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 …
Pull the plug
Has your Windows Live Spaces page become unmanageable? Or are you rediscovering your passion for blogging after an extended hiatus? Sometimes, you just have to know when to throw in the towel and get a fresh start. Luckily, Spaces allows you to completely wipe out your space with surprisingly few clicks. On your space's main …
Really specific syndication
You may already know a lot about RSS, the technology that empowers consumers to subscribe to a data source (such as a web page) and receive updates via a reader or news aggregator. You may know that it's a great way to follow a popular blog, because those updates are pushed to you each time …
Sum it up
If you’ve spent any time cruising around on Windows Live, then you’ve probably run across Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft’s consumer-based blogging platform/personal webpage network. Spaces evolved from an MSN service a few years back, and it arguably laid the foundation from which Windows Live has grown ever since. In fact, the post you’re reading originated …
Lay it on me
Windows Live Mail is a great entry-level desktop mail client, and I’m certainly not knocking it. But many of you have discovered the goodness that is the Outlook Connector, and you use Outlook 2007’s vastly superior tools to manage your Windows Live Hotmail inbox, calendar, contacts, AND tasks (a feature which is sorely lacking in …
Whatchoo talkin’ ‘bout?
Update In the interest of full disclosure, my Spaces compatriot Jeffrey brought it to my attention that there is indeed a viable, Spaces-compatible Windows Live Translator gadget available in the flagging WL Gallery. You're more than welcome to use it instead, as it now redirects to Bing Translator and does practcally the same thing as my …
Have it your way
When Windows Live “wave 3” launched in December, its popular photo-sharing service was relocated from the flagging Spaces service to a shiny new home within SkyDrive. It was definitely a good move, considering that SkyDrive offers each user a whopping 25 GB of online storage space, p rovides a myriad of permission configuration options, and …
Getting to know all about you
If you’re a Facebook user, then perhaps you’ve seen the “25 random things” activity that’s making its way around that community. In a nutshell, it challenges you to write 25 random but honest facts about yourself, and then tag 25 other people to do the same, and so on. There’s no set of questions or …
These are a few of my favorite things
Favorite websites. We’ve all got ‘em, and we want to share them with everyone who cares to know (and occasionally push them on those who really couldn’t care less). In this post, I’m going to discuss a couple of interesting ways to advertise your most beloved destinations on the web with your adoring fans, along …
What’s all this, then?
In response to a recent question in one of my favorite Windows Live Groups, I discussed some of the lesser-known blogging tools that are available in WL Spaces: As you're reading a blog post on someone's WL Space, you may have noticed a string of links across the bottom of the post. While most of …
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