Windows Live Writer is FANTASTIC!

I use Live Writer to maintain this blog and I've tried a huge number of blogging clients but Live Writer is simply the best I've ever used.  Like Steve I wish there were a Mac client so my friends with Macs could also use it  too :)

The new Technical Preview provides a number of new features:

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements
  • Upload videos to Soapbox
  • Image cropping and tilting
  • Additional border styles
  • Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
  • Support for centering images
Editing Enhancements
  • Auto Linking
  • Smart quotes/typographic characters
  • Word count
UI Improvements
  • Revised main toolbar
  • Tabs for view switching
  • Improved category control with search/filtering

You can download the Technical Preview from HERE