IM Control: LiveSide posts non-Mesh news; world does not end

If we didn’t know better, we’d say our friend Angus Logan was jealous.  Wants us to change our name, even.  Apparently in a blatant attempt to get his name back on LiveSide, he posted on some cool improvements to the

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:26 am

Just Released: Windows Live For Windows Mobile

A new version of Windows Live for Windows Mobile has just been released:

Wait no more! The latest bits for Windows Live Client for your Windows Mobile are available for download. To get yours now, point your mobile browser

By Sunshine in News
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:10 am

Pre-Beta Mac client for Live Mesh – Review only [updated]

After the recent flurry of Live Mesh posts we’ve done in the last 2 weeks, here’s one more. With all the recent updates that have gone on, users have been looking for client applications to run on devices other than …

By Chris in News
July 21st, 2008 at 11:42 pm

Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Messenger Plus! Skins, Scripts Etc.

Now we know how to synchronize Windows Live Messenger content, how about doing the same for Messenger Plus!?

What can we synchronize there? We can synchronize installed Skins and Scripts! Saves installing/downloading all those installation files again! When …

By Sunshine in News
July 21st, 2008 at 11:10 pm

Microsoft Referrals

Picturepan2, from LiveSino.net, just tipped us on this one. Since Google will end their Referrals program (including referrals for their own software like Google pack), people may be looking for an alternative to fill the void. Turns out …

By Sunshine in News
July 21st, 2008 at 1:18 am

Microsoft Global Exchange: Ballmer, Ozzie rock

Microsoft just wrapped up its annual Global Exchange, known by one and all as MGX.  This year it was in Atlanta, where 13,000 Microsoft employees, sales and marketing types, and evangelists gathered to get pumped up and ready to sell, …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
July 20th, 2008 at 2:31 am

Windows Live Messenger For BlackBerry

Messenger Stuff discovered Windows Live Messenger is now also available for the BlackBerry:

Now Windows Live Messenger is compatible with the current leader in smartphones, the BlackBerry.

…The client in simple and lightweight, but like the BlackBerry’s user base,

By Sunshine in News
July 19th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

Live Mesh tutorial: Synchronising Windows Live Messenger content

After the first tutorial about synching browser favourites across devices using Live Mesh, we thought it was time to step it up a gear and take on Windows Live Messenger. Its always been notoriously difficult to transfer emoticons between PCs, …

By Chris in News
July 19th, 2008 at 2:21 am

Live Mesh Scenarios Directory

Chris’es Live Mesh tutorial, Synchronising browser favourites across devices, inspired the guys over at Redmond Pie to create a Live Mesh Scenarios Directory:

Our friends at LiveSide posted this very nice tutorial on how to synchronize your browser

By Sunshine in News
July 18th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

WorldMaps And Microsoft Virtual Earth

Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Evangelist, added a little Non-Virtual Earth map to his blog. What?! A non-VE map, what’s up with that? Well this WorldMap can also display a Virtual Earth map! Thanks to Chris Pendleton:

…What was most

By Sunshine in News
July 18th, 2008 at 9:50 pm