June, 2010

Live Sync: life after Live Mesh

live mesh logoThe thing is, we were as invested in Live Mesh as anybody, probably more so.  We’ve been avid followers since back when it was only us and the hamsters and the gerbils.  In December of 2007 we told you to …

Windows Phone 7 to add Flash 10.1 support?

While Microsoft had denied the fact that the v1 release of their new Windows Phone 7 operating system will support Adobe Flash, it seems like people might be up for a great surprise. Posted on an Adobe Labs website for

How to Install Bing Maps App SDK with Visual Studio 2010

For those who tried installing the Bing Maps App SDK (http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps) you will likely come upon the following error when running the .msi.

Even though I had Visual Studio 2010 (Premium) installed and the latest Silverlight 4.0 runtime installed, …

Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer, A [Critical] Review

There has been much talk, and many screenshots of what to expect from the Wave 4 edition of Live Writer, and also what we’ve actually got, so for regular readers, none of this should come as a shock, although …

Tagline to be removed from Hotmail Messages

image You know those lines of text that gets added when you send messages from Hotmail? They are called taglines.

Brian Hall writes:

When Hotmail first started in the mid-90s, taglines helped people to discover our then revolutionary new

Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer – A Screenshot Fest

Windows Live Wave 4 is seemingly approaching at a rapid speed, based on the web services already making an appearance, which means soon (who knows when) the Essentials beta will begin and the public will be able to get …

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 3

Yay, it’s here, the new World Cup map app! Chris Pendleton just posted about it on the Bing Maps Blog:

WorldCup The New World Cup map app highlights all the different countries participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 2

Following up on Part 1, we bring you Part 2 with the latest release(s) of Bing stuff for the FIFA World Cup.

There is still no sign of the earlier mentioned Map App on Bing Maps, yet TechCrunch …

New Map App, My Friends, shows you where your Facebook friends are

MyFriends Want to see where your Facebook friends are in the World? Now you can with the new My Friends map App! This map app uses Facebook APIs to pull in your friends from Facebook (only those who have listed a …

The New Windows Live Sync Beta

Windows Live Sync Logo Over on Inside Windows Live, David Treadwell just posted about the new Live Sync beta. He wrote about how Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh Beta. Yuhuh, the two are …