January 24
Fed up with Internet Explorer 8 which is unstable at best? Windows Live Mail (WLM) doesn’t work well with IE8 Beta 2 and there are reported cases where WLM Photo E-mail doesn’t work as expected (images are not included in the message)
In Windows Vista, Windows Internet Explorer 8 is not considered to be a ‘program’. Instead, IE8 is categorizing as an ‘update’. Thus, users will not be able to find Windows Internet Explorer 8 in “Programs and Features” of Windows Vista.
To uninstall Internet Explorer 8, go to Control Panel, and click on Uninstall Programs link or Programs and Features icon. Then on Tasks pane on the left, click on View installed updates link. Locate and select Windows Internet Explorer 8 in the list of installed updates, and then click on Uninstall button. Click on Yes when asked that are you sure want to uninstall the update.
How to Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) in Vista
January 22
Just take a look at the screenshots and will understand what I mean. From within the Windows Explorer one can search for stuff locally or from the Internet.
There are already a handful of providers (Search Federation Providers) written out there such as the ones I found in SevenForums.com (Google News, Google Blogs, Flickr, MSN,…)
And it is very simple to create one yourself, just take a look at the code (found in SevenForums.com):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/"> <ShortName>Sevenforums</ShortName> <Description>OpenSearch SevenForums via MSN using Windows 7 Search.</Description> <Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3asevenforums.com&num=10&format=rss"/> <Url type="text/html" template="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3asevenforums.com&format=rss"/> </OpenSearchDescription>
Visit http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/742-windows-7-search-federation-providers.html and follow a 3 simple steps to creating your own search provider (a .osdx file)
January 19
Plug-ins
Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker (Beta) make it simple to add publishing support for 3rd party sharing services. Simply download and install a plug-in and start publishing. Please note: plug-ins only work with the new versions of Photo Gallery and Movie Maker (Beta) available here.
LiveUpload to Facebook - Created by Will Duff. LiveUpload to Facebook is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta that makes it easy for anyone to upload their photos to Facebook. The plug-in takes advantage of the new people tagging feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta to persist your people tags onto Facebook.
LiveUpload to YouTube - Created by Will Duff. LiveUpload to YouTube is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Movie Maker Beta that makes it easy for anyone to upload their videos straight to YouTube.
Publish on SmugMug - Created by Omar Shahine. Publish on SmugMug is a plug-in for Photo Gallery & Movie Maker that supports publishing photos and video to the photo sharing site SmugMug.
Publish on Flickr - Created by Windows Live. Did you know Flickr is already supported in Windows Live Photo Gallery? Look on the Publish menu!
Picasa Web Publisher - Created by Mark Steeves. Picasa Web Publisher is a publishing plugin for Photo Gallery. Picasa Web Publisher enables you to publish your photos to your Picasa Web account.
Drupal Publisher - Created by Chris Charabaruk. Drupal Publisher for Photo Gallery provides a quick and easy way to post your photos on a Drupal web site. Some experience with setting up Drupal modules may be required.
... We will be updating this page with links to more great plug-ins as they come available. Keep checking back!
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