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Secure your Hotmail Account with “Hotmail Alias”

Rahul — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:42:49 +0000

Another dashing feature of hotmail, rolled out today, allows you to create completely different email addresses that you can use to receive email into your primary account without anyone knowing what your primary email address is. This feature proves itself useful when people want multiple email addresses, but maintaining multiple accounts, with different user names and passwords that require you to check multiple inboxes, is inefficient. With today’s update, Hotmail helps you save time by making it easier to manage your current and future email addresses in one place. An anouther good use of it, for example, if your organisation having an primary email ID named company@hotmail.com and you want to create different aliases for different service like info and contact. Then you can create an aliases like company+info@hotmail.com and company+contact@hotmail.com. Email sent to this alias will still be delivered to your inbox or to a particular folder. This can help with managing different types of incoming email. So here is the way to activate it… > Login to your Hotmail Account. and click on the inbox setting account. (setting/wheel icon) > Create a new alias ID > Add a new folder name which will be assigned to new alias. > You are done !! … you will be getting the new folder assigned to your new alias ID. From today, you can add upto 5 aliases for your email account, up to fifteen aliases in total, all designed to make it easier to organize different types of email in one Hotmail inbox without having to give out your primary email address. Be Live.. Be simple… Energetic.

Stay connected with windows Live Hotmail Mobile

Rahul — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:45:26 +0000

On the Move, checkout your important mail, Connect, Share anything through your windows phone or any other mobile device with Windows Live Hotmail Mobile. You can Login quickly and easily into your Hotmail account and you can Read, compose, and send e-mail on your phone as you do on your PC.

Get the Hotmail mobile features you know, optimized for your phone. With your smartphone, you’ll see more messages with less scrolling than before. Plus you can preview messages so you know what you need to reply to now and what can wait. Hotmail Mobile comes under the full package of Windows Live which contains Messenger, Bing, MSN Mobile, Spaces, MSN peoples, Microsoft My Phone, Photos.

Hotmail Mobile also contains an auto complete feature which will complete your word while typing a couple of letter and specially designed to fit in Phone’s screen. You can click the pic from mobile camera and directly upload to the Live Gallery and you can also share or email it to your friends circle through Live People Connect. Recently Microsoft has released Windows live for the Apple iPhone which can be downloaded through iTunes app store (available free).

Get Hotmail Mobile for your Phone

Download Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit 3.7

Rahul — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:21:31 +0000

Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) Version 3.7 . The Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit enables developers to integrate and enrich their Web-based applications with Windows Live Messenger.

V3.7 improves the Messenger Web Toolkit by adding the following.

Offline IM – Users can now IM offline contacts, just like they can in the Messenger desktop client.
ASP.NET Ajax Library Integration – Starting in V3.7, the Messenger Web Toolkit UI Controls are built as ASP.NET Ajax Library (http://asp.net/ajaxlibrary/) controls. This means you can add MWT Controls to your pages using standard declarative and programmatic methods of ASP.NET Ajax Library.
Improved Application Contacts – We’ve improved application contact functionality to work better based on feedback we received in V3.5. Application contacts defined on a page no longer are carried across to new pages. This helps applications avoid hitting the 250 contact limit for application contacts.

Though its not supported for the latest Chrome 4 or Beta5 but it has added support for Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 3.

Links :

Give it a try

Documentation

Windows Live 11.1 out now for Windows Mobiles

Rahul — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:43:52 +0000

The new version of Windows Live for Windows Phone is released by Microsoft at 22th jan 2010. This new version, 11.1, can be found on the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Before installing, please be sure to manually uninstall any existing version of Windows Live prior to version 11.1 and after install u must reboot the Windows phone.

Features:

Windows Live Messenger
Hotmail
Photos
What’s New

Happy 10th Windows Live Messenger

Rahul — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:44:16 +0000

10 years ago today, MSN Messenger v1.0 was released to the world and users all around the world began downloading it via their 28.8/56.6k dial-up modems. Have a look to the windows live messenger Time line (Click on image to Zoom ++)

After you’ve checked out the video, here are some things you can do to celebrate Messenger’s 10th anniversary with us:

Visit our Messenger anniversary celebration site in the US or in the UK and download a special anniversary gift pack with free themes and emoticons.
Send a Happy Anniversary IM to at least 10 of your friends and let them guess whose anniversary you’re celebrating (you can use a 10 Year Anniversary emoticon to make it a bit easier for them)

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EVERYBODY!!!! Enjoy the PARTY

Automatically scan your received file in Windows Live Messenger

Rahul — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:03:05 +0000

Windows Live messenger has inbuilt facility to set your virus scanner as a default file sharing virus scanner. Now receive files through live messenger safely.

