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Window Live Essentials
Posting LIVE from Southwest Flt 1981: Omaha to Las Vegas
Sep 30th
Wifi to the masses via Southwest Wifi and $5. It was easier to connect than sometimes at home. The service is fast and I can get to everything. In fact, I am writing this post from Row 16 seat A. I heart Southwest!
For free, you get 3 services.
Flight Tracker
Shopping
Games
and free access to http://southwest.com
Beyond the free services, $5 a flight gets you access!
Once you are connected, you can get to just about anything on the web. I currently have Google+, Skype and Facebook open and are chatting with several guys on all three platforms. I am also using Windows Live Mesh to access my PC at home. Yeah Cloud!
No longer disconnected on a flight and wifi that won’t kill your credit card. Thanks Southwest! Cannot wait to try a live podcast on the way back! Look out Spartan Radio!
Getting Started with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011
Dec 30th
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Over the past few weeks we’ve been covering the different offerings available in Windows Live Essentials 2011. Another program we’ll take a look at this week is Live Photo Gallery 2011. Photo Gallery is a set of tools for organizing, sharing, touching up you photos and publishing them online. It has a lot of features not included in previous versions such as the ability to create Panoramas, movies, slideshows, and actually has an interesting search feature using Facial Recognition.
Install & Setup Live Photo Gallery 2011
Installation is simple and very similar to any of the other Live Essentials programs you may have installed already. Right-click on the Windows Live Installer file and click install as Administrator.
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Remember that you aren’t required to install everything in the Live Essentials Suite…only what you want.
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As we mentioned in our previous post about Live Movie Maker, the two install together.
To The Cloud! How Do You Really Do That?
Dec 25th
What does that really mean? In a very catchy ad campaign, Microsoft touts some of it’s newest technologies (and some old one’s too!) in an attempt to impress you enough to move “to the cloud!”
The only problem is that they don’t really tell you how to do it! Our crack team of technologist get to the bottom of each commercial and tell you how it’s done. We have imbedded each one for you to review. Software applications needed are listed below each video.
Sharing a Youtube Video (Most likely made with Windows Live Movie Maker) through Windows Live Messenger
Sharing Windows Live Office documents on SkyDrive or sharing Office documents using Windows Live Mesh.
Windows Live Mesh to pull up the screen of the PC at home and simple copy and paste to the local laptop to view with Windows Media Center. Window Media Center was also used to record the TV content at home.
Create and Edit Home Videos with Windows Live Movie Maker
Dec 21st
Over the past few weeks we’ve been taking a closer look at the apps in Windows Live Essentials 2011. For this week’s tutorial we’ll take a look at getting started with Windows Live Movie Maker 2011.
Installation and Setup
Download the Windows Live Essentials 2011 Installer file and kick off the process.
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Again, it’s worth noting that you aren’t required to install all of the apps in this suite, only the ones you want. Since we’re covering Live Movie Maker make sure to select Photo Gallery and Movie Maker then wait while it installs.
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Note: You will need to install Photo Gallery and Movie Maker together, but we’ll just be covering Movie Maker in this article.
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When installation is complete a restart is required.
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When you come back from the restart you’ll find Live Photo Gallery and Movie Maker in the Start Menu.
Getting Started with Windows Live Writer
Dec 17th
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Recently we showed you how to setup Windows Live Essentials 2011. We also took a closer look at one of the apps – the Bing Bar, and today we will take a look at Windows Live Writer which is a valuable program for bloggers.
Installing Windows Live Writer
If you haven’t installed it already just download and kick off the Windows Live Essentials installer. Remember you don’t need to install everything in the suite and when the install kicks off, select Choose the programs you want to install.
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Now select the programs you want to install. In this example we’re just going to install Windows Live Writer (WLW).
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After installation is complete you’ll find Live Writer in the Start Menu.
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Install the Old Version of Windows Live Essentials on XP
Nov 28th
If you’re an XP user, unfortunately you won’t be able to install and upgrade to Windows Live Essentials 2011. XP users can still install the previous version through Windows Updates, and we’ll take a quick look at it.
2011 on XP – Sorry No Love from Microsoft
If you try to install Windows Live Essentials 2011 on XP which we’ve previously covered for Vista and Windows 7, unfortunately you’re out of luck. You can download the installer file, but when you try to run it, you’ll be greeted with a similar error.
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Install Windows Live Essentials on XP
The good news for XP users is you can still download the previous version through Windows Updates…which you should be running regularly anyway…but it’s not an essential update. To install it, launch Windows Update from the Start Menu…
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Or through Internet Explorer from the Tools Menu.
Getting Started with Windows Live Mail on Windows 7
Nov 22nd
Previously we showed you the basics of Windows Live Essentials 2011 and the programs it includes. Today we’ll take a closer look at getting started with Windows Live Mail on Windows 7.
Install & Setup Your Live Mail
If you haven’t done so already, download and install the Live Mail from the Windows Live Essentials 2011 Suite.
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After it’s installed you’ll find Live Mail in the Start Menu, just click to launch it.
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Setup Live Mail with Live or Hotmail Account
Here we’ll setup a Live account, but you can also setup Gmail and many others. We’ll be taking a look at setting up other accounts in the future where you might need to manually configure the settings. The first time you launch Windows Live Mail you’ll be prompted to setup your email address then click Next.
How To Setup Windows Live Essentials 2011 on Windows 7
Nov 18th
If you’re moving from XP to Windows 7, you might be wondering where apps like Movie Maker, MSN Messenger, Outlook Express are. Everything has been moved to a separate download called Microsoft Live Essentials, and today we’ll take a look at setting it up on your Windows 7 computer.
Download & Setup WLE
First head over to the Microsoft website to download Windows Live Essentials (WLE) installer and kick it off as Administrator by right-clicking the file and select Run as administrator.
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In the next screen you can select to go ahead and install everything included, or if you don’t want to install everything, select Choose the programs you want to install.
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Now you can select only the programs you want to use. For instance maybe you don’t want the Bing Bar or you already use a different email client and don’t need Windows Mail.
