Category Archives: Windows Live

Windows Live Messenger, the Beta Refresh and Facebook

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Simon

We already showed you how Messenger is a great social media aggregator so you know it brings everything together for you to make life easier.  What if you don’t have lots of people to talk to on messenger wouldn’t it … Continue reading →

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Blog Wrap Up Creator (a tool by me)

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Simon

Every week I write a simple wrap up of all the things I’ve posted during the week you can subscribe to them here.  Creating it can be slow going if I’ve posted tons of stuff and copy and pasting all the links creating some spiffy text to flo… Continue reading →

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Office Live is live

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Simon

A whole raft of updates to Windows Live have started to roll out and that includes the Office Live Web Apps – online versions of Microsoft’s Office applications.  They’re available through SkyDrive and any documents that you have on your … Continue reading →

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Windows Live Moviemaker updated

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Simon

One of the gems of Windows Live Essentials (which are explored quite thoroughly in my book) is Movie Maker which provides dead simple movie editing.  The best analogy is one I heard today “Movie Maker is the notepad of video … Continue reading →

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Surfs Up! Live Wave 3 is comming

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Simon

I’ve just been reading on Techcrunch and eWeek about the cool new features that are about to come along in Live Wave 3.  Basically it’s the next step in the story of turning Microsofts Software plus Services web technology on. … Continue reading →

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