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Sync your Screen Saver pictures with Live Mesh
18 July 08 01:37 AM | Laurent Duveau
[Post directly inspired by Brad Abrams ] Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Screen Saver pictures on every desktop/laptop in the house ? Here is the tutorial with Vista and Live Mesh client installed: First start by choosing...
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Sync your favorites with Live Mesh
12 July 08 01:45 AM | Laurent Duveau
Did you know that you can share and sync your favorites between computers with Live Mesh ? Yes, like I did with Visual Studio settings . I already sync my favorites with Windows Live Toolbar and the Windows Live Favorites button, but I am not fond of...
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Sync your Visual Studio settings with Live Mesh!
29 June 08 10:29 PM | Laurent Duveau
Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Visual Studio settings between computers ? Here is how to do this in Vista (with Live Mesh client installed): Go to your VS2008 folder (usually C:\Users\ YourUserName \Documents\Visual Studio...
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Windows Live Mail accounts importing issue and feedback
24 June 08 06:14 PM | Laurent Duveau
In Windows Live Mail (build 12.0.1606) there is an inconsistency in the Export/Import accounts process that I have just reported to the product team: You can export your e-mail accounts or newsgroup subscriptions with File / Export / Accounts… menu, then...
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Windows Live Writer CTP
10 June 08 08:08 PM | Laurent Duveau
The CTP of this wonderful blogging tool is now available! Here is a list of new features: Video and Image Publishing Enhancements Upload videos to Soapbox Image cropping and tilting Additional border styles (reflection!) Support for LightBox and other...
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Live Search Farecast
25 May 08 06:34 PM | Laurent Duveau
Live Search Farecast helps you find the lowest airfares by predicting when is the best time to buy . On the home page you enter your airport and destination/date and hit Search:   Then you get your results in a rich-features page: You can filter...
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Windows Live Mesh
25 April 08 11:31 PM | Laurent Duveau
It is finally here! Live Mesh has been presented at the Web 2.0 conference. Ray Ozzie made several allusions to it in his last keynotes "connected device", "mesh", "web as a hub", "social in the cloud", at MIX he...
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[Cool Tool] PhotoZoom
23 March 08 10:14 PM | Laurent Duveau
PhotoZoom is an experimental site developed at Microsoft, running on the Microsoft Live Labs Incubation Platform. It uses the Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight 2 to create photo albums that you can zoom an pan. This online app take care of processing...
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Live Maps 3d: this is really awesome!!
22 December 07 12:57 AM | Laurent Duveau
I can't resist to show another screenshot of Live Maps : Montreal in 3d. The work done is so unbelievable!!! this is like a picture, but you can move around it, change zoom/rotation and tilt!! Also check the Traffic view : traffic info has been added...
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Insert code from Visual Studio to Live Writer
16 November 07 06:54 PM | Laurent Duveau
Just a simple useful Live Writer plug-in I wanted to talk about: Paste from Visual Studio "Easily transfer syntax highlighted source code from Visual Studio to elegant HTML in Windows Live Writer. Copy from Visual Studio and insert directly to Windows...
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Silverlight Streaming Plug-in for Live Writer
08 November 07 10:09 PM | Laurent Duveau
After publishing your media to Silverlight Streaming right from Media Encoder , you can now blog it directly from Windows Live Writer via this new Insert a Silverlight Streaming application plug-in: http://gallery.live.com/liveitemdetail.aspx?li=9f952b71...
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Get your @live.com email!
07 November 07 08:06 PM | Laurent Duveau
Yeah! here they are! Since yesterday you can have your own @live.com e-mail address. Go there for free registration but the available domains list will change depending on your browser language setting. Interested in a brand new @live.ca, @live.ie, @live...
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Windows Live Translator
09 October 07 11:26 PM | Laurent Duveau
A new Live Service is available since September: Live Translator. http://translator.live.com The first thing I noticed is the translation is far from perfect (Okay it is beta...). I like the web page translator : you can change the layout (side by side...
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Cool tool: Windows Live Writer Beta 3
07 September 07 02:02 PM | Laurent Duveau
Live Writer beta 3 has shipped and... guess what, the bug with "Insert Picture" is finally fixed !!!!! That was long! I was in touch with members of the dev team at Microsoft since both 2 previous versions, but it wasn't fix yet. So here...
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Delete Live OneCare backup folder in Vista
18 July 07 08:57 PM | Laurent Duveau
Problem: You reinstalled Live OneCare, or you start using v2 beta, and want to delete your old backup folder, but you can't. This is a permission problem, that maybe you can solve with cacls with command line: cacls "<drive letter>:\<path>"...
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