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Podcast: Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta
10/16/2008 7:44:15 PM, Marcus at Microsoft
I’m continuing to make the rounds with my digital audio recorder, talking to various people involved in the recently released beta versions of Windows Live products. This time around, we’re joined again by JP Wollersheim, a Senior Product Manager on the ...
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Support I’M A PC campaign and a Social cause with Windows Live Messenger
10/14/2008 5:28:00 AM, Vasudev
Many of you must have heard and seen the recent Microsoft Ad campaign I’m a PC. And lot of you must have been showing support for the same. Today I will show a somewhat different way to display your support, which not only will say/display I’m a PC, but ...
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Use Windows Live Hotmail with your own custom domain
10/12/2008 12:01:45 AM, Jay
Do you love using Windows Live Hotmail? Did you wish that you could use a personalized domain name such as me@johnnyenglish.com or agent86@getsmart.com instead of same.old@hotmail.com or boring@live.com? Or maybe you are a small business owner and would ...
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Podcast: Exploring E-Mail
10/10/2008 4:56:34 PM, Marcus at Microsoft
As much as we all communicate by talking, texting, IM’ing, blogging, social networking, and tweeting (for you twitter folks), you start to wonder if anyone does e-mail anymore. In fact, e-mail remains a vital way that most people stay in touch with each ...
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Get photographed with your clone using Windows Live Photo Gallery
10/9/2008 7:06:10 PM, Vasudev
You all must have used ‘Create Panoramic photo…’ option in Windows Live Photo Gallery for creating stunning panoramas of sceneries or city’s skyline etc. People normally use this option to create a landscape prepared by stitching 2 or more photos. This ...
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Beta Banter…………Windows Live Photo Gallery.
10/9/2008 6:12:00 AM, Technogran
One of the fantastic things that you are able to do with the new Windows Live Photo Gallery is make a Panoramic Photo. This feature is really effective especially when taking a landscape view of your subject. But first of all of course you need to take ...
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Beta Banter……………Windows Live Messenger
10/8/2008 1:27:00 PM, Technogran
A cool new feature that I have tried out in the new Windows Live Messenger is making your own personal photo’s to act out your emoticons as you choose them. As long as you have a webcam this is very easy to do. First of all, go into Messenger and click ...
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Beta Banter………Windows Live Mail
10/8/2008 11:42:00 AM, Technogran
Recently I was having my usual moan about ID’s and the fact that as I have two ID’s, there is often a discrepancy between the data contained in any of the Live applications that I try to access and use depending on which ID I happen to be signed in with ...
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Beta Banter……..Windows Live Photo Gallery
10/8/2008 6:46:00 AM, Technogran
Marcus recently published a very interesting post on using one of the new Effects programs now found under the Extras tab directly in the new Windows Live Photo Gallery beta. I’m going to be a little bit more specific and do a step by step ‘how-to’ of ...
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Announce You’re Online with a Signature Sound
10/7/2008 5:42:10 PM, Marcus at Microsoft
DECEMBER 17 UPDATE: This feature was changed between the time I posted this and the most recent beta release. Check out this blog post from me for more information. The information below is no longer correct for the currently shipping version of ...