Best free blogging clients for Windows

If you blog, you know for sure that there is no more convenient way to put it records than using a software client. Complete lists of such software includes dozens of programs with a lot of disadvantages. Blog Mashable! selected top ten of free software that can turn any blog keeping in delightful pleasure.

Windows Live Writer

Probably WLW - ideal blog client. Read our review of this software.

ScribeFire

ScribeFire - a popular extension for Firefox, which allows you to directly post to blog. After installing ScribeFire you will see an icon in the form of a notebook in the browser's status bar. the client opens a web browser "otedaya" half of the window, if you click on the notebook the right mouse button, the editor will open in a new tab. The plugin supports WYSIWYG editing of text, HTML editing and preview before posting. Upload images to blog is possible, but only at the FTP, which is not always convenient, especially in WordPress. The editor supports assignment categories for your posts, insert Technorati tags, access from the editor to your bookmarks del.icio.us. You can download the latest 10 published posts, save unpublished materials in the form of notes, but insert simple tables in the visual editor can not be how you can do it in WLW.

ScribeFire supports several blogging and accounts, working with such engines: WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Drupal, Textpattern, MetaWeblog, and others.

Qumana

Qumana - blog client, which is interesting for our blogger only for its concept, nothing more. Write a post on this client, you can insert the promotional materials advertising network Q ads, and which is sponsoring the development of the client. Supports all bits and pieces - visual editing, multiple blog accounts, insert tags and categories, download recent posts, insert videos, etc.

w. Bloggar

w. Bloggar It supports Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad, Drupal, WordPress, Live Journal, and others. Can you send a post to your blog to ping ping services Weblogs, blo.gs, Technorati, and Ping-o-matic.

w. Bloggar has rich formatting capabilities, supports maintaining multiple blogs, a spell checker can work with the categories more. Uploading images is made by FTP. The hearts of many bloggers w. Bloggar won that lightning can publish posts, without equal in this.

Zoundry

Zoundry - lovely blog client that will connect to your blog only specified the URL, automatically determining the type of engine. Also, Zoundry able to download the latest 500 entries, so that it can be used to easily make local backups of small blogs.

Edit the text as possible in WYSIWYG-editor, and manually editing the HTML, and supports category Technorati tags. You can connect the spell checker and translator. Bloggers Zoundy provides a toolbar for IE and Firefox, which simplifies posting about what they see on the current page. Zoundry also provides a possibility of earning on afiliate-references.

Thingamablog

Thingamablog - open-source blogging client and RSS-reader united in perfect desktop application. Supports mass blog hosting, FTP and SFTP. Support: WYSIWYG-editing, manual editing of the HTML, multiple blog accounts, spell checking, posting directly from the built-in RSS-reader,

To work Thingamablog requires installed Java Virtual Machine.

Flock

Flock - is a browser based on Firefox, which includes support for the most popular web services "out of the box." There is also a built-in blog client that knows the following:

• support for multiple platforms: Blogger, Blogsome, Livejournal, Typepad, WordPress, Xanga, and the most popular standalone engines;
• support for multiple accounts;
• insert pictures from your Flickr or Photobucket account;
• tag support;

blog Desk

blog Desk - it supports a variety of platforms, however, the automatic configuration mode does not support Blogger. Blog Desk is able to insert images and then edit them, is a dictionary of 14 languages, supports Technorati tags pingers.

If you choose to use the Blog Desk under Vista, you will need to download a file with Microsoft dhtmled.ocx page.

Post2Blog

Post2Blog - an interesting lightweight blogging client. Main functions:

• insert emoticons, and music;
• insert ad units with Amazon.com;
• insert Technorati tags;
• integration with RSS-reader (RSS Bandit and Sharp Reader);
• Download pictures with a posting on Flickr, Imageshack or to an FTP server;
• loading recent posts and convert them to PDF (optional);
• Blogger support, WordPress, Typepad, MovableType, LiveJournal, and Blogware.

Bleezer

Bleezer - working with Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, Drupal. Has a WYSIWYG-editor, spell check, Technorati and Del.icio.us tags, change categories, downloading via FTP graphics. The ideal solution for users with ancient computers.

OSX users can read a nice review of the client's blog MarsEdit 2 in Macradar.ru blog.