Plugins

The (unofficial) gallery of Windows Media Center applications, MadeForMediaCenter.com is like an app store just for Media Center users. Now that gallery is available as a Media Center addin so you can download new apps to Media Center without having to leave the Media Center user interface. To get…

Scott Lovegrove, creator of the Tweetmeme plugin for Windows Live Writer, is back with two more Tweetmeme plugins for WLW users, one specifically for Wordpress.com. First up: the Tweetmeme “follow” plugin. This plugin adds the Tweetmeme follow button to your post. The button comes in three styles:…

SenderOK is a new Outlook plugin that helps you better organize, filter, and generally deal with the sometimes overwhelming amounts of email we all receive. Touted as a “productivity booster” on the application’s homepage, the plugin aims to intelligently rank your email and group messages into…

At MIX10, Microsoft announced that Silverlight technology would be made available for Symbian-based mobile phones and publicly released the plugin Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian – Beta. This plugin brings Silverlight’s cross-browser, cross-platform technology to Symbian phones, specifically…

Gist, the company behind the email mashup service of the same name, just updated their Outlook plugin. The new plugin now lets you see a contact’s profile information prior to sending them an email. To use this feature, you simply start creating a new message, and the profile info will display next…

I just came across a great tip for Posterous bloggers on the LifeRocks blog. If you’re among those who prefer Posterous’s simplified blogging platform over the more complex options from Moveable Type, Wordpress and the like, you’ll be happy to know that you can use Windows Live Writer to post to…

A popular Windows Media Center plugin called Heatwave has now been updated to support WMC in Windows 7. If you’re not familiar with Heatwave, it’s a plugin that delivers live weather forecasts straight to your Media Center PC. The plugin shows the current temperature, wind, humidity, pressure,…

Cooliris, the browser add-on that takes ordinary websites and makes them rich, 3D experiences, has just announced support for Microsoft’s Bing search engine, specifically for its Image Search feature. Although Bing itself launched its own 3D-like search only last month at www.bing.com/visualsearch,…

In preparation for WordCamp Seattle, Windows Live Writer developer Brandon Turner created three new plugins designed to work specifically with WordPress blogs. The first plugin lets you easily change the title and tagline of your blog (by default, it reads “Just another Wordpress.com weblog”).…

Nubli is a new plugin for Microsoft Outlook which just launched at the recent DEMOfall 09 conference held in San Diego last week. According to the company, the plugin uses machine learning to rank inbox conversations by priority. To do so, the software looks at your past email behavior to determine…