Thank You!

Mood: Happy

 

Over the last 3 days my postman has been very busy .

 

Thank you to UPS and DHL for the parcels  reaching me!

 

Firstly, my Windows Live Messenger 8.0 Gift was recieved by UPS. It came all the way from Microsoft.

 

Thank You Microsoft for the ‘Windows Live Messenger Computer Messenger Bag ‘ aka a laptop bag.

 

Also thanks to MSN for sending my reward of a Creative MP3 Player  that i won.

 

 

In a 3rd package to me i recieved my order of Windows Vista RC1 DVD Disks

Windows XP Games Cheats

Here are 2 cheats that in the Games on Windows XP that amuse you or amaze you friends (if they do not know )

 

Sneeky wins in Minesweeper

 

Want to win every time you play?

 

Open Mineswepper

Click the Minesweeper Program Titlebar and type ‘xyzzy’

and Press Shift & Enter

 

In the top left there should be 1 white pixal.

Move mouse cursor over the game blocks and the pixal disappears if box is the ‘bomb’

 

Forcing a Win (or sneekily) a Freecell Game

 

Just press Ctrl + Shift +F10 when you give up

then Abort = Win

 

 there aint any cheats for Pinball, solitare, spider solitare and Hearts.

 

 i told you – hehe *jokes*

 

Taken from Windows XP in easy steps – borrowed from my brothers friend

 now i know how my little brothers friends wins all the time!

Online Storage

 

If you want 1Gb free online space click one of the images above – you also help me towards my upgrade to 5GB storage.  well 10GB it depends on how many accounts you got and really how much you want

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Public Preview

This is not Exclusive News but just post it anyways!

 

Earlier today i was viewing Neowin.net Forums using Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2. when i found a recent headline informing that Internet Explorer 7 Public Preview BETA 2 has reissued with an new build and the public Preview been refreshed. I thought i may as well try it out – IE 7 its public beta like Messenger is – one of my favorites  so i was tempted to use it.

 

First Impressions: Not bad um abit like where is the Menu Structure File, Tools, Help etc but i have now found them after some exploring. and as i was exploring classic mode is a option so people who familar to IE6 interface could use that if need be. I like the RSS Feed Reader – of course the first feed was my own  i subscribed to although Neowin and BBC News came closely followed .

 

IE7, Vista(Longhorn) and Office 2007(Office12) Betas had been an reason that inspired me to be a betatester but being a computing student and wanting to improve products also gave me qualities.

 

i not been a Beta Tester for long . was doing Office Communicator Web Access (my first Beta) (its like a web version of MSN for businesses) before the fun of Windows Live and i am quite a active beta tester that now extends further afield. Windows Live Security Center was my first Beta to complete!

 

Beaware if you not comfortable with Beta software its advised you do not install IE7 or Messenger etc, – as visiters to my blog proberly know i am an Microsoft Beta Tester on Connect

 

 

 

Always be aware the beta software that  running unlaunched software that maybe serious bugs and limited support and key computing knowledge of recovery and reinstall and problemsolving is a good thing to have. i urge people not to hack or reenginer programs to get around systems and going on websites and torrants as these could been modified and contain nasties including viruses, spyware and adware E.g. IE7 and leaked betas thats not from Microsoft publically.

 

Before i get bashed  IE 7 Beta 2 Preview and Windows Live Messenger public accessable (without the invites) is in the public domain and as long as i do not disclose Manage Beta secrets   ok if i mention the promotion onto the service now that invites are worthless

 

Links:

IE7 Beta 2 Preview Refresh: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx

Windows Live Messenger (English) (as mentioned on mess.be): http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_EN

Windows Live Safety Center: http://safetycenter.com – listed on ideas.com

Microsoft Office Live Beta Released – wheres my invite ;)

According to Neowin.net Microsoft has released Office Live but where is my Invite? . Maybe it might be cause the US Only exclusivity  and we non US English can’t use it - Microsoft what is the difference between UK English, American English and Australian English? please can you define why you got to descriminate on country! – Go On Microsoft explain why! English is English Microsoft the whole english community has to wait. just because we don’t use a ‘z’ and use a ‘s’ e.g. Organise and the addition of u in words like Colour – this descrimination are you assuming us UK, Canadians, Australians and others are not capable of reading and using it . Mozilla guilty as well and needs to learn as well whats the point of an English Great Britain (that naming is not correct as you exclude Northern Ireland which makes up the UK) version of Firefox and thunderbird you only get Google Search UK instead of US and who honestly whould kick up a big fust – and it takes Firefox when 1.5 came out nearly 2 weeks to change basically the difference of Favourites and also change google search – How Lame!!!

