Trying Out Microsoft LiveWriter
Feel free to ignore this entry, I’m just experimenting with a new blogging tool from Microsoft, called LiveWriter. One of the things with blogging, is that it’s not yet as easy to compose a blog entry as it is to compose a document by using a word processor. The new LiveWriter product (which is beta) aims to change that.
Actually writing the text isn’t too bad with the regular blogging tools. But inserting pictures is not as seamless as it might be. There’s a few options for publishing and formatting pictures with LiveWriter…
At first glance, the tools for dealing with adding images seem like a big step forward over the standard authoring tools that come with blogs.
I’ll be trying out LiveWriter for the next few blog entries at least, to see how well it works… just for this entry. It’s too buggy to use productively.
Something things I’ve noticed right away…
One thing I’ve noticed right way that tagging/categories doesn’t work if you have a lot of categories. First, the list of categories just runs off the bottom of the screen. Also, Live Writer doesn’t present the list of tags/categories in alphabetical order, which is annoying.
The two-way editing features seems to be buggy. (the feature that lets you editor your entry in your blog, and then reload it into LiveWriter) It’s not a fully-automated “round-trip” feature, but it’s easy to use. However, it doesn’t work properly. This renders the software unusable.
Asam Bashir wrote:
http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=98
Posted 08 Sep 2006 at 1:18 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2017
Posted 08 Sep 2006 at 2:50 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Hey Si, why aren’t more companies making NAND flash? If price drops to about $10 a GB, then you could make a 100 GB drive for a laptop for $1000. A drive with 2GB x 50 arranged in raid 0 could theoretically achive a really fast burst rate when connected to SATA II interface, that’d be nice in a laptop
Posted 08 Sep 2006 at 11:59 pm ¶
simon wrote:
NAND Flash will start being incorporated into laptops next year. The next version of Intel’s Centrino platform (Santa Rosa) will have some flash memory in it (not sure how much).
The benefits will come in two phases, as costs starts to fall. First, when it’s cheap enough to have the whole OS boot from flash memory, there should be some major benefits in start-up time. And then, when the cost falls further, there’s the possibility to make a 100% solid state laptop. I/O will be faster, and less prone to losing data due to hard-drive crashes because there’s no moving parts.
I guess some people will be prepared to pay a premium for laptops with fast I/O and more durability, and silent operation; I don’t know how far prices will have before manufacturers try selling NAND flash laptops (Samsung demo’ed one earlier this year with a 32GB hard drive - but it’s not a production unit). Maybe not that far…
Posted 10 Sep 2006 at 9:17 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/06/07/pqui_ssd_flash_drive/
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/06/07/pqui_ssd_flash_drive/
Yep, they”re coming onto the market. Vista will need it badly for respectable boot times on laptops, that’s why Microsoft has been working with Samsung to make hybrid NAND flash drives.
Big Apple day today, a special event, something big will be released, iPod Video and maybe the iPhone - announcement at 10 am PST….
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 12:01 pm ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
iTV - so there you have Apple’s effort to home entertainment.
http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/09/12/apple.debuts.itv/
Bt disappointed, no rev 2 MacBook Pro yet with the Merom based Core 2 Duo 64 bit chip, that’ll be on it’s way along with the iPhone.
Posted 13 Sep 2006 at 11:37 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/sep_2006/event/index.html
Posted 13 Sep 2006 at 11:45 am ¶