gHacks technology news » live writer http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Microsoft Windows Live Offline Installation http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/27/microsoft-windows-live-offline-installation/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/27/microsoft-windows-live-offline-installation/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:17:47 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9395 If you install Microsoft Windows Live on your computer system you download a single setup file which will download all the applications from a Microsoft server. This is bad news for users with multiple computers because it would mean to download the setup files multiple times from the Internet. It could also be impossible if the computer was not designed to have Internet access.

There is however on solution available where you only need to download the setup files once and can use them again on additional computers. You start by downloading the Microsoft Windows Live setup files from the official Windows Live website. Microsoft is actually providing the download tool for Microsoft Windows Live in two different versions. The file wlsetup-web.exe is the online installer with a size of only 1 Megabyte. This installer can be used to download only selected Windows Live applications like Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Messenger or Windows Mail.

The other setup file wlsetup-all.exe has a size of 134 Megabytes and contains all programs that can be installed. The download can take a while depending on the Internet connection though.

The full installer with the name wlsetup-all.exe from the Microsoft Windows Live website can be used for offline installations. All that needs to be done is to move the file to the other computer systems. This can be done with a network transfer, removable devices or burning it on a DVD.

If you have downloaded the other installer with the name wlsetup-web.exe instead you can do the following. Start the installer and pick the Microsoft Windows Live applications that you want to install. Those will be downloaded afterwards to the computer.

The files that are used for the installation will be stored in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Windows Live\.cache directory. The installers will be located in hex encoded directories. Only one file per directory and they use names like writer.msi or messenger.msi which should make it easy to identify them.

Just copy those files over to the other computer and run the installers there. The Microsoft Windows Live applications will then be installed on the other computer without additional downloads from the Internet.

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The installer lets you choose the programs that you want to download and install. The available porgrams are Messenger Beta, Mail Beta, Toolbar Beta, Photo Gallery Beta, Family Safety Beta, Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta and Writer Beta.

All downloads (discovered by the Liveside website)are available in English, German, Italian, French and Spanish with more to come later this day. Each setup displays the list of programs. By default all are selected but the user can select those that he does not want to install. Once the selection has been made they can be downloaded and installed by pressing the Install button.

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Joshua has posted an article about Windows Live Wave 3 previously which contains a good overview of the changes in the new version.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/17/windows-live-wave-3-betas-available/feed/ 5 Flickr Integration For Word, Outlook And Live Writer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/16/flickr-integration-for-word-outlook-and-live-writer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/16/flickr-integration-for-word-outlook-and-live-writer/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:25:19 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6210 If you live and breath Flickr you might find the following tools to integrate Flickr into Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Writer useful. The tools (via Genbeta) are currently limited to those three versions, previous Microsoft Office editions are unfortunately not supported (yet).

All three tools function as plugins, or add-ins, and integrate Flickr access, or more specifically the option to integrate Flickr images into Microsoft Word, Outlook or Live Writer. Supported are not only photos that have been uploaded by the user who wants to integrate them but also from other Flickr users.

A search and filters are provided in all three applications. It is for example possible to filter images by uploader, by size and search by photoset or tags.

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If you like the idea head over to Flickr4Word, Flickr4Outlook and Flickr4Writer to download the plugins. The option to access the plugin is available directly from the toolbar. A button Flickr Image appears after installing the plugin in the selected Office program.

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