 

I can say the same with Windows Live Expo and Windows Live Local which is so US Exclusive

PC due back today or tomorrow :P

The Long awaited return of my PC is today or tomorrow claims the company repairing the PC. Initally planned as about 3-4 weeks have ended with over 3 months. at least i getting my pc back before xmas – maybe the buy me a new pc threat lol made them wake up

Santa gives ‘presents’ early via PC’s

You might be thinking am i crazy talking about Santa but there a Festive IM security issue around.

 

Santa has started his rounds early this year according to the technology site neowin.net if you use a IM Client you might get a ‘present’ from Santa (us adults know the truth about santa but for any child reading this this Santa is not the real santa cause its not nice ) this will be a computer worm and be a unwanted present you not want it also spreads to your contacts on clicking a link.

 

A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick America Online, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users into clicking on a file that delivers unwanted software to a victim’s computer.

The IM.GiftCom.All worm attempts to dupe IM users into thinking an acquaintance has sent them a link to a harmless Santa Claus file, according to a security advisory issued Tuesday by IMlogic. People who click on the file will see an image of Santa, but what they are less likely to notice is a so-called rootkit being installed onto their system. A rootkit is a tool designed to go undetected by the security software used to lock down control of a computer after an initial hack. The malicious attacker can then distribute messages to the user’s IM contacts, using a similar technique to lure the unsuspecting acquaintance to click on the link.

.NET Service performance – its playing games & other Windows Live stuff

Your connection with .net messenger service service has been lost reconnecting in 9:59  it was connecting in 20 secs the first time then progressed 20, 30, 1 min 3 mins 5 mins now 10 mins  - it comes back for a few seconds then disconnects again  - one of the side affects on Beta testing software theres occassionally problems and there seems to be a problem with the service well staying on the .Net service for more then a few seconds – Yesterday there was a Beta chat for Windows Live Messenger where Beta Testers were invited to ask questions – was a good experience  learnt alot and also found out some things to come – not allowed to say what they were and have to admit the conversation was alittle fast i can’t remember most of it – must read the transcript . was good hear suggestions by others and give my suggestions. quite afew testers had the same suggestions as me and some had ones that i not even thought off

 

If you got suggestions you can pass suggestions onto the WLM Messenger Team via there blog (they do not want invite requests) or leave them in this blog’s comments and i forward them on 

 

Also those who requesting Windows Live Messenger or Mail Invitations please request them in this blog (<click link) i using a first come first served if i have any spares that after contacts of mine have not wanted at the time – a few consider early beta software unsafe and to a agree it can be sometimes  as yet i used up my invitations just on my contacts. Mess.be will be giving away Windows Live Messenger Invitations soon according to this Mess.be Page

 

Update: as i conclude this blog  the service is connected again – better get back to having fun, chatting, blogging and testing

Yahoo Messenger with Voice Beta 7.5.0.333 Windows launches

Yahoo have released a public beta of its 7.5 client on its beta site http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com first mentioned by a member at neowin.net but Windows Live Messenger Beta announced yesterday evening starting its offical beta testing to selected individuals looks better from its feature list!  - Windows Live and MSN Messenger fan that is me . it deserves a look .

 

Yahoo! Messenger allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends. Unlike e-mail, instant messages appear as soon they’re sent. By downloading the application to your computer, you can send instant messages. Other features include voice chat, file transfer, mail and stock quote alerts, sports scores, news, and much more.

Yahoo! Messenger has the following non beta editions available: Yahoo! Messenger for Mac OS X, Yahoo! Messenger for Linux and Yahoo! Messenger for FreeBSD .

Available to US, US Spanish, France, Germany, Spain, Singpore, Hong Kong, Italy

 Australia New Zealand, UK, Canada (via US and France) would be able to use it without much trouble

OS: Windows 2000 and Windows XP

Whats changed according to Fileforum – Betanews

• Make PC-to-Phone calls
• Give your PC its very own phone number – seems abit interesting
• With the Contact Search Bar, just start typing a name or number from your Yahoo! Address Book and it’ll finish up

tags Beta, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo

World Wide Web turns 15 years old

In celebration of 15 years of the "http" protocol, CNN has compiled its list of the 10 greatest moments of the web’s first 15 years of existence.  After exploding thanks to browsers such as Internet Explorer - Thanks to Windows, Mosaic and Netscape, up and coming companies such as Yahoo!, Amazon, and eBay, and the dot-com boom, the WWW has become an integral part of our everyday lives.  We’re seeing what amounts to a second boom era, with companies such as Google and Skype picking up where upstarts Yahoo! and Hotmail left off.

Check out the list of top 10 Web moments and vote for your favorites .

 View: Full Story @ CNN.com