The future of Delicious, now clear
Yahoo!'s social bookmarking service Delicious has a future again. The original founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, acquire the Delicious service as part of their new...
How-to: Disable Facebook Chat in Messenger
When you linked your Facebook profile to your Windows Live profile, Messenger 2011 might sign in automatically to Facebook Chat as soon as you sign in to Windows Live. At times,...
Notes in your Windows Live Profile - discontinued
The Windows Live team has chosen to discontinue the feature to leave notes within your friends’ Windows Live Profiles. Additionally, you cannot anymore send them Private Messages...
Reinventing Hotmail Wave 5 with HTML5
“High Five” could be the title of the plans for the next version of Windows Live Hotmail, codenamed Wave 5. It is not a secret that Microsoft will be focusing more on HTML5 to...
Windows Live Essentials move into the cloud
These days, the cog wheels are rotating much inside the Windows Live team. The last actions to complete the current version, Wave 4, are just being done (deleting blog posts and...
How-to: Delete browsing data faster
To delete browsing data, Internet Explorer requires you to click some menus to find the feature. But there is a not so well-known keyboard shortcut that opens the cleanup window...
For a more beautiful web: IE9 Final has been released
Microsoft has finished version 9 of the popular Windows Internet Explorer web browser. Starting from today [March 15, 2011, 4 am GMT], the new browser version is offered for free...
Intelligent filter system for Gmail
Google has added a new feature to its e-mail service. As the amount of e-mails to handle each day increases for most users, an automatic filter system tries to keep your inbox...
No new devices for Zune. The End?
After more than one month of speculation about the future of Microsoft’s music player brand Zune, these are going to come to an end. As a Business Insider report indicates, there...
Minor update for Messenger Plus! 5
Yuna Software has released version 5.01 of the popular Messenger extension Messenger Plus!. Among a dozen bug fixes, a new feature has been activated: commands in the contact...
Closing chat windows with MPOP
The other day I received a question from a Messenger user. They asked: > I am using Messenger 2011 with multiple endpoints signed in (MPOP). When I sign out on one endpoint or...
It’s time for a change.
It is more than four years ago since I decided to use the nickname “mynetx”. Back then, I had my own network (my net). Later, I discovered: my nickname matches my web developer...
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 released
Windows 7 Service Pack 1, image by intowindows.com
Reminder: Windows Live Spaces is closing soon
Please keep in mind that the blogging service Windows Live Spaces is closing on March 16, 2011. This affects all existing spaces and their contents. After the closing date, you...
A dozen new formats for the Google docs viewer
The file viewer Google docs viewer is able to display numerous new document types in your browser, among them Adobe Photoshop- and Illustrator files. You are confronted with the...
Google offers bookmarks import tool for Delicious
Google now offers a tool to import bookmarks from Yahoo!’s social bookmarking service Delicious. This way, you can import your contents to Google Bookmarks. The tool also copies...
Is Zune’s future in danger?
When Microsoft announced the strategic partnership with Nokia last week, they also talked about the brands that both companies are going to share. It was remarkable that Zune is...
IE9 planned for mid-March 2011
Internet Explorer 9 is nearing completion. The IE team announced a big event for 14 March, 2011, celebrating the “beauty of the web.” This is what an invitation in the official...
Long expected: Messenger Plus! 5 released
The newest update for the most prominent Windows Live Messenger extension, Messenger Plus! 5, has been released. It adds support for Messenger 2011 as well as minor enhancements...
How-to: Paste text without formatting in Chrome
While copying texts to website forms — like your own blog —, the text formatting gets pasted into the textbox as well. This can get annoying. You want to copy texts without...