WLW Beta 2 vs. Bad Behavior

In yesterday’s post about the new Windows Live Writer Beta 2 I mentioned that I was getting some HTTP 403’s when trying to publish. Tonight I decided to dig a little deeper into that.

First, I disabled mod_security on my web server. No difference.

Second, I disabled the Bad Behavior plugin that is a key

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Google Reader – Offline

Continuing on from last night’s post: 

Through the wonders of Google Gears, Google Reader users can now read posts in an offline mode.  How cool is that?

Google Gears and Offline Web Applications

Have you caught wind of Google Gears yet?

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using [...] JavaScript APIs

Did you catch the key part there? Web applications that can be run offline? If this is done right, it could really put a new spin

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A Pair of Windows Live Updates

Windows Live Writer is now up to Beta 2. The new look and feel is definitely the first thing you’ll notice, but there are tons of other new features and changes.

And look — auto-save:

Huzzah!

Inline spell checking is sure to be quite popular (I know I’ll be loving it). Folks just dying for tables

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Paint.NET 3.08 Beta Released

Paint.NET v3.08 beta was announced today. In general, this is mostly a maintenance or bug-fix release. I’m very happy to say that one bug that was driving me nuts has been resolved:

Fixed: Pasting an image from Office 2003 applications now works (e.g. Excel 2003 graphs).

The funny thing is, I didn’t even know

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