Now look at that. One of the things that Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery was criticized for in the past was lack of digital camera RAW format support. DSLR cameras give their users options to save their photo shootings in various formats, including RAW which offers several advantages over the compressed JPEG format. Among them [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Windows Live Plug-ins Website Launches
Offering some sort of extensibility can improve the overall usability of a software program. The prime example for this is the Firefox web browser which would only be half as good without its extensions. The Windows Live team had similar thoughts as they launched a new website for Windows Live plug-ins. Plug-ins are small extensions [...]
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Digital Camera Codec Pack For Windows
Microsoft introduced the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) in their Windows Vista operating system. WIC will also be included in Windows 7 and likely in future operating systems as well. The Windows Imaging Component makes it easier for third parties to create codecs that tightly integrated in the operating system including support for displaying thumbnails in [...]
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Windows Live To Youtube
We have already covered the Windows Live Facebook plugin today which made it possible to upload photos from the Windows Live Photo Gallery application directly to Facebook. The Live Upload To Youtube plugin is a similar plugin by the same author with the difference that it provides the option to upload videos to Youtube directly [...]
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Windows Live Photo Gallery Facebook Plugin
The Windows Live Photo Gallery Facebook Plugin enables the direct upload of photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery to Facebook. Two applications are needed to make this work. Windows Live Photo Gallery [link] and the Facebook Plugin [link] have to be installed on the computer. There is no need for a Windows Live account but [...]
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Windows Live Wave 3 Betas Available
The public beta downloads of Windows Live Wave 3 will be available for everyone later today. If you cannot wait to get your hands on the newest beta of Windows Live you can download the installers right away which will download the selected applications directly from the Microsoft servers. The installer lets you choose the [...]
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Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery made a big leap forward with the release of the newest beta version 2.2. The greatest enhancement over previous Live Photo Gallery versions is the ability to publish pictures directly on Flickr with a stamp of approval from Flickr. Another aspect will please many users. Before this beta users had to install Windows Desktop Search to work with it which is no longer needed for Windows XP users.