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Windows Live SkyDrive Team have released some cool updates:

1. 1GB Storage for all, up from 500MB
2. Share your public folders by typing in the email address of the person with whom you want to share!
3. RSS Feeds for public folders!

Second is a very user friendly upgrade. Previously you had to select contacts from your address book (hotmail), so you end up adding them before sharing. This is really cool.

Pretty cool is the addition of Feeds (RSS) to Public folders. This way you can easily be notified of updates to content that friends place in their Public folders. Simply go to the Public folder and click on the Feed icon in the upper right corner (or the Feed icon in IE for example). The feed contains a preview image of the added files - either a small version of the photo or the file type icon and links to the associated download page for that file on Windows Live SkyDrive.

Windows Live SkyDrive is moving towards the Windows Live Spaces umbrella in the same way that Windows Live Events is going to placed when launched. Right below the Windows Live Wave 2 header you get direct access to different parts of Windows Live Spaces. Your Spaces homepage (What’s new), spaces, friends, photos, and events can be reached from here.

Last but not least Windows Live SkyDrive isalso displaying who has uploaded a certain file now which can be helpful is you have given full access to a folder and want to keep track of who is uploading what.

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Hack: Vista MemoryBoost

So you haven’t made a move to Windows Vista.

Fair enough! How about transforming the look and feel of XP to look like Vista?

All you need to do is follow these steps:

• Download UX Theme MultiPatcher from here
• Run the setup file
• Grab anyone of the following styles and download them on to your PC
• Double click on the .msstyle file and apply the style.
• Voila! Your XP has a new look

Razor Vista

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VistaVG

(Download)

AeroGlass

(Download)

Thanks Shankar!

Have you download the latest Windows Live Messenger version 8.1? If not, download now.

Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly. As always, it’s free to download Messenger and use most of its features.

Overview of WLM 

Features

Connect with your friends on Yahoo!

With the new Windows Live^TM Messenger, now you can talk to your contacts on Yahoo! Just add their e-mail addresses (like all your other Messenger contacts) and you can see if they’re online or offline and even share emoticons. You can send and receive messages while you appear to be offline. And if you really are offline, your contacts can still send you messages—you’ll get them next time you log in.

Free Emoticons

Don’t forget to grab 30 free emoticons.

All you have to do is open a chat window and select the packs. I found them on this web site. I am not sure if you will see it too. Have a go and let me know

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In one of my earlier posts, I shared the scary bits on sneaky Windows Update. That was incoming in to your computer. How does this scare you? Your computer connecting to websites without your knowing about!!!

Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration blogs about a simple DOS command that will enable you to detect and prevent.

Source

1. Type cmd in your Windows Run box.

2. Type "netstat -b 5 > activity.txt" and press enter. After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.

3. Type "activity.txt" on the command line to open the log file in notepad (or your default text editor)

The file activity.txt will have a log of all process that made a connection to the Internet in the last two minutes. It will also show which process connected to which website in this time. And not just the web browsers (like iexplore.exe or opera.exe), the log will also show your IM clients, download managers, email programs or any software that requires a net connection.

Scroll though the activity.txt file and look for any process names or website addresses that you are not aware of. If you track one , go to the task manager (or Process Explorer) to find the location of the executable on your computer and eliminate it.

You may want to add this to your automated 5 Windows Tasks

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