Testing Microsoft’s LiveWriter

Thanks to Bonnie Sainsbury at Connect the Dots for recommending this package. She always has great ideas of time savers that I need.  I was looking for a way to write my blog offline and then upload and publish it when I get to port.  I’m heading off on a cruise for 3 weeks and I don’t need a thousand dollar Internet bill at the end.

So, I’m testing my old HP Photosmart R817 camera with a 2 GB SD card for videos and Microsoft’s LiveWriter Software.

I think the camera could be upgraded.  I just saw a couple of 10 mp cameras at The Source.  That’s twice what this one is, as well as I may want a stabilizer.  I’m hoping to get some fun videos on the ship and maybe a few interesting ones on the beaches….

I found loading the video to YouTube was VERY SLOW so unless I can find a free Internet cafe, that may not happen.

Setting up LiveWriter to work with my Blog was very simple – much simpler than the instructions Wordpress has for setting up emailing to your blog.  AND Microsoft Installer even told me where I had to go in Wordpress to change an administrator setting to get it to work.

So, I’m down to the last part – which is uploading this to my blog.  I’m going to try it now and will let you know how it went.

Ciao for now.

PS

Well, that was REALLY SIMPLE.  I pressed the Publish button and Tah Dah, there it was on my blog.  That was pretty quick.  It may make up for the YouTube speed.  I would highly recommend this package to bloggers everywhere…..

Tags: livewriter, microsoft, offline, software testing, youtube