Windows Live Writer 2009 released…
As I mentioned in my last post, I just got a new PC and have been in the process of loading up all my old software. In doing so, I discovered Windows Live Writer 2009 has been released.
There's a whole slew of new features, but the one thing I noticed immediately was that there's much better support for BlogCFC. In the previous version, none of the preview stuff would work. In the new version both the preview and the "Edit using theme" feature both work. There's also plug-ins to auto-notify Twitter and many more related to photos and videos. The new upgrade looks really good so far.
Here's what's new:
- New border treatments (including Instant Photo)
- Crop and tilt photos
- Insert multiple photos
- Toolbar alignment commands enabled for images
- Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
- Insert and publish video to YouTube
- Additional spell checking languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
- Server-side tagging (for supported blogs)
- Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
- Twitter, Digg and Flickr Plug-ins
- Improved blog account setup
- Lightbox and Windows Live Spaces inline preview support
- Improved category control: adding categories, type-down filtering
- Tabbed view switching
- AutoLink glossary
- Smart quotes/typographic characters
- Word count
- Support for bidirectional languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)
- Tabs for view switching
- Updated look and feel
Firefox generating error when opening URL when already running…
Last week my old dev system bit the dust. Since the box was 6 years old, I figured I was better off replacing the unit rather than repairing it—especially considering it was the motherboard that got fried (which would have meant replacing the motherboard, CPU, video card and possible power supply since all components were older technology.)
Anyway, in the process of setting up my system, I finally thought it was time to change from using Firefox 2 as my default browser and use Firefox 3 instead. I've been running both browser simultaneously for a while, but had just kept using FF2 mainly for development purposes.
When I initially set up the new box, I used the same --no-remote technique I had previously blogged about so that I can have both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 open at the same time. However, whenever I'd try to open up a link from Outlook when Firefox 3 was already running I'd see the following error:
After doing some Googling and not finding anything that matched my issue, it finally occurred to me that the problem might be stemming from the fact that I was initially opening my Firefox 3 instances with the --no-remote switch still.
Sure enough, after removing the --no-remote switch from my quick launch icon, the error went away. I know only start Firefox 2 with the --no-remote switch.
So, if you're seeing the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." message when you try opening up links from applications (such as your e-mail client) make sure you're not opening your instance of Firefox initially with the --no-remote switch.