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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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Using fancy fonts in your blog post – Windows Live Writer
1/9/2010 3:39:54 PM, Ludwig J.
Sometimes you would like to make something really stand out by using a fancy font. The Font command in the menu bar allows you to select from a wide range of fonts that are installed on your computer. So click on the “Font” A and select the font you like: ...
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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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I wish to (humbly) report that there is now yet another “Windows Live” MVP…
1/2/2010 11:21:29 AM, X-Evolutionist
I was not sure if I would write this blog or not. I felt funny about “bragging” about myself. But, my buddy, Greg Edwards, (Congratulations, Greg!) who got the same news the other day, wrote a blog about it. So, I’m going to follow Greg’s example…… First, ...
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Will Windows Live Survive?
12/24/2009 11:11:10 AM, Kevin
I see it mentioned here and there about the demise of Windows Live. I have been a member of this service for several years now. No, I don’t have too many friends on it. But I have to say that it has not been for lack of trying. The people I know on other ...
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Will the last person to leave Windows Live Spaces please turn off the lights…
12/18/2009 12:37:49 PM, X-Evolutionist
I have had a feeling for the last several months that my beloved community of Windows Live Spaces will soon be a thing of the past. I have been a member of Spaces since 2005 when it was MSN Spaces. I have loved the Spaces community, but I do not think my ...
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Countermeasures
12/13/2009 6:58:53 AM, Greg
Blog spammers insert comments that contain a bunch of keywords and hyperlinks back to their sponsor's site. In the old days, search engines would crawl across your page, and build indexes based on those relationships. So if a thousand blog posts included ...
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Use Windows Live Writer to send your videos to YouTube and your blog in one step!
11/26/2009 12:19:54 AM, ms Amsterdam
Guests in the Digital Workshop have asked me how to add videos to their blogs in Windows Live Spaces. After wanting to find a simpler way, and thereby searching for a better solution, I came across one on the Windows Live site. Windows Live Writer ...
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Windows Live for Newbie’s 14.
11/8/2009 6:54:31 AM, Technogran
Setting up your Alerts. As soon as you have made some friends on Windows Live and begun to write a blog on your Spaces page, you will no doubt wish that you could be informed every time that someone posts a comment about your blog post, or whenever a ...
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Really specific syndication
11/5/2009 11:34:17 AM, Greg
You may already know a lot about RSS, the technology that empowers consumers to subscribe to a data source (such as a web page) and receive updates via a reader or news aggregator. You may know that it's a great way to follow a popular blog, because those ...
