Google adds preview thumbnails to results Nov 12, 2010 · 1 min Since this week, Google has added a new useful feature: On entering a search term, you may discover a small magnifying glass next to each result. Clicking it causes Google to... Project Titan – can you soon use username@facebook.com? Nov 12, 2010 · 1 min Facebook might plan to unveil a new service for all 500+ million users on Monday: the ability to send and receive e-mail through Facebook. Until now, Facebook is quite dependent... How-to: Block Windows 7 SP1 from installing Nov 12, 2010 · 1 min Microsoft has provided the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool for Administrators. With this tool, you can block Windows 7 Service Pack 1 from getting installed automatically... How-to: Enable full SSL encryption for your Hotmail session Nov 10, 2010 · 2 min Microsoft’s web mail service Hotmail, part of Windows Live, now supports SSL encryption throughout your session. Before, SSL was only used for the sign-in process. SSL includes... How-to: Reset IE browser settings Nov 10, 2010 · 1 min If Internet Explorer crashes often or gets painfully slow, resetting its settings may help. Resetting IE deletes all personal settings and restores the browser to the state right... Uninstall old Microsoft Office versions Nov 10, 2010 · 1 min Reinstalling Microsoft Office is sometimes not trivial. When trying to restart the setup, a message might appear stating that Office cannot be removed. Even in the Control Panel,... Introducing Hotmail for your own e-mail address Nov 7, 2010 · 1 min Windows Live Hotmail gets a new feature: Now you can access other e-mail accounts from Hotmail. For example, you can send and receive Gmails within Hotmail’s interface. In the... How-to: Use Windows Live in your favorite language Nov 5, 2010 · 1 min Did you know that you can switch languages in Windows Live without having to reinstall the Essentials suite? In this tip, let’s take a look how this works: 1. Exit any running... Welcome to Streetview, Oberstaufen! Nov 3, 2010 · 1 min 7,225 inhabitants, idyllic position in the German Alps with mountains and cows—that’s Oberstaufen. At once, this small town gets highly popular, as Google starts its Web service... Messenger Plus 4.9—just an in-between solution Oct 25, 2010 · 2 min Messenger Plus! is getting near to its fifth version, planned for release in December 2010. Plus! 5 will have complete support for Messenger 2011 (Wave 4). However, in the... Windows 8 in about 2 years, says MS NL Oct 25, 2010 · 2 min Dutch Microsoft managers have talked about the Windows 8 roadmap. They also mentioned details about the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Microsoft’s Dutch corporate blog... Available soon: Messenger Plus! 4.9 Oct 6, 2010 · 1 min Since Windows Live Messenger 2011 (code name “Wave 4”) was released last Thursday, I received some questions as to when Messenger Plus! will be updated to work with the new... How-to: Minimize windows with keyboard in Windows 7 Oct 3, 2010 · 1 min You like using your keyboard for managing everything in Windows? In Windows 7, minimizing and maximizing windows got easier. Instead of accessing the system menu with [Alt] +... Google: Use encrypted search Oct 2, 2010 · 1 min Terms you enter at Google can be captured with ease. Everything you enter is unencrypted, so not only Google, but also your Internet service provider knows what you are looking... Questions and answers: Migrating your Space to WordPress Oct 2, 2010 · 4 min As a Windows Live Spaces blogger you must have read that Spaces is now shutting down and that you will now have to migrate your Spaces blog to WordPress, sometime soon. While this... Messenger for iPhone 1.1 Oct 1, 2010 · 1 min Microsoft has released an update for its Windows Live Messenger App for iPhone. It is the first update since the iPhone App was first released back in June 2010. The update fixes... WebP: can it replace JPEG? Oct 1, 2010 · 2 min Google is developing a new Graphics format called WebP (pronounciated “weppy”). In Google’s efforts to make the Web faster, they already worked out the browser Chrome, a new video... Two years and counting! Sep 30, 2010 · 2 min Reading this, you might be a regular reader of my blog. Or a first-time visitor. You are probably interested in Windows Live. And perhaps you are using Windows (XP or 7) as your... Fresh out of the oven: Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4) Sep 30, 2010 · 2 min Long awaited, now available: The Windows Live team has released the latest version of its application suite Windows Live Essentials, code-named Wave 4. Essentials extend your... Live Spaces: Did we see wrong stats? Sep 30, 2010 · 2 min This week, Microsoft announced the end of its blogging platform Windows Live Spaces. The approx. 30 million users can migrate their Spaces over to WordPress.com. MS-internal...