Ok, I have stumbled on a new (new for me remote blog client) that I feel is as good or better than Windows Live Writer.

The latest version supports dasBlog (including images without FTP) it does not use RSD (Really Simple Discovery) but since complete support of dasBlog is built in, that does not matter!

(Note: BlogDesk expects you to have the older 1.8 series dasBlog installed which BlogDesk only supports images with FTP, so re-edit your blog profile and tell it to support direct images and it will, older verions of dasBlog may not work as well, but the current dasBlog build 1.9+ is 100% supported)

This post was made with BlogDesk!

You need to check it out! BlogDesk

Except from site:

"No need to use those annoying HTML Tags in the WYSIWYG editor. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. Even publishing simultaneously to multiple blogs is a matter of a click.

With the ImageWizard you can not only insert images to your posts - it's possible to edit them as well (crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc., see Examples). Even Thumbnails can be created - the preview will be shown in the blog and a click on the image will open it in its original size (just like here in the right column). Linking and uploading those images is automatically done by BlogDesk."

This article reposted courtesy of George Reilly at http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog/PostingToDasBlogWithWindowsLiveWriter.aspx

From Scott Hanselman, I learned about Microsoft's new blog posting client, Windows Live Writer. I've played around with it and it's definitely the nicest free blogging client that I've used.

Here are instructions on configuring it to post to dasBlog. I'm showing how to set it up for Emma's blog, since she's running dasBlog 1.8. I'm running a recent build of the as-yet unreleased dasBlog 1.9, which supports Really Simple Discovery, which makes the first part of this exercise simpler, as WLW can infer that it's dealing with Metaweblog API, just by pointing it at the root of the blog.

Launch WLW and Add a Weblog Account. Choose Another weblog service.

Next, enter the URL of your blog and the username and password that you use to log in.

Select your provider, Metaweblog API. The remote posting URL is the blog homepage URL + /blogger.aspx:

You are now ready to post text to your blog:

Create a test post. Be sure to include an image. When you try to Publish it, you'll get a dialog like this:

Use an FTP program to discover the FTP path to your blog's content/binary directory. Here's the relevant area in FileZilla:

Note that the leading parts of the path are quite different to the corresponding HTTP URL (and peculiar to Emma's site). Fill out the FTP Settings dialog with the appropriate settings:

You're now ready to upload images via FTP:

Go for it.

This post was of course created with Windows Live Writer. I did have to set the Image Size to original for each image, or they would have been squished down to an unreadable size.

Update: I had a hell of a time when I first posted this. None of the images showed up. Instead I was seeing fragments of raw HTML. I tracked it down to the dasBlog configuration filters, which (by default) rewrite the word dasBlog as a link to the dasBlog website. That's more-or-less fine in plain text, but it plays havoc if the word dasBlog appears in the middle of one of your image URLs.

This article reposted courtesy of George Reilly at http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog/PostingToDasBlogWithWindowsLiveWriter.aspx

http://deepestsender.mozdev.org   

http://deepestsender.mozdev.org  Deepest Sender is a blogging client (a Firefox extension) which has a WYSIWYG editor, spell checker and supports dasBlog via metaWeblog API. It has a few bugs but looks promising.

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Reposted for vazz from dasblog.us

Here is a tutorial for setting up the performancing Firefox blogging extension to work with DasBlog:

1: Go download the blogging firefox extension from: http://performancing.com/firefox/

2: With Performancing installed right click on any webpage and go to Performancing -> Blog This Page

3: You should see a screen like the one below, click the add button to configure the performancing extension to use your DasBlog.

4: Select Custom Blog from the blogging service drop down list:

5: Select Blogger API from the "Please select your blog system typefrom the list below" drop down list.

Add the Blogger XML-RPC API address to it will most likely be www.yourblog.com/blogger.aspx or www.yourblog.com/blog/blogger.aspx

The DasBlog.info blogger API is located here for example: http://dasblog.info/blogger.aspx

6: Add your DasBlog username and password and you can now post to your blog with the performancing Firefox extension.

Reposted for stevenr at dasblog.us