To set Microsoft Security Essential as your default virus scanner follow the simple steps described below. First of all you need to Install Microsoft Security Essential or any other virus scanner.

Go to Tools > Option as described in image below

Select File Transfer from left sidemenu.
Check “Scan files for virus using :“
Click on browse and navigate “msseces.exe” (If you are going to use MSE as a default scanner) from “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials” directory. (If you are using any other virus scanner than locate another scanner application.)

Apply it and click on OK.

Note :

Scanned files that are infected should be deleted
Infected and potentially infected files that are found by the safety scanner can be accessed in a Hidden folder.
If you’re using Windows XP, the hidden folder can be found at the following location: “C:\Documents and Settings\your username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\QuarantinedFiles”.
If you’re using Windows Vista, the hidden folder can be found at the following location: “C:\users\your username\AppData\local\Microsoft\QuarantinedFiles”

Be safe from Internet World Happy Computing

Windows Live Standalone Essentials direct links from Microsoft

Rahul — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:32:58 +0000

Microsoft has released final version of Windows Live Essentials. Which can be installed through Web-Installer or Offline installer.

Windows live package contains Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar, and Family Safety, and Windows Live Movie maker which is currently in Beta. These all Essentials can be downloaded separately and can be installed by web installer.

So, there are Standalone Offline installers are also available which can be downloaded through following links.

Note : you have to install all the requirements software (see at end of post) before installing the Essentials. All downloads come as *.cab files, so you will need to extract the *.MSI file using Winrar or 7Zip.

1. Windows Live Messenger 2009 v14.0.8050.1202 Requirements Microsoft Application Error Reporting Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime Windows Live Communications Platform Windows Live Call 14.0.8050.1202 SegoeFont Download : Windows Live Messenger 2009

02. Windows Live Writer v14.0.8050.1202 Requirements .NET Framework Download : Windows Live Writer

03. Windows Live Mail v14.0.8050.1202 Requirements Microsoft Application Error Reporting Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime Windows Live Communications Platform Junk Mail filter update Download : Windows Live Mail

04. Windows Photo Gallery v8051.1204 Requirements Windows Imaging Component Hotfix SQL Server CE 3.1 Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime Direct3D 9(DirectX 9) Microsoft Application Error Reporting Windows Live Communications Platform Windows Live Sync Download : Windows Photo Gallery

05. Toolbar v14.0.8052.1208 Requirements Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime Search Enhancement Pack Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime Microsoft Sync Framework Services Download : Toolbar

06. Family Safety v14.0.8052.1208 Requirements: None Download : Family Safety – x86 || x64

07. Microsoft Silverlight Requirements: None Download : Microsoft Silverlight

08. Movie Maker BETA v8051.1204 Requirements Windows Imaging Component Hotfix SQL Server CE 3.1 Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime Direct3D 9(DirectX 9) Microsoft Application Error Reporting Windows Live Communications Platform Windows Live Sync Photo Gallery Download: Movie Maker BETA

Other Components:(Download according to the given requirement for the program)

.NET Framework

Choice guard (no idea what this is)

Direct3D 9(DirectX 9) – x86 | x64

Junk Mail filter update

Microsoft Application Error Reporting – x86 | x64

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

Microsoft Office Live Add-in

Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime

Microsoft Sync Framework Services

Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime

Search Enhancement Pack

SegoeFont

SQL Server CE 3.1

Windows Live Call 14.0.8050.1202

Windows Live Communications Platform

Windows Live Sync

Windows Live Upload Tool

Windows Imaging Component (For the W.I.C hotfix if not installed)

Windows Imaging Component Hotfix – x86 Vista | x86 XP | x64 Vista

Windows Live Sign-in Assistant 5.000.817.1

Thanks to dotnetwizard.net for the download links.

Download final release of Windows Live Essentials

Rahul — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:31:10 +0000

Microsoft has releasd final versions of Windows Live Essentials. You can download Windows Live Essentials, including Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar, and Family Safety, all for free from following link.

Online installer | http://download.live.com/ Offline installer | Hindi | English

Windows Live Movie Maker is also available, but remains in beta.