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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
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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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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