Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Live ID’

How-to: Backup and restore your Plus! preferences

Messenger Plus! April 13th, 2009

The other day I was once again thinking of useful add-ons adding functions in Messenger. I went around and played with the “Import/export preferences” option inside the Messenger Plus! preferences. From what I saw, the option is creating a binary *.pld file containing your settings. You would have to export it, copy it via some [...]

How-to: Display your Twitter status in your Messenger personal message

Messenger Plus! March 28th, 2009

So with all this social networking and with Windows Live Wave 3 focusing on adding social features, here’s a way to have your latest tweets displaying in your Messenger’s personal message, automatically:
Twitter2PSM – the easy way
Download and import my Messenger Plus! script Twitter2PSM. To use the script, having Messenger Plus! installed is a requirement.
The script [...]

Bringing your own touch to the Windows Live Sign-in

Web Services February 12th, 2009

Keeping your Corporate / Site Identity, while using Windows Live Authentication – this has not been possible in the past. The Authentication APIs, namely Web Authentication and Delegated Authentication, do not allow any changing of the Live Sign-in page to adopt your website design and thus a seamless transition while your visitors are redirected to [...]

Der Windows Live-Anmeldung deinen persönlichen Anstrich verleihen

Webdienste February 12th, 2009

Deine Firmen-/Seiten-Identität wahren und dennoch Windows Live Authentifizierung nutzen – dies war in der Vergangenheit nicht möglich. Die Authentifizierungs-APIs, nämlich Web-Authentifizierung und Delegated-Authentifizierung, erlauben keine Änderung der Live-Anmeldeseite, um dein Website-Design zu adoptieren und somit einen nahtlosen Übergang zu haben, während deine Besucher zu Windows Live und dann zurück zu deiner Seite geleitet werden. So [...]

2008: Ein Rückblick

Zeug January 1st, 2009

Wie war 2008 für mich? Lies eine Zusammenfassung.

1 WLMStatus Software-Name
1 WLMStatus Premium-Version
6 weitere WLMStatus Übersetzungen
6 aktualisierte WLMStatus Client-Versionen
1 Skinning-Wettbewerb-Gewinner: stormless Messenger
3 Server-Umzüge
2 Server-Abstürze
2 Messenger Betas
1 Messenger Release Candidate
12 Messenger Plus! private Betas
3 Messenger Plus! Finals
1 Messenger Plus! öffentliche Beta
14 Webmessenger-Ideen
1 neue Windows Live ID
243 MB Chatlogs dieser Live ID
1075 Chatlog-Dateien
75 MB private Chatlogs einer anderen [...]

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 [...]

Windows Live Sync released

Windows Live December 11th, 2008

The former Windows Live FolderShare has been renamed to Windows Live Sync and released to the public. When I installed the new client, however, I couldn’t find any differences to the old FolderShare, except for the Wave 3 sign-in wizard.
The team reports some enhancements in its new Live Sync blog:

Higher file limits—up to 20 synchronized [...]

Windows Live Wave 3 – Preview to the new features

Windows Live November 13th, 2008

Microsoft has announced details on the future, the new, Windows Live, and I am bringing them to you like I promised.
Over the coming weeks, the next generation of Windows Live will become available at www.windowslive.com. The new Windows Live experience is enhanced by Microsoft partners with feeds from third-party sites that help you stay [...]