Well based on the tests you saw earlier, the program I am using is the Windows Live Writer.  It is a free download from Microsoft here .  It is a very straight-forward text editor with built-in blog uploading.  I would call it "syncing" except it can't get my template from blogger, so if there is a way to put the template in manually that would be a welcome addition to the software.  But apart from that it seems to be a very robust piece of software.  It is easy to insert links, just a couple of clicks, and it references your Internet Explorer link history so you can just start typing and it will auto-fill the rest of the URL for you, which is nice.  Another interesting feature is on the right sidebar there is a history of recent posts that were created using live writer.  Which when you click on them fetches the information from your blog.  This is a nice addition to the application as well.  All in all from the limited testing that I have done it seems like a great way ...
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