Plugins

Customizable, embeddable Bing Maps are now available to WordPress bloggers by way of a new plugin. The “Bing Maps for WordPress” plugin created by Rich Gubby lets you easily insert mini maps into your blog posts using a [bingMap] shortcode in your posts. You don’t have to worry about how the maps…

In July, we told you about a new plugin for Windows Home Server called TV Manager. This plugin lets you copy your recordings from a Vista Media Center PC or XP Media Center 2005 over to your Home Server for storage and management. At the time we originally wrote about it, the plugin was still…

Do you live in Outlook but wish it had a few of the features that your webmail program has? Features like conversation threading and automatic tagging, for example? Well now the Outlook email plugin, Taglocity, delivers those features and more. With the latest version, Taglocity 2.0, Outlook…

One of the must-see plugins for Windows Media Center is Media Browser, a free aggregator application for the platform which takes your collection of TV and Movies and presents it in a stunning UI. It automatically downloads and makes use of relevant TV and Movie posters, DVD and Blu-ray cover art,…

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…