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.
Author: J.M.
How-to: Use Windows Live in your favorite language
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.
Welcome to Streetview, Oberstaufen!
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 Streetview in Germany with photos from Oberstaufen.
Windows 8 in about 2 years, says MS NL
Dutch Microsoft managers have talked about the Windows 8 roadmap. They also mentioned details about the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
Messenger Plus 4.9—just an in-between solution
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 meantime Yuna Software has published an in-between version, Messenger Plus! 4.9, with only partial support for the new Windows Live Messenger.
Available soon: Messenger Plus! 4.9
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 Messenger version. Here are some details.
How-to: Minimize windows with keyboard in Windows 7
You like using your keyboard for managing everything in Windows? In Windows 7, minimizing and maximizing windows got easier.
Questions and answers: Migrating your Space to WordPress
Here are some FAQs you should check before migrating your Windows Live Spaces to WordPress!
Google: Use encrypted search
Everything you enter at Google is unencrypted. For encrypting all search terms and receiving encrypted search results, you have to call Google with a special web address.
WebP: can it replace JPEG?
Google is developing a new Graphics format called WebP (pronounciated “weppy”). A first developer preview for WebP proves that image file sizes can be reduced markably, while retaining the image quality.