The free desktop blogging application Windows Live Writer helps you compose blog posts and publish contents to a site while you are offline.

It works with most of the blogging platforms like Blogger, Wordpress, LiveJournal, TypePad, YouTube, etc and has many features than the official platform offers. Its features can be further extended through the use of plug-ins.

Bing Translation plug-in for Live writer lets you copy and paste text from the web page (or wherever) into a text box provided. It will automatically translate using the Microsoft Bing Translator.

The plug-in can be downloaded from the Windows Live Gallery. Get more plug-ins.