Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Password’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Twitter OAuth API now live

Web March 17th, 2009

Now, I’ve got a new dance for y’all called the Soulja Boy. Oh, wait, no, sorry. The OAuth beta is now open to all developers, though.
This was the small tweet by Alex Payne, Twitter’s API Lead, announcing the general availablility of OAuth for Twitter, last Monday. OAuth, designed for Single Sign-Ons on third-party websites, removes [...]

Hotmail POP access now worldwide

Hotmail March 15th, 2009

After the unexpected Hotmail outage, POP access is now available to all Windows Live Hotmail customers worldwide!
How to use POP with Hotmail
I will show you the example of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, but other mail clients are similar.

Click “Tools”, “Account Settings…”.
On the “E-mail” tab, click “New…”.
If you are prompted to “Choose E-mail Service”, select “Microsoft [...]