easy. Only one thing I have to do is, just tell the writer to publish it. Then it will connect to the blog over online and automatically publish it. Moreover, it lets me see the editing post in different views which helps me to visualize how it will look like at online on my installed theme.
2. Working with images is easiest than ever:  I get rid from the terrible duty of uploading and managing images to use them in a blog post by using writer. It lets me use image in a post and edit them just like MS Word. When an image containing post published, it manages everything.
3. More control on Html elements: The web’s WYSIWYG editors are simply nice. But not comparable with writer’s editing facilities. It’s more than a web editor and near about a word processor. It offers smooth and flexible visual building.  
4. Special inserting tools: Writer’s inserting tools are really rich. It can insert and smoothly manage tables, images, videos, maps(from virtual earth), colorize code snippet(need a free plug-in) etc.
5. Rich and free Plug-ins: Though Windows Live Writer is at beta version yet, it has a large number of free plug-ins. They may solve more than a blogger needs. You can get the plug-ins here:

http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?c=0&bt=9&pl=8&st=5

Moreover, who are blogging on hosted version of WordPress, Blogger etc blogging site, they have some limitations of using plug-ins there. Writer may be a great solution for them. It also provides the ping functionality which is very important for promoting a blog.

See more details here: http://get.live.com/en-us/betas/writer_betas

You can download it from here: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

Hello World!

Hellow World! Now I am here…. at ajaXray.

I have been blogging on wordpress for a short time as http://php4bd.wordpress.com/. Though it’s a nice experience, I am facing some limitations there. Moreover, I have been thinking for a domain to share, test and explore my works and experience on an unique web identity. As a result, I get the domain ajaXray.

Behind the name : The name “ajaXray” comes from 2 words.

1. ajax: AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. This is the current crazes of web technologies.
2. X-ray: X-rays (or Röntgen rays) are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers. generally, its known to us for it’s power of scanning. I choose the word after ajax to express the interest of exploring the web technologies in such a scanning depth.

And the last thing… this domain+hosting is gifted by my (30%)boss, (30%)teacher and (40%) friend Emran Hasan aka phpfour.today is his birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PHPFOUR.