I thought I would give Windows Live Writer a second chance. The first time I tried it I couldn't get it to work (I don't even remember why now). So far it was actually really easy to set up. I love the interface too, it's like I'm typing straight into my blog. Pretty cool! It also integrates my categories and tags, two things that were missing from my current method of posting.
I've tried a lot of different client applications to posting to my blog, some work better than others, mostly they were all too much for what I wanted to do. Lately I've just been using Word 2007, which I don't mind at all. The interface is simple, the only drawbacks seem to have been no support that I know of for adding tags and categories. After I publish with Word I usually go in and make add the tags using Technorati Tag Generator and add the category manually. To be honest, I'm too much of a perfectionist not to go to the Movable Type interface and mess around with the post, even if something like this works better.
I'll try using Windows Live Writer for awhile, but so far this one may be a keeper.
I hate to say it, but WLW is the best blog editor out there, bar none.
LOL! That hurt you to admit didn't it? Maybe there's a few things Windows can still do alright! ;)
I will probably still use it, I didn't have to manually edit anything in MT. I don't like how the tags are not spaced between the commas but I'll live with that. I scanned through some of the plugins available and some of them seemed pretty useful too.
I could definitely use a plugin that integrates with Flickr. When I post an image I usually post straight from Flickr, but there's always formatting issues I have to fix after it's posted.
There's definitely a WLW plugin for Flickr. I use it all the time.