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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Hold the spam
10/29/2009 9:07:20 AM, Greg
As I've mentioned, I don't get a ton of spam on Windows Live, but it does happen to me every once in a while. One way I personally combat it is to stay on top of my blog, guestbook, and profile note comments. Typically I check my recent comments every few ...
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To be continued...
10/28/2009 7:51:23 AM, Greg
If you're an ardent blogger on Windows Live Spaces, then you've probably stumbled across trackbacks. You may have even used them once or twice to create automatic links from other blog entries that point back to your post. For the uninitiated, I posted a ...
