This post is a blatant excuse to use Windows Live Writer, or rather to explain why I used it for that post. I gave up on Performancing because of a dozen or so ‘some failure with an object thingy’-type messages too many. The nice thing about Performancing was the ability to compose off-line. Live Writer does that too, except it also lets you compose using the same styles as your blog. Even better, when it discovered that the blog platform I use didn’t support uploading the map thumbnail, Live Writer popped up a little dialog that allowed me to specify an ftp site to use for the asset instead.
Niggles. I haven’t found how to insert a
rather than a
and Live Writer doesn’t have a nice way to insert technorati tags. But then I guess they’re the kind of thing the SDK is for… more on on10.net.
technorati tags: LiveWriter, Performancing, Tools
Continuing my irratic quest for consistant and standardised use of metadata in image applications (including online services) an update from the land of Vista (that’s Vista as in the forthcoming version of Windows from Microsoft).
I’ve been playing with builds of Vista for quite a while, so it was great to see the Microsoft Photo team blogging about support for metadata in Vistas Photo Gallery applet. Not only is in-the-image-file metadata supported, but they’re also going (or should I say have gone) with support for Adobe’s XMP metadata standard.
For a quick example, here’s my metadata test file in the Vista Photo Gallery…
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The preview shows metadata from the file, and the keyword fields are exposed as tags. In addition, the Vista explorer also exposes the image metadata in the files properties…
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Nice.
Technorati tags: vista image metadata xmp
