As some of you may know, my primary blogging applications are on Linux based PC's, however a large portion of my clients and visitors are Windows based and several have asked me what I think would be the best software for Windows based bloggers - To improve productivity, safeguard information, enhance research and communication. I prefer to take a frugal approach to answering such questions, after all, why incur extra costs when you don't have to? Side note: Many of these applications are also available to my Linux friends (and Mac) too. For all those who asked, and those interested to know, I'm sure something on the list below will be useful: 1) eMail Communication. Thunderbird is an email client that features intelligent (learning) spam filters, spell checker and customizable layout. It provides IMAP/POP support, HTML email composing, email search, address book, advanced message filtering, address completion, import tools, and multiple email and (RSS) newsgroup accounts. You can add extensions for extra features including: Quicktext email template creation and for super fast addition of predefined text snippets to an email message. Display Mail User Agent so that you can better see what application is sending you email. This helps in avoiding spoofed email. For example, Google ...