Windows Live Calendar

Good news from the Windows Live team – the Windows Live Calendar service is now available as a mobile application on your smartphone. Within the new mobile web-based application, you can manage your calendar, including adding new events, browsing upcoming events, previewing event details, setting…

According to a recent post on the Windows Live Hotmail blog, Windows Calendar has updated the “Birthday Calendar” feature. In the past, if you wanted to add birthday information for one of your Windows Live contacts, you had to do so in your contact list. With the update, however, you can now add…

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…

As much as I’m into customizing my UIs, I’m relatively surprised that I completely overlooked this feature in Windows Live Mail: color! Thankfully, the Live Mail Team updated their blog the other day and pointed it out to me. Of course, I immediately opened my inbox and started tweaking away. What…

A couple of months ago, we looked at a way you could export you Facebook calendar and import it into Windows Live using a link provided on the Facebook web site. Basically, that tip involved heading to http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/events.php on Facebook and choosing “Export Events.” You could…

The Windows Live team is reporting on their blog the Windows Live Calendar service is now out of beta, ready for action, and being rolled out in 45 languages. After being in beta for several months, the team has been tweaking, bug fixing, and responding to user feedback...and it shows! If you…

Jamie just taught me a cool new trick: I can access my Facebook calendar right here in the new Windows Live. To do so, you have to export your Facebook calendar via a link provided by the Facebook web site. Don’t worry, though – the process is surprisingly easy. This is a great tip for anyone…

After two betas, the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 has now been made available in its final format. With this free add-in, you can integrate your Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Calendar directly within Outlook. In this new release, the connector has been improved so that syncing…

The Windows Live Calendar service was recently updated to include a new feature: Group Calendars. If you’ve already created IM groups within Windows Live Messenger for instant messaging with a select group of your IM contacts and friends, you’ll now see that group has its own calendar within…

The Microsoft Office Outlook Team have just announced a new beta version of the Outlook Connector - the add-in that lets you sync your Windows Live Hotmail data in Outlook. In the past, email and contacts syncing was available for free, but syncing your calendar was only available with a…