Google starts encrypting searches
The Google web search is soon going to be encrypted by default. This applies Google’s promise from 2009. Starting in January 2010, Google had introduced SSL encryption for its...
Read moreGoogle+ pseudonyms soon allowed
The social network Google+ will soon allow people to use pseudonyms. Until now, Google has enforced Google+ users to enter their real names. You were not allowed to use a...
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Apps
Skype removes Google integration
Along with announcing the successfully closed deal between Skype and Microsoft, an update for the popular software has been published. It includes minor changes that show...
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Apps
Microsoft
Skype and Microsoft: The deal is done
#bbpBox_124728164881674240 a{text-decoration:none;color:#f4850e;}#bbpBox_124728164881674240 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;} Hey @Skype: Should we do this thing? October 14,...
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Microsoft
How-to: Add Control Panel to the Windows 7 jumplist
Like any program, the Control Panel has a jumplist. On right-clicking the Control Panel icon in the taskbar, its jumplist shows the last used Control Panel components. Would you...
Read moreRest in peace, Steve.
Steve Jobs has died. One of the most prominent personalities in computer technology, this charismatic visioneer has contributed so much to the world we know today. On April 1,...
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Security
Security Essentials detects Chrome as malware
Microsoft has published a signature update for the security tools Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Forefront and Windows Defender. It fixes an erroneous patch causing...
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Microsoft
Windows Live Devices - soon integrated into SkyDrive
The Windows Live team is currently developing SkyDrive applications for Windows, Windows Phone, Apple iOS, Mac und Android. This is what a job offer reveals that Microsoft posted...
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Apple
Messenger
Messenger for Mac: No modern emoticons?
Messenger for Mac 8 does not use the modern emoticons introduced in Windows Live Wave 3. This week I finally had the chance to set up my Mac. One of the first applications I...
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Microsoft
Windows Live Wave 5: The next version in development
An all-round update for the Windows Live services is developed at the moment. The recently published new features in Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail are only the tip of the...
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Messenger
The easier sign-in screen
There is no end to the updates for Windows Live published in recent times. The sign-in screen to the Live web services got updated too. It now focuses on single accounts only. See...
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Microsoft
Update for Windows Live Essentials Wave 4
The Windows Live team is publishing a bugfix update for Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4). The quick fix update, rolling out in two stages, fixes several problems in...
Read moreThis week’s thoughts: On behalf of... my mom
The other day my mom received an e-mail sent by a friend. Outlook told her it was sent "on behalf of" someone else. Here's what that means and how to fix it.
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Twitter will be reconnected to Windows Live
The micro-blogging service Twitter will make its comeback to Windows Live within 2011. This is what the developer beta for Windows Phone Codename “Mango” indicates. Damaster,...
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Microsoft
How-to: Use Hotmail like Outlook
Since last week, the e-mail service Windows Live Hotmail has got an update. Keyboard shortcuts, right-click menus like in Outlook and more details have been added and updated....
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Microsoft
Hotmail keyboard shortcuts: the full list
Learn how to perform keyboard acrobatics with Windows Live Hotmail. Speed up the way you work and mail. Many things on your computer can be performed much quicker using keyboard...
Read moreThanks for being great folks, MVPs!
For the past 12 months, I have been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the Windows Live expertise. It was a thrilling year! While my MVP award won’t get renewed for July...
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Microsoft
Instant update for SkyDrive
The Windows Live team has published an instant update for the web file storage Windows Live SkyDrive. Omar Shanine, Group Program Manager, SkyDrive.com, announced: > Starting...
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Microsoft
Security
New Hotmail phishing
New phishing attacks to Hotmail have recently occured. This is what the security company Trend Micro is reporting. The phishing e-mail targeted at Hotmail users looks like it was...
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Apps
Twitter is launching their own photo service
The micro-blogging platform Twitter is going to launch their own photo sharing service. This is what a report originally published on the TechCrunch blog states. The new service...
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