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Microsoft Labs PhotoZoom is a Silverlight based web application that enables you to create zooming albums with your pictures. It has streaming zoom feature that enhance the picture quality while zoom in or zoom out. This product uses the feature “Deep Zoom Technology” which is part of Silverlight. It’s still an experimental site and might have bugs and problems. PhotoZoom allows you to embed a PhotoZoom album using embed codes in your blog or website. Creating the albums requires you to sign in to Windows Live Passport.

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Zoho is an Office Productivity Suite from AdventNet Inc. Founded in 1996, AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. AdventNet focuses on building affordable software for businesses. Along with their other great line of products Zoho also introduced a new concept for document sharing service called Zoho Viewer. Get rid of attachments. Just upload your document, grab the URL and share it with your friends or post it in blogs / forums.

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Well Known SysInternals Console programs for the Administrators, are a suite of quick, diagnosis, problem solving, handy and really useful utilities. The SysInternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. SysInternals has been Renamed into Windows Sysinternals.

Since Microsoft Took over the Sysinternals.. Now They realesed the complete suite under Microsofts Package. They removed certain utilities like BSOD screensaver or NotMyFault.

SysInternals tools includes various utilities like..

AccessChk , AccessEnum , AdRestore , Autologon , Autoruns , BgInfo , CacheSet , ClockRes , Contig , Ctrl2Cap, DebugView, DiskExt, Diskmon, DiskView, DU, EFSDump, Filemon, Handle, Hex2dec, Junction, LdmDump, ListDlls, LiveKd, LoadOrder, LogonSessions, NewSid, NtfsInfo, PageDefrag, PendMoves, Portmon, ProcessExplorer, ProcessMonitor, ProcFeatures, PsExec, PsFile, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsKill, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, PsPasswd, PsService, PsShutdown, PsSuspend, RegDelNull, RegJump, RegMon, RootkitRevealer, SDelete, ShareEnum, SigCheck, Streams, Strings, Sync, TcpView, VolumeId, WhoIs, WinObj, ZoomIt
(Click on the utilites names to know more about them)

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Do you need a desktop blogging utility so that you can publish your blog right from your desktop. Windows Live writer from Microsoft is a free desktop publishing utility that will help you include rich content in your blog posts and know exactly what your blog will look like before you publish it to the Web.

Key Features:

1. WYSIWYG editing: Edit using the style of your blog, including fonts, colors, line spacing, margins, etc.
2. Rich content: Insert and customize rich content like photos, maps and more.
3. Offline editing: Compose and edit drafts even when you're not connected to the Internet
4. Blog preview: See exactly what your post will look like in the context of your blog before you upload it
5. Smart image publishing: Add images to your blog post, and they'll automatically appear as thumbnails that link to larger images with more detail

Compatibility: Support for publishing to Windows Live Spaces, as well as Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, and many other blog hosting services

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Windows Live introduced new Desktop E-mail checking software for your everyday e-mail usage. It's a quick alternative to outlook with a Windows Live interface. A simple, powerful tool that lets you get e-mail from multiple accounts in one place and integrates your mail with Windows Live™ Spaces, Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live Messenger, and more.

Key Features:

1. Speedy access to multiple e-mail accounts in one place (even AOL, Gmail, and many others)
2. Compose and manage e-mail while offline: simply connect to the internet and your messages are sent and new messages downloaded
3. A reading pane and drag-and-drop features, so you can quickly read and manage your mail
4. Synchronization with Windows Live Mail and MSN® Hotmail® accounts
5. Easily share your images with friends and family and create slide shows using the powerful photo e-mail tools
6. Launch a Windows Live Messenger conversation right from the program
7. Post Blog content to your Windows Live Space with the click of a button
8. Get your newsgroups and RSS feeds as easily as you get e-mail
9. Virus scanning for all Windows Live Mail and Hotmail accounts
10. Smart Screen technology helps protect all your e-mail accounts from junk mail and phishing scams
11. Color-coded messages help you quickly identify safe and suspicious e-mail

I've been using this program for a quite sometimes now. Looks neat. Most probably Microsoft is trying to get the market of Mozilla Thunderbird. Try it and see.

Try the Windows Live Mail desktop beta

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