Suggest some good desktop blogging tools

Question

What are some desktop blogging tools that work with Wordpress? Please note that I am an Windows user, and I am looking for following features:

1. I should be able to add images to the post in a few clicks. Bonus: Rudimentary image manipulation capabilities (such as resize and crop), option to select a preferred image upload site.
2. It should either support the CodeColorer plugin, or should allow one to embed gists directly. This could work like: I'd type in the code, select it, and hit some button, which will post it to gist.github.com and will fetch the embedding URL and insert it in the markup.
3. I'd like a backtick notation a la stackexchange to be supported. Like: `Hello` -> Hello. For now I am just using italics.

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Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thaɴk you in advance.

Answer 1

Check Windows Live Writer. You can easily use it with your Wordpress blog.
The markup can be a problem, you can use a plugin like Crayon and use the shortcodes when pasting codes. Like [python] ... Code ... [/python]