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Photographing old documents
3/16/2010 4:14:59 PM, Ludwig J.
At times there is a need to photograph old documents. These notes may help on those occasions. This is not for the museum professionals – they have the equipment and experience to get perfect results. I want to discuss two situations, large documents, and ...
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Spaces – Your “mansion in the sky”
2/16/2010 1:47:58 PM, Ludwig J.
With your Hotmail or Windows Live e-mail account you get more than just a mail box. You get a cornucopia of services – a veritable “mansion in the sky”. This mansion can be a very private place or you can have elaborate public spaces, with rooms for just ...
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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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Talking about Lots and lots of storage
1/25/2010 2:03:05 PM, Super Bitar
Lots and lots of storage There’s a lot of free storage for people using Windows Live these days. In Dallas, TX, there is a Hotmail user named Ryan who uses 23GB of e-mail storage, for free. There’s Martin in Germany, who uses 21GB, and Yara ...
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Windows Live Wave 4: Windows Mobile 7
1/10/2010 5:26:34 AM, Michael
Windows Live Wave 4 and Windows Mobile 7 are both suffering from a major lack of news and I have started to think that the lack of news about both products is linked. I think the reason we have heard so little about Windows Live Wave 4 is because aspects ...
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Fun with Windows Live Writer and Photo Gallery
1/5/2010 8:10:50 PM, Ludwig J.
Windows Live Writer offers some fun options and so does Windows Live Photo Gallery. Here I will start in Photo Gallery and select some photos. Clicking the Make command offers several options. What I want to demonstrate is Make a blog post. Now if you ...
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Embed SkyDrive photos in Spaces HTML modules and other websites
1/3/2010 8:28:50 PM, Ludwig J.
Spaces offers a rich variety of options and when you really need full control you can add HTML modules. Embedding photos in an HTML module from your SkyDrive folders is not at all hard to do. The procedure described here will seem quite familiar to you. ...
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Rating photos from the couch makes for a better screensaver
1/2/2010 7:12:44 PM, Pete
I’ve never been good about rating my photos. In the past, Media center’s <date taken> view has always made it easy enough to find the photos I’m after. But since we upgraded all of our PCs to Windows 7 and set-up a HomeGroup, I’ve just about tripled ...
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Sharing pictures with Live Messenger
11/21/2009 5:51:53 AM, Gumby
For a more direct sharing process with Messenger, I’ve just noticed something which I hadn’t before. We all know about SkyDrive, but tbh, most of my contacts don’t. If I were to share a photo on their they probably wouldn’t bother to click on the link. ...
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Black and White Effects – Windows Live Photo Gallery
11/9/2009 3:20:30 PM, Ludwig J.
Windows Live Photo Gallery has a selection of tools for “fixing” – enhancing, correcting – photos. Included is a group of six tools for black and white effects. Maybe I should say more correctly “monochrome” effects, because two of them are “Cyan tone” ...
