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WLWBackup is a backup utility for Windows Live Writer for taking backup of Windows Live Writer. This includes blog settings, posts and plug-in. To run WLWBackup on your computer is that you must have installed .Net Framework 3.5 SP1.
Microsoft has finally added a feature that will allows Windows Live Calendar users to embed and share their Windows Live Calendar with their friends or embed it into blogs or websites. Google Calendar also offers the same feature but Microsoft took some time to add calendar embed feature into Windows Live calendar. Microsoft calls this feature "A Calendar Badge" this badge can be accessed from any browser because the calendar badge is uses simple iframe. There are date and month arrows for moving forward and backward in time, and the event list shows as many events that fit, starting from the highlighted day.
Microsoft is keep updating their MSN toolbar and now this time they have added Live search cash back detector in MSN toolbar. MSN toolbar search is powered by Live Search. The MSN Toolbar (http://toolbar.msn.com) contains a cashback–offer-detecting mechanism. This means that wherever you search online — whether it’s Yahoo, Live, Google or Craigslist — the toolbar will gleam an icon if there is cashback available for the item you searched for. It never fails, and when you click the gleam it brings you to the page where the cash back offer is available.
Microsoft Windows Live Mail or Hotmail team has added some cool feature to their mail service. Microsoft has made some significance improvements in Windows Live Mail and Hotmail in recent times. Today they have rolled out 6 new features to Hotmail users. Some of the feature are also presented and CES 2009. Let’s have a closer look to Hotmail’s new features
More room for messages: Microsoft has removed the top banner ad so Hotmail users can view more message listed in their inbox.
Ever growing storage: Windows Live Mail or Hotmail starts with a 5 GB of storage and the storage is automatically growing to fulfill your storage requirements. There is one more point to note is that Windows Live Mail and Hotmail users also has a 25 GB of Windows Skydrive storage.
Info at your fingertips : This is the most useful feature that Microsoft has added and Hotmail users are waiting for this feature when they have shown it on CES 2009. Info at your fingertip feature allows hotmail users to add local maps, direction, movie times, and more into their Emails with just one click.
A little more social : When Hotmail or Windows Live Mail users login into their accounts they are now welcomed with all their social activity page. This also include social activities of their friends. Currently social activity is displayed when Hotmail users go http://home.live.com page.
A new way to get Hotmail on your phone: Microsoft has added support for POP3 access of Hotmail and Windows Live Mail. Currently POP3 access is not supported in all countries.
More style:Windows Live Mail and Hotmail has got some more new themes and users can also edit their signature in HTML.
Source : Whoa, cool new features
Search is becoming an integral part of every computer users who uses internet on daily basis. Microsoft Live Search blog has released a list of top How to searches done by Live Search website. The Most popular how to search queries are as follows
Microsoft Live Search team is working very hard to add more and more new features to Live search for end users as well as for webmaster and web site owners. Live Search has added one more feature that will help webmasters to have a greater control over their web pages how Live Search will index them. To remove web page from Live Search index Microsoft Live Search team says webmaster can add a meta tag exclusion within the <head> tag at the top of your HTML page for example:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>
Once the page is recrawled, the page will no longer be linked to in the SERP.
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Microsoft has recently released Live Search auto suggestions add-on for Firefox browser. The Live search auto suggestion add-on give users to auto suggestion when they start tying in Firefox search bar. he list of suggestions refreshes as you continue typing or when you change the query. You can click the suggestion that best matches what you were searching for to speed you to your results. The add-on is available in the following markets: Australia (AU), Canada (CA), India (IN), Ireland (IE), New Zealand (NZ), Philippines (PH), South Africa (ZA), United Kingdom (UK), and United States (US).
Firefox users can download and install Live Search Auto Suggestion Add-on for Firefox browser from Mozilla Add-on website.
On Friday Microsoft has confirmed that they are going to bring the Office Live and Windows Service under the one umbrella. Microsoft planning to merge Office Live and Windows Live services as part of their Wave 4 release. Office Live and Windows Live merger will defiantly help Microsoft to bring more collaboration between the two services because their are a number of Microsoft cloud based services are available including Live Mesh, Office Live, Folder Share, Windows Live, Skydive . this integration will also help Windows Live users to involve with Office Live because most of the users either of Office Live or Windows Live are not able to access both services at the same time because their is such option available right now.
Windows Live Essentials – the new update of Windows Live Writer 2009 has released today. Windows Live Writer is the product of Microsoft that is well known multi platform blogging tool that is much helpful to write on the web. The new updated tool contains Photo Gallery, Microsoft Outlook Connecter, Silverlight and Microsoft Office Live, Toolbar, Writer, Family Safety,Messenger and Mail. The new Windows Live Writer 2009 plugin includes Flickr Upload, Digg This and Twitter notify plugin also available for download.
Microsoft has finally decided to mark Malicious websites in “Live Search” search results. According to Microsoft Live Search blog: Our primary goal is to protect you from a potentially harmful page. You can still decide to risk it and visit the page, but we strongly urge against it and recommend always following our security guide.
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