On December 14, 2010, the Windows Live team has introduced a new subdomain of Live.com, featuring plug-ins for Windows Live Essentials. For example, you can find extensions for Windows Live Writer or Photo Gallery. These additional programs add new features to the applications.
Live Essentials 2011: Small Update Published
Yesterday, a bugfix update without visible changes has been published for nearly all Windows Live Essentials applications. This increases the version number of all programs except for Windows Live Mesh and Windows Live Family Safety from 15.4.3902.0922 to 15.4.3508.1109.
32 or 64 Bit: What Makes the Difference?
In recent times, the 64 bit architecture gets more and more important. What is common for 32 and 64 bit, what do you have to pay attention to?
This Week’s Thoughts: The Hard Life of Wikileaks
They cannot apply juridical means to Wikileaks, at least not fast and effectively — that’s how the Web is like. Thus, other means have to be used. This week, the whistle-blower site had many problems. All by random? I doubt.
Start Task Manager faster with your mouse
There are many ways to open the Task Manager. You like using the mouse? Opening Task Manager without your keyboard is possible too.
Chrome: View your unread Gmails at a glance
Google Chrome is the fastest browser and getting more and more popular as alternative to Internet Explorer and Firefox. Gmail users however miss the integration of their email account into the Google browser. The free “Google Mail Checker Plus” extension adds this feature and links Google Chrome to Gmail.
Windows Live and You: “Completing the idea of staying in touch” (Harrison Hoffman, Microsoft)
I spoke with Harrison Hoffman, Evangelism Product Manager for Windows Live, about his personal relation to Windows Live. Get excited about this Windows Live and You interview!
How-to: Change your Windows 7 logon screen
No matter which desktop background you set in Windows 7: while starting, you will always see the blue default background. You want to style this background as well? Here are the necessary steps to customize the Windows logon screen.
How-to: Style Messenger to use your own font
Seeing the same font everywhere can get boring at times. Are you wondering how to style your Messenger and use your favorite font? Let’s take a look.
Tim thinks Facebook limits new ideas
The web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee considers websites like Facebook to be dangerous for the Web. They allow data to get in — but do not offer adequate ways to get them out again.