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Windows Live Essentials Beta is released

emma — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:02:20 +0000

Windows Live Essentials Beta is released

Today Microsoft announces releasing the Windows Live Essentials Beta, which include new versions of Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Sync, Live Writer and more You can download it from http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta. You can read more about the new features here or watch the video. I also had a post for Windows Live Writer 4 new features, check it out.

New Windows Live Essentials Beta is integrated with Office Live, aka Office Web Apps. You can share and collaborate on Office documents at http://office.live.com with your Windows Live ID. I have tried save my OneNote 2010 notebooks to SkyDrive and it works great. And with the new Windows Live Sync, you are able to keep your files synchronized across multiple PCs and in the cloud.

Get new Windows Live Essentials Beta

(Includes Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Sync and more)

Note that Windows Live Essentials beta requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista, Windows XP support is discontinued.

WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 Released

emma — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:21:25 +0000

WordPress team has announced WordPress 3.0 beta 2 is shipped. It seems that release candidate will be coming very soon.

Things to test in 3.0 beta 2

Revised menu user interface
Changes to the WordPress exporter and importer to make it more flexible

WordPress 3.0 changes

Check out my previous post WordPress 3.0 Features. I will keep updating there.

Note: it’s recommended not try beta version WordPress on production site.

WordPress 3.0 Features

emma — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:42:00 +0000

WordPress 3.0 has a few great new features and improvement.

Ability to Choose Username When Installing WordPress

In previous version WordPress, default username for Admin is hard coded as admin. In WordPress 3.0, this secure hole is fixed, default user name can be customized when you install WordPress.

New default theme Twenty Ten

In WordPress 3.0, the default theme is replaced with a new theme named Twenty Ten. This is a good example theme for theme developers.

Enhanced Theme Management

In WordPress 3.0, a new tab is created for theme installation.

Customized Background

In WordPress 3.0, you will be able to change background by uploading your own images. Enable customized Background is as simple as just adding following line in function.php under the theme

add_custom_background();

Multisite Support

In WordPress 3.0, you now have the ability to create a network of sites. To enable the Network menu item, you must first define multisite in the wp-config.php file.

Open up wp-config.php and add this line

define (‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

Once Multisite is enabled in wp-config.php, you will be able to create network from Tools –> Network.

Enhanced Export feature

In WordPress 3.0, there are more options for site export. Users are able to export posts for a certain data or a contain catalog/tag.

Also one feature still under construction is create customized menu. The UI development is not complement so it’s possible layout and functionality is changed in final release. There are also other improvements we will see when 3.0 is official released to public.

Some shortcuts no longer work in Outlook 2010

emma — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:29:22 +0000

It turns out Alter Shortcuts, e.g Alt+R (Reply), Alt+L (Reply All), and Alt+W (Forward), no longer work in Outlook 2010 BETA at all, though they worked in Outlook 2007 and previous Office 2010 CTP version.

Actually, these shortcuts are not lost, they just change Alt to Ctrl for some reason. Users have to use Ctrl+R to Reply instead of Alt+R, use Ctrl+Shift+R to Reply All Instead of Alt+L, use Ctrl+F to Forward Instead of Alt+W.

Hopefully MS won’t change these again in RTM builds.

Updates

22th April – Microsoft brings them back in final Office 2010 RTM build 14.0.4763.1000, the shortcuts for reply and forward are same as Office 2007

Reply: Alt+R or Ctrl+Shift+R

Reply All: Alt+L

Forward: Alt+W

OneNote: Unread Highlighting cannot be cleared

emma — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:01:39 +0000

I recently upgraded to Office 2010 BETA and I notice an annoy bug in OneNote 2010.

There is a feature in OneNote 2010 which will highlight unread content after notes are synced between two PCs. However, it can’t detect whether those content is read or not so the green highlighting will stay there forever.

The workaround is right-clicking on the notebook and choosing to Mark as Read. By doing this you tell OneNote I read it and please remove the green highlighting. This also makes unread bolding go away.

Update:

29th April – This is gone in final Office 2010 RTM build 14.0.4763.1000

Large email sizes in Outlook 2010 BETA

emma — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:22:57 +0000

In Outlook 2010 BETA, an email in the default HTML format might take much more space than the other formats. Sometimes, a simple msg takes upward .5 MB to 1 MB or even bigger after a few replies.

Microsoft has released a fix for this, which is available at microsoft download center:

Alternatively, you can wait for Office 2010 RC and upgrade when it’s available.