Writing important text in a browser window can be an awful experience, especially if the written text exceeds a few rows. Supposing you have a Wordpress blog out there, you would normally connect to the admin interface and type the text into an online form, editing and formatting it by hand. If your browser crashes, or if your Internet connection drops, you know as well as I do that some of the text you typed *might* be lost. And if you compare the editing form with a traditional word processor such as Word, you find a big difference between the available features.

Like I said, a big reason for the difference mentioned above is that Word can take advantage of the processing power that you have at home, while your browser needs to stay lightweight to transfer data quickly over the network. These applications function more like traditional word-processing applications and offer some extended features that your browser doesn’t offer. To get started, you simply need time to experiment. I am going to present a desktop blogging client that might change the way you post to your blog.
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2.0.6 is the latest release in Wordpress’ stable 2.0 line, which they�ve committed into maintaining for several more years.

What’s new:
* The aforementioned security fixes.
* HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
* Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
* Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

As a side note, this is probably the last release before 2.1 is out, which will be the first major feature release in quite a while. 2.1 just entered beta stage, so if you�re interested in helping out with that process consider joining the beta group. As a reminder, if you�re a plugin or theme author you should check your code to make sure it�s compatible with 2.1 before the release.

You can download the latest Wordpress by clicking here.