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.

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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.

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Microsoft live labs has published a complete guide for Photosynth photography. the guide is approximately 1mb in size and has a number of tips and tricks for  Photosynth photography. I have taken keyboard shortcuts from that guide and published here because they are the most used and useful for Photosynth photography users.

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In December Microsoft is planning to launch a new product Windows Live Sync this can be think FolderShare 2.0. After the launch of Windows Live Sync FolderShare will not be there means your FolderShare software will stop working. Update to Windows Live Sync will be a smooth transition from FolderShare to Windows Live Sync. Windows Live Sync will automatically rebuild all of your personal folder.

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LiveUpload to YouTube is a plug-in that enable Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker users to directly upload video to YouTube.

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LiveUpload is a Windows Live Photo Gallery Plug-in that allows users to directly upload their photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery to FaceBook. LiveUpload plug-in takes full advantage of people tagging feature of Windows Live Photo Gallery. LiveUpload enables users to people tag photos on FaceBook.

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Microsoft has launched the new Live Search Maps India site with the useful features that are listed below. Now It contains the route map and geographical information for all major cities of India, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur. It will provide the National Road Network of India with more than 20,000 cities, towns and major localities. this map lindicates the important points and locations in a city like historical places, restaurants, hotels, monuments and other main places. the geographical feature shows the connecting national roads network acorss 20000 cities.so this is all about the street map in india.

second  feature is search location- now  you can easily search particular address, road, restaurant, hotel monument and landmark with in available nine cities. if you search for an address then it will return only the matched part and drop the unmatched part because the details are entered at possible lower level. In the map site it indicate the particular location with the pointer to identify easily. you can also search by shortcut name like hyd for hydrabad , del for delhi, blr for bangalore ans bpl for bhopal like that. to understand better functionality of this map, see examples.

• suppose you are in Bangalore (map area of browser)  and search for ‘jp nagar’ will show the jp nagar on the map of Bhopal and other jp nagar(s) in India as suggestions. Location Search is context aware.
• You are in delhi, and search for ‘Bangalore Golf Course’ will result in other golf courses as suggestions with the pointer on the Bangalore Golf Course, Bangalore at their exact position on the map.
• You are in Bangalore, ‘10 janpath road’ will result in 10 janpath road, delhii. One need not type the city name while searching for localities.
• Airport, will place the pointer on the Bangalore international Airport, devenhalli, Bangalore at their exact position on the map.

Third feature is Business Listing  Search – it will allow us to find businesses listed . Click Business tab and specify what (e.g. hotels in first box) and where (e.g. mg road in second box) then you will get the business listings sorted according to distance from the location of search (i.e. airport, Bangalore). it will return all the listed hotels according to distance, rank, address, phone numbers and other information.

another good feature is Routing and Driving Directions. if you are new in city and always get confused while driving then it will help you a lot, show full route map for driving with the direction. features are –Intra-city visual driving directions , Intercity integrated routing (detailed driving directions inside the cities having Street Maps and normal driving directions on the National map) ,One-click driving directions . Source and destination can be any of it like, city, locality, place and landmark in India within 15KM of distance from any location(road) . select shortest distance and reverse route for driving direction facility is also available in this map.

User can take the print out of the maps, driving directions, route information and other search results also, it is for user convenience. you can create collections of pointer(pushpins), custom drawings on the maps and routing etc. and you can also save it for viewing later or sharing it with others.

On September 12, 2008 BlackBerry smartphone users will be able to use Microsoft Live Search as their search engine of choice within the BlackBerry Browser as well as access Live Search from Mobile.BlackBerry.com. Live Search will leverage the wireless data optimization capabilities of the BlackBerry solution to deliver results quickly while users are on the go. BlackBerry customers will also be able to use Live Search to perform contextual, location-sensitive searches or look for nearby points of interest from inside BlackBerry Maps.

Mark Guibert, vice president, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion, Said

As the BlackBerry platform continues to evolve and broaden its appeal to all mobile users, RIM looks to answer our customers’ needs with a broad range of high-value solutions optimized for use with BlackBerry smartphones,Offering Live Search on BlackBerry smartphones extends choice for our customers and allows users to conveniently and quickly search the Internet when they are on mobile devices.

Brian Arbogast, corporate vice president of the Mobile Services organization at Microsoft, Said

This joint endeavor with RIM is a strategic indicator of our increased focus on securing broad-scale distribution for Live Search.Microsoft is committed to extending our services across mobile platforms, and we are very pleased to be joining forces with RIM to help bring Live Search to millions of BlackBerry users worldwide.

