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2009/08/04 11:41 AM 

To write or post a blog post when you are not connected to the Internet, offline blog editors are the official solution. With these tools you can easily write, edit, spell-check and manage the content of your blog even though you are not connected to the net.

This might be of particular interest if your internet connection is not reliable, or if you often find yourself in places where there is no internet connection, or if you find that you might want to save draft copies of your post to be completed at another time. Offline editors are the way to go.

Have you ever been typing away into your blogging software program when your internet connection went down or the power went out? Have you lost all of your work and had the agonizing feeling of having to do it all again? When you type your blog post in your browser, there is no way of saving your work.

Here are some great reasons to switch to offline blogging, or great features your offline editor needs to have.

1. No internet reliance
2. Easy to upload images and video
3. Speed
4. Easy to publish to multiple blogs
5. Easy to copy ‘n paste without additional code.
6. Visual-preview
7. Text-alignment
8. Adjustable font styles
9. trackback pings
10. Twitter notifications

Windows Live Writer

Proof that something good can come out of Microsoft. Windows Live Writer allows you to manage and also create a blog on the major blogging platforms: Windows Live, WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, Live Journal, TypePad, and more. Fully integrated with other services of the Live family, Live Writer supports spell checking, and the ability to embed any Type media content, word count, support for multiple languages, plug-ins. It supports the ability to have multiple blog accounts, but not the ability to post to multiple blogs simultaneously. Not supported: tags, pings, multi-blog posting, and Twitter notifications. Although there are a lot of plug-ins written for Live Writer that will give most of this functionality and more.
http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

Bleezer

Bleezer is a free offline blog editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Bleezer has everything you need and it is compatible with every system you might use. Spell check, media content embed, pings, and tag features up and running. No Twitter notifications, or multi-blog posting.
http://alchemii.net/bleezer/

Scribefire

Scribefire is a free Firefox extension. Because Firefox is multiplatform, Scribefire is multiplatform as well. Scribefire supports Typepad, WordPress, LiveJournal, Live Spaces, Tumblr, MovableType, Blogger, and others. You can also insert Flickr and YouTube media inside your blog posts, ping sites and add tags online, and manage multiple accounts sending the same post to multiple blogs. No spell checking functionality, or Twitter notifications.
http://www.scribefire.com/

BlogDesk

BlogDesk is optimized for WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine. BlogDesk lets you embed media content inside your posts, an integrated spell checker with dictionaries for 14 languages, Notebook, Frequently-Used-Phrases and Tags-Generator, and the ability to post to multiple blogs. The in-built Image Wizard lets you upload and edit images without using a different image editing tool. Ping and Twitter notifications not supported.
http://www.blogdesk.org

Qumana

Qumana is available for both Windows and Mac machines. Qumana seems to be the most popular free blog editor amongst multiple OS’s. It even has an ad tool that will allow you  to put a Q-ad on your blog and generate revenue for your site from Qumana. Qumana supports WordPress, MovableType, Live Spaces, Drupal, TypePad, Tripod, Blogger, Squarespace and some others. Main features are: media embed, multi-blog posting, spell check, send pings and tags. No Twitter notifications available.
http://www.qumana.com

Which is your best offline blogging tool? Do you use one that has not been mentioned? If so, why? Leave your thoughts and suggestions in the blog comments below.

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