I don’t think that isn’t a blogger around that doesn’t have their favorite set of software tools that they use daily basis and would probably be totally lost if they were to one day disappear. I am no different as I have a few programs that I use all the time and for the most part I am more than happy with them.
You’ll notice that I said for the most part because like everything else in this world there are features that I wish each of the programs had; or gawd forbid fix some irritating bug or two.
The first of these tools just has to be FeedDemon which I have been using even before Newsgator set it free. Nick Bradbury has down a hellva job creating what is in my mind one of the seminal blogging tools around. I live in that program and for the most part I never even open up any of the browsers I have installed. That said there are a couple of things I really wish they could add to the program
- support for toolbar bookmarklets links like StumbleUpon, digg.com, reddit etc
- possibly even user defined “action” type buttons so we could add services like reddit on our own
- sub folder support
- and maybe some more view styles - failing that how about an area on Newsgator where others could upload custom view styles.
My second can not live without blogging tool has to be Windows Live Writer; which in my opinion is one of the best pieces of software that Microsoft has released in many years; and it’s free to boot. As for improvements I can only think of the following
- When you insert a picture into your post if by defaults lets you add some descriptive text for the alt tag. As good as that is the feature doesn’t play nice with all browsers. If in addition of adding it as the alt tag text could you also have it added as the title text. As it is you have to change to HTML view and add it in manually.
That pretty well covers my requests for the time being and I am sure I am missing one or two more things. How about all you other bloggers out there. what are your favorite tools of the trade and what would you like to see added to them to make your job a little easier. Feel free to use the comments to list them.
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