Live Search on BlackBerry smartphones will allow BlackBerry smartphone users to search the Web’s information—whether they’re looking for the latest weather forecasts, images, stock quotes, restaurants, news headlines or Web sites.Live Search for BlackBerry Smartphones is expected to be available later this year with support for multiple languages.

Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data on your phone – specifically contacts, music, pictures and videos. It does that by synchronizing your phone contacts with Microsoft’s Windows Live Contacts store in the cloud, or by helping you download files from the phone to your local computer.

• Contacts: Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta synchronizes the contacts present in your phone with your contact store on Windows Live Contacts, which is the same store that your Hotmail contacts uses. This way, your phone contacts are always present on the Internet, accessible via the contacts link on Hotmail. If you lose, or simply change your phone, all you need to do is to synchronize the contacts using Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta, and all the contacts that you stored in your Windows Live Contacts store will be downloaded to your phone. You can synchronize your contacts as many times as you like so that the changes you make (edits, additions or deletions) on your phone, or on the computer on Windows Live Contacts are always reflected on both your phone and the Windows Live Contacts store.
• Music, Pictures and Video: In its current form, Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta will download the music, pictures and videos present in your phone to a local folder on the computer you are using this application on.
• Communication with your phone: Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta can communicate with your phone via a wireless standard known as Bluetooth, or via a USB cable.
• In order for you to synchronize contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID (any Hotmail ID is a valid Windows Live ID). If you do not have one, you will be prompted to create one while you use the application.

In order for you to synchronize contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID (any Hotmail ID is a valid Windows Live ID). If you do not have one, you will be prompted to create one while you use the application.

System Requirements

Your computer needs to have the following minimum requirements for Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta application to run:

• One of the following Operating Systems:
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 32 bit version
• Microsoft Windows XP SP3 32 bit version
• Microsoft Windows Vista 32 bit version
• 256 MB of RAM
• 200 MB of available disk space
• 800×600 screen resolution(1024×768 recommended)
• Bluetooth Connectivity: In order for the application to communicate with your phone through Bluetooth, your computer needs to either have inbuilt Bluetooth hardware support (e.g. most laptops have Bluetooth inbuilt), or you should have an external USB Bluetooth dongle that you can use. More details about both are given below.
• USB Connectivity: If you choose to use a USB cable to connect your phone with the PC, then
  1. you should use a USB data cable that works with your phone, and
  2. your computer should have the latest available USB cable drivers for your phone (provided by your phone manufacturer) installed.

System Bluetooth requirements

Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology that connects computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices and allows them to communicate wirelessly over short distances. Many computers (especially laptops) come with the Bluetooth functionality pre-installed.If your computer/laptop does not have pre-installed Bluetooth functionality, you may be able to buy a USB-based Bluetooth dongle that will provide Bluetooth functionality for your computer.

The Phone Data Manager Beta application works only with those Bluetooth dongles/adapters that are compatible with the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack. If your dongle supports Microsoft’s Bluetooth stack then once you insert the dongle, the computer will recognize and automatically install the required drivers when you plug in the dongle into the USB slot (without needing any additional dongle vendor provided CD)

• If you are using Windows Vista, ensure that your dongle is on the list of Bluetooth dongles that work with Windows Vista and are also compatible with the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack.
• If you are using Windows XP, ensure that your dongle is on the list of Bluetooth dongles that work with Windows XP and are also compatible with the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack.

In case your Bluetooth dongle is not automatically recognized by Windows XP or Windows Vista then please refer to troubleshooting information on how to configure a Bluetooth dongle.

Download Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta

The latest version of Window Live Hotmail is coming up very soon. It is more secure, faster than ever, simpler with smooth design means much more batter than the previous one. Meanwhile It is the combination of Classic and full version of  Hotmail with the simpler look. The main feature is, it’ll be about 70 % (percent) faster in speed to signup and access mailbox. From the security perspective it has been depicted with powerful technology that protect you against viruses and scams.

Another good features are- ease to get contacts, type in ‘to’ line and get the most closely Email-id match you want and for Email groups also. With the new calendar easily can share our calendar stuff with  others. In this u can also choose different-2 themes, colors and design according to your own personality.

Window Live Hotmail wave features are

1. 70% faster then ever in term of speed.
2. Combination of classic and full versions of Hotmail.
3. Get access to Hotmail offers.
4. Reading pane without having to open it up.
5. New themes, colors to design Inbox. 
6. Unlimited storage.
7. New calendar features.