Recently, we guided you about how to add your Facebook Stream, how to hide the updates from a specific friend or group and how to appear offline for a specific friend in Windows Live Messenger.

Today, we are going to guide you about how to setup a sound alert for a specific friend in Windows Live Messenger so that you can hear a different sound alert whenever your friend signs in or interact with you in messenger. Following are the steps:

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Recently, Microsoft released the beta 2 of Windows Live Essentials suite that was initially made available to public for testing on June 24, 2010. It incorporates many feature improvements and bug fixes. It’s getting better and better. Want to learn about the new features? Do read our posts on different parts of Windows Live Essentials.

• 40+ Cool Features of Windows Live Messenger
• 40+ Cool Features of Windows Live Movie Maker
• 40+ Cool Features of Windows Live Photo Gallery
• 40+ Cool Features of Windows Live Writer
• 40+ Cool Features of Windows Live Mail

“We’re releasing an update to Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta,” said Chris Jones, Vice President, Windows Live Engineering. “One of the main reasons we release betas is to allow early adopters to enjoy our products and provide feedback on their experience. Your beta feedback and usage has helped shape the many improvements we’ve made and continue to make across Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Mail, and Family Safety,” Jones added.

According to Chris Jones, the initial beta release was a hit for Microsoft with 3 million unique users in Messenger alone, 3.5 million updates to display pictures, 6.2 million video calls, and 7.6 million updates to status messages. Here are some of the many improvements you will see in the new build.

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Make the most of photo memories, if you want to share pictures from your computer with your friends and family and you are using Windows Live Photo Gallery then you can do this. One of the coolest feature of Windows Live Gallery allows you to send a Photo Email to your friends and loved ones. Following steps will tell you how you can send photos to your loved ones:

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Blogging is becoming a growing kind of profession all over the world. People authors posts on their blogs with the help of different blogging softwares and platforms. Some of the bloggers share pictures in their blog posts in a sequence but you can create an album of the pictures and upload them on SkyDrive with the help of one of the coolest feature present in Windows Live Writer.

Inserting a Windows Live photo album offers you several different album styles to display inside your post. This feature saves your hosting space and makes the blog post cool and engaging. Following are the steps which tell you how to do this:

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In our previous posts, we guided you that how you can hide the updates from a specific friend or group and how to appear offline for a specific friend in Windows Live Messenger. Today, we are going to guide you about how you can add your Facebook stream in Windows Live Messenger. You can now add your Facebook updates directly to Windows Live. Share your Facebook updates with anyone you choose on Windows Live Messenger. Following are the steps:

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Fed up with your friend? Don’t want to talk? but you don’t want to block him or her? In our last post, we guided you that how you can hide the updates of a specific friend or group in Windows Live Messenger. Today we are going to guide you that how you can appear offline to a specific friend in Windows Live Messenger. Here are the steps:

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Social media is becoming one of the most important part of our life. We want to share everything related to ourselves with our friends and loved ones. These social media hub includes Facebook, SkyDrive, YouTube and many more. If you have created any kind of video and you want to share it with your friends on your social media then Windows Live Movie Maker allows you to do so. Following are the steps which will help you to share your videos with your friends:

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What if you don’t want to see what movies your friends like? What places they visited? When and what is updated in their profile? So, today we are going to tell you about how you can hide the updates of a specific friend in Windows Live Messenger. Following are the steps:

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Get multiple e‑mail accounts in one program—Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! and more. And now Windows Live Mail has a calendar, too. Mail combines the ease of use of Outlook Express, with the speed of Windows Live.

Windows Live Mail is an e-mail client from Microsoft’s Windows set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista. The Windows Live Mail version numbering starts at 12 because this application is an advancement of Outlook Express/Windows Mail, not an entirely new application. Following are some of the cool and amazing features of Windows Live Mail:

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Microsoft recently began shipping out thousands of Windows Phone 7 test units from LG and Samsung to developers all over the world. This was after the Windows Phone engineering team has hit a very meaningful milestone; one that they are calling technical preview. According to the Windows Phone team “Before release of this milestone, the software has undergone extensive testing – in daily use by more than 1000 people at Microsoft who have been using WP7 as their only phone for the past several months, and the more than 10,000 devices in our test labs. We’ve been testing usability, battery life, network connectivity, and many other metrics for a long time. As a result of that work, I hope you will find the experience to be of surprisingly high quality.”

Windows Phone 7 seeks to step away the barriers between you and your information, almost from the very first click. One of the very first screens you will see on startup is one asking you to sign in with a Windows Live ID. This connects your phone with your Windows Live and/or Hotmail e-mail account, calendaring, SkyDrive cloud storage, your Zune account, your Xbox Live gamertag and more. For now, many of the Windows Live benefits can only be realized if you are using the Windows Live Wave 4 services. Most of these services are still in beta, but should all be live by the time Windows Phone 7 ships.

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Windows Live Essential Wave 4 Beta was released to public about a month ago. At that time, the website only provides you the option of web installer to install the different applications of Windows Live Essentials package. Using the Web installer, you need to download each and every program when it is being installed. Some of you might like to download the offline installer which allows you install Windows Live Essentials without the Internet connection.

Windows Live Essentials refreshes the Windows 7 experience with an integrated set of free apps that include these: Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Sync, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Family Safety and Bing Bar.

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Messenger is the best way to stay in touch with friends. Share photos while you chat. Talk in real time with video chat. Even see the social updates your friends have shared. So far we have covered the Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Movie Maker and today we are going to tell you guys about the new and cool features of Windows Live Messenger.

Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft that is currently designed to work with Windows XP (32-bit XP only), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Mobile/Windows CE, Xbox 360, Blackberry OS, iOS, Java ME and S60 on Symbian OS 9.x. Following are some of the cool and amazing features of Windows Live Messenger:

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Recently at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010, Microsoft announced the Windows Phone Live service that will be available for Windows Phone 7 devices. Senior Vice President of Mobile Communications Business, Andy Lees revealed the new service which will be a “companion site” for Windows Phone 7 users that’s essentially an online hub for their personal content.

Windows Phone Live will offer over 25 GB of Skydrive storage, and give users a central place to see pictures they’ve published, view their Windows Live calendar and contacts, exchange OneNote files and access other information shared between the phone and the Web.

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Create movies and slide shows from your photos and videos, and share them with your friends and family. Movie Maker is part of Windows Live Essentials, which includes free programs for photos, movies, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging, family safety, and more. Get Movie Maker or get them all – they’re free!

Windows Live Movie Maker is not available for Windows XP or earlier versions of Windows. Following are some of the cool and amazing features of Windows Live Movie Maker:

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MicrosoftFeed continues it’s efforts to educate you people about the latest and cool features of Windows Live Essentials. Few days back, we covered the cool features of Windows Live Writer and today we are going to tell you about the new and awesome features of Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Windows Live Photo Gallery is a part of the Windows Live Essentials suite. Windows Live Photo Gallery is a photo management and photo sharing application. Following are some of the cool features of Windows Live Photo Gallery:

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