gHacks technology news » windows live writer http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Windows Live Writer Portable http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/09/windows-live-writer-portable/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/09/windows-live-writer-portable/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:12:24 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6890 Joshua’s post about Windows Live Wave 3 sparked an interesting discussion in the comments about a portable version of Live Writer. The consensus was that a portable version of Windows Live Writer existed and that users should search for it if they wanted to use it.

Since I’m a nice helpful guy I decided to post the instructions and links in this article so that everyone who wants the portable version but does not have it right now can use it as a reference to install it. A user who wants to make Windows Live Writer portable needs to download two files. The first is Windows Live Writer itself if that is not already installed on the computer.

The second is a portable launcher for Windows Live Writer which has been created by Steve Fosset. The application dates back to last year but is working flawlessly.

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The Windows Live Writer has to be installed on the system while the portable Windows Live Writer launcher obviously not. It can simply be unpacked to the system, either on a hard drive or USB device.

One last step is necessary before the portable Windows Live Writer can be started. The user needs to copy the files of the original Windows Live Writer installation into the folder of the portable application. The default folder of the Windows Live Writer installation is Program Files\Windows Live\Writer.

All the contents of the folder including the subdirectories have to be copied into the \App\WindowsLiveWriter folder of the portable version.

Once the files have been copied the portable version can be launched by double-clicking on WindowsLiveWriterPortable.exe. Windows Live Writer portable takes up roughly 11 Megabytes of space which should not be a problem for modern USB devices.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/09/windows-live-writer-portable/feed/ 9 Wordpress 2.31 is available http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/27/wordpress-231-is-available/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/27/wordpress-231-is-available/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:33:09 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/27/wordpress-231-is-available/ A new version of the blogging plattform Wordpress has been released today. It is an advised update for every webmaster especially for those with register_globals enabled. A security vulnerability was found that can be exploited if that setting is enabled.

The new version fixes more than 20 bugs and security vulnerabilities. Some of the most important fixes include tagging support for Windows Live Writer, a login fix for blogs that have different Wordpress and Blog addresses, faster taxonomy database queries, that emailed posts can now be assigned to the author if the email uses a hyphen and link importer fixes.

I had no troubles overwriting the files of my Wordpress installation to speed up the process. A suggestion would be to backup your blog before you start the process.

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