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Friday, January 30, 2009 4:52 PM

Bring all your lives together with Windows Live

  Just a quick note to highlight a Windows Live site that has just gone live in the UK Explore Windows Live ‘Windows Live offers a complete set of services that lets you integrate, share and use all your digital stuff from any PC, Phone or Web Device.
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Friday, January 30, 2009 12:31 PM

A week of using the Microsoft Arc Mouse

I have been using the Microsoft Arc mouse now for a week and thought I would pop down my thoughts and feedback on it. Things I like about it The overall physical product design is great, and as it is different to most mice. You get a lot of questions
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:50 AM

E650 and Windows 7

Here is a quick tip, if you are running the Windows 7 Beta and are having problem connecting your E650 phone, getting errors such as Device Driver was not successfully installed then try downloading the Mobile Device Center 6.1 , although it claims that
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:38 AM

Twitter Followers Mosaic

Thanks to Kevin for the tip, here is a simple and neat little tool to create an online mosaic of all the people you are following on who are following you on Twitter Rob Technorati Tags: Twitter
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:47 AM

Install Windows Internet Explorer 8 RC1

    If you have not yet tried IE8 out then you may want to give the RC1* Windows Internet Explorer 8 a try Faster for accomplishing tasks, from mapping a location to checking the status of an auction.  In side-by-side measures of speed,
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Friday, January 23, 2009 9:38 AM

Using Windows Live Writer to create a travel blog on Spaces

Just wanted to share this excellent article written by a colleague of mine Chris Moore about how to use Windows Live Writer and Spaces to create a free online travel Blog The posting Chris.Life : A free travel blog with Windows Live Writer and Spaces
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:05 PM

Twitter use in the UK growing rapidly

There was a lot of coverage of Twitter traffic overtaking Digg earlier this week well in the UK traffic has grown rapidly according to Hitwise in the last 12 months: Twitter use in the UK explodes by ten times says Hitwise I don’t think that me getting
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:29 AM

4 Great Windows Home Server Videos

Just wanted to highlight these 4 new Windows Home Server Videos from Steve Dotto in Canada Click the image and then select which demo you want to see and the Silverlight player will launch with that one playing, you can choose from Windows Home Server
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:02 AM

Adding Twitter, Flickr, Wordpress, or any RSS to your Windows live profile

This is pretty cool and nifty and something I didn’t know you could do until recently. Simply by going to http://profile.live.com/webactivities you can update your Windows Live status with anything from your last tweet, photos on Flickr or a custom RSS
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:07 PM

Seven reasons you need Windows 7

Preston Gralla over on Computer World has a great article about the Seven reasons you need Windows 7 : Its faster Nifty New taskbar Aero Peek Jump lists UAC taming Backup Search & File management So what are you waiting for, download the beta (before
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:52 AM

Top Windows 7 Quotes

I had this sent to me today and I thought you might all like to see them, personally I love Joe Wilcox's quote the most. “This first beta of Windows 7 is a polished piece of work, with few apparent kinks to be worked out. Windows 7 is much further along
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Monday, January 19, 2009 3:30 PM

Whats your Windows 7 ‘Windows Experience Score’

The Engineering Windows 7 blog has just put up a great article about the Windows Experience Index in Windows 7.  SO it thought I would quickly check and see what my score was, remembering that in Vista I scored a not so great 3.0   …and now
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:42 AM

Will Obama have to switch to Windows?

Well according to CNet he may very well have to… ‘One reason to curb presidential BlackBerrying is the possibility of eavesdropping by hackers and other digital snoops. While Research In Motion offers encryption, the U.S. government has stricter requirements
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:21 AM

Shortcut Keys in Windows Seven 7

Following on from my updated list of Windows Vista Shortcut keys (which all seem to work in Windows 7 as far as I can tell) I have shamelessly copied a list of Windows 7 Shortcut keys from Mintywhite (aka Windows guides) Windows Key + left arrow = dock
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:19 AM

Windows Online Gallery now live

Following on from the previous post I wanted to bring to your attention the Windows Online Gallery. We’ve provided several sample themes and desktop wallpapers for our beta testers to try out.  There are beta themes for the UK, US, Japan, and Germany,
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:02 AM

Windows.Microsoft.com and Windows 7

Overnight we launched the new http://windows.Microsoft.com in several locations including the UK at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/Windows7/Home I know a huge amount has gone on in the background to get to this and it is just the start.  For
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Monday, January 12, 2009 10:52 AM

MSN Mobile Music Store

Just before the holidays MSN Mobile Music Store was launched in the U.K. where you can buy such things as ringtones, full track downloads and music videos from the likes of EMI, Warner, SONY  etc… To access the service: Text ‘MSN’ to 63463 and you
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Monday, January 12, 2009 10:07 AM

Detox your PC: Making your PC run smoothly

We have updated the homepage of the Windows Help and How-to site focusing on making your PC run smoothly, sort of a mini-detox for your Vista PC.  Check it out lets us know what you think   Optimise Windows Vista for better performance Ways
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:44 AM

Most popular Windows help articles for 2008

Yesterday I posted about the top 20 highest rated articles on Windows Help and How-to   So I thought I would follow up with the to 20 most visited articles to the UK site during 2008: Enable Java in Internet Explorer Tabbed browsing: frequently asked
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:33 PM

A brief history of the Internet

If you ever wondered how the Internet started and how things such as the Cuban Missile Crisis influenced it then watch the excellent and informative video below. Thanks to PICOL on http://vimeo.com/ Via the sixtysecondview History of the Internet from
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:03 PM

Tips for following people on Twitter

Well there seems to have been a rash of people giving advice on how to decide whether to follow someone on Twitter or not:     Tips to help you get started with Twitter — NevilleHobson.com – I have recently started to follow Neville on Twitter
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:09 PM

Top 20 highest rated Windows Help articles for 2008

Since starting this blog I have occasionally posted about highly rated articles on the Windows Help and How-to web site, such as here and here . So I thought as it was the start of the new year to look back a little and  do a quick summary of the
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Monday, January 05, 2009 11:48 AM

I don’t do new years resolutions but if i did…

I would start with sorting out my deleted items folder in outlook over 32000 deleted email items of which 28,220 are unread (how embarrassing)… Rob   Technorati Tags: Outlook
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Thursday, January 01, 2009 8:13 PM

Luxembourgish Windows Vista LIP now available

If you like your Windows Vista in Luxembourgish, then you can download the latest Windows Vista Language Interface Pack (LIP) now: Click here to download the Luxembourgish Vista LIP . Rob
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