Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Opera’

My browser is a bad guy :(

Browsers, Windows Live August 26th, 2009

“Windows Live is designed for you, but maybe not for your browser.”
This was what I saw on my screen when I opened Windows Live Calendar with Google Chrome. The alert advises me to use either Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Safari 3 or higher, or Firefox 2 or higher, in this order.
Questions arising [...]

Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)

Windows Live and You August 21st, 2009

Talking about Windows Live always means talking about its users—the tech-savvy ones as well as the “normal” users. Today I am talking with Technogran, a ‘geeky grandma trying desperately to keep up with it all’, as she describes herself. She lives in the UK and likes Windows Live very much.
mynetx: Technogran, it is [...]

Windows Live and You: “Windows Live services help me keep in touch” (Lance Manasse)

Windows Live and You August 12th, 2009

After a longer break, the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You” is finally back. Today I will be talking with Lance Manasse, who lives in the United Kingdom and is also known by his nickname “Salem”.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved [...]

Messenger problems: Solution for Messenger sign-in error 8100030d

Messenger problems July 19th, 2009

As promised, today we will be talking about how to fix error 8100030d when trying to sign in to Windows Live Messenger. The solution is to empty your Contacts cache. The single steps depend on your Windows version.

Windows Live and You: “Hmm, I wonder if I can do this better” (Frans–Willem Hardijzer)

Windows Live and You July 1st, 2009

This is the first interview in the Windows Live and You summer edition. I’m sure that my conversation with Frans-Willem Hardijzer, who developed the Messenger add-on StuffPlug, and is also known as “The Blasphemer”, will be especially interesting for you.
mynetx: I find it great that you got some minutes to talk with me about [...]

Follow-up on Opera Unite: What it is, why it is, and what it is not

Browsers June 17th, 2009

Yesterday I presented Opera Unite to you, an add-on in the latest Opera 10 builds enabling you to use your web browser as server. After my post, I received some opinions about Opera Unite. Let me quote one of these statements, a quite hard conclusion:
I might be wrong, but to me it’s [...]

Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?

Windows Live June 16th, 2009

Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage?
Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis was simple: a small [...]

New IM networks on Windows Live: Will it stay just a wish?

Messenger April 2nd, 2009

Dear readers,
Adding support for additional instant messaging networks has always been on a high place on the wish list for Windows Live Messenger. People were excited when they have to know that Microsoft and Yahoo would cooperate to allow using the networks in both company’s clients, back in 2005. People were even more excited when [...]

New IM networks for Windows Live

Messenger April 1st, 2009

In an internal message to developers, the Windows Live team has announced the long-awaited integration of several instant messaging networks to work together with Windows Live. Among these networks to be added are ICQ and Skype as well as AIM, Facebook Chat and Google Talk.
“We are currently aiming to achieve full integrative support for widely [...]