Sites Tuesday, 30 November 2010-Top Bing searches in 2010-Bing Music updates-2.5m Kinects sold-Visual Basic for WP7 developers-Live Spaces migrating to WordPress-Effective use of Social Media

Today’s sites: Bing Feature Update – Bing releases new Artist Pages: www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/ Half a million former Spaces bloggers now on WordPress (plus half a million more): www.liveside.net How Apple Can Fix the iPad in 2011: www.winsupersite.com Kinect sells 2.5 Million in first 25 days: majornelson.com Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen: www.newscientist.com/ Moms: Need a Break? Join [...]

Sites Monday, 29 November 2010-Irish given cheese handout-Best photos of year-Writing or just practicing-Social gadgets

Today’s sites: FUSE Labs brings new projects – Spindex, Project Emporia, SocialGadgets, and Montage: www.liveside.net Let them eat cheese – anger as Ireland plans handouts of cheddar to the poor: www.guardian.co.uk Reuters Best of the Year Photos: blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/ Rising sea puts Virginia city on climate change front-line: www.msnbc.msn.com Technology + Games on ABC: www.abc.net.au/technology/ Windows [...]

Problem–Can’t copy from Expression Web 4 to Live Writer and publish to WordPress–Workaround

webDotWiz writes up his webDotWiz column (www.webdotwiz.com) in Expression Web 4 and to save typing, has been in the habit of copying the page (in Design view in EW 4) to Live Writer (in Edit view) and then publishing onto his blog (formerly Live Spaces but now here on WordPress). With migration of his Live [...]

New features in Hotmail and Office Web Apps-webDotWiz Online Sep 30 2010

Over the past week or so, the Windows Live team have announced several new updates to Live Hotmail and the Office Web Apps. The features in Hotmail will appear over the next few weeks so don’t be surprised if you don’t have them immediately. Hotmail attachments size increased Previously when using the Attachment option to [...]

Better security in Hotmail and other Live news-webDotWiz Online Oct 14 2010

This week we’ll take you through some notable updates to Live Hotmail and Live Calendar, some useful photo tips from the Rushworth Community House webDotWizards and how you can make life easier for yourself by using Live Messenger to link up with your Facebook friends. Live Hotmail It can happen that you or a friend [...]

webDotWiz Online column Oct 28 2010-Hotmail updates now for everybody

Over the past couple of months there have been several updates for Live Hotmail. Some of these updates were available in certain countries only but now they’re available to Hotmail users worldwide. An overarching feature of the new Hotmail is that you can view documents, photos and videos from within Hotmail itself – that means [...]

Let Live Messenger Social do the work-webDotWiz Online column-Nov 11 2011

Back in September one of webDotWiz’s column was titled Live Messenger, our people app. Since then Windows Live users have begun to see how Messenger Social makes life so much easier. Want to write something on your Facebook wall? Simply fill in your text message in Messenger’s share pane at the top of the Live [...]

Get ready for the holiday season–webDotWiz Online column Nov 25 2010

Last year a number of people created a seasons greetings movie from some photos taken during the year and emailed it instead of buying and snail mailing traditional cards. The movie was well received so it’s time to get ready for this year’s holiday season. The tools we’ll use are Live Photo Gallery and Live [...]

Create a collage-type header image for your WordPress site

Here’s how you can create a header image for your WordPress site using some of your photos joined into a single collage-type image. Have a look at JBMurchTravel as an example. You could achieve a similar result using Microsoft AutoCollage or Paint.NET but it’s a very simple, straightforward task when you use Microsoft Word 2007 [...]

Sites Saturday, 27 November 2010-Office 365 hands on-Win7 holiday themes-WP7 FAQ-Getting results the agile way-Apollo 14 transcripts

Today’s sites: 7 FAQs about Windows Phone 7: blogs.msdn.com/b/robmar/ Andromeda Galaxy visible to skywatchers: www.msnbc.msn.com Apollo 14 Lunar Surface Journal – Transcripts: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.html Does Learning Computer Science help anything else?: blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/ Einstein’s ‘Biggest Blunder’ Turns Out to Be Right: www.livescience.com/space/ First look at Office 365: www.liveside.net Great Books, Great People, Great Quotes: blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/ Hands-On with [...]