Monthly Archives: June 2010

8 posts

Windows Live Mail and Writer got a new face

If you are a Windows Live Essentials user as I am, then you should give the new Windows Live Essentials beta a try. The beta product was released to public last week and finally I decided to install it. Among all Windows Live Essentials products, I use Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, and Windows Live Sync, especially Windows Live Mail and Writer, I use them almost every day. The beta version […]

Chase bank drops support for Chrome and Opera

Chase bank decided to drop Google Chrome and Opera from their supported browser list and only supports IE 6 and higher, FireFox 2.0 and higher, and Safari 3.0 and higher. As a matter of fact, after July 18, 2010, if you browse Chase web site with an unsupported browser, you will get a “Page Not Found” error, so you will have to use those supported browsers to be able to access your account on-line. Chase […]

Picture Collage Maker: a great tool to create photo collage

When I was asked to create a custom header with collaged photos by one of my customers for his business web site, the first thing I did was to Google for a free good collage tool. Not surprisingly, I found a list of free collage software that seem to be very promising, such as Shape Collage, Scrapbook Flair, and E.M. Free Photo Collage, however, none of them works for me because they either don’t have […]

Google Voice released to public for free

Google released Google Voice to public(well so far for people in US only) free of charge today. If you have not heard about Google Voice and want to know what it is, then watch this video below: Once you sign up and choose a Google Voice phone number, you can add your home, work, or mobile phone to your Google Voice account, then once someone call your Google Voice phone number, all phones that you […]

Microsoft integrates Windows Live services

You may already know that once you sign up a Hotmail account, the Hotmail account automatically becomes your Windows Live ID which enables you to have access to all Windows Live services, such as Live Messenger, Mail, etc. But do you know how much free cloud storage space you can get after sign up? Windows Live Hotmail: 5 GB (not available to some regions) Windows Live Workspace: 5 GB. A service competing with Google Docs […]

Microsoft Bing Cashback Discontinued

If you are a Bing cashback customer, you should get hurry to get your cashback redeemed because the program will be discontinued after July 30, 2010, according to Microsoft Bing cashback team: According to the letter, Bing cashback Team is working on a new program to replace the current cashback program. I am wondering what it is.

Heads-up: Upgrading to Office 2010 May Cause Visual Studio 2008 Web Designer to Hang

If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed on a 64-bit OS and are planning to upgrade your Microsoft Office to the latest Office 2010, then be cautious: the upgrade will cause your Visual Studio 2008 web designer to hang and you will have to manually kill devenv.exe process from Task Manager. The root cause of the problem is that Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 share a 32-bit component: MSXML5. The upgrade process (manual uninstall […]