The most recent update to Windows Live Mesh has added a new and useful feature to the Live Mesh Desktop called “Media Viewer.” With this, you can open rich media files – like photos and videos – right from your desktop found at mesh.com. The Silverlight player has built-in controls for pausing…

At the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the My Phone service, a new online service for Windows Mobile owners which brings your phone to the web. Contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, photos, videos, music, documents, and more will be backed up online to a…

Sean Alexander recently posted a good tip for Windows 7 Media Center users which is something that some of you may have overlooked: turning on color-coded program categories in the on-screen guide. With this option, you can easily see at a glance which channels are Sports, which are News, which are…

If you blog about Windows Mobile, you probably use a utility that lets you grab screenshots of what’s showing on your device’s screen. There are a number of applications that do this, but PocketNow points out what may be one of the more fun options that’s out there. From Extreme Apps, a free utility…

One of the best products so far to emerge from Microsoft’s Live Labs has got to be Photosynth, an amazing tool that lets you transform your photos into three-dimensional worlds you can then virtually explore. In the past, we’ve seen Photosynths integrated with Live Maps, turned into slideshows,…

One of the most challenging aspects of photo sharing for many people is figuring out how to inform their family and friends that there are new photos available online. This is one aspect of the Windows Live Photos service which I think nicely addresses that issue. After you’ve uploaded photos to…

A company called Digital Outlook has developed a social media toolkit that will allow Xbox gamers to share their personalized, customized Xbox avatar creations on various social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Live Spaces, and more. The new toolkit will also allow those avatars…

The Pocketnow blog points us to yet another great application for Windows Mobile users – it’s an app called “WikiPock,” and like you may have guessed, it puts a copy of Wikipedia on your mobile phone. Actually, the application installs to a storage card of about 4 GB, not the phone itself, which is…

The Windows Live team just updated their blog with information on how you can embed your Windows Live Calendar on any blog or website. To do so, you’ll need to use a feature called “badges” that lets you create a mini-calendar and list of events. When embedded on a website, visitors can interact…

Remember when we told you that Hotmail was rolling out POP3 technology to various parts of the world with other countries being added later this year? Well, apparently “later this year” means “right now!” (That was fast!).According to a post from the Hotmail team, POP3 access to your email is no…