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Live Framework Tools January CTP
The Live Framework Tools team has released an update to their Community Technical Preview (CTP). This release was focused on addressing top customer issues, so please be sure to keep the feedback coming!
From the team’s announcement:
The Live Framework Tools team is pleased to announce the January CTP update. This update contains a number of fixes. Please see below for details. And as always, thank you for using Live Framework.
New in this release
The Live Framework Tools January CTP includes a number of bug fixes. A few of the most notable fixes are listed below:
- Debugging or running a Mesh-enabled Web Application which contains no changes from previous versions immediately launches the application instead of re-uploading the files.
- Mesh-enabled Web Applications created by the Live Framework Tools now have identical offers to those created through the Azure Services Developer Portal, which are generally less restrictive. This change removes the need for the workaround mentioned in this thread.
- Projects created by the Live Framework Tools may now contain periods fixing the issue reported in this bug.
- Changes to the application’s logo.png file will now be reflected in the icon that appears on the Live Desktop fixing the issue reported in this thread.
- Error messages and diagnostics have been improved. In certain error situations additional information can now be located in the application event log.
In addition to the fixes listed above, the January CTP includes a feature that will offer to notify you of any future updates to the Live Framework Tools.
Source- Live Framework Team Blog
Live Search Add-in for Mozilla Firefox Released
The Live Search add-on for Firefox gives you auto-suggestions from Live Search right in the browser while you’re typing your query. For example, start to type "Bruce Springsteen" into the Live Search box, and you’re shown relevant suggestions. The list of suggestions refreshes as you continue typing or when you change the query. You can click the suggestion that best matches what you were searching for to speed you to your results. The add-on is available in the following markets: Australia (AU), Canada (CA), India (IN), Ireland (IE), New Zealand (NZ), Philippines (PH), South Africa (ZA), United Kingdom (UK), and United States (US).
The Live Search add-on for Firefox is available to install at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10434. It’s based on the Open Search standard and uses the JSON interface supported by Firefox to retrieve autosuggestions.
Source- Live Search Blog
Live Search Mobile update for Windows Mobile
For those of you using Windows Mobile phones, we have great news. This week we’re releasing an update to our Live Search Mobile app for Windows Mobile. With this release, we’ve added some features that make it easier to find local businesses and to get maps and directions on your mobile phone.
For starters, no more fumbling around with your phone trying to enter your exact location. Location detection helps you automatically find your location even if you’re not on a GPS-enabled phone.
We also know that entering text on a mobile phone can be a pain. That’s why we first introduced voice input in previous releases. With this release we’ve also added predictive query input to help speed up your searches. That’s a fancy way of saying that after entering a few letters, you can browse through previous searches as well as some suggested ones.
Source- MSDN Blog
Windows Live Essentials is ready to download
As Steve Ballmer just announced during his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Windows Live has three big pieces of news to share with you that underscore our continued commitment to simplifying your digital life.
First of all, today we’re releasing the final version of Windows Live Essentials, our suite of downloadable programs for your Windows PC. You can get Windows Live Essentials, including Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar, and Family Safety, all for free from http://download.live.com. (Windows Live Movie Maker is also available, but remains in beta.)
We’re excited to announce that you’ll soon be able to add Facebook as one of 50+ web activities on Windows Live. This means that in the coming months, if you’re a Facebook user, you can choose to allow info and photos that you post on Facebook to show up in “What’s new” for anyone in your network on Windows Live.
So, go download Windows Live Essentials
Source- Windows Live Wire Blog
Windows Live Hotmail to get POP3 access this year?
As of September 2008, Windows Live Hotmail Plus ($19.95 a year) users have had the option of using POP3 (pop3.live.com on port 995) from any device with an e-mail application. However, one of the biggest complaints from hardcore Hotmail users has been the lack of this feature for all accounts, especially since other e-mail services offer it.
It’s been speculated for a while now that Microsoft has plans to offer POP3 access to all users, and it appears that this will finally happen sometime this year. User cebcubs on windowslivehelp.com asked whether the software giant was planning on finally giving in and offering the feature to users of the free service. Although not very specific, the answer given was a positive one:
Yes, cebcubs, there is a plan on releasing POP3 to free Hotmail account users. However, we still do not have a definite date on when this will happen. We’ll keep everyone posted once the feature becomes available.
Source- One Microsoft Way
Windows Live Writer 2009 new features: Release Candidate
We’re excited to announce the release candidate of Windows Live Essentials which includes a new version of Writer that is available for download today.
Windows Live Writer 2009 (Release Candidate)
Version 14.0.8050.1202
New Features
Here are the new features available in this version:
- “Instant photo” border treatment
- Insert multiple photos
- Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
- Insert and publish video to YouTube
- Spell checking in: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
- Server-side tagging (support coming soon to WordPress.com and BlogEngine.NET)
- Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
- Improved blog account setup
- Windows Live Spaces inline preview support
- Support for bidirectional languages
- Updated look and feel
New plug-ins
Accompanying this release are three new Writer plug-ins that will be available for download from Windows Live Gallery:
FLICKR UPLOAD
Uploads an image to your Flickr account and inserts an inline picture into your post.
DIGG THIS
Automatically adds a DiggThis badge to your blog post after you publish it from Writer.
TWITTER NOTIFY
Automatically generates a TinyURL and sends a Tweet about your blog post after you publish it from Writer.
Since this is a release candidate we’ll be using your feedback to work through any last remaining bugs before we do our final release.
Source- Windows Live Writer Blog
Introducing Windows Live Solution Center
The Hotmail team really values your feedback and experience when using our products. We currently get feedback from many different places, including usability studies on new feature designs, surveys of existing Hotmail customers like you, the Hotmail feedback link, our support team, and other sources. We use these many sources to prioritize which new features to add, how to make Hotmail easier to use, and to identify problems that we need to fix quickly because they block you from using Hotmail.
While our blog posts give us a good way to communicate new features that we add to the product, a blog is not a complete solution. We want to have two-way communication with our customers and decrease the time that it takes to solve problems that users are having with their accounts.
We are proud to announce a new and better way to interact: Windows Live Solution Center!
What can you do on this new website?
- Get fast answers to common questions, such as “How can I stop receiving spam?”
- Get up-to-date status reports about Hotmail service issues or outages
- Work to resolve issues you’re having with Hotmail
- Talk with other Hotmail users about issues you’re having, or exchange tips and tricks
Hotmail support staff may be contributing to, moderating, and monitoring the site. The Windows Live Solution Center at www.windowslivehelp.com is the best place to go to report a problem with Hotmail or get help with your account.
The Windows Live Solution Center is just for Hotmail right now, but other Windows Live services will be part of the site in the future.
We look forward to talking with you more on the www.windowslivehelp.com site!
Source- Windows Live Wire
New version of Windows Live Essentials available for download
I have just got the mail from MS Connect stating that the new build of Windows Live essentials is available for download.Here is what the mail reads-
Thank you for beta testing Windows Live products for the past few months. We are glad to inform you that a new build is now available for download.
http://download.live.com
The new Windows Live Essentials package includes some of your favorite applications like Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery and more. If you don’t use Toolbar very much, we strongly encourage you to give the new Windows Live Toolbar a try, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Again, thanks very much for your help,
Windows Live Beta Team
The build is available in many more local languages contrary to the past it was released in 16 languages,so go ahead and download it in your language
Here is the download link to the offline installer in english-
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/F/4/0F4D43A7-8D47-4312-BC35-EC1F888AC156/en/wlsetup-all.exe
