Thursday, February 08, 2007 - Posts

Windows Live Hotmail

We Heard You Loud and Clear

Just on the heels of another great release for the beta (M9), I’d like to share some interesting news to our loyal users.  When we launch the mail service worldwide, it will be named Windows Live Hotmail. That’s right! And for starters, some of you will begin to see the Windows Live Hotmail brand show up in the beta – first in our Microsoft internal version (dogfood) and eventually in the public version in the coming weeks. 

I've been a beta tester for over a year and it hasn't been easy. Many, many times when I needed to access my Hotmail account the MS Passport Service has been down and I use this account for my MSDN Webcasts.

If they had asked me I would have told them to please give me a Live.com email address!

posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:23 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Windows Mobile Device Center

Windows Mobile Device Center

Windows Mobile Device Center 6 for Windows Vista

  • Streamlined setup - A simplified new partnership wizard and improved partnership management.
  • Robust synchronization - Synchronization of business-critical data such as e-mail, calendars, contacts, tasks, favorites, and files.
  • Enhanced user interface - A simple and compelling user interface helps you to quickly access critical tasks and configure your device.
  • File browsing - A new device browsing experience enables you more quickly browse files and folders and open documents on your device directly from your PC.
  • Photo management – Picture management helps you detect new photos on your Windows Mobile powered device, tag and import them to the Windows Vista Photo Gallery.
  • Media synchronization - Use Microsoft Windows Media Player to synchronize and shuffle music files on your device.
  • Download the Windows Mobile Device Center. Troubleshooting Guide

posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:32 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Yahoo! Pipes

Yahoo! Pipes: Unlocking the Data Web

For far too long now RSS has been used in ways that don't really tap its true potential. Being able to syndicate my favorite headlines or blog posts is great. In fact, it helped to kick off a revolution in personal on-line publishing that is still growing and evolving.

Pipes? Whata those Yahoos smoking?

Yahoo! Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.

It's great to see Yahoo doing something in this space, this is the start of something big...

posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:38 AM by paul with 0 Comments