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 [...]

webDotWiz Online column Thu, 16 Sep 2010-Live Messenger, our people app

The social web   We thought the internet was becoming really social when MSN Messenger (that’s the name Live Messenger was called many years ago) not only enabled us to text chat to a family member or friend but also audio chat using a simple headset. Then came video chat – wow, the web was [...]

webDotWiz Online column Thu, 2 Sep 2010-It’s the small things in Live

The trial version of the free Windows Live Essentials 2011 package of programs (Live Mail, Live Messenger, Live Movie Maker, Live Photo Gallery, Live Writer, Live Family Safety) was refreshed on August 17 and some new features appeared. As well, the webDotWizards have been finding some little tricks and features  while becoming familiar with these [...]

webDotWiz Online column Thu, 19 Aug 2010-Sending photos & Office docs in the new Hotmail

In the last column webDotWiz showed you how to use the new Sweep feature in Hotmail to organise your email inbox. Basically Sweep enables you to store incoming email from specific email addresses in specific folders for later reading so that at the end of the day you should have a zero-inbox, that is, an [...]

webDotWiz Online column – 29 April 2010 – ICE + Photosynth = 3D Panoramas

Three or four weeks ago the Microsoft Image Composite Editor program (ICE) and Photosynth, the online 3D viewer, were updated to create and better display panoramas. ICE can now create gigapixel-sized panoramas and Photosynth uses its unique 3D viewing capabilities to enable us to view panoramas as we do with the naked eye by providing [...]

webDotWiz Online column – April 1 2010 – Hey, look at this – the WWT Bing Maps app

Look up and see the stars Bing Maps has a new application, the WorldWide Telescope, that enables us to look up at the sky at any time of day or night. To get started, you’ll need to go to www.bing.com/maps/explore. Before you do this, though, check that you’ve got the United State – English locale [...]