Ok, I have stumbled on a new (new for me remote blog client) that I feel is as good or better than Windows Live Writer.

The latest version supports dasBlog (including images without FTP) it does not use RSD (Really Simple Discovery) but since complete support of dasBlog is built in, that does not matter!

(Note: BlogDesk expects you to have the older 1.8 series dasBlog installed which BlogDesk only supports images with FTP, so re-edit your blog profile and tell it to support direct images and it will, older verions of dasBlog may not work as well, but the current dasBlog build 1.9+ is 100% supported)

This post was made with BlogDesk!

Your need to check it out! BlogDesk

Except from site:

"No need to use those annoying HTML Tags in the WYSIWYG editor. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. Even publishing simultaneously to multiple blogs is a matter of a click.

With the ImageWizard you can not only insert images to your posts - it's possible to edit them as well (crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc., see Examples). Even Thumbnails can be created - the preview will be shown in the blog and a click on the image will open it in its original size (just like here in the right column). Linking and uploading those images is automatically done by BlogDesk."

DasBlog 1.9.6264.0 now supports CoComment   

Track: coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you're following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation.

Share: Publish your conversations to your blog in a click, or send them to your friends via email.

Explore: Check out the top commenters, what articles and posts are generating the most comments, who's  commenting on the same conversations as you.

Cross Post from http://dasblog.info

With the current release we provide dasBlog buttons and badges for the first time. The whole set with many other formats including png is available here.

Simple jpg:

Reflection jpg:

Simple gif:

Reflection gif:

 Cross Post from http://dasblog.info

OK today, I have started updating http://dasblog.info for the new 1.9 info and I thougt there would be no better time to try out Windows Live Writer.

(Windows Live™ Writer is a free, downloadable beta program from Microsoft that will help you include rich content in your blog posts and know exactly what your blog will look like.)

Well I love Windows Live Writer but today's postings were not as easy as I thougt they would be!

Everybody is raving about Windows Live Writer, and it is great but it does have some pros and cons.

Pros:

• You can include images without an FTP upload setup. (yawza that beats Blogjet here!)
• Super easy to setup with dasBlog 1.9 (but not hard with earier versions)
• There is no easier blog post engine, and I have tried about 20...

Cons: If these are fixed I will be a super WLW fan!!!

• You can't refresh the category list - (the only thing I was able to do to get a refresh was delete the blog site and reinstall, apparently this only happens if you have a big cat list!)
• The category list just scrolls on and on down the page, - (I can live with that?)
• You can't add a new category with a post -(this is very important to me, as I use categories as menu items at http://dasblog.info and almost every item has a new category)
• You can't delete a post, -

Deleting would not be important, but the system throws an error if you manually delete a post at the blog site and then try to repost the same data again from WLW. You can work around this by cycling to another blog account and back and the WLW post id will clear.

• You can not include png images??? - (I could not include the new dasblog png badges in a post today!)

Cheers

OK it's official the dasBlog team has released dasBlog 1.9!

See Scott's post for all the details.

P.S. I appreciate the nice words there about your's truly!

Cheers

Tom

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