Windows Live Mail
Hotmail adds POP3
If you live in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands then you have a new way to get your Hotmail on your mobile phone: via POP3. The POP3 protocol is a standard email protocol that lets you retrieve email messages from a server and deliver them to your designated program. With this functionality in place, you can easily add Hotmail to your Windows Mobile phone, iPhone, or BlackBerry.
Here’s the technical information you need to know:
POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes
If you don’t live in one of the regions specified, the Hotmail team says not too worry – they will be rolling out POP3 to other parts of the world later this year.
Of course, you can still access your mail on your mobile from mobile.live.com or by using Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone. And on your desktop, you can check Hotmail using Windows Live Mail (which uses IMAP as the default) or Microsoft Office Outlook via the Outlook Connector.
Source- Channel 10
A note about Hotmail, SkyDrive and Photos storage space
In the latest Windows Live documentations, it mentioned several details about the storage spaces that are available throughout Windows Live services:
- Hotmail’s minimum storage space will be 25GB and this will be ever-increasing as required at the end of each month, making it basically unlimited storage (subject to abuse control)
- The ability to download e-mail attachments from Hotmail into SkyDrive - allowing these attachments to be shared with others or just kept private in your online folders
- SkyDrive’s storage space will also be 25GB, as reported previously, in addition to Hotmail’s storage space
- SkyDrive will allow uploading of up to 1000 new files stored per month - note that this only applies to newly uploaded files during that particular month, so total storage can well exceed 1000 files (it is unsure whether this also applies to Photos and those Hotmail e-mail attachments downloaded into SkyDrive)
- Photos, although its storage space is supposed to be shared with SkyDrive, will only offer 5GB for storage of photos. (However this may be subject to change - at least we certainly hope so. Perhaps someone forgot to update it in the documentations?)
Source- Liveside
Download Windows Live Wave 3 Beta
With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today. Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including Messenger v9, Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronisation, Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector. For the paranoid amongst you, yes the files are hosted on download.microsoft.com.
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-web.exe (only downloads the applications you select) 
Download Here (downloads all the applications, you can chose which ones to install) 
Thanx to Liveside
Windows Live Wave 3 features confirmed in Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar
The guys at liveside have reported that livesino have found in Windows Live Help revealing and confirming Wave 3 features in the Windows Live Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar. Here’s a summary of what’s they discovered:
- Windows Live Photo Gallery:
Add people tags (Textual data attached to a photo to refine its definition and meaning by identifying the person or persons in the photo. You can sort your photos according to what people tags they have, making it easier to find photos of your friends and family.) to your photos to make sorting and finding photos of your friends and family easier. You can create people tags and add them to your photos at any time.
- Windows Live Mail:
Calendars: You can create calendars and events whether you’re signed in to Windows Live Mail or not. However, if you do sign in, any calendars that you’ve created in Windows Live Calendar Beta are automatically imported into Windows Live Mail, and changes that you make in either Windows Live Mail or Windows Live Calendar Beta are reflected in the other. Also, your calendars are available from any computer on which you sign in to Windows Live Mail. If you don’t sign in, you can access your calendars only from the computer on which you created them. For more information, see About calendars.
You can also update when events occur and schedule events to occur regularly over a period of days, weeks, months, or years. If you sign in to Windows Live Mail with your Windows Live ID, Windows Live Mail can send you reminders (A scheduled message that Windows Live Mail sends to you to remind you that an event in your calendar is about to occur) before each event starts to help ensure that you never miss an event.
It even reveals the little Calendar icon that’s going to appear in Windows Live Mail: - Windows Live Toolbar
Windows Live Calendar Beta is a free online calendar program that you can use to keep track of personal appointments, family get-togethers, group schedules, birthdays, holidays, and other events. When you’re signed in with your Windows Live ID, you can always see a summary of your calendar on Windows Live Toolbar Beta, and the Calendar Beta website is just a click away.
Windows Live Wave 3 is coming
The Windows Live Wave 3 is coming and with it comes the new versions of Microsoft’s Live products along with some of the new product releases.According to the sources the Windows Live Wave 3 is expected to be released by the end of summer means somewhere around September.
As we have already reported the Windows Live product page and the search page both have been changed.
