Blog It with WLW from Firefox

Users of Internet Explorer and the excellent Windows Live Toolbar have a Blog It button. By default it goes to the Spaced editor but once Windows Live Writer is installed you can set if to use that instead. With Windows Live Toolbar being an Internet Explorer only addon Firefox users which stumble upon a bloggable page need to manually kickstart their Windows Live Writer, copy & paste title, copy & paste a quote and finally copy & paste the URL. No more! 1The Blog It with Windows Live Writer Firefox extension adds the same ability to the right-click menu of Firefox. You can also add a button to one of your toolbars if you wish (see left). 2Hitting the Blog It button with or without text selected will first pop up a destination screen where you can select which blog to post to. It then starts WIndows Live Writer with the right blog selected and creates the draft of a new post.
Source: Blog It with WLW Firefox Extension/Addon - Windows Live Writer Plugins A great start, although it doesn’t seem to include images, which the Blog It button on the Windows Live Toolbar does. For that matter a copy and paste manages to keep the images, too.

Blog It with WLW from Firefox

 

Users of Internet Explorer and the excellent Windows Live Toolbar have a Blog It button. By default it goes to the Spaced editor but once Windows Live Writer is installed you can set if to use that instead.

With Windows Live Toolbar being an Internet Explorer only addon Firefox users which stumble upon a bloggable page need to manually kickstart their Windows Live Writer, copy & paste title, copy & paste a quote and finally copy & paste the URL.

No more!

1The Blog It with Windows Live Writer Firefox extension adds the same ability to the right-click menu of Firefox. You can also add a button to one of your toolbars if you wish (see left).

2Hitting the Blog It button with or without text selected will first pop up a destination screen where you can select which blog to post to. It then starts WIndows Live Writer with the right blog selected and creates the draft of a new post.

Source: Blog It with WLW Firefox Extension/Addon - Windows Live Writer Plugins

A great start, although it doesn’t seem to include images, which the Blog It button on the Windows Live Toolbar does. For that matter a copy and paste manages to keep the images, too.

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August 30th, 2006

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