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Messenger certainly has grown into one hell of a social networking desktop client. When properly configured and linked to your various profiles, it allows you to control almost every aspect of your social experience in one convenient interface. In this post, I’ll discuss how to quickly create a small Windows Live Group from Messenger. First, …
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I love a good hack, especially when I can accomplish it with some help from my Windows Live tools. You may find yourself somewhere that blocks access to BitTorrent. I’ll show you how to download and retrieve your torrents anywhere easily. Disclaimer: I have to give props to The How-to Geek for the idea (although, …
Here’s a quick tip for my fellow Spaces ex-pats out there. Remember lists? They were these really nifty containers for interesting links that you could display on your space’s main page. There were 4 list templates, tailored for specific types of content: But in truth, you could use any of them to house links to …
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, then you know I’m an avid user of Windows Media Center. Over the past 5 years, I’ve worked hard to integrate Media Center into my home entertainment equation as much as my budget (and my wife’s tolerance) will permit. At one time, I had completely replaced my …
If you're a Windows Live enthusiast, then you've no doubt discovered that Twitter has recently been removed as a web activity partner. In my recent tip, Surviving the Twitpocalypse, I described how you can effectively restore the ability to include your tweets in your Windows Live activity stream and keep these friends in the loop …
I was cleaning out some old files, when I came across a text document that contained the specs of a Gateway 2000 PC I purchased in early 1996. As there really was no standardized e-commerce in those days, you couldn’t order directly from their website (a reasonably close snapshot of which is pictured to the …
I had been planning to postpone any posts about the wave 4 beta until all of it was rolled out (I'm still waiting on the new Hotmail and related bits), but I decided to post this quick tip. As you may have heard, Windows Live no longer officially supports Twitter as a web activity, er …
They say a picture is worth a thousand words; that’s particularly true when attempting to troubleshoot a problem with your computer. Sure you could describe the problem, but most of the time support personnel can gain a better understanding if you can show them what’s happening on your computer screen. Luckily, most versions of Windows …
I enjoy answering great questions in my favorite Windows Live Groups. This one came to my attention yesterday on Live Soapbox, and I thought it would make a good “how-to” post for the Clubhouse. I hope you’ll agree. Q: I'm about to close down my e-mail account and move to another. What happens to the …
Whether you’re a web developer or just an enthusiast, you might like to have multiple versions of Internet Explorer installed for testing purposes. The problem is that installing any given version of IE uninstalls other versions. So what are you supposed to do, maintain a fleet of PCs with different versions of IE installed on …
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