Tools that can help you write Blogs more easily

There are many software productivity tools out there from which you can be efficient in writing your blog entries, personally the following freewares have proven to be invaluable:

1. Screenshot Captor is a program for taking screenshots on your computer. It's different from other screenshot utilis in several notable ways:
• Optimized for taking lots of screenshots with minimal intervention.
• Smart autonaming of files, and ability to embed textual comments in files.
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2. WordWeb is a free English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows, and can be used to look up words from within almost any program in just one click. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
3. ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured
   blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post
   to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are
   browsing, take notes, and post to your blog. Since this is an add-on for Firefox, obviously, you need to be running Firefox web browser to be using this.
   
4. Inkscape -
   An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to
   Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable
   Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
5. Picasa - Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps
   you:
   
• Locate and organise all the photos on your computer.
• Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
• Share your photos with others through email, prints and on
  the web: it’s fast, easy and free.
• And more importantly for me, Picasa has a feature that allows somebody to blog photos directly from inside the program to Blogger. This comes in very handy because there is no other way to publish photos directly to your blog in Blogger other than that using Blogger's own web-based blog publishing tool. Other than that you can use a 3rd party online image provider like imageshack to link your images, but its a little bit too cumbersome.

Most of these tools by the ways are not merely limited to blogging
purposes, as they are very useful as well in other day-to-day computing work.

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