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Live Mesh: Service Update (December 4, 2008)Yesterday

Live Mesh will be updated today affecting the Live Desktop, Live Mesh for Mac and Live Mesh for Mobile. An update for the Windows software will follow next week.

The update exists of server-side performance and reliability enhancements and minor usability improvements.

After updating the version numbers will be:

• Live Mesh for Mac: 0.9.3602.818
• Live Mesh for Mobile: 0.9.3424.9
• Live Desktop: 0.9.3424.9

Live Mesh Team blog: Service update (December 4, 2008)
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Live Search Flags Malicious Websites With Warning MessageYesterday

Live Search now has a feature that helps you spot compromised/malicious websites. If you click on a link in the search result and this website was compromised you will see the following appear beside that link:

Huge pointer to use Live Search for your daily searches! Especially considering so many websites are getting exploited one way or another nowadays!  Even well known trusted sites aren’t always safe, this is also why Live Search Webmaster tools now also includes a feature to check your site for malicious links. Use it! And should your site ever get compromised: on the Live Search Webmaster Center blog, webmasters are provided with information on how to fix and

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 11December 3

In this the final installment of this series of tutorials for the moment we will be completing the Web Messenger control by adding the ability for users to actually hold conversations.



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Life Without Walls, Windows Live Timeline RevealedDecember 3

As some of you may know, I attended “Life Without Walls” here in the Netherlands today.

The Event was all about Windows Live Wave 3: Darren Huston kicked off with Vision on Life without Walls (PC, Mobile and Online - Windows + Windows Live = full Windows experience), followed by Joost Nienhuis who spoke about the digital behavior of consumers which led to the Windows Live demonstration given by Arnout Hemel. Here we saw how the new Windows Live will make live easier for the various consumer groups, mainly the Social web users (stay in touch with friends easier and in a more personal way), and the Functional web users (how to organize my online life better).

Most of this we already informed you about. We informed you about the services which were released in the last two days, and we also informed you about the applications already, looks to the right in the Sidebar, still there was new information too.

Some questions that might have crossed yo

Windows Live Wave 3: HomepageDecember 3

One of the centre pieces for the new Windows Live Wave 3 experience services (MS marketing speak is infectious), is the new customisable homepage at http://home.live.com. While the first version of this launched with Wave 2 was somewhat basic, the new super-charged version is a big improvement. Damaster already covered some of the basics when it was available a few weeks back, so lets get started.

The coloured header at the top of the page has the following features:

- Date & Weather, based on the user's own location as set by their profile

- Current notifications, showing private messages, network invites, and upcoming calendar events from WL Calendar

- Photo slideshow, allowing the user to customise their homepage with personal photos hosted on Skydrive/Windows Live Photos. While the page only shows 4 photos at a time, it continuously cycles through all the photos you've selected

- The new themes