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I have been using Windows Live Writer for a few months now, and I love it.  It lets you build blog posts offline since it is installed on your PC.  It pulls down your blog settings and lets you see what your posts will look like before publishing (though it is sometimes off a bit with the preview).  It lets you insert pictures and uploads them auto-magically for you (no more uploading to your site then linking to them – or worse, linking straight from someone else’s site!).  But it has always had a major shortcoming – no support for categories!

I try to make sure all my posts are categorized correctly, even to the point of creating TOO MANY categories.  But when I use Live Writer, I have to go into WordPress and add the categories after I have published the post.  That sucked!  But lo and behold, Live Writer now supports categories.  This is too sweet. 

AND, it now allows you to set a publish date for your posts.  If you write a few blog posts at a time, this allows you to publish them at a certain date and time.  Very nice!

It does have some little gotcha’s right now (it is in BETA 2), so read over those.  But so far I am having no issues.  Here is the link to the release notes and a download link.  ENJOY!

Vet