If you like inserting Youtube videos in your blog posts, you might be already aware of Insert Video plugin. This plug-in is great. One shortcoming of this plugin is that when you insert videos using this plugin, the video cannot be run in Full Screen mode. Resizing has its own hassles with this way of embedding. Take a look at the following using the Insert Video plugin. Since this did not suffice my needs, I have created another plugin for Youtube which you can download now. Once you h... [More]

This has been one of the really famous plug-ins that I wrote a while ago (more than 11K downloads as of 17th June, 2009). The intent was to use smileys in my posts easily from the blogging tool itself. Since I used Microsoft - Windows Live Writer (which IMHO, is the best blog editor currently) I was quite easily attracted by the plug-in model it exposed. Later on, I created more plug-ins which pretty much uses the same code base, called Fancy Bullets plug-in, and Quotations plug-in. I don’t w... [More]

If you have been following my posts, you might have noticed that almost all the posts contains a famous quote. Well, searching is not what I do or prefer. Here is the secret, revealed… I use a simple little plug-in which is gets me a few quotes to select from. Select any of the quotes and click on Ok. Here is what I just got… Quote of the day: It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. - Unknown Pretty simple, right? Okay, go ahead and download it. Enjoy! Rah... [More]

For quite some time there were a couple of bugs reported, and I was not able to fix them until today. First one was a nasty one. Quite a lot of folks reported that the plug-in didn’t work directly. They had to run the Windows Live Writer as Administrator to make the plugin work fine. I have been pretty busy of late, but finally… I have fixed it. 2nd one was reported by lawvol here. I have fixed that too! Thanks Lawvol for letting me know. Please uninstall the existing version from control pan... [More]

Here is another version of my Social Bookmark Plug-in for Windows Live Writer. Based on the previous feedback I have changed a few things. The script errors that used to come in WLW due to the embedded scripts won’t bother you anymore. Besides, there are 4 more book marking sites incorporated, namely… Microsoft Social Microsoft Expression Microsoft MSDN Microsoft Technet     Install the plug-in from...     Once done click on Inse... [More]

Are you tired of the plain old bullets used in HTML? Group 1 > Oh yes, I am! Group 2 > Not really, I am not… I like the plain old bullets. Well, I belong to the first group above, and in this post I will show you some other bullets…     One     Two     Three     1     2     3     A     B     C I... [More]