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Microsoft site Messenger Cafe is a site dedicated to games and activities for Windows Live Messenger. And right now, you can visit this page to get some free theme packs to add to your Live Messenger. The packs available now include a Winter Theme pack, some Halloween themes, a “funky chicken” pack, a back-to-school pack with unique emoticons, and a Christmas-themed Howard the Elf pack. According to this blog post, there was a Halo 3 theme pack, but that one seems to be MIA. Hey guys, can we have it back now?
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FolderShare is a utility that you can use to keep your files in sync across your computers. You can also use FolderShare to share your files with friends or accessing them when you’re away from home from any computer that has an internet connection.
The FolderShare team has just announced a major update to the beta, which addresses some issues like problems with IOMEGA drives and issues some users had when using the utility on XP and Vista. They also updated their FAQ, available here, with more questions and answers, which is a great place to give the team feedback on the service.
The FolderShare beta is available both for Windows and Mac.
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The Windows Live team recently released a new service called Windows Live Community Builder. With this service, you can offer your community members, whether for business, non-profit, or anyone, customized versions of Windows Live services like Windows Live Search, Windows Live Photos, Windows Live Contacts, Virtual Earth mapping, & Silverlight technologies. The service also includes the features of Windows Live Admin Center, which brings Windows Live Hotmail, Live Calendar, Messenger, Spaces, & SkyDrive services to your users branded with your own domain name. For a killer example of the Community Builder in action, check out The Group Inc. Real Estate’s website. Built with Live Services, the site features map-based property searches. A bunch of other mashups are listed here. And if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of the Live services that Community Builder uses, this PDF has a color-coded chart showing the platform’s web controls, service APIs, and data.
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Windows Live Calendar, a new service that replaces MSN Calendar, launched earlier this week in a public beta. The beta offers features like multiple color-coded calendars, shared calendars, email and text message alerts for appointments, and the ability to subscribe to a calendar’s contents via RSS. Built with AJAX, the online calendar offers some desktop-app-like navigation features, including drag-and-drop, single-click to add an appointment, and scrolling through dates using a mouse wheel. Sharing your Windows Live Calendar is easy but has sophisticated rights management processes working on the back-end which let you share out as much or as little of your calendar as you want. You can let people see only free/busy info, you can give them read-only permissions to your appointments, or you can even give them read/write permissions to your calendar. Individual appointments can be set as private, too (click New to display the New Appointment box, then [...]
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The Windows Live Messenger Team posted on their blog about an easy new way to create an IM button to put on your website, blog, or in your email signature. To get started, click here and begin to customize your button. You can pick different shapes, colors, taglines, and then you enter in your Live ID and snag the code for your button. The button code works on Spaces, Blogger, Facebook, MySpace, Outlook 2003/2007, MSN Hotmail/Windows Live Hotmail/Windows Live Mail beta or it can be added to your website. When your friends and family click on the button, you are automatically added to their contact list. Cool.
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The Live Search team announced on their latest blog post some great new features for Live Search: Autospell and Stemming. They hope that these features will help to return the best search results for your intent, and not just the particular terms you searched for. The Autospell feature determines whether or not you’ve misspelled your search term and delivers you a page of spell-corrected search results as opposed to a “Did you mean _______?” link at the top. They promise that this feature will only be activated if they are “absolutely, completely, totally, ‘no doubt about it’ confident you misspelled one of your search terms!” The second big improvement is stemming. What stemming does is match the “stem,” or root of the word, rather than the exact word. As an example, they reported that users had told them that the search “half price book Redmond” returned terrible results, but “half [...]
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For those with kids, you know that keeping them safe online can present a major challenge. That’s where Windows Live OneCare Family Safety, a new Windows Live service, can help. With the Family Safety service, your kids are protected by internet filtering, contact approval, activity reports, and built-in recommendations. The web safe management feature lets you filter the websites you don’t want them to see. By working with Live Search, the service can block inappropriate search results. Aind with MSN Encarta, it can help deliver information that’s age-appropriate. Activity reports are provided which show you which sites your kids visit. A contact approval feature lets you know who your kids are talking to on IM (Windows Live Messenger), email (Windows Live Mail), or on their blogs (Windows Live Spaces). You can approve or disapprove each contact they add. Your child can also ask for your permission to see a blocked [...]
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On Monday, Live Search 411 was officially launched. This voice-activated local search service lets you do local searches right from your phone just by speaking. To use the service, call 1-800-CALL-411 (1-800-225-5411) from any phone in the U.S. and say where you are and what you are looking for. The service can also send you text messages, maps, traffic maps, and text-based directions. Live Search 411 goes a step beyond simply providing you with business information though - several handy features make this new service really stand out, including:
The ability to connect to any business listing you find for free
Receive SMS links to maps, driving directions and traffic conditions (just say “text me the info”)
Get movie showtimes and even buy tickets over the phone (via a partnership with Fandango)
Share text messages of business details with friends so they can easily meet you there
Hear the current weather conditions and the forecast
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Do you have multiple Windows Live IDs? Maybe an older one and a new one, one for work & one for home? A public one and a private one? If so, you know that in the past it has been difficult to manage and switch between your different identities. No more! Windows Live now offers a Linked Windows Live ID service. This service lets you link your Windows Live accounts together and easily switch between them. Once set up, you can switch between your identities with one click from a menu on the top-right of most Windows Live pages (click the down arrow by your name). To get started, head to https://account.live.com and sign in with one of your IDs. Look for the section called “Linked Windows Live IDs” and click on the link. On the next page, you’ll be able to enter in one or more additional IDs you [...]
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A must-have for Windows Mobile users is the Live Search app for mobile devices. If you need to search for a place, get directions, or find what else is in the area, Live Search for Windows Mobile can really be a lifesaver. After installation, to use Live Search, you just click on the Live Search icon from the device’s Start Menu, and the application launches. From the main screen, you can easily navigate to select the city of your choice by drilling down by geographic region and alphabetical listings. To find a business or category, you enter in the information you need to find in the search box and your results will display on a map. You can use the routing feature to get directions from point A to point B, and, in major cities, you can even see what traffic is like on your selected route. Roadblocks and delays [...]
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