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Twitter Blackbird Pie, the recently announced official Twitter feature that lets you embed tweets into a web page or blog post, is now available to Windows Live Writer users by way of a new plugin. With Twitter’s Blackbird Pie website, you can paste in a tweet’s URL to general embed code to place…

Scott Lovegrove, creator of the Tweetmeme plugin for Windows Live Writer, is back with two more Tweetmeme plugins for WLW users, one specifically for Wordpress.com. First up: the Tweetmeme “follow” plugin. This plugin adds the Tweetmeme follow button to your post. The button comes in three styles:…

In preparation for WordCamp Seattle, Windows Live Writer developer Brandon Turner created three new plugins designed to work specifically with WordPress blogs. The first plugin lets you easily change the title and tagline of your blog (by default, it reads “Just another Wordpress.com weblog”).…

I can’t believe I didn’t know this existed! As I blogger, I live in Windows Live Writer almost as much - if not more - than I live in email. So how did I not know that there’s a Windows Sidebar gadget just for Live Writer? Awesome. This is my new must-have for all my Windows machines.  The…

If you’re a flickr user, there are three plugins that you need to know about: Flickr4Writer, Flickr4Outlook, and Flickr4Word. I had mentioned the Flickr4Writer plugin before when I blogged about some of my favorite plugins for Windows Live Writer - it helps you to insert flickr photos into your blog…

Zemanta is a technology used by bloggers that inserts automatic links, adds relevant photos, adds links to related articles, and automatically tags your posts. The technology is available either as a browser plugin or a server-side plugin that supports either WordPress, Movable Type, or Drupal.…

Frank Arrigo recently revealed his trick for adding Digg buttons to the posts on his blog: he does it with Windows Live Writer. If you haven’t seen that option in your version of Windows Live Writer, that’s because the option is only available in the recently released Windows Live Writer Technical…

Wow – talk about a cool plugin! I just read about the new WLW plugin called Twitter from Windows Live Writer over on Digital Inspiration, and I immediately had to install it. This new plugin for WLW users gives you the option to notify Twitter as soon as you publish a blog post. Of course, you…

Windows Live Writer has got to be, hands down, one of the most popular tools out of the whole Windows Live lineup. I know many a blogger (myself included) who can't live without it. That's why the recent release of the Windows Live Writer Tech Preview has everyone talking. The Windows Live Writer…

There's a new plugin for Windows Live Writer that will help you easily insert a screen capture into your blog post. There's no installer for the plugin yet (next week it will be in the Gallery), but it's easy to implement. You just need to download this file and copy it to C:\Program Files\Windows…