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Put your best face forward
2/3/2010 11:06:00 PM, Greg
Perhaps the most exciting and forward thinking features of Windows Live are the underused and poorly understood web activities. These allow you to publish updates from other services, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, to Windows Live. The net effect ...
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Gimme some space
1/31/2010 9:39:30 PM, Greg
Spaces is one of the most flexible and quirkiest members of the Windows Live family of services. Perhaps that’s why it’s so often misunderstood…and misused. With a myriad of applications, it’s a venerable tool for newbies and pros alike. Most users ...
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Open Windows Live Mail in Newsreader Mode
1/28/2010 6:04:32 PM, Richard Hay
If you use Windows Live mail solely for reading your newsgroups like I do then it can slow you down a click or two when it opens in its default mail mode. There is a way to get it to open up directly in newsgroup mode but in Windows 7 it takes a few extra ...
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12 easy steps to creating a Black and White and Color
1/27/2010 6:23:58 AM, ms Amsterdam
Here are a few steps to creating your own black and white and color pictures. (This is for XP and Vista) – Windows 7 instructions coming soon! 1: Open up Windows Live Photo Gallery, choose a picture, and make a copy of it (File>Make A Copy>Save). 2: ...
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Windows Live to Discontinue My.Live.com
1/27/2010 12:53:34 AM, winston
Summary: Effective March 15, 2010 the Windows Live Platform will discontinue use of and access to My.Live.com Users of My.Live.com will be redirected to My MSN (http://my.msn.com) Settings, Feeds, Gadgets/Modules will ***not*** be migrated to My MSN ...
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Take a picture
1/26/2010 2:34:54 PM, Greg
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but that’s assuming other people can see it. While well-placed pictures are often the best way to provide a quick demonstration or example to someone in a discussion, the Windows Live Groups discussion editor ...
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How-to: Connect Your SkyDrive In Windows Explorer
1/20/2010 11:34:20 AM, mynetx
Your web drive SkyDrive offers 25 GB of free storage that you can use from everywhere. However, uploading and accessing its contents from your web browser can get tiring. Unless you connect Windows Live SkyDrive to Windows Explorer. After going through ...
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Create a Custom Theme for Your Windows Mobile Phone
1/17/2010 2:44:56 PM, Richard Hay
Customization is all the rage these days. Windows 7 has tons of options for making your Windows 7 powered PC your very own and now you have that same ability with your Windows Mobile Phone with Version 6.5 installed. Just head over to the Windows Phone ...
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Changes for Accessing Hotmail using the WebDAV Protocol
1/14/2010 8:12:47 PM, winston
Summary: The WebDAV protocol will no longer be supported effective September 1, 2009 (Revised Jan. 2010 – See Revision section below) On June 2, 2009 Microsoft announced changes impacting one of the methods to access Hotmail type accounts(Hotmail.com, ...
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How to show a font in your blog posts that others don’t have on their Machines.
1/11/2010 1:27:06 AM, Technogran
I use Writer for all my blog posts as most of my readers are well aware. Writer makes use of all the fonts that a user has installed on their machine. I particularly like ‘script’ type fonts myself especially the ones that look like handwriting. But if I ...
