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Below are just some of the clever features of using the powerful Q10 text editor / blog writer

Full-screen.

Focus on your work. Even if Mark Pilgrim doesn’t like full-screen editors, some of us do.

Live text statistics.

Word, page and character counts are updated live as you type.

Programmable page count formula.

Specify what formula to use for page count calculation. You’re not constrained to the 250 words per page rule anymore.

Customizable look and paragraph format.

Change the colors, line spacing, first line indent, paragraph spacing, font…

Perfectly portable.

A single self-contained executable file. That’s all. Easy to use with a pendrive, so you can carry your writing environment with you everywhere. Q10 will remember the last file you worked on, even if the drive letter assigned to your pendrive changes from computer to computer.

Easy to use timer alarm.

Perfect for timed writing sessions and word wars. When the time is over, it will tell you how many words you wrote in that period.

Spell checker.

You don’t make mistakes. I know it. You know it. But many people do, and Q10 lets them check their spelling.

Notes.

Any paragraph starting with ".." is considered a note. You can get a list of all notes in the current document and jump instantly to any of them.

Target count.

Displays completed percentage. You can choose units: words, pages, lines, paragraphs or characters. If NaNoWriMo is your thing, this is for you.

Partial counts.

Keep track of the extension of current chapter or see how much content you’ve produced in the current writing session. You’re free to use partial counts as you like: up to four counters with customizable labels and units: words, pages, lines, paragraphs or characters.

Auto corrections and quick text.

Unlimited auto correction entries to fix on the fly those persistent typing errors. Unlimited quick texts list for frequently used words or phrases, like character names, places, etc.

Standard and clean text format.

You will be able to open your work with any text editor or word processor. Now and in the future.

Encoding and line endings agnostic.

Reads and writes ANSI and UTF-8 texts, and line endings formats are not a problem for Q10.

Typing sound effects.

Get that typewriter feeling again. For the trivia lovers among you, the typing sounds were taken from the movie "Amélie".

Small, fast and stable.

Less than 360Kb in size, you don’t need huge frameworks or runtimes to use this beauty.

Auto saving.

You can ask Q10 to save your work after some number of new paragraphs, or after some time has elapsed. If you’re really paranoid, set Q10 to save every paragraph.

Q10 is, and will be, freeware. Period. http://www.baara.com/q10

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Another highly priced desktop blogging tool. This one lets you download all your existing posts to your desktop which could be really cool if it also downloaded the comments and/or other options on your weblog. It would be like a hybrid Userland/Wordpress blogging tool.

RocketPost is actually an editor that works with WordPress and is priced like a word processor. All Web-based blogging packages, though good at merging and archiving posts, are terrible editors.

It’s for serious bloggers who write a lot of posts, want a decent editing UI and hate losing posts to a server timeout or browser crash. It’s also a single place to write all your posts for when you have more than one blog or more than one blogging system.

Smart blog software speeds up your blogging.

http://www.anconia.com

RocketPost is smart blog software for power bloggers. It’s the only one with WYSIWYG editing, full local editing and full blog import. And it works just like email, so you already know how to use it.

Speed up your blogging with one-click Technorati, Flickr and Del.icio.us tags, built-in photo editing, instant photo albums, automatic linking to related posts, quote tracking, quick linking, drop caps, pull quotes and a running word count.

FREE!

According to Zoundry, “Raven” is their most advanced WYSIWYG full featured editor that makes posting to your blog easier and faster. It’s as easy to use as a word processor, plus they include simple tools to add links, tags, photos, music and video files, and more.

http://www.zoundry.com

Blogging is about pushing content frequently and consistently to your readers. Writing down ideas as you get them is very important for any blogger. Evernote is a cross platform application that lets you take notes. The best part of Evernote is that your notes are accessible from virtually everywhere – your PC, your Mac, your iPhone, your Windows Mobile and even from the web.

You can clip web pages to your notes and save them for later reference. You can take screen captures and put them in your notes. You can even scan your blogger buddies’ business cards and put them up on Evernote. All of them will be searchable.

The free version gives you a space of 40 MB/month where as upgrading to a premium account for $45/year or $5/month will give you 500 MB monthly upload allowance for your notes. Try it, and you won’t regret using it.

Chances are, if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe.

Richard says: “It’s not especially for blogs but I use evernote and just copy and paste the note from evernote into the WordPress editor. It works fine, no need to make any futher edits.”

Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web.

If you’re a blogger, you’ll be using a variety of applications that aid you in your daily chores. Most of them will be web based, but I bet you’ll find the following the WLW desktop app indispensable once you install, use and get comfortable with it.

I might go months without logging into my WordPress blog because I can create posts and publish them with WLW just as easy as sending an email.

Windows Live Writer is, by a majority, the best desktop blogging client to date. Although initial releases were buggy, the latest edition of Windows Live Writer is much more stable and packs few features that might be really useful for all kinds of bloggers.

Besides letting you crop images, add watermarks and other effects, Windows Live Writer also allows you to add and upload videos to YouTube directly. The power of Windows Live Writer lies in its plugins that can be used to add extra functions to the app – for instance, there’s a plugin called Twitter Notify that can be used to post your blog post links to Twitter once they’ve been published via Live Writer.

All-in-all, Windows Live Writer is a must have application for any blogger using Windows. The reason: it makes everything easier that blogging just appears like double clicking on an icon, writing and hitting the publish button. No messing with anything else.

Get it HERE http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

SOME SOCIAL NETWORK PLUGINS FOR WINDOWS LIVE WRITER:

FLICKR UPLOAD (Download)
Uploads an image to your Flickr account and inserts an inline picture into your post.

DIGG THIS (Download)
Automatically adds a DiggThis badge to your blog post after you publish it from Writer.

TWITTER NOTIFY (Download)
Automatically generates a tiny URL and sends a Tweet about your blog post after you publish it from Writer.