Archive: Posts Tagged ‘color’

Windows Live and You: Messenger and Apple – a good combination?

Windows Live and You April 28th, 2009

Found the preceding “Windows Live and You” interviews interesting?
This time, I talked with Bram Lancsweert, living in Belgium. He loves Apple and Mac, but also Windows Live. Let’s see how those two fit together.
mynetx: Nice that you got some time to talk with me about Windows Live and You.
To begin, please describe yourself and your [...]

Windows Live and You: Interviewing Will Ingles, star designer

Windows Live and You April 26th, 2009

For this second interview of the series “Windows Live and You”, I have talked with Multimedia designer and Messenger skinner, Will Ingles.
mynetx: Nice that you got some minutes to talk with me about Windows Live and You. To get started, please describe yourself and your connection with Windows Live, in one sentence.
Will: Well my name [...]

Windows Live and You: “I use about every feature in Messenger”

Windows Live and You April 23rd, 2009

Last days, I promised a new, user-centered series “Windows Live and You”, featuring interviews with people in the Windows Live business as well as articles on the daily impact of Windows Live. I’ve decided to begin this series with an interview of Gregory Sampson, who is… – but let’s ask him himself.
mynetx: It’s great that [...]

Live Wave 4: Ideen sammeln

Aussehen, Windows Live March 4th, 2009

Wave 4.

Welche Verbindungen ruft dieser Ausdruck in dir wach?
Welche Ideen bekommst du, wenn du ihn hörst?
Welche Wünsche sollten, endlich, in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 (2010) umgesetzt werden?
Was vermisst du schon seit Ewigkeiten in Windows Live? Und warum?

Bitte schreibe mir deine Meinung, Ideen, Wünsche – alles was dir in den Sinn kommt. Das Wichtige dabei [...]

Windows Vista SP2 RC now publicly available

Windows Vista March 4th, 2009

Service Pack 2 Release Candidate is now available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There is a 32-bit standalone installer (388 MB), as well as a 64-bit installer (614 MB). Contained languages are English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish. The additional ISO image contains all versions of Service Pack 2 RC.
Windows Vista Service Pack [...]

How-to: Add Empty Recycle Bin entry in Desktop context menu

Windows March 3rd, 2009

If you are one of the lazy ones (hey! I said, “if”), you are probably tired of having to empty the waste bin next to your desk now and then. So, you can at least make it easier to empty your PC recycle bin. This tip shows you how to use your desktop context menu [...]

Ev0-entually a good Messenger 2009 skin

Appearance, Messenger Plus! February 8th, 2009

Will “Willz” Ingles – ever heard? The name, along with his brand “Design Evolved”, stands for polished Messenger skins. This tag surely applies for Will’s newest skin: Ev0 Cuatro (Ev0 4) is now available for download.
Free Download: Ev0 Cuatro (1.3 MB)
Note: This skin is compatible with Messenger 2009 only.
64 (!) color schemes meet the easiness [...]

Plus! 4.80 released; thoughts on 5.0 start

Messenger Plus! February 1st, 2009

Messenger Plus! Live 4.80 has left the Public Beta state and is now available for free download. It features full compatibility with Windows Live Messenger 2009, including scripts and skins.
Free Download: Messenger Plus! Live 4.80.356 (4.80 MB)
For those of you interested, here are the most important parts of the changelog:

This version is entirely compatible with [...]

Group Chat Comparison: Groups.im vs. Messenger 2009

Messenger December 22nd, 2008

This is a guest post by Leon Guo, Product Planner Groups.im.
Recently Microsoft came out with the new Windows Live Groups, and I have found a similar service to compare with it from http://groups.im/. Both of them are used by people all around the world and both came out to the market at 2008, Groups.im is [...]

Live Wave 3 rollout: Official start announcement

Windows Live December 2nd, 2008

As you see already in my previous posts, Windows Live Wave 3 is rolling out. Now we get the official announcement that it happens…
Today we’ve started releasing the first set of updates to our web services, and these will continue to roll out globally over the next 24 hours – including a new version [...]