Monthly Archives: September 2008

What ever happened to the Live Spaces team?

With new Windows Live Wave 3 betas going on, what ever happened to the Spaces team? How long has it been since an update? Heck, as shown by this photo, they don’t even update the Community page often. These four … Continue reading

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Virtual Earth gets a 6.2 update

Virtual Earth got a nice update, codename Helios, and I’ll just skim over a few of the interesting parts of the update. New features include: Multi-way point – Adding multiple stops in your driving directions Route based on traffic info. … Continue reading

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Live Labs releases Color Picker Sidebar Gadget

Seems that Live Labs released another neat thing called the Color Picker Sidebar Gadget. The purpose of the gadget is to enable users to pick color codes from different range of color palettes. It’s really made for designers and web … Continue reading

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Sorry for the lack of updates – Hurricane Ike took away 2 weeks of power

Well Hurricane Ike came and went almost exactly two weeks ago, and I only got electricity yesterday night. What makes me angry is that my area of Houston, didn’t suffer extensive damage, and most people were already getting power within … Continue reading

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MSNBC has an excellent Hurricane Tracker on their site

Right now, Hurricane Ike is bearing it’s way towards my hometown, Houston, and it’s nice to have something like MSNBC’s Hurricane Tracker while I’m still online.                                                                                               I really love the way it’s designed. It uses a grayscale Virtual Earth … Continue reading

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Wishlist: Things Microsoft can do to make Live Search much better

So here it is, my latest wishlist on Live Search, and improvements I could only hope that Microsoft be able to do. Stuff that in the end, would make Live Search a much stronger search engine to finally switch to. … Continue reading

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Areas where Live Search excels

Live Search is my primary search engine, and while it’s not perfect, I think it does a bunch of great things. For those who still use Google or Yahoo!, I’ve made a list of some of my favorite things about … Continue reading

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Areas where Live Search just fails

Live Search is my primary search engine, for practically 90% of my web searches, and it does a good job and nails most results down correct. Yet, there’s some annoying things about Live Search such as the results it pulls … Continue reading

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