Mac Blogging Clients, or Why I Love Windows Live Writer

April 12, 2010 | By Admin In Technology |

This may be way off topic, but I have to say something. I’, saying it here rather than at iTechGear for a reason – JAMM has a wider audience.

I really love Windows Live Writer and am missing a compatible tool for the Mac side of my Unibody MacBook. I am currently involved in a Time Machine backup that I have delayed for far too long. How long..? 9.26GB long. That’s how long. Its going to be at it for a while, and if I stop it and boot into my Windows 7 Boot Camp partition, its never going to get done. While I’ve been on the Mac side lately, Time Machine won’t backup over WiFi (which is good and bad…).

Yes, I could use things like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop to run WLW, I don’t like the performance hit and quite honestly, using your Boot Camp partition via either Fusion or Desktop messes with the activation and causes problems when you want to boot natively.

So, I’m kinda stuck. I have projects to complete and love, loVE, LOVE Windows Live Writer for blogging on JAMM (and other blogs, though I can’t use it for iTechGear, as the host doesn’t support it…). Unfortunately, I can’t find any app on the Mac side that reads and writes WLW compatible files; and Microsoft doesn’t make a Live Writer version for Mac.

The writing staff here at JAMM has been yacking about WLW on and off for the last few days and we haven’t been able to identify any alternatives. If you have any ideas, I know there are a lot of people here that would love to hear about them. Why don’t you join in the discussion and give us your thoughts?

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