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What I Have Been Reading Lately

As I usually do, I have been hoarding away RSS feed links and other stories I come across as I browse the web.  Many of these I find interesting or want to explore more in depth later when more time is available – which actually seems very rare.

Anyway, what I tend to do with all these little tidbits is draft up a blog post and thrown the links here and leave it up to you to click on what might also interest you and go from there.

So with that being said – here is a list of things from my current collection:

• Windows Live to replace Mail, Photo Gallery, and Movie Maker in Windows 7
• User Interface: Starting, Launching, and Switching
• Photo Gallery Beta Cheat Sheet
• Microsoft Tinker Extra Released to Windows Vista Ultimate Users
• Yahoo unveils Messenger 9.0
• Usernamecheck knows where your name is still available
• Wallpapers from MSN – Beta
• Live Space Talk Now Available 24/7 On NASA Web Site
• Enhance Windows XP Look & Feel the Easy Way
• Send your name on the Glory Satellite
• Windows Home Server Add-In: WHS Outlook Beta 2
• Nero Liquid TV: TiVo for your PC
• Why Windows Home Server Does Not Use RAID
• Stupid Geek Tricks: Shrink the XP Volume Control
• A New Resource about Windows Update is Available
• The Countdown has begun to the billionth tweet
• Custom Themes for your Micro Blog
• Ford ‘MyKey’ to limit teens’ speed,
• Windows Home Server Add-In: My Movies for Windows Home Server v1.0.0.3
• Flight 4 Launch Update
• What really happens when you shutdown Windows?
• Windows Home Server Add-In Update: TiVo Publisher for Windows Home Server 1.31
• Xbox Fit
• Windows Desktop Search
• Open Office 3.0: download officially out
• Xbox 360 Experience: discounted hard drives and free memory
• I’m a PC – Messenger Theme Pack
• Microsoft to deliver Windows Vista SP2 before Windows 7
• MSN Groups to Close: Windows Live Groups to begin Nov. 17

And that is my inbox caught up with.  The latest stuff is down here on the bottom.  Enjoy!

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New Live Search Homepage Revealed

The Live Search team have just blogged about an update to the main Live Search homepage at http://www.live.com/.

As you can see in the above picture it is a very graphical page now with a high quality picture that not only contains the live search box we have seen in the past but there is also hotspots that you can click on to learn more about the region, object, thing in the photo background.

The new design features background images that will change frequently, augmented with what we call "hotspots." These interactive areas highlight parts of the image and help you explore search results related to the highlighted area. Users who have tested this new home page have found it both engaging and a great place to start a search.

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