Microsoft’s Windows Live Services provides users a free method to connect and share. Together with the programs listed below, Microsoft makes it easy to work seamlessly between your desktop computers, mobile devices and web.
Windows Live Essentials 2011 Do more with Windows on your PC with free programs from Microsoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more. Get it all in one simple download here –> Windows Live Essentials 2011
Windows Live for Windows Phones:
–> Download Windows Live for Windows Phone – Non-Touch Mobile Device (Download from Desktop)–> Download Windows Live for Windows Phone – Touch Mobile Device (Download from Desktop)–> Download Windows Live for Windows Phone – Touch & Non-Touch Mobile Devices Download from Mobile Device)
WINDOWS LIVE PROGRAMS:BuddyFuse Web Messenger – Azure web hosted version of Windows Live MessengerFamily Safety helps keep your kids safer online. With Family Safety, you decide how your kids experience the Internet. You can block or allow certain websites and contacts, and monitor where your kids are going online.Games for Windows Live v2.0 – Installs the Games for Windows desktop client package:
DRUPAL: Drupal Publisher posts your photos on a Drupal web site. (TechNet Recommended)
FACEBOOK: LiveUpload to Facebook plug-in makes it easy to upload photos to Facebook.
INKUBOOK plug-in lets you easily create professional-quality photo books from the Inkubook book manufacturer.
PICASA: Picasa Web Publisher plugin publishes photos to your Picasa Web account. (TechNet Recommended)
SMUGMUG: Publish on SmugMug plug-in supports publishing photos and video to the photo sharing site SmugMug. (TechNet Recommended)
YOUTUBE: LiveUpload to YouTube plug-in makes it easy to upload videos straight to YouTube.
Windows Live Planet – Match n Make New Friends using your existing Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, Windows Live ID, or any other ID!Windows Live Sign-in Assistant includes client libraries that let you sign in to programs like Windows Live Messenger.
Windows Live Services SDK are a set of building blocks within the Azure Services Platform for handling user data and application resources which can connect your application to hundreds of millions of users and devices.Windows Live Toolbar Search from any Web page; highlight text such as an address or phone number, smart menus automatically appear. With one click, map all of the addresses on the viewed web page.Windows Live Writer 2011 publishes rich content to blog services (i.e. Live Spaces, SharePoint, WordPress, Blogger). (Windows Live Writer Configuration File)Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer Plugins:
Bit.ly is a plugin that enables you to automatically change the links and URLs into Bit.ly links. A Bit.ly account is optional. Bit.ly shortens your URLs so they use less space and that speeds up that ultimately shortens the download speed of your blog/web site. Having a Bit.ly account allows you to track your links and see their usage statistics as well. See what web page your link is currently on, how many people clicked on it, and where they were referred from when it was clicked.
(Delicious) Bookmarks2LiveWriter plug-in generates a blog entry with your Delicious bookmarks automatically. You can set a date filter for your bookmarks, and use the results preview to format your links before inserting them to your blog.
Code Colorizer plug-in provides the means to insert and colorize source code.
Digg This – Automatically adds a DiggThis badge to your blog post after you publish it from Writer.
Facebook Like Button adds Facebook’s Like Button. (More Info)
Flickr4Writer Plugin enables interaction with the Flickr services. You can browse by tags, photosets, or a simple photostream. After browsing, the plugin enables inserting the image reference into a post.
Flickr Upload – Uploads an image to your Flickr account and inserts an inline picture into your post.
Blog This for Firefox adds a button to Firefox which starts a new Windows Live Writer blog post prepopulated with content and title from the current web page.
Event Plugin – Create your own events or find existing events through intergrated search of the Eventful.com website.
Google Buzz Live Writer Plug-in is similar to the Tweetmeme Plug-in (below), the Google Buzz Plug-in inserts a Buzz Icon at a located based upon your setup options. (From MSDN)
Insert Formatted Clipboard will paste rich content from the clipboard into Windows Live Writter without stripping all text formatting into plain text.
Insert MSN, Yahoo and Custom Smileys Plugin can insert Yahoo, Yahoo Hidden, MSN and other custom smileys/pictures of your choice.
Lightbox – not a plug-in, but instructions on how to use Live Writer’s built-in features to overlay images (thumbnails) via the Lightbox service.
Paste As Plugin makes it easier to copy formatted HTML and paste it into a WLW post as plain text. Another benefit is making it easier to paste raw HTML snips into a WLW post.
Picasa Plugin allows you to embed photos from your Picasa Web Albums into your blog posts with only a few clicks.
Quote of the day gives you an option to select the Quote of the day from two RSS feeds.
SmugMug To Live Writer allows the user to select pictures from their SmugMug galleries and insert them into their blog.
Social Bookmarking Tags inserts Social bookmarks from tonnes of sites including Social, Expression, MSDN, Technet, Digg, Dotnetkicks.
TweetMeme Plug-in automatically adds the TweetMeme button to your blog posts. (Recommended: MSDN)
Twitter Notify – Automatically generates a TinyURL and sends a Tweet about your blog post after you publish it from Writer. (Additional Info: Using Alternative URL Shorteners with Twitter Notify)
Twitter Blackbird Pie Live Writer Plug-in inserts a twitter quote from the new Twitter service Blackbird Pie. (From MSDN)
Writerous Live Writer Plug-in allows the user to create their post in Live Writer and then publish to Posterous.com (From MSDN)
Theme Fixer resolves the problem when “Windows Live Writer cannot detect a blog theme or it incorrectly detects a user’s theme.” (Recommended: MSDN)WINDOWS LIVE FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE:Windows Live Messenger Connector displays a quick view of related Outlook content when you click on an email from a contact, such as recent e-mail conversations, meetings, and shared attachments to allows you to connect your Windows Live ID to the Outlook Social Connector and obtain information about your friends and colleagues. You can see status updates and recently posted files from your Windows Live contacts.You can also use Outlook Social Connector to display a quick view of related Outlook content when you click on an email from a contact, such as recent e-mail conversations, meetings, and shared attachments to help you easily track your communications.DEVELOPER RESOURCES:Live Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) includes API kits, documentation, tools, and code samples to help you start building applications using Live Services.Live Services Jumpstart Training are level 300-400 in-depth technical sessions, hands-on labs and informal Q&As presented by Microsoft’s top engineers and web development experts. Through this virtual event site, you can continue to access this training, including presentations and session recordings, on demand.Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit enables developers to integrate and enrich their Web-based applications with Windows Live Messenger. With the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, you will get instant access to:
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