Let us discuss on some of the new things added in Windows Live Wave 3
New unified header
The new header would be added to the online services of Windows Live.One thing to note is that they have removed the ORB from the header,and the search box has also been made smaller and also according to the information available the users would be able to customize the header images.
Here is the one image of header that I found while searching-
The header seems interesting isn’t it.The header image did give ‘wow’ feeling.
Windows Live Messenger
As we know that the Windows Live messenger 9 is already currently in testing stage.Though the Windows Live Messenger M1 has already been leaked and most of the people would be using it still their is some more goodies to come for all the messenger lovers.According to the sources they are going to change the design of the Windows Live messenger 9.Still the new features expected in Windows Live Messenger 9 are editing,polygamy and ofcourse multiple logins.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
The coming version of Windows Live Photogallery would be surely awesome with some good features coming in it.One of the confirmed feature is the face reorganization.Here is the image that we were able to find on the net-
(image courtesy manicho )
In the new Windows Live Photogallery we could add tags to the faces, really interesting indeed!!
Windows Live Frameit
With FrameIt, you can set up photo collections to stream into your digital photo frame or any of your RSS enabled devices.We have already blogged about it earlier and the beta version of Windows Live Frameit has already been released.If you haven’t seen it yet, give it a try at http://frameit.live.com.
Windows Live Hotmail
The information about Windows Live Hotmail is very less though we could expect an integration with Windows Live SkyDrive (service virtual disk with a capacity of 5GB that, who knows, may also be increased, although the chances of it happen to be low) and would also bring a new feature, called People, although the information about this release is very less.
We are also expecting integration of Windows Live Calender in Windows Live mail though the information about it is very less.
To sum up the Windows Live Wave 3 would be really awesome with many surprises in it.We would be keeping you updated about anything we find about Windows Live Wave 3.
New Xbox Experiences Reinvent Home Entertainment, and Everyone Is Invited
As Xbox 360 readies for the next wave of audience expansion, Microsoft Corp. today announced a new Xbox experience that will reinvent home entertainment from the inside out, changing the way we play games, watch movies and TV shows, and even become contestants in game shows. It all begins this fall with a bold new look and feel that is fun, social and simple to use.
The announcement was made during the E3 Media and Business Summit in Los Angeles. It came amid the unveiling of an exclusive partnership with Netflix Inc. that will give Xbox 360 users instant access to more than 10,000 feature films and television shows with a click of a button.
Also on the docket: The best and broadest entertainment lineup the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system has ever seen. In its strongest broadening play yet, Xbox announced Xbox LIVE Primetime, the next evolution in game shows slated for Xbox LIVE this fall; TV shows and movies from world leaders in entertainment including NBC Universal, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, SCI FI Channel and USA Network domestically and Constantin and MGM internationally; and blockbuster games “Lips,” “Rock Band 2,” “Scene It? Box Office Smash,” “You’re in the Movies” and the much anticipated “Final Fantasy XIII.”
Source- Microsoft Press Release
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [June 2008]
Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms.
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [June 2008] (KB905866)
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [June 2008] (KB905866)
Get Windows @Live.com E-Mail addresses
Today while surfing the net I just cam across a very good article posted by liveside which gives a brief review as how to get the much awaited Windows @Live.com E-Mail addresses.And also please do hurry up if U wanna get Ur favorite usernames otherwise all would be taken!!!!!
Here is what all U have to do-
- Just Visit http://hotmail.com
- Then click on Sign Up button.
- In the new window that opens the URL address will look like this-https://signup.live.com/hmnewuser.aspx?mkt=en -in&revipc=IN&ts=3968764&sh=7aDN&hm=1&ru=http%3a%2f %2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com% 2fmail%2foverview&rollrs=04&lic=1
- Just Change the “hmnewuser.aspx” to” newuser.aspx” and delete “&hm=1″
- The URL address will change to this- https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=en- in&revipc=IN&ts=3968764&sh=7aDN&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com% 2f%3fnewuser%3dyes&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail% 2foverview&rollrs=04&lic=1
(The Links posted above would not works so U have to do it manually otherwise just try this link hope it works- Click Here )
Now everything is done and click enter and U will see the new @live.com E-Mail address
All the best !!!!!
