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10 Years of Messenger
7/3/2009 10:26:13 AM, SorinD
I have a Hotmail account since June 16, 1999 (so I just celebrated my mailbox's 10 years old birthday a few weeks ago!). (If you wonder, you can find out the date that you have created your own Hotmail account by going to Your Account page). I was a ...
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Cropping your photos into the proper dimensions for printing
7/2/2009 9:45:43 PM, ms Zuiderdam
Dear Guests, Recently some guests have expressed dissatisfaction with their prints because the company they use to print their photos is cropping off part of the top and part of the bottom. This can lead to heads being chopped off which is no fun for ...
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How to Take a Still Photo from a Video Clip in Windows Movie Maker
7/2/2009 3:27:13 PM, Statendam
Since my last post talked about how to add music to your movie, I thought I would share another one of my favorite tools in Windows Movie Maker. The tool lets you take a picture from your preview…what this means is if I took a video clip of something and ...
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Hotmail annoyances
7/2/2009 11:20:21 AM, mynetx
Windows Live Hotmail is great: it’s fast, reliable and doesn’t require me to install any client application but a browser. But there are also things in Hotmail that annoy me. Marking mail as junk The Junk filters in Hotmail are very good, as they ...
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Windows Live and You: “Hmm, I wonder if I can do this better” (Frans–Willem Hardijzer)
7/1/2009 3:00:43 AM, mynetx
This is the first interview in the Windows Live and You summer edition. I’m sure that my conversation with Frans-Willem Hardijzer, who developed the Messenger add-on StuffPlug, and is also known as “The Blasphemer”, will be especially interesting for ...
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Messenger Plus! Live 4.82 supports Windows 7
7/1/2009 1:50:34 AM, mynetx
Messenger Plus! Live 4.82, one of the last updates to version 4, has been released. It features complete support for the current Windows 7 Release Candidate as well as some other interesting news, like these: The settings of your scripts and skins can ...
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Take me out to the ballgame: subscribing to online calendars
6/30/2009 4:13:20 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
It’s finally summer in Seattle, and baseball games when the roof on Safeco Field is open are the best. With Windows Live Calendar and subscriptions to a couple of online calendars, I can figure out when the Seattle Mariners are playing at home and what ...
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Moving photos from camera to computer using Windows Live Photo Gallery
6/30/2009 3:39:15 PM, Ludwig J.
When importing pictures from your camera you have many useful options with Windows Live Photo Gallery. After plugging in your camera to a USB port and turning it on, you get the AutoPlay dialog, one of the options is: Using this option makes your ...
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Everything I own and the Kitchen Sync
6/30/2009 11:11:51 AM, Michael
Being a student at university in the UK I find it almost essential to be able to access files from the university network, my home PC, my uni PC, and Netbook in a variety of locations. To be able to do this I don’t want to have to carry around a memory ...
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Get all your e-mail in one place!
6/30/2009 10:38:19 AM, Windows Live Dev Team
We are happy to announce that Hotmail customers in the US, Canada, and Brazil can now add other e-mail accounts to Hotmail!* No need to sign into multiple services to check all your messages on the web. Instead, you can see any POP-enabled e-mail account ...