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As you all must have read or heard:

 

"WordPress.com and Windows Live partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers"

 

More info here and on wordpress blog and also when you log into your spaces page.

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Rearranging your Photos – New: Drag photos where you want them

The Windows Live team has finally added the much needed photo rearrange feature. Although way overdue it is better to be late than never! 🙂

Their post below:

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Many
of you let us know how disappointed you were at being unable to arrange
photos in your Windows Live online photo albums. We appreciate your
feedback – it helps us keep improving Windows Live.

Today we’ve released a couple of quick and easy ways to
arrange your photos to better tell your stories. Now you can arrange
them by dragging and dropping them or by numbering the photos in the
order you’d like them to appear.

Arranging photos in an album

We’ve also just released a few other small changes, including a
new link from each profile that allows you to view all the photos
tagged with that person’s name, and changes to Windows Live Favorites. You can read more about it on the SkyDrive team blog.

– The Windows Live team

Technorati Tags: Windows Live,Photos,SkyDrive,Favorites,online albums

Clubhouse Tags: clubhouse, story, how-to, Windows Live, Photos, SkyDrive, Favorites, online albums

No updates till Feb

There will be no updates on HMS till Feb. Busy with work and travel.
Hope you all had a great New years’.

– Dev

Happy New Year

 

Wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year. Have a great 2009!

-Dev

Speed delete spam comments on Live Spaces

 

With the new updates in place, spam comments have reduced but they are still persistent. Due to the lack of a ‘block-user’ feature on spaces, manually deleting spam comments can get tedious. You have to go to your recent comments page, scroll down to find the delete link below the ever long link filled comment and after having clicked the link, Spaces will prompt you if you want to delete. After you do that the page re-loads and you are taken to the top of the page again. This is time-consuming and multiple comments cannot be deleted.

 

  

A generic spam comment on Windows Live Spaces

 

You can delete multiple spam comments in less time using the mobile version of spaces which is light and loads quickly. Make sure you are using the new Internet explorer or Firefox browsers so that tab browsing is possible.

• Sign into your Windows Live Home page or Spaces.
• Go to the mobile version of your space at http://yourspacename.mobile.spaces.live.com . Replace yourspacename with the unique address of your space. In my case it is http://d3vmax.mobile.spaces.live.com.
• After you have signed into the mobile version of your space you will notice a page with shows you the recent comments made on your space. The comments on the mobile version of spaces are not loaded fully and you can see many more spam comments at a time when compared to the recent comments page on the normal Windows Live Recent comments page.
• Identify the comments you think are spam and click on the Delete comment link found under each comment. When you click this link, make sure you click it with your middle mouse button or by pushing in your scroll button. This will open each ‘Confirm deletion of comment’ page in different tabs. You can also achieve this by holding down on the Ctrl key and then clicking the Delete comment links.

 

• You can now quickly go through each tab window and click on the Delete comment button to confirm the deletion of the comment.

This way you can delete multiple spam comments on your space and save a lot of time. I hope this was useful to you. Your feedback is welcome.

Tip:-  You can switch through tabs more efficiently by holding down on the Ctrl key and pressing 1,2,3, etc.  while hovering your mouse over the delete button area and clicking on it after which you switch to the next tab. Repeat!

– Dev, Windows Live Spaces MVP

Windows Live Tags: clubhouse, how-to, windows live, spaces, mobile, spam, comments, delete, tips

Tip: Solve Unknown unexpected problems and errors

 

If you are getting some unknown errors using Windows Live or Space try to delete your temporary files, cookies, etc. Then try again. You may get unknown errors while trying to upload photos, saving links or publishing an entry / updating an entry.

Sometimes you can’t save a link in a custom list after editing it when using a Firefox browser. Try using Internet explorer. Live Spaces is 90 percent compatible with Firefox but not fully.

If you still get an unexpected error try in a few hours time or comment below.

Please use Google or Live Search to find out how you can delete temporary internet files, cookies, etc.

< When using Firefox, I was unable to save or edit the item above. It worked while using IE >

Click here to view a similar entry I posted earlier.

– Dev, Windows Live MVP.

 

Windows Live Tags: clubhouse, how-to, windows live. spaces, tip, error

Reorder your Photo Albums on Live Spaces

 

This tutorial will show you how to reorder your Photo Album on your Live Spaces Photo Module. This is useful if you want to choose which Photo Album you want to show by default, this is the album that will be seen first by your Spaces Visitors. You will also learn how to select which albums you want to display or hide on your Live Spaces Photo module.

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Sign in to Windows Live Spaces with your Windows Live ID (The e-mail address and password that you use to sign in to Windows Live programs and services such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger).

• Click on the View your space link. The page will reload, your space will appear.

 

 

 

 

• Go to your Photo Module and click on the Edit module link. Page will reload again…

 

• You can choose if you want to display all your albums or only the one’s you want to show. If it is the latter, choose Custom album selection by selecting the radio button next to it. You can now add numbers according to the order in which you want to display the corresponding albums in the input fields found on the right hand side of the albums where it says Order. Add a title for your Photo Album module and after you are done with selecting which album you want to display and the order you want to display them in, click on Save and close. Please see the picture below, it highlights all that I have stated above.

Done!

Note: The album whose Order you put as 1 will be the default album. This is the album that will be shown first on your Photo module for your Live Space.

p.s. If anyone has found a way to reorder pictures in an album please comment below

– Dev, Windows Live Spaces MVP.

Windows Live Tags: clubhouse, how-to, windows live, spaces, photos, reorder, photo albums

Tip: Finding Recent Comments On Your Stuff

Via Carnage4Life’s Space

The place to find the most recent comments on your photos, blog posts, profile, files and shared favorites is http://profile.live.com/recentcomments.

If you are like me and prefer to navigate from a central place like http://home.live.com, the screen shot below shows where to find the link to recent comments on that page

Publish HTML comments on your friend’s Guest Book

 

I have already seen many of you adding comments with HTML and Pictures on your friend’s Guest Book. For those who want to learn how to do this, here is how you do it:

• Open a new blog entry << (Save this link in your favorites for future use)
• Write the guest book comment you want to publish in the blog entry.
• Select the entire comment by highlighting the entire content or by holding down on to the Ctrl key and then pressing A.
• Now go to your friend’s Guest Book. Click on the Add a comment link on their guestbook. Paste your comment by right clicking the empty guestbook comment field or by holding down onto the Ctrl key and then pressing V.
• After pasting your comment, click on the Add button to publish your comment.

 

 

Note:

 

Adding an image:

Upload your image to your Skydrive or Photos. View your image after uploading and click on it. Your image should come up on the page. Copy-paste the picture into your blog entry,[Ctrl+c  Ctrl+v] or Highlight-Drag & Drop in into your Blog entry.

Change its position and size with you mouse and the blog editing tools.

Carry out the steps mentioned above at the start of the tutorial.

 

Adding a link:

• Highlight the letters or words you want to add a link to.
• Click on the hyperlink button as shown in the image below and insert the URL / Address of the link. For e.g. The link to your photo album or Space.
• Carry out the steps mentioned above at the start of the tutorial.

 

You can add other acceptable items such as flash, etc. via the HTML button but it is advisable not to do this as it may increase the load time for the Guest Book. This only works if your friend has enabled the Guest Book feature and trying to add a html comment to a normal blog entry will not work.

Done!

Thanks to Grant.

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– Dev, Windows Live Spaces MVP.

Windows Live Tags: clubhouse, how-to, spaces, windows live, guestbook, comments, html