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Yahoo! announces newly revamped services, we (finally) notice

yahoomail We missed commenting on this earlier in the week when it came out, but Yahoo! made an announcement regarding its newly revamped set of services, including Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, and search.  Featured among the changes are:

  • a new streamlined design

The Virtual Earth/Bing Maps ASP .NET Control CTP – It’s Toast!

Just as the Live Framework CTP, this one will also disappear. It lasted little over a year. On the question what will happen with the Virtual Earth/Bing Maps ASP .NET Control, Chris Pendleton posted the following:

In

Adding Photos To Hotmail Messages – A Temporary Change

Have you noticed that you can no longer add photos directly into the body of a Windows Live Hotmail message the way you used to? It’s been temporarily removed, here’s why:

During a recent review, we identified an incompatibility with

Photosynth Turns One Year Old

It’s been over a year since Photosynth.net launched. The team has written a massive article with the highlights of this past year. Now we’re not going to put them all here, for that you can read their article, …

Windows Live On Microsoft Answers

Looking for some help with Windows Live? You can now post your questions on Microsoft Answers. They opened up a section/site dedicated to Windows Live Products.
WindowsLiveAnswers
The forum is divided into 4 sections:
Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and

Publish Your Photosynth To Facebook

So you got good at creating Photosynths. To share you can send the link to your friends or embed it into your blog but now there is one more: MySynth, a new Facebook app that publishes Photosynths right …

Windows Live Tips And Tricks

Looking to get the most out of Windows Live? Have a look at the wl-tipsandtricks space

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Here you will find tips and tricks (videos) on:

  • Hotmail
  • Messenger
  • Photo Gallery
  • home.live.com

And if you need even more, there’s a collection

Bing Maps Imagery & Map Data Release, July 2009

41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography has just been added to Bing Maps.

So go on to the Bing Maps World

Seadragon.com – Convert Any Image On The Web Into A Deep Zoom Image!

image Ever wanted a deep zoom image of a huge image already uploaded to the web? Now you can. The Seadragon team in Live Labs has released a service that lets you easily turn those pictures into nice zoomable UIs: Seadragon

Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Fix An Export Related Bug

To all you Deep Zoom Composer users out there, please uninstall your current version and get the latest:


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This version fixes a fairly serious bug related to the image paths generated during export. More information on …