Now that we've been using our Mac computers for about a month, we can tell you that one of the applications we miss the most is Windows Live Writer. Microsoft has really done a great job with it and they've managed to pack it full of features without slowing it down. The new blogging software we use, while nice, just doesn't match up. The recent Technical Preview of WLW that Microsoft just made available

In an attempt to gain market share in the search arena, Microsoft has just announced a partnership with HP that will make their Live Search the default on Hewlett-Packard computers that are shipped in the United States and Canada. For first-time Internet users or casual users in general, they may not take the time to change the default to something else which could

In about 11 hours Microsoft will be launching their Windows Live Wave 2, which is a collection of applications offered at no cost. You can download the new installer now even though the "wave" of updated programs won't be released until later today.

There has been no mention of new features for the programs included with Windows Live Wave 2, but most of the

Time Saving Tuesday

Last Thursday we showed you how to make Windows Live Writer portable, and today we are going to show you how to create powerful text templates that will save you incredible amounts of time. Unfortunately the plugin you'll need to install, Dynamic Templates, won't work with the portable version.

Dynamic Templates was created by Joe Cheng who

Tutorial Thursday

The recent release of Windows Live Writer Beta 3 has, in my opinion, put that blogging software well ahead of any competition. The addition of XHTML support is what caused me to switch back, but prior to that I used another free application called Post2Blog. One of the major benefits it offered was the

Looks like I was right about there being a new Live Writer released today. The Live Writer blog just announced that Beta 3 has been made available, and it can be downloaded by anyone and everyone.

And let me tell you...this thing finally has XHTML support! You know that there was some divine intervention going on when

It looks like Microsoft is pulling a Google and offering their most popular apps in a unified package. Well, it's not exactly like the Google Pack because Microsoft is only including their own homegrown programs, whereas Google also includes some third-party software (such as Norton and Skype).

The site you'll need to visit for the unified installer is http://get.live.com/wl/all. It is currently available (for