Plugins

Yesterday, Microsoft announced a partnership with blog specialist Automattic that will see 30 million Windows Live Spaces users upgraded and transitioned over to Wordpress.com accounts. The move doubles the size of the Wordpress.com user base which is now one of the largest free blogging platforms…

From Josh Legard comes an alpha release of a new Windows Live Writer plugin that makes it easy to pull multiple RSS or Atom feed items into a blog post. The plugin can be used to insert RSS items or even del.icio.us links into your blog post.  The download includes an installer which also…

The Polaroid Picture plugin is a Windows Live Writer plugin that lets you add pictures to your blog that resemble Polaroid pictures. With the plugin, you can tilt you picture to the left or right as well as add a text caption to the pic. With Polaroid Picture, you can also make the picture's…

There's a new plugin for Windows Live Writer that will help you easily insert a screen capture into your blog post. There's no installer for the plugin yet (next week it will be in the Gallery), but it's easy to implement. You just need to download this file and copy it to C:\Program Files\Windows…

You may have heard the news about the upcoming Service Pack for Microsoft Office 2007, that will let you access more document formats like the XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1. The ODF format is becoming quite popular these…

Recently, Xobni has been in the news for their “inbox as a social network” Outlook plugin (see our review here), which can help you better manage your email. But apparently, they were just the start of a new trend of plugins that help you deal with information overload. Now, there’s a new…

Frank Arrigo recently revealed his trick for adding Digg buttons to the posts on his blog: he does it with Windows Live Writer. If you haven’t seen that option in your version of Windows Live Writer, that’s because the option is only available in the recently released Windows Live Writer Technical…

In May, Yahoo released a beta version of their Del.icio.us plugin for Internet Explorer which provided toolbar buttons for saving and tagging links, searching del.icio.us, and even syncing links from your browser’s favorites to the del.icio.us bookmarking service. Recently, Yahoo released the…

Last year, Neflix started offering the ability to stream movies over the internet to your PC. Of course, for Windows Media Player enthusiasts, the next logical step was to port Netflix into Media Center by way of a plugin. Luckily, there's a pretty active developer community for WMC, so we ended up…

Recently, I wrote about an email overload solution that did not impress me, but here’s one that does: AwayFind. While it’s not necessarily the absolute be-all end-all solution to today’s information overload situation, it certainly has more usefulness than Attent’s virtual economy where emails are…