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Windows Live Movie Maker
Windows XP’s Movie Maker, was not included in Windows Vista / Windows 7, and left recent Windows customers without any type of free movie making software – until now.
Windows Live Movie Maker is installed via the Windows Live Installer program (I don’t like this – wish I could just install it single programs at a time…) so if you don’t want the rest of the programs, uncheck them:
Once installed, Movie Maker is a rather simple video editor, allowing the user to add text, music and simple effects to the video, and even supports HD video! Once editing is complete, Movie Maker has the ability to upload to YouTube. Want to upload to another service? Go here for a list of other plugins that allow upload to other popular video sharing websites (even Facebook!)
[More info and Download from the Windows Live Movie Maker website]
Setup Gmail to Send & Receive your Live/Hotmail Account
Having POP3 access to Live Mail is great (or any mail account really!) if you have a Google mail account (or Google Apps). Follow the steps below, and you can send and receive mail from Live/Hotmail, or any POP3 mail enabled account!
In Gmail, go to Settings, and click the Accounts page. Select the link to Add a mail account you own.
Enter the email address associated with the POP3 account.
Use the following settings for the connection settings
- POP Server: pop3.live.com
- Port: 995
- Check Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail
Optionally, you can also apply a label to all messages, so to help organizing your messages.
Next, you can setup the ability to send mail as your pop3 account (instead of the from Gmail account)
Enter the name you want to show as “From”
Verify that you own the account you are sending as.
Check your POP3 account, enter the verification code, and you’re done!
One other thing that I do, is set my “Reply” address to same address that the message was sent to.
That’s it folks! Remember, this isn’t just for Live or Hotmail – you can use this to check up to 5 external POP3 accounts. Happy emailing!
Free POP3 access comes to Hotmail/Live – Finally!!!
It’s been a long time coming – Microsoft’s Live Mail (Hotmail) has finally allowed POP3 access! This opens up many possible ways (read devices) to access your mail!
From mobile device, browser, and desktop client, you can now get your Live/Hotmail from wherever YOU want! Live is good!
Microsoft updates Hotmail/Live mail
If you logged into your Live / Hotmail account, you will notice that Microsoft updated it’s mail system:
You spoke, Hotmail listened
Over the past year, many of you told us that you wanted a cleaner, faster Hotmail. We released the new Hotmail to meet those needs, and now we’re adding more improvements based on your feedback.
In this version, we’ve changed the way that scrolling works for users who have the reading pane turned off. It’ll look more like Classic Hotmail if your reading pane is off.
Even more improvements are coming soon—we’ll be moving the advertisement from the top of page to the side, adding more themes, increasing the number of messages on each page, and adding the ability to send instant messages from your inbox.
We appreciate all your feedback and want to thank you for using Windows Live Hotmail.
Well…. Thanks Microsoft! 
Website of the Week: FolderShare (Sync files the easy way)
Posted by Nerd in Live, Microsoft, Website of the Week on October 13, 2008
Do you work on more that one computer? Do you transfer files between the two often? Wish there was an easy way for your files to be on both computers? Guess what? FolderShare is the answer!
Windows Live! FolderShare (beta) provides either a one-way or two-way automatic file synchronization between 2 or more computers. With desktop clients for PC and Mac (Sorry no Linux), syncing files is as simple as “Set it and forget it.”
One GREAT feature of FolderShare, is the ability to access your files remotely, even if you didn’t set them up for synchronization. You securely browse your remote hard drive(s) and access any file on you remote computer.
In addition, you can create Shared Libraries, and automatically share files with anyone you wish, while keeping your Personal libraries completely secure.
Although FolderShare boasts the Live! name, it is not integrated with Passport, or Live sign-on. FolderShare used to be it’s own company, but was purchased by Microsoft about two years ago. Since then Microsoft has made some enhancements, as well as making the product available for free! I’m certain that the same technology that is used for FolderShare is also being incorporated into Windows Live! Mesh service. I have used Mesh, and must say, I like FolderShare better – mostly because of the ability to browse my remote hard drive.
Anyway, if you are a multi-computer user, this is a great product for you.
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