Adminimizer Toolbar— if you’re weblogging with Blogger and IE6, you need this free tool! [If you’re not a weblogger yourself, you can probably stop reading here to prevent boredom; and if you’re a weblogger but not using IE6, to prevent envy…]

“So here is the deal. You see your blog in the browser. You want to add to or edit it so… You go to some other app or site to do your blogging. Does this make sense? No. You should be able to edit and save right there, in your browser, on your blog page, WYSIWYG style. No fuss, no muss, no fooling around.

How? Internet Explorer 6 has fabulous XML and text editing capabilities that are grossly underutilized by most people. The Adminimizer Toolbar makes it easy for you to take advantage of them when using your Blogger blog. All you need to do is install the Toolbar in your browser, add 2 lines of code and 2 span tags to your blogger template, and copy an XML file onto your site. You’ll be ready to edit in no time.”

Ever since Blogger’s “remote editing” capacity broke (a long time ago), I’ve been looking for a way to edit posts directly from the browser window without going to my “edit your blog” page at blogger.com. When you install the toolbar in your browser and click on it while you’re displaying your weblog, green lines surround all the editable posts; you just do WYSIWYG editing in situ! Drag-and-drop works too. Watch for the imminent disappearance of the little pencil icon at the end of every post, the old way I was doing it (imperfectly), as soon as the Adminimizer’s shakedown cruise is done..

It would be a perfect world, though, if Evan Williams would hurry up and write a Blogger Pro interface for Mozilla, and the Adminimizer programmers would do the same. I’m feeling abit guilty about my wholesale sellout to M$, but IE is just so much more functional right now.