Does Live Mesh crash your Mac? Here’s the fix

Last week’s Live Mesh Service Update fixed a number of problems, including one that crashed Macs shortly after startup (ooh, hate that!).  If you haven’t had the issue with your Mac, well it’s fixed now so you won’t have to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 8th, 2009 at 6:37 pm

How to check your Hotmail in Safari (3 or) 4

Ok so we’re a little addicted to Twitter Search, but we’ve seen a bunch of tweets on not being able to check Hotmail on Safari.  There’s a fairly easy way to workaround the problem, so if you’re trying out Safari …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
March 7th, 2009 at 4:27 am

Did Kumo.com go live last night?

Kumo.com, the new iteration of Live Search, is supposed to be in “internal tests”, but apparently at least for a time last night it was live.  We picked up on a re-tweet of a tweet taken down (btw, why bother? …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
March 6th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

Email to livewish@? Oops, use feedback.live.com (Update)

We reported this week on a product planner’s attempt to get feedback, asking for ideas sent to an email address he established.  Well now he’s updated the post, after apparently being deluged with mail:

My original post below has

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 5th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

Photosynth Map Explore, See The World Through Synths

Nathan of the Photosynth Team created an Explore Map so you can see all geotagged synths. Sightseeing on a Map! Awesome, let’s have a look how this works.

When we go to the Explore Map, we start off with …

By Sunshine in News
March 5th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Virtual Earth Imagery & Map Data Release, February 2009

Another 55TB of map data and imagery has been released. This release contains Obliques (Bird’s Eye) for Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States. For a full list of those, with images, please see Chris Pendleton’s post

By Sunshine in News
March 5th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Live Mesh: Service Update (March 4, 2009), Mac And Live Desktop

The Live Mesh Team is releasing another Live Mesh update for Mac. Besides this update the Live Desktop will also be updated (at the time of writing this has not yet been updated). This release contains bug fixes as …

By Sunshine in News
March 5th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Don’t Miss Out On Cashback Offers With MSN Toolbar

Cashback_5F00_48BA8657[1]Afraid to miss out on a Live Search Cashback offer? You won’t if you use the MSN Toolbar, which now contains a Cashback-offer-detecting mechanism. If there is Cashback available for the item you were searching for the icon on …

By Sunshine in News
March 5th, 2009 at 1:36 am

My Phone Maintenance Schedule And Update

MyPhone_5F00_5F00_5F00_thumb_5F00_5F00_5F00_79C947FE1_5F00_1CCA7F72[1] The My Phone Team posted the following:

The My Phone service will be down for planned maintenance from 7 AM to 10 AM PDT on 4th March (check your local time for 7 AM PDT here). Going

By Sunshine in News
March 4th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

What Would You Like Changed/Improved In Windows Live? Email Your Suggestions To Kent Compton

The proper way to give Microsoft feedback isn’t always easy to find, especially when it’s an idea you have. In order to make this easier, Kent Compton, a product planner for Windows Live Essentials, created an email address for

By Sunshine in News
March 4th, 2009 at 1:04 pm