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How to retouch photos using Windows Photo Gallery

If you are one of those who often click some interesting pictures or have a nice collection of family photos, then this post will be of some use to you. Lets say you find that one of your old family photo [...]

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SkyDrive Introduces Recycle Bin and Excel Survey Features

While you can recover deleted mail from the Deleted folder in Outlook.com, if you were to ever delete files from your SkyDrive account by mistake, there was no way to restore them back. Realizing that this was a requirement of [...]

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Access SkyDrive from Gmail

There is great new for Gmail users. You can now send and access SkyDrive files directly from your Gmail account. Not only this, you will be able to even create rules to automatically save certain attachments to SkyDrive. Send, share [...]

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How To Use Gmail From Outlook.com Webmail

The new webmail from Microsoft, Outlook.com, is worth your love. The look combined with other features makes your email management better than any other webmail, I can recall. Not only that, you get to create aliases with different inboxes so that you [...]

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What Is New In SkyDrive – Metro Look & Context Menus

Microsoft is all up for a major revamp. Following Windows 8, Microsoft changed both Hotmail and Office software to a new look that goes with Windows 8. It seems Microsoft is racing for grabbing a major share of market space [...]

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How to Block Junk, Spam and Unwanted mail in Outlook.com

Many email service providers gift their users daily with unwanted emails which are at best, annoying and at worst, malicious! Most of these unwanted emails are from advertising companies, which either promises to make us rich quickly or offer us [...]

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Windows Essentials 2012: Download links for 48 languages

In our earlier post Windows Photo Gallery 2012 and Movie Maker 2012, we had provided the English language download links for Windows Essentials 2012. Now the Windows Essentials are available in language of your choice in 48 languages including in [...]

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How to delete or close Outlook.com email account permanently

Microsoft’s latest web mail service, Outlook.com comes with all the goods such as huge amount of storage space, better editing features, immersive interface and of course support for social networking sites. All these features and many more make the webmail [...]

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Windows Photo Gallery 2012 and Movie Maker 2012 released

Microsoft today announced the new versions of Windows Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for Windows 7 and Windows 8. As we had earlier seen Microsoft decided to drop Windows Live branding with Windows 8 – as a result, the new [...]

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Windows Live and Hotmail to get a brand new Metro look

Looks like Hotmail is all set to get a major revamp. Microsoft appears to be planning to not only rebrand Windows Live ID to Microsoft Account, but also give Hotmail a clean new minimalistic Metro UI. LiveSide was able to [...]

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Install new SkyDrive for Windows on your PC; upgrade to 25GB Free

Microsoft has made available for download, a new desktop client SkyDrive for the Windows. This desktop client will allow you to manage your SkyDrive, right from your Windows desktop. The benefit of SkyDrive integration with Windows is that you will now [...]

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SkyDrive now supports ODF, Twitter, 300 MB uploads and Short URLs

Windows Live SkyDrive recently has introduced several new features, Today I came across a tweet from the SkyDrive Team, that it had received some more cool updates. SkyDrive now supports the Open Document Formats (ODF). This means that any ODF file on SkyDrive [...]

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SkyCMD – The DOS SkyDrive, a workable Geeky Prank !

On Apr, 1st, Tony East – the Lead Program Manager, SkyDrive.com blog, posted about an even faster version of SkyDrive. As you know SkyDrive has been improved upon by taking advantage of modern browsers and HTML5 to make it faster. [...]