This is just for my own future reference. As I plan to have a play with writing Live.com gadgets some time soon. See here for details…
read more...Creating Windows Live Gadgets Using ATLAS
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Testing Windows Live Writer
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Here goes my first post from Windows Live Writer, and first impressions are this thing looks VERY cool. I’ve recently decided to try out as much as I can of the Windows Live family of services and products so expect to see more posts on Windows Live stuff very soon. So far I’ve only blogged about Windows Live.Com, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail,and Windows Live Search, and here goes Windows Live Writer. More stuff soon on the categories I didn’t cover closely and ones I havent covered yet 🙂…
read more...Windows Live.Com fixed, Finally!
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After being very annoyed by the Windows Live problem I reported in my previous post, I decided to go ahead and contact the Windows Live Support. And after exchanging about 6 emails with them my problem is FINALLY solved! At first they suggested me resetting all my browser settings giving me all details on what to do …etc and try again. Which I did and didnt fix anything. So I email back saying it didnt work and then they email back suggesting that my account might need resetting which they do, that still didnt work so I email again. They…
read more...Windows Live.com is Broken!
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I don’t know how long this has been the case but it’s annoying me alot, I went through a PC rebuild last week and after I was back up and running I logged on to my ‘customized’ Windows Live page and hmm… It’s no longer there. All my custom settings have been lost and it went back to the default look you get when you first set it up. I was very annoyed by this but I thought maybe the settings where stored in cookies or something on my local machine that got deleted from my rebuild.…
read more...Innovation & Creativity: Where did you go?
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Right so it seems the hot topic of today is TradeMe’s launch of their Job listing service… This actually had me start thinking about the following. What happened to innovation? It seems to me that a lot of companies in NZ and world wide see others doing something and then going, that looks like a cool thing to do we should do that too… and then they do and we end up with multiple offerings of very very similar services, so whats the point there? Maybe there’s something I don’t get, but unless there is a significant…
read more...Office 2007 beta 2 RSS Reader
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I’ve been playing with the Office 2007 Beta 2 RSS reader for a while now and it hasn’t met my expectations :(. It has a long way to go to become a good RSS reader IMHO. Here are some of the things that I dont like. – I can’t see any comments related to a post. – Can’t go to the root node of the folder and click ‘Mark All as Read’ and have all posts marked as read. Well the option seems to be there but it doesnt seem to work on the root node but it does…
read more...Vote for Me!
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It’s that time of the year again. The NZ.NET blog competition is back! Vote For Me…
read more...Other Windows Live Comments
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I just noticed that Windows Live Messenger and a few other Windows Live products have now gone out of beta. Google are you listening! One thing that looks interesting among those is Windows Live Domains. It seems that this will make possible one of my early requested featuresof being able to access other email accounts than Hotmail though windows Live. Off first glance it looks like the offering is very similar to google’swhich Rod has been trying out. But with less storage space. Will be interesting to see how these two evolve in the future. The main…
read more...Windows Live Search. Windows Live...
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Ok so it’s been over two weeks since I’ve postedsaying that I will give Windows Live Search a try. Well here are some of my thoughts. In my previous post I mentioned two of the annoying things I found with Windows Live and posted an update on how to resolve one of them. Well it looks like the secondone (the position of the search box on thepage+ the tab order) has been solved! I was soo annoyed by this so I even ended uppostingfeedbackcomments to Windows Live about it! And guess what…
read more...Microsoft Subsidaries using google adwords!
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This just caught my attention, was looking at my blog this afternoon and I spotted the following: I couldnt help but clicking the add to see where it will take me. I ended up on MS Germany’s Visual Studio / Visual Web developer’s page. I wonder why MS Germany are using Adwords!!…
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