Posts Tagged ‘windows live’

November 2 2009

Uploading Photos & Videos to Facebook from Windows

I came across the LiveUpload to Facebook tool on Codeplex today. This great tool helps you upload photos directly from Windows Live Photo Gallery or Windows Live Movie Maker.
 

Windows live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker are two free tools that are part of the Windows Essentials download.

August 30 2009

TBot – Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot

Windows Live Messenger now has a translation bot, that will help you translate text from one language to another over IM. Simply add mtbot@hotmail.com to your messenger list and start talking!

December 30 2008

I’m a-Live!

The hosting company that hosts my website over at www.shijaz.com was upgrading their servers, and they wanted me to make some DNS changes so that I can point to the new servers.
I considered this a good opportunity to make use of Windows Live, the free hosting services from Microsoft. It rocks!
To make use of this [...]

March 1 2008

Windows Live Writer

This is really cool.
Windows Live writer is a free tool from Microsoft that lets you post entries to your blog without having to log in to your blog provider website. It works more like Microsoft Word, with spell check as you type, easy formatting, and very easy insertion of pictures and tables. You can also [...]

November 25 2007

Did you know?

There are over 450 million “active” users on Windows Live Messenger every month. That’s almost 8% of the world’s population. Bearing in mind that only 19% of the world’s population uses the internet, this is 40% of all internet users worldwide.

An “active” user is one who spends at least 12 hours per month in [...]

November 19 2007

Microsoft buys Facebook stake

Microsoft has taken an equity stake in the social networking website, Facebook and, in return, gets to expand its exclusive advertising deal to handle ads for Facebook on a global basis.
Facebook didn’t come cheap. Microsoft is spending $240 million for roughly a 1.6 percent stake, based on an overall valuation of privately-held Facebook at $15 [...]