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Windows Live Writer Beta 2 released
When we posted that the commercial WSIWYG blogging application Post2Blog had gone freeware, one reader pointed out that it looked a lot like Windows Live Writer. While Post2Blog had a number of features missing from Live Writer, (and still does), Microsoft has released a major update to Live Writer with support for:
- Live spell checking
- Table editing
- Categories, tags, and labels (depending on your platform)
- Available in 6 languages
- Support for new APIs
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Jubei said 8:38AM on 6-01-2007
Downloaded and installed it on top of the old version without any problems. The new Beta looks nice but I have not managed to try using it. Once up and running, the new Beta 2 seems to REALLY eat up CPU cycles on my PC (using XP)and has already frozen my PC twice. Is it just me?
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Jubei said 9:59PM on 6-01-2007
After spending 4+ hours, I discovered that on my PC, Live Writer Beta 2 triggers svchost.exe into running my CPU at 100%. I can't seem to get it back to what it was before. The solution seems to be to turn off windows auto update. So beware.
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awflasher said 8:09AM on 6-26-2007
It seems that the live writer1.0 is still in beta?
is there any stable release of lw1.0?
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