Blog With Windows Live Writer

Are you a blogger? What's your favorite way to publish your blog? Maybe you just use the traditional way to publish, that is goto the blog website, login, goto the editer page and then type your words. Well, this is a good way, but maybe there are some ways better, like using a off-line blog software. Windows Live Writer is just this kind of software.

The newest vision of Windows Live Writer is 1.0, but this software is still in beta. This is a very powerful tool, just like most Microsoft software. This tool support most BSP type, like Windows Live Space, which is also microsoft's, Wordpress, Blogger, and many other types. I have two blogs, one is blogger and the other one is based on wordpress, so this software can just fit my need. You can do many special effect with it, and I think of course you can find out them. But there is just one thing that I am not so happy with, that is you can not insert picture directly to some web services. You will have to upload you pictures first, and then copy the URL of the picture and paste them to Windows Live Writer, which is rather troublesome.

Unlike most microsoft's softwares, Windows Live Writer is free, you can run it immediately after installation.

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Pixie, Tool For Picking Color

Are you a web designer or painter? Is there sometime that you find a color you like but you just can not pick it out for your own design? You may try many ways but you just can not find out the exact value of your color, but just similar, which is rather annoying. You can find out the value of your color with Adobe Photoshop, of course, but that is too much -- what you want is very simple. Well, maybe what you are looking for is this: pixie.

Pixie is a small tool for picking color from anywhere in your computer. After installation, run it, simply point to the place where your colour is, pixie will show you the colour in many ways, like rgb, hex and html. I just use these three functions, but there are also other values, like cmyk and hsv. After knowing the value, you do not need to remember it and then type it, just press Ctrl+Alt+C for copying html value, Ctrl+Alt+X for mixer, and Ctrl+Alt+Z for magnifier.

Pixie is a free software, you can use it what ever you want, without having to register.

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Google Pinyin, Way to Learn Chinese

Like some people in China learn some kinds of foreign language, people in other countries may want to learn chinese. Chinese is really a hard language. No spelling, no "a,b,c", but chinese is just composed by some strange strokes. But as China become more and more important in the world's stage, chinese may be more and more useful. So it is just ok to learn chinese. What's more, China is a very old and mystery country, it is very attractive, and what you should know a country first is to learn it's language, that is chinese.

Like all the other studies, you can learn chinese with a computer. But now what is very awkward appears, you do not know how to input chinese with a standard windows keyboard. That is right, there's no way to input chinese directly from keyboard like english. What you need is a software, which is used to input, that is called ime, which means input method editor.

Ime is a technology to resolve input problem for east asian, whose language can not be typed directly from keyboard to computer. You must use an ime to input. There are many different software to do this job. A good ime software means you can input easily and quickly, and maybe even more correctly. I suggest you use google pinyin as your ime software.

Google pinyin, as it's name, is a product of google. There are 5 big advantage for google pinyin:

1.Intelligent suggestion. Google pinyin can highly guessed out what you want to type, and automatically give you the best suggestion, which means you do not need to manually choose words every time. But because of the peculiarity of chinese language, you will have to choose sometimes. But google pinyin is already good enough.

2.Popular words. With a traditional ime software, it is very hard to type some popular words. You will have to choose different characters nearly every time. As google pinyin is based on search engine, he knows the very words that are popular, and with automatically update, you can type out most popular words easily.

3.Internet synchronization. If you have a google account, you can synchronize your onw dictionary with google server, which means no matter where are you, you can easily use your own dictionary, which is very personalized.

4.One key search. You can search with google as you are typing. But i do not think this function is very useful. I seldom use it. I'd rather open firefox and browse to google, and then search.

5.English suggestion. If google pinyin finds that you are typing an english words, he can suggest you with the correct spelling, just like typing assistant. But not so powerful as typing assistant, which is made to type english.

As google pinyin is so good a software, you do not need to hesitant any more. Go and download it!

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Gigaget,More Than Fast

Gigaget is a free download software, which can speed up your download by 7-10 times. but that is not the only key point of this software, Gigaget can automatically search resources in the internet, which means that it can deal with dead link. if the original link is unable to use, gigaget will use other alternative resources to download automatically.

gigaget not only can download links of http, but also some other types. like ftp, and even BT. so you can use gigaget as your only download software.Gigaget support IE, firefox and maxthon. after installation, you can set gigaget as the default download method for your browser.

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Pspad,new kind of notepad

Maybe you need to do some work with text edit everyday. What you want is just type some words, so you may do not need a heavy word process software, and what you need is a place to do something with text. Windows notepad is the very software for this, but it is too poor to use. Are there something better? Of course yes. Ultraedit is this kind of software, and it is called "the best text software". But ultraedit is not free, you will have to spend $49.95 to buy it. Well, if you have a advanced requirement of text edit, may it is right price and software, but not for most of us. What we need is a powerful text editor, but not so expensive. Pspad is just this kind of software.

Pspad support many file types of language, with syntax highlighting. There are clip, macro and many kinds of templets to automate you work. Pspad is also integrated with ftp client, hex edit, project, macro recorder, search in active file and other files, code explorer... Many functions are waiting for you to discover. And also, pspad also support many different languages, like chinese, japanese, french, geek and so on. You can find these language files in the official web site. Pspad also support many kinds of files, like c++, html, css, fortran and so on.

Well, now that this text editer is so powerful, why do not you download and try it? Current vision is 4.5.2. Enjoy!

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EverNote, Organize All of your Stuffs!

Evernote is a kind of software to keep all of your information. it is easy for you to save you informations in many kinds of format, and you can easily access them and search them, which means you can well organize all of your information.

Evernote support many softwares, like IE, Firefox, Outlook and etc.. you can easily keep things in the other softwares to Evernote. Besides, you can also type them by yourself, like information of your friends, phone numbers, to-do list, and even shopping list, if you like. there are many kinds of template in the offical web site of Evernote.

there are two kinds of Evernote, free vision and plus vision, which is a shareware, cost $49.95. i think free vision is just ok for most users, who do not need the advance feature.

Who Is Wrong？

Indian companies going against the anti-piracy steps of Microsoft in India. We are not against piracy but against the way Microsoft is working to stop it. Moreover, if they want to do business in India then they should change their prices and policies according to the Indian market.

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It is stealing. Softwares are also production of hard work. Any people who want to use a software should follow the TOS of the author, because it is the author who made the software, its his copyright. Using piracy software is a kind of stealing. But it is strange that people in indian think it is Microsoft's mistake because Windows is too expensive so they will have to use piracy Wndows. Well, there are cheap softwares, for example, Linux, every body can use some kind of linux for free, this is cheap, why do not the indians use? Maybe they just feel so good to become thieves. And i just feel sorry to them all.



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FastStone Capture, Not Free Anymore

Faststone capture is a very good screen-capture utility. Easy to use, friendly interface, and powerful editor for image you just captured. Fast stone capture was a free ware. Yes, was, it was free with vision 5.3, while now it becomes a shareware, which will cost you $19.95.

I'm very sorry about this, but i can understand the author. Programming is never a easy job, and we all have to earn a living with something we do. Make a good software, and sell it, is the way programmers live. So i think i can understand the author, although i am sorry about unable to use the newest vision. I will not buy it, because it is too dear for me, a poor guy in a developing country. I will have to use some other softwares instead, or just use the old free vision.

Free Launch Bar, Organize Your Programes

Having installed too many programms in your computer? Then there is a new problem comes: how to find them in a short time. The quick launch bar is a good idea, but the quick launch bar is just too poor to use. No good looking, can't be well organized, and opened very slowly. Maybe the start menu? Well, i can not see any differences between start menu and the quick launch bar. Is there some way to solve this question? Yes, look, here comes a very good software, free launch bar.

What is free launch bar? Free launch bar is a very good software to substitute the traditional windows quick launch bar. What's the differences between free launch bar and windows quick launch bar? Maybe this image can explain it clearly.

Free launch bar, as its name, is free. There is a better edition, true launch bar, but you will have to pay for it.

Typing Assistant--Easy Way to Type

Having trouble with typing? Is there sometime that you just forget how to spell the exact word you want to use? Maybe what you need is a software that can remind you with letters you remember as you type. Well, typing assistant is one of this kind of software, who can just tell you how to spell word as you type.

Typing assistant is a freeware, which means that you need not to pay for it. Some big software like microsoft word can also remind you will the correct way to type, but ms word is never free.

There are some software in east asia called ime, which is used for input characters to computer, because the word they use can not easily typed with the stander keyboard. And some of them are quite good, you can speed up your typing very much. But i find it is just hard to find a software for english like them. Typing assistant is also not a so good software like google pinyin for chinese, but it is already good enough for personal use.

But Typing Assistant is not all good, for example, Typing Assistant does not support firefox and openoffice.org writer, which I use very offen. So I will have to type in notepad, and then copy and paste them to other softwares, like firefox and openoffice.org. I hope the author can improve this problem in next vision.

Update1:
well, i will have to correct myself. i downloaded a vision of Typing Assistant 1.0, and V1.0 is really a freeware. but now the newest vision is 2.1, and the newest vision is not free again! so if you want to use a Typing Assistant for free, you will have to try to find V1.0. can't find yourself? well, contact with me and i can give it to you.


Update2:
As so many people emailed me about this software, I have upload it to Box.net, and now you can get it here: http://www.box.net/shared/f20q6p64ok

First post edited in OpenOffice.org Writer

Using Microsoft office for such a long time, i really want to use a different kind of office software. For example, OpenOffice.org? So i just downloaded an installation file from www.download.com, and installed OpenOffice.org writer, as shown below.


This blog was edited in OpenOffice.org writer, and i did not find anything uncomfortable. But it is really do not fit my habit, which was Microsoft-like. People in china do not have too much idea of copyright. For them, pirate vision is just the same as something you have bought. And Microsoft office is really good, so they'd rather to use a pirate copy of Microsoft office than free OpenOffice. And the same as Linux and Windows. But condition is becoming better and better, the rate of pirate in china is just becoming lower and lower. I hope there will be one day, softwares in most people's computer are free ware or software they bought, but not pirate vision.

Flashget,the best download software

FlashGet is a very good download software. I have tried many download softwares, but flashget is the best . It can speed up your download by 6-10 times, according to the offical web site , which is http://www.flashget.com/index_en.htm . flashget can not only speed up you download speed ,but also can well organize your download files. And flashget can support many kind of different download ways . for example , BT, which is very popular these days , and even eMule , in its newest vision. So what you need to do is just install one software , then you can download any kind of popular